Top 1200 Blank Check Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.

I will give you the sun and the rain, and if they are not available, I will give you a sun check and a rain check.

I can't imagine writing a novel without some sound. When you're facing a few hundred blank pages, silence can be cold.

Creative process gives me the most freedom because I can do anything I want on a piece of blank media.

Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas?

On acting to daughter Isabella Rossellini: Keep it simple. Make a blank face and the music and the story will fill it in.

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.

I did actually sit down with a blank sheet of paper once. I think the phone rang and that was the end of my literary career.

[...] falling in love with someone beautiful and intelligent and the rest of it, then feeling like a blank twit put you at something of a disadvantage.

Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind.

I like '1989,' the whole album. 'Welcome to New York,' 'Blank Space,' 'Bad Blood' - all of it!

Paradigms power perception and perceptions power emotions. Most emotions are responses to perception - what you think is true about a given situation. If your perception is false, then your emotional response to it will be false too. So check your perceptions, and beyond that check the truthfulness of your paradigms - what you believe. Just because you believe something firmly doesn't make it true. Be willing to reexamine what you believe.

I was shown a picture by Cézanne of a blank wall of a house, which he had made instinct with the most delicate lights and colours.

To doubt has more of faith ... than that blank negation of all such thoughts and feelings which is the lot of the herd of church-and-meeting trotters.

Every morning like a scholar at his first class I prepare a blank mind for the day to write upon.

When I was 13, I went on 'Britain's Got Talent.' I auditioned. I sang a cover of a song called 'White Blank Page' by Mumford & Sons.

I've been at the funerals of a lot of people in my neighborhood. Sometimes when I sit back and relax, I think about that and just blank out.

By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm talking to my best friend or one of my grandchildren.

If you look at all the pictures of women in magazines, everybody's got a forehead that looks like a billboard. Completely blank.

Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

this was the wonderful thing about strangers. they were big blank pieces of paper, you could draw watever you like on their impresionable surfaces

Last night I played a blank tape at full blast. The mime next door went nuts.

The brain is like a TV set; when it goes blank, it's a good idea to turn off the sound.

You have to stay fresh and blank in your mind when you go out to bat. You complicate things, and you're gone.

That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.

For choice, I prefer not to be a public figure. I don't have Tom Cruise's good looks. I don't have a need to be on the front page of fill-in-the-blank.

Slander, whose whisper over the world's diameter, as level as the cannon to its blank, transports its poisoned shot.

The void is a mouth crying to be filled, a blank mind aching for thought, a cavity desperate for shape. What is not implies what is.

One day the play ends and the screen goes blank. There is nothing. Everything returns to its original formlessness - and then another dream begins.

The Four Inevitabilities: 1. Musty Books. 2. Uninteresting Nature. 3. Dull Existence. 4. Blank Nirvana, buy that boy.

Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

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

I'm quite a softy, yes. I have a blank spot with respect to visual art, but I have perhaps a compensating hypersensitivity to poetry and music.

For years, when I was popular, I would face the blank page to write, and I couldn't think of anything that I thought was good enough.

Shooting someone point blank still generates an explosion out of the end of a gun, even if the projectile is somehow ineffective.

I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank. So I can start again and get it right.

My mind is changing all the time. I can't live in a space that has a fixed aesthetic. I just need a blank slate when I come home.

As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean.

Anything is possible when tackling a blank sheet with ink. It's less distracting because I'm away from my computer and all of its convenient diversions.

It's a neat experience to go from the blank page to an actor elevating it to the audience understanding it - the full life of that is why I became a writer.

Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging.

An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.

To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.

I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents.

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

It seems strange that some artists fear a blank canvas, when it has been a major contributory factor to great paintings.

Let's just say, if I weren't a model, I'd be a walking collage. I see my body as a blank canvas that's aching to be decorated; I find it all very fascinating.

My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.

If we were sensible we would seek death - the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.

Blank-slate friendships were thin and temperamental. She knew that. There was no history there to cement people together, for better or worse.

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.

Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.

Staring at the blank page before you, Open up the dirty window, Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find.

I'm lucky enough that there is never a blank canvas in front of me... I have hundreds of projects that I want to do but I am running out of time.

What we need,' Henry says, 'is a fresh start. A blank slate. Let's call her Tabula Rasa.

...the sun rose each morning to stare into my face with the blank but touching gaze of a lovely retarded child.

I'm going to get a pair of wire-snips, and I've also started a new campaign to have blank CDs on jukeboxes so you can play the silence.

Each individual has got to look themselves in the mirror and try and see what they can do better. Period. Point blank.

I was blown away by being able to color. Then I started to draw... bringing a blank white canvas to life was fascinating.