Empty Seats Quotes:

It is the empty seats that listen most raptly.

- James Richardson

source: James Richardson (2016). “By the Numbers”, p.63, Copper Canyon Press

topic: Empty, Empty Seats

Everyone we love builds a home in our heart. And when they are gone we spend eternity staring at their empty seat.

- Bindi Irwin

topic: Home, Heart, Gone, Empty Seats

When anything good happens to you in your day, give thanks. It doesn't matter how small it is, say thank you. When you get the perfect parking space, hear your favorite song on the radio, approach a light that turns green, or find an empty seat on the bus or train, say thank you. These are all good things that you are receiving from life.

- Rhonda Byrne

source: Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Power”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

topic: Inspirational, Song, Space, Favorite Song, Parking Space

What paper planes and empty seats most have in common is that they are best made by children still learning how to ride things out.

- Buddy Wakefield

topic: Children, Paper, Common, Empty Seats

When you can sell [empty seats] at the gate for an upgrade for 500 bucks or 600 bucks... it makes all the sense in the world.

- David Neeleman

source: Source: skift.com

topic: World, Bucks, Empty, Empty Seats

What President of the Airline is doing is, he's urging everyone to give up their frequent flyer miles for sick kids... But as I was reading this, there were two empty seats next to me. Why can't sick kids sit there? If they're so concerned with sick kids, shouldn't they have like a pen of sick kids next to the gate?

- David Cross

source: "David Cross: The Pride Is Back". TV Special, September 18, 1999.

topic: Funny, Giving Up, Reading, Empty Seats, Flyers

The ballpark is the star. In the age of Tris Speaker and Babe Ruth, the era of Jimmie Foxx and Ted Williams, through the empty-seats epoch of Don Buddin and Willie Tasby and unto the decades of Carl Yastrzemski and Jim Rice, the ballpark is the star. A crazy-quilt violation of city planning principles, an irregular pile of architecture, a menace to marketing consultants, Fenway Park works. It works as a symbol of New England's pride, as a repository of evergreen hopes, as a tabernacle of lost innocence. It works as a place to watch baseball.

- Martin Nolan

topic: Baseball, Stars, Quilts, Ballparks, City Planning

Olympic organizers are reportedly struggling to fill rows and rows of empty seats. Empty seats! In fact, yesterday officials put out a casting call asking for 200 Europeans or eight Americans.

- Conan O'Brien

topic: Funny, Struggle, Eight, Organizer, Empty Seats

My definition of utter waste is a coachload of lawyers going over a cliff, with three empty seats.

- Lamar Hunt

source: Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

topic: Law, Three, Definitions, Empty Seats

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?

- Ozzy Osbourne

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: People, Hearing, Empty, Sold Out, Empty Seats