The flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a number of great guitar players.

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.

If you go back in American history, oysters were the food of poor people. New York was filled with oyster saloons in the 1800s.

I have a zillion bottles of hot sauce. I love Trader Joe's jalapeno. The whole right side of my fridge is filled with hot sauce.

Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.

The roll out of a new car is always filled with great anticipation; it's almost like going back to school for a new school year.

I'm a huge Elizabeth Berg fan. Her novels are always charming, thoughtful, and filled with lively, three-dimensional characters.

So the America I came to know growing up was filled with all the excitement and possibilities found in living the American dream.

The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that which is godly.

My life has been filled with beautiful memories of my father. You often hear people talk about 'daddy's girl.' Well, that was me.

Congress, it turns out, is filled with Republicans and Democrats eager to act as enablers for the most repressive forces in Iran.

It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.

When you express your gratitude, you will bring joy to others lives.When others know joy, your life will be filled with happiness.

The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them... may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.

Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists.

It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live.

It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway', but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.

One of the most overused phrases in political commentary is that someone is running a 'negative' campaign filled with 'attack' ads.

I never knew my father, which explains the Clint thing. He called himself Daddy... I loved it then, because it filled a great void.

When our TV screens are filled with heartbreaking images of suffering, we have to dig deep inside ourselves in order to keep going.

This is a culture filled with perfect images of women and perfect images of movie actresses, and most people can't live up to them.

Students at universities are sometimes so filled with the doctrines of the world they begin to question the doctrines of the gospel.

I had gone from writing alone, not talking to anyone, to suddenly being in a room filled with not only people but actual celebrities.

Small businesses already struggle to compete with big businesses that enjoy the luxury of a tax code filled with corporate loopholes.

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.

Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.

The agricultural fields throughout the Southwest, those jobs needed to be filled, and who were the ones to do it? It was the Mexicans.

I've heard stories about authors filled with this kind of Lotto-winner hubris. I'm a Dutch boy from the Midwest. We don't have hubris.

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

If you engage with the police, filled with fear, you're more likely to make really bad decisions that than provoke them to take action.

We acknowledge we are a blessed nation with a rich history of faith and fortitude, with a future that is filled with promise and purpose.

Half of the hospital beds in sub-Saharan Africa are filled with people suffering from what are generally known as water-related diseases.

I live in a neighborhood that's really filled with sound - there's a lot of Jamaican auto body shops, and the guys next door play hip hop.

I grew up on the West Coast during the '80s. But I wasn't a 'valley girl,' since I grew up in Norwalk, which was filled with Latina girls.

When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.

The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.

Suddenly Ka realized he was in love with İpek. And realizing that this love would determine the rest of his life, he was filled with dread.

Every year is filled with good times and fights and struggles and misunderstandings. All of it adds up to being in a band over a long time.

I would never say John Kerry would be a great president. I will say that George Bush has divided us; he has filled this country with hatred.

My heart is filled with love for my new extended family - the billion-plus people in China who have shown me nothing but unconditional love.

You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.

I'd like to talk to Arnold Schwarzenegger, 'cause I live in California and I just want to see that canned, chemical filled body in my office.

It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.

When I lived in New York City, I loved it so much. But every six months, I had to go home to Texas to remember who I was. Get filled back up.

We are past the stage in our relations that you come to Washington with an empty goody bag and then you go back with a bag filled with stuff.

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