Top 899 Blank Slates Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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.

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

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

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.

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

There's a brief moment when you first wake up, where you have no memories. A blissful blank slate, a happy emptiness.

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.

Most American white men are trained to be fags. For this reason it is no wonder their faces are weak and blank.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Characterization in a play is like a blank check which the dramatist accords to the actor for him to fill in.

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.

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.

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

I can't pass up a blank book when I see it in a bookstore. And I write a sentence in it, and then I put it away.

Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.

The critical first billion years, during which life began, are blank pages in the earth's history.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

[...] 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.

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.

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

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

I brought my personality to HQ. I injected my DNA into this thing. They gave me a blank slate to work with.

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

Who are we really? Combinations of common chemicals that perform mechanical actions for a few years before crumbling back into the original components? Fresh new souls, drawn at random for some celestial cupboard where God keeps an unending supply?Or the same soul, immortal and eternal, refurbished and reused through endless lives, by that thrifty Housekeeper? In Her wisdom and benevolence She wipes off the memory slates, as part of the cleaning process, because if we could remember all the things we have experienced in earlier lives, we might object to risking it again.

As Justice Sandra Day O'Connor stated, even a state of war is not a blank check for a president to do whatever he wants.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I started carrying blank books like this one around, which I would fill with all the things I couldn't say.

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.

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

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.