Blank Space Quotes:

History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.

- Sara Sheridan

topic: Space, Stories, Blank Space

I could make the bad guys good for a weekend.

- Taylor Swift

topic: Weekend, Guy, Blank Space

Got a long list of ex-lovers, they'll tell you I'm insane. But I got a blank space baby, and I'll write your name.

- Taylor Swift

source: "Song: "Blank Space" ("1989")". November 10, 2014.

topic: Baby, Writing, Names, Ex Lover, Blank Space

Darling I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream.

- Taylor Swift

topic: Lovely, Nightmare, Daydreaming, Blank Space

Her silence was the blank space between the words.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Space, Silence, Blank, Space Between, Blank Space

There are still many large white spaces on the map of human knowledge. You can go discover them. So do it. Get out there and fill in the blank spaces. Every single moment is a possibility to go to these new places and explore them.

- Peter Thiel

source: "Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 3 Notes Essay". blakemasters.com. June 15, 2012.

topic: Single Mom, White, Space, White Space, Fill In The Blank

Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure.

- John Ashbery

topic: Reading, Space, Pleasure, Blank Space

Magazines are another medium I love, because 95% is simply based on 'How the hell are we going to fill all this blank space?

- Jerry Seinfeld

topic: Love Is, Space, Magazines, Blank Space

...when truths disappear, they leave behind blank spaces, and that is also dangerous.

- Kristin Cashore

topic: Space, Disappear, Blank, Blank Space

Venues are all the same, all feel the same, these generic blank spaces. I like artists like Lightning Bolt-bands that go in and kind of change things every time, play on the floor, set up in the middle of the room. They go in and they reinvent the space every time, which I feel is like the kind of thing that should just be happening.

- Will Oldham

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Artist, Play, Space, Lightning Bolts, Blank Space

After a devastating loss, your whole perspective shifts, and you're kind of in a blank space. You feel like on one side nothing matters, and on the other side a freedom because nothing matters.

- Andrew Shue

topic: Loss, Space, Perspective, Nothing Matters, Devastating Loss

The blank space can be humbling. But I've faced it my whole professional life. It's my job. It's also my calling. Bottom line: Filling this empty space constitutes my identity.

- Twyla Tharp

source: Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

topic: Jobs, Space, Identity, Blank Space, Professional Life

The curly red lines across the African deserts had the fascination of a magnet, and I hoped fervently that the pioneers who were writing their names over the blank spaces, would leave just one small desert for me.

- Rosita Forbes

source: Rosita Forbes (1928). “Adventure”

topic: Writing, Names, Space, Blank Space, Red Lines

My advice to the reader approaching a poem is to make the mind still and blank. Let the poem speak. This charged quiet mimics the blank space ringing the printed poem, the nothing out of which something takes shape.

- Camille Paglia

topic: Space, Advice, Mind, Blank Space

I am not a morose person, but I would rather not be here. I don't have any reverence for life, only for the entities themselves. I would rather see a blank space where I am. This will sound like fruitcake stuff again but at least I wouldn't be harming anything.

- Ingrid Newkirk

source: "The Washington Post", November 13, 1983.

topic: Space, Fruitcake, Stuff, Morose, Blank Space

Teddy grinned again. 'Truths are dangerous,' he said. -'Then why are you writing them in a book?' -'To catch them between the pages,' said Teddy, 'and trap them before they disappear.' -'If they're dangerous, why not let them disappear?' -'Because when truths disappear, they leave behind blank spaces, and that is also dangerous.

- Kristin Cashore

topic: Book, Writing, Space, Blank Space

I've always been a very restless person. I work hard, spend too much time looking after my son, I dance like a mad thing, I learned calligraphy. I go to courses on selling, I read one book after another. But that's all a way of avoiding those moments when nothing is happening, because those blank spaces give me a feeling of absolute emptiness, in which not a single crumb of love exists.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Book, Hard Work, Son, Calligraphy, Blank Space

It was only then I realized I didn't know the name of Elodin's class. I leafed through the ledger until I spotted Elodin's name, then ran my finger back to where the title of the class was listed in fresh dark ink: "Introduction to Not Being a Stupid Jackass." I sighed and penned my name in the single blank space beneath.

- Patrick Rothfuss

source: Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.111, Penguin

topic: Stupid, Dark, Class, Blank Space

A certain something, he felt, had managed to work its way in through a tiny opening and was trying to fill a blank space inside him. The void was not one that she had made. It had always been there inside him. She had merely managed to shine a special light on it.

- Haruki Murakami

source: FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Mar 19, 2015

topic: Space, Light, Shining, Blank Space

Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever. The ever after, what precisely was that? Your dreams, your life, your death, your everything. Was it the blank space that went on without us? The forever after we were gone?

- Alice Hoffman

topic: Dream, Mean, Space, Living Happily Ever After, Blank Space

Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit.

- Haruki Murakami

topic: Space, Taste, Doe, Blank Space, Doughnut