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.
If anyone ever asks you what panic is, now you can tell them: an emotional blank spot that leaves you feeling as if you've been sucking on a mouthful of pennies.
I don't have an ego. I check it at the door.
It's easier to revise lousy writing than to revise a blank sheet of paper.
White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks.
I went walking around the city some more, people watching with a cold, blank stare. And I saw your face in everyone, I swear.
The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.
Pureed soups kinda suck. By definition, they have one flavor and one texture, a visual blank space where something much more interesting should be.
I pay these niggas with a reality check.
Detroit needs a turnaround, not a check.
With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.
White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony.
The franking commission is not there to fact-check.
I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
I try to hold my charisma in check.
I got sort of sick of seeing Asians being the blank, bland real estate agent or something. I didn't care. It didn't mean anything to me.
'I'm Broken' was a sound check riff.
Spell check exists for a reason.
My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry.
'I' is the word everyone uses to refer to themselves. On the one hand, it points to a specific person, but it's also this blank space that you can insert yourself into; it's a chute into empathy.
If you want a blank spot on the map, you gotta leave the map behind.
That's the horrible thing starting out, you get distracted a lot because anything is easier than writing. It's just the same enemy - blank paper.
Everyday we just copy&paste ourselves from the previous day instead of creating a new blank page and be something different and original.
Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.
The desert is an ideal illusion of a blank slate - so much mystery in endless layers is hidden underneath its bright, pseudo-sterile surface.
What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it's not that way.
When I model, I pretty much blank. You can't think too much or it doesn't work.
my brain
Worked with a dim and undetermined sense
Of unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughts
There hung a darkness, call it solitude
Or blank desertion.
Salvador Dali, lying on his deathbed in a stupor, is said to have been fed thousands of sheets of blank paper to sign for fake lithographs.
Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.
A lot of the fear about being a first-time director is just starting with a completely blank slate and thinking: 'Is this going to connect with anybody?'
I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.
You know it's ART, when the check clears.
I don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall.
Music is such an odd thing when you think about it - behind an image until you take it away, and then you realize a movie sounds blank without it.
I like... piecing things together because it gives you a product that you would never have come up with just sitting down and writing on a blank slate.
This isn't a dig on journalists, but people like to write about the 'death of blank.' The death of something.
A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.
You gotta keep that in check - you got to.
Point-blank, I don't want to raise a family in baseball. Maybe I just want to be normal.
The most important thing in writing is to have written. I can always fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one.
What makes people and companies and artistic directors and choreographers interested in working with dancers is the ability to kind of let go of everything you think you know and be a blank canvas.
History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties.
When you can no longer differentiate between the insanity spewed onto the blank page, and the madness evident in the all-but shattered mirror...that's when you know you're doing it right.
I have just put my soul as a blank into the hand of Jesus, my Redeemer, and desired Him to write on it what He pleases; I know it will be His image.
Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.
Could you double-check the envelope?
We're all kind of basically involved in the same thing, putting up a blank of some kind and filling it in.
I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer.
You finish the damn match, point blank, period. That's it, and I always finish, even if I'm finishing on my back.
I'll do something that brings me a check.
When I model I pretty much go blank. You can't think too much or it doesn't work.
I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.
The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.
Don't underestimate the power of the nonverbal. You'd be amazed how many people come in for interviews with poor posture, weak handshakes, and blank stares.
Check disease in its approach.
Here's what I love: I love sitting at my desk, staring at the blank screen, and beginning that conversation with my imaginary friends.
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.
I don't have that kind of brain where I can spell-check.
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