quotes about Blank
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The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It's not a blank slate, but it isn't written in stone, either.
-- Alison Gopnik -
There is no beginning that is a blank page,
-- Amitava KumarSource : Amitava Kumar (2013). “Bombay--London--New York”, p.17, Routledge
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If you look at all the pictures of women in magazines, everybody's got a forehead that looks like a billboard. Completely blank.
-- Amy HeckerlingSource : Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. March 20, 2008.
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You are criticizing me for my fashion statement. My wife keeps on criticizing me for my blank bank statement
-- Arvind Kejriwal -
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Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind.
-- Charles Churchill -
What have I gained by health? Intolerable dullness. What by mode meals? A total blank.
-- Charles Lamb -
In the studio, I do try to have a thought in my head, so that it's not like a blank stare.
-- Cindy Crawford -
Our immediate influence in b-boying was James Brown, point blank.
-- Crazy Legs -
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Marriage is not for me. I tell you that I am Blank Verse. I am talent, and I do not rhyme with Love. I am talent and I do not rhyme with man.
-- Eleanor Hallowell AbbottSource : Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2012). “The Sick-a-Bed Lady: And Other Tales”, p.63, The Floating Press
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Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.
-- Erik Larson -
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Our actions are like blank rhymes, to which everyone applies what sense he pleases.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -
The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.
-- George A. Sheehan -
If we were sensible we would seek death--the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.
-- H. P. LovecraftSource : "Collected Essays, Volume 5: Philosophy" edited by S. T. Joshi, (p. 71), 2006.
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I realized that I'm a child." William looked point-blank at her chest. "No.
-- Ilona Andrews -
No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.
-- Jack L. Chalker -
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That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.
-- John Burroughs -
If you want a blank spot on the map, you gotta leave the map behind.
-- Jon Krakauer -
I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
-- Jonathan Safran Foer -
I started carrying blank books like this one around, which I would fill with all the things I couldn't say...
-- Jonathan Safran Foer -
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We are here to inscribe ourselves on the universe, and it is not inappropriate to remind ourselves of this when blank slates are given us.
-- Kim Stanley -
...when truths disappear, they leave behind blank spaces, and that is also dangerous.
-- Kristin Cashore -
There's something about a blank page that makes me tingle.
-- Nikki Grimes -
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I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page.
-- Nora Roberts -
It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
-- Paul Cezanne -
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When I model, I pretty much blank. You can't think too much or it doesn't work.
-- Paulina PorizkovaSource : "Dumb Celebrity Quotes" by Austin Silver, www.askmen.com.
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Most Americans do not know what their strengths are. When you ask them, they look at you with a blank stare, or they respond in terms of subject knowledge, which is the wrong answer.
-- Peter Drucker -
Music is the chalk to the blackboard of life. Without it everything is a blank slate
-- Ray Charles -
Writer's block.. when one curses the blinking cursor on the blank page.
-- Regina Brett -
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Every day a little life, a blank to be inscribed with gentle thoughts.
-- Samuel Rogers -
A blank canvas...has unlimited possibilities.
-- Stephanie Perkins -
you must not come lightly to the blank page.
-- Stephen King -
The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.
-- Taiye Selasi -
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Your life is a blank, and you're barely a shade across it.
-- Tim LebbonSource : Tim Lebbon (2008). “Fallen”, p.120, Spectra
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I am a blank slate - therefore I can create anything I want.
-- Tobey Maguire -
Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
-- William Makepeace Thackeray -
We're all kind of basically involved in the same thing, putting up a blank of some kind and filling it in.
-- William T. Wiley -
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When I sit down to make music, I try to enter a flow; I always open a blank session and just make something that I feel like making.
-- ArcaSource : "Arca's Warped Beauty". Interview with Philip Sherburne, pitchfork.com. Novermber 19, 2015.
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Shooting someone point blank still generates an explosion out of the end of a gun, even if the projectile is somehow ineffective.
-- Eric HolmesSource : "What People Who Make Video Games Think Of Westworld". Interview with Evan Narcisse, www.gizmodo.com.au. November 11, 2016.
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At some point if you're a professional writer, no matter what, it always comes down to you staring at the blank page by yourself.
-- Marc Guggenheim