Tom Anderson

When I left the work world, I started designing my dream house. I dived into architecture and bought seven vacant lots. My plan was to build one house, move in, and build the next. If the next was better, I'd move in and sell the previous one - so on and so forth.

American Businessman

Harvey Mason, Jr.

I like creating something from nothing and hearing it on the radio or on stage or from somebody driving down the street singing it. It's like building a house, taking a vacant piece of land, and next thing you know, there's a house with somebody living in it.

American Producer

Todd Solondz

When I'm asked who my audience is, I say someone with an open mind, which is not a vacant one and sometimes a liberal mind is not the same thing as an open one.

American Writer

Imogen Cunningham

My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

American Photographer

George Bernard Shaw

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

Irish Playwright

Gary Larson

I was so intrigued by insects and things that crawled or flew - I could spend hours by myself in a vacant lot.

American Cartoonist

Bob Dylan

The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.

American Musician

William Cowper

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

English Poet

Lady Gaga

I like black because it is a vacant space.

American Singer

Archie Manning

When I grew up, we played in vacant lots.

American Athlete

Often used for buildings, rooms, or areas that await to be filled or used.

Physical Spaces

Employs a sense of availability that invites use or occupancy.

Seeking Occupancy

When something is vacant, it might suggest a chance to use or claim the space.

Suggests Opportunity

When used to describe expressions, implies a lack of engagement or awareness.

Non-Responsiveness

Indicates someone's face or eyes reveal little of their thoughts or feelings.

Emotionally Unrevealing

Reflects an absence of clear thought or focus; mind appears unoccupied.

Unclear Thoughts

Refers to job positions that are not filled and available for applicants.

Employment Context

Implies there's an opportunity for individuals to step into a role or position.

Invitation to Apply

Suggests an opening in an organization that could be a chance for advancing one's career.

Potential for Promotion

 The site is going to be vacant. You know, we feel like it's like walking into a ghost town. This place that was the core of the ʻAkikiki world, their castle, their bastion, where we always thought that they would do the best. You walk in and it's empty streets. It's really it's really sad and

Saving Hawaii’s Birds...

 I hoped that my reality would change and someone would see that I had come back to life. But I had been washed away like a sand castle built too close to the waves, and in my place was the person people expected me to be. To some I was Martin, a vacant shell, the vegetable,

How My Mind Came Back to...

 in a way that does not damage the land that provides us with the goods and services that support the human population. Food production might move to vertical farms and skyscrapers, rooftop gardens, or vacant lots in city centers, while power will increasingly come

Urbanization and the...

 We're finding that people can share the same spaces, do stuff with vacant space. Buildings are becoming bundles of services. So we have new designs that are helping us take mechanical things that we used to spend energy on -- like heating, cooling etc. --

Alex Steffen: The...

 taken by our wildlife camera back in February obviously wasn't a dog that's the nastiest scariest thing that I had seen but he had a very triangular face and triangular ears that stood up the eyes were kind of a vacant stare but he

A Scary New Breed of...

 can be easily removed without damaging property so I put boxes the free stickers and businesses around the city and I posted grids the blank stickers on vacant buildings and I was really amazed

Redefining how we use...

 but in a community-wide effort bringing resources together to address vacant and abandoned properties. And I am using this approach in Tulsa. I want Tulsa to be a world-class city,

A Republican mayor's...

 only a harsh, vacant, gleaming white desert. As if a sandstorm had erased all familiarity. I had to face my mortality and try to understand what made my life worth living,

What makes life worth...

 just so I can sit in a classroom. And all these years, all y'all been doing is strangling the life out of my bank statement, leaving my pockets as vacant as parking lots.

Poetic Stickup: Put the...

 it's a way to help the community I'm the supervisor to lawn care service we're cutting most of the lots that were previously vacant homes that were tore down

Vacant