Blank Quotes - Page 25

• (Socrates) said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before we were born.

  Saul Bellow

  Two, Soul, Would Be

  Saul Bellow (2008). “Humboldt's Gift”, Penguin Classics

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• It is difficult for young people to live things down. We will tolerate vice, grand larceny and the quieter forms of murder in our contemporaries... but our children's friends must show a blank service record.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Children, People, Vices

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jackson R. Bryer, John Richard Kuehl (1997). “The Basil and Josephine Stories”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

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

  Charles Churchill

  Mind, Attention, Constant

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• The spot paintings, the spin paintings, they're all a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a blank canvas.

  Damien Hirst

  Procrastination, Guy, Way

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

  John Burroughs

  4th Of July, Independence, July 4

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• Designers are optimistic people who are trained to be courageous about the future—and making the future happen. They aren’t always aware of the intricacies of operations and the impacts of the solutions they propose, just like entrepreneurs, but they aren’t afraid of confronting a blank piece of paper (or screen or board) and getting to work making something new.

  Nathan Shedroff

  Optimistic, Impact, People

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• The desert is an ideal illusion of a blank slate - so much mystery in endless layers is hidden underneath its bright, pseudo-sterile surface.

  Vera Nazarian

  Desert, Layers, Pseudo

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Play, One Day

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• Let me run over the principal steps. We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind, which is always an advantage. We had formed no theories. We were simply there to observe and to draw inferences from our observations.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Running, Blank Mind, Steps

  Sherlock Holmes in "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box" (1893). In "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter" (1893) Holmes tells Doctor Watson, "All things should be seen exactly as they are."

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• One must go for a film with an open mind; a film best impacts you when your mind is a blank page to the film.

  Anurag Kashyap

  Impact, Mind, Pages

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• If you're talking to an architect, he can look at a blank piece of paper, and once the initial design is there, the formula kicks in. Each room should have something unique and different about it - much the same way that in a song, every eight bars or so, a new piece of information should be introduced.

  Ryan Tedder

  Song, Unique, Talking

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• No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it's still a blank sheet of paper and you're still panicking like hell that you've got nothing new to say.

  Ian Rankin

  Book, Awards, Matter

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• And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile — except that he signed: 'Harlan Ellison.

  Isaac Asimov

  Book, People, Paper

  Isaac Asimov (1976). “Murder at the ABA: A Puzzle in Four Days and Sixty Scenes”

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• When we read, it is not ours to absorb all that is written. Our thoughts are jealous and they constantly blank out the thoughts of others, for there is not room enough in us for two scents at one time.

  Milorad Pavić

  Jealous, Two, Scent

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• 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.

  John Banville

  Book, Past, Fantasy

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• A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and dedicatedly to his or her room with a few books and a thousand blank canvases for four years.

  Robert Genn

  Education, Book, Artist

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• I enjoy performing, always, but when you're taping a gig, you've got to blank out this mass apparatus of self-consciousness that's surrounding you, this invitation to drown in self-consciousness. Otherwise you just won't be able to do anything.

  Dylan Moran

  Self, Gigs, Able

  "Half-cut? I'd be entirely cut, sliced and diced every which way". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. December 06, 2006.

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• When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Party, Home, Hollywood

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• A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  War, Rights, Citizens

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• For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a little blank slot for each day.

  Patti Smith

  Mother, Years, Giving

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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 Holmes

  Gun, Shooting, Ends

  "What People Who Make Video Games Think Of Westworld". Interview with Evan Narcisse, www.gizmodo.com.au. November 11, 2016.

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• My book review site and first blog, which I started in 2003. I started it because I was lamenting that while I read so much, I could hardly remember any of it. People would ask me what good books I'd read recently, or what I thought of a particular book, and my mind would go blank. At the same time, I'd just heard of blogging and found the idea interesting and thought I'd give it a try.

  Debra Hamel

  Book, Ideas, Giving

  Source: keeperofthesnails.blogspot.com

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• I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Book, Character, Thinking

  "Tom Hiddleston". Interview with Benedict Cumberbatch, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2016.

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• I start my process hand written, and then I dump it in. It's like you're getting a second draft 'cause when I put it in the computer, I fix it and change stuff. That's my process. I picked that up from speaking to Neil Gaiman and Joe Hill. I was messing around with the idea of starting to write more, writing a book and doing things like this, and I reached out for advice. They were like, "Oh, we hand write, and then we dump it all in." I was like, "Great! There's no more blank pages."

  Gerard Way

  Book, Writing, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• My memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges.

  Mark Twain

  Memories, Loaded

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.261, Courier Corporation

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