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It's a holiday, there's a lot of people there to cheer you on. There are not many empty spaces where there isn't anybody. It's good to feed off the crowd.

It's not an empty threat, ... This will have a ripple impact across all manner of pro and college sports. I think in this situation the professional leagues and major college associations have to line up with ESPN in Washington or wherever necessary.

It's not an empty threat. This will have a ripple impact across all manner of pro and college sports. I think in this situation the professional leagues and major college associations have to line up with ESPN in Washington or wherever necessary.

That is clearly a concern, and police chiefs are very uneasy about that possibility. The question is, do we keep our radio cars empty or hire people who a few years ago we wouldn't have hired? It is very problematic.

There was no intention to target the children. We were arresting their parents. The parents were concerned about the kids coming home to an empty house. We didn't want to separate a family.

They have, in essence, treated these articles as empty vessels to be filled with some witches' brew of charges,

They had to find a quiet place in the school for a voice-over, like a closet or an empty classroom.

They are empty calories. It goes back to a balanced diet and ... (sodas) really don't fit into a balanced diet. They provide too many calories, too many carbohydrates and too much sugar and provide no nutrient value. They don't have any vitamins or useful minerals.

There is no way better to empty a drawing room in Delhi of Indian strategists than to start talking about this idea.

There is nowhere in Florida you're going to outrun the wind, but you are going to be safe from that deadly wall of water, ... We do not try to empty out an entire region or county. We evacuate based on storm surge.

There seems to be a trend among empty nesters toward selling the house in suburbia and moving to a remodeled or restored home in downtown areas.

It was empty when it was seized but we have managed to contact the US navy in the Horn of Africa.

It was definitely an empty feeling coming into the game knowing we had no chance for the playoffs. My heart really sank.

It's just nice to finally have this problem totally solved. The demand has always been high. We haven't had an empty space (in the garage) for four years.

We try not to have ideas, preferring accidents. To create, you must empty yourself of every artistic thought.

When a man throws an empty cigarette package from an automobile, he is liable to a fine of $50. When a man throws a billboard across a view, he is richly rewarded.

We were really empty in our mind. When the music started, we didn't know where to restart our elements. After the coach gave us a gesture, we know where to go. Gradually, after the restart, we became more and more comfortable.

What shall we use To fill the empty spaces Where we used to talk?How shall I fill The final places?How should I complete the wall

We went 15 straight weeks. We were kind of running on empty towards the end.

I try not to eat right before I perform. It's better to perform on an empty stomach - it just feels better. You just feel like a leaner machine. You're not worrying about digesting things.

It's about a cluster of Hispanics in south Austin and a cluster on the border and a bunch of empty districts joining them all together. The court has said that is suspect.

It's a bit like your own birthday party. There's a moment at around 2 a.m. when you just want everybody to go home. But the next morning when you're alone with nothing to do but clean up the empty bottles, you miss them.

It was somewhat of an empty feeling. There wasn't the ambience of a basketball game, the excitement surrounding it. But I love the neutral site. I think it levels the playing field.

It was a real interesting year, you could say. You think back and get a pretty empty feeling. People down there were very nice, but not winning made for a very difficult season." ()

It was really weird, like asking someone for dinner and presenting them with an empty plate,

It was a very, very clear statement. The kids came out with an agenda. I thought the first half was solid. I thought we allowed them to hang around a little bit. We came up empty on a couple of possessions that we normally execute on, but they came out in the second half riled up in the locker room.

It's a great boost to our confidence. You can talk about beating good teams but, until you do it, that's just talk. Empty words. You have to back it up, and that's what we did here tonight.

Those were as tough a couple of losses as I've had in a long time. In each game, we had a chance to get a stop to win it, and then we got an offensive chance to win it and we came up empty each time.

We just kept coming up empty and empty and empty. You can't beat good teams when you shoot 25 percent. To beat a great team like Memphis, you have to shoot at least 40 (percent) and play great defense.

The most expensive piece of equipment we have in this dining room is an empty chair.

It may sound strange to people that we're finishing a new facility next to one that could be empty soon, but Red Rock was designed around commitments from other states.

It's a nightmare. We avoided it. We found this empty lot, so we just decided to park over here off to the side, not too far from the main gate. And so far what we've seen we could see just as good as if we were in there.

It should come as no surprise that a President who let the oil and gas industry write the country's energy policy would walk away from his promise to reduce America's dependence on foreign oil. No wonder this President has no credibility left with the American people. Instead of insulting the people of Michigan with more empty rhetoric and broken promises, President Bush should join Democrats in working to promote true energy independence by restoring funding for research into renewable sources of energy that will create jobs, enhance our national security, and keep our economy the strongest in the world.

It's going to be big. I've heard estimates of 5,000 to 10,000 people going to be here. I don't think there will be an empty seat in the house. It's definitely the biggest game in our history." ()

There's a lot of that empty nest moment.

This is undoubtedly a public relations blitz by Wal-Mart. They're trying to fend off state legislation, so this sounds like rather empty rhetoric. For a company that's virtually larger than any company in the world to be crying that they don't have the resources, I don't think too many people are going to give much credence to that.

This is a very, very upsetting loss for us. It leaves us with an empty feeling.

They're better than us, I mean, they are flat-out better than us. They just kept executing and throwing waves of kids at us. We gave everything we had, unfortunately, our tank was empty by the end of the game.

They're dictating that you have to go to zone coverage because they spread you out so much, ... It's amazing how many empty backfields you see these days.

I am not - thank heavens - one of those 'driven' writers who spend a fortnight buckled with empty fright over an untouched page only to wake at two in the morning feverish with paragraphs.

Carriers that do enough business with us could drop a full trailer, pick up one of their empty trailers, and go. They don't even have to wait two hours; they can do it in 15 minutes.

Success is empty if you arrive at the finish line alone.

I'd have a hard time coming home to an empty house. That would be very hard for me.

I feel a lot of guilt about the freedom that being an artist provides. I ask myself, 'Why am I not the guy emptying the trash, why am I the guy who is watching the guy empty the trash?'

I could open a thousand Excel documents and still never think to scroll past a wall of empty rows to see if, hidden beneath them, there is a tab I need to click. Just doesn't occur to me. Because, design.

I cannot promote an empty parking lot as if it is something of value. I've watched over the past weeks as content rich blogs have disappeared from Technorati results and spam blogs seem invulnerably present. I've also documented certain TAGS that previously had valid results and now show ZERO results.

I can only state that the toilet cassette was empty at pick up.

I don't see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty - and evaporating quickly.

I'd much rather play in a stadium that's jumping, that's moving. If you've got a lot of empty seats and no one's moving, I find that's when you have a hard time playing.

For the last few years, we've been totally jammed, there was no time for the teams to practice. Although the building looks like a big empty arena, indoor soccer fields are very expensive to build. If they cost $200,000, you'd see one on every corner.

Got a few salons down the road, a few empty spaces for lease, maybe even for sale, get through with school, open up my own shop right there by my house, won't have to move ever again, permanent.

You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.

A dictator's chief problem is keeping the stomachs of his subjects full while keeping their heads empty.

Whoever reflects recognizes that there are empty and lonely spaces between one’s experiences.

Johnny, can't you come out to play in your empty garden?

Notion without intuition is empty, intuition without notion is blind.

Aussies are big and empty, just like their country.

And empty words are evil.

Now...in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.

Weeping for Anna Karenina and being terrified by Hannibal Lecter, entering the heart of darkness with Mistah Kurtz, having Holden Caulfield ring you up - some things should happen on soft pages, not cold metal.

I am empty of everything. I am empty of everything but the thin, frail ghosts in my room.

Any situation was better faced with an empty bladder, a clean body, and a lack of morning breath.

Republicans are so empty-headed, they wouldn't make a good landfill.

Entirety exists within me as exuberance ... in empty longing ... in ... the desire to burn with desire.

I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.

How do you keep safe when your whole day is as wide and empty as the sky?

Life would have been absolutely empty without imagination.

Sarah Palin is an empty vessel ready to be filled by ideology that she doesn't even understand, and that is really scary. Nothing is more frightening than an empty vessel in power.

The Democrats should have an empty chair on stage for the entire DNC, and when anyone asks who it belongs to, they can say Osama bin Laden.

A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food. [Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.]

Separation anxiety is assuaged by constant connection. Young people announce every detail of their lives on services like Twitter not to show off, but to avoid the closed door at bedtime, the empty room, the screaming vacuum of an isolated mind.

Junk food, empty calories and carbs are the Big Data of the masses

Money cannot fill an empty soul.

There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.

An empty bus hurtles through the starry night Perhaps the driver is singing and happy because he sings.

There is always hope, as long as the canvases are empty.

Promises are empty words if you're not keeping them.

No one came to earth empty; everybody came with a contribution to make to their generation. Most of them never find that gift and even more die never releasing it.

Welcome to the Nou Camp stadium in Barcelona that is packed to capacity... with some patches of seats left empty.

Beginning empty handed and alone frightens the best of men. It also speaks volumes of just how sure they are that God is with them.

I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things.

Most full lives are filled with empty gestures.

When it comes to paying contractors, the sky is the limit; when it comes to financing the basic functions of the state, the coffers are empty.

Younger and younger, our children are seeing the sippy-cup as half empty.

Words don't change their shape, they change their meaning, their function...They don't have a meaning of their own any more, they refer to other words that you don't know, that you've never read or heard...you've never seen their shape, but you feel...you suspect...they correspond to...an empty space inside you...or in the universe...

Burning hearts are not nourished by empty heads

After all, you can't truly be happy if you've never known pain. You can't truly feel joy if you've never felt heartbreak. You can't know what it's like to be filled unless you've been empty.

But the same things that had once attracted menow left me with a mild sense of unease. Ivy would say I was getting smarter, but I just felt…empty.

The objects I chose were designed to hold something, but I didn't fill them up. They remained empty. They were little symbolic shrines to thirst.

So that’s what art is, for the artist,” said Crake. “An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.

If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.

When you’re in love, it’s not just about the messing around in the sack, it’s about how empty you feel when they’re gone.

I kept hearing that metal is dead and Ozzy's dead and people that like Ozzy are dead. I have never had an empty seat. I've always sold out, so who's saying it's all over?

I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays.

The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance; the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.

Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.

The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.

The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us.

My will can control anything that’s empty.

Nobuddy ever listened t' reason on a empty stomach.