Blank Quotes - Page 6

• The blank page doesn't bother me. It's the voice in my head (not always my own) that gives me the yips. It's worse when I'm not making stuff up.

  Tim Winton

  Voice, Giving, Pages

  Source: www.readings.com.au

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• Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the blank earth and the result thereof. Take that Poppy seed, for instance: it lies in your palm, the merest atom of matter, hardly visible, a speck, a pin's point in bulk, but within it is imprisoned a spirit of beauty ineffable, which will break its bonds and emerge from the dark ground and blossom in a splendor so dazzling as to baffle all powers of description.

  Celia Thaxter

  Beauty, Lying, Dark

  Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.3, Applewood Books

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• That man may last, but never lives, Who much receives, but nothing gives; Whom none can love, whom none can thank,- Creation's blot, creation's blank.

  Thomas Gibbons

  Life, Men, Giving

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• Contrary to what some parents might believe or hope for, children are not born a blank slate. Rather, they come into the world with predetermined abilities, proclivities and temperaments that nurturing parents may be able to foster or modify, but can rarely reverse.

  Jane Brody

  Children, Believe, Adoption

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• Say it, no ideas but in things - nothing but the blank faces of the houses and cylindrical trees bent, forked by preconception and accident - split, furrowed, creased, mottled, stained - secret - into the body of the light!

  William Carlos Williams

  Light, Ideas, House

  William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams”, p.263, New Directions Publishing

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• Money alone is only a mean; it presupposes a man to use it. The rich man can go where he pleases, but perhaps please himself nowhere. He can buy a library or visit the whole world, but perhaps has neither patience to read nor intelligence to see.... The purse may be full and the heart empty. He may have gained the world and lost himself; and with all his wealth around him ... he may live as blank a life as any tattered ditcher.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Money, Heart, Mean

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• The creation of a film starts with an idea, a notion of a time period or characters, and you get really excited about the idea, and sell it to others if you need their support to write the script. You can't wait to get started, and then you try to start, and you struggle with the blank page, and you get some ideas, and they're bad ideas, and you write bad stuff. It's really bad.

  Whit Stillman

  Struggle, Writing, Character

  Source: www.openlettersmonthly.com

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• 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.

  John Larroquette

  Book, Writing, Sentences

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not. He may be a blot radiating his dark influence outward to the very circumference of society, or he may be a blessing spreading benediction over the length and breadth of the world. But a blank he cannot be: there are no moral blanks; there are no neutral characters.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Character, Dark, Blessing

  "Voices of the dead". Book by John Cumming, p.8: The Speaking Dead, 1854.

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• The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.

  Taiye Selasi

  Heart, Pages, Passports

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• A blank canvas...has unlimited possibilities.

  Stephanie Perkins

  Canvas, Possibility, Unlimited Possibilities

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• I remember being forced to go to Sunday school for a number of years, even though my parents were not religious. No one was really religious; it was just the framework. There was no passion for it. No passion for anything. Just a quiet, kind of floaty, kind of semi-oppressive, blank palette that youre living in.

  Tim Burton

  Religious, Passion, School

  Tim Burton, Kristian Fraga (2005). “Tim Burton: Interviews”, p.44, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Improvisation is really not so much remembering things. And this is what I do when I play. I forget things. When I go on the stage, I want my mind to be a blank, so that I can - things can come into me without my knowing where they came from.

  Sonny Rollins

  Play, Knowing, Mind

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I rail against writers who talk about the loneliness of it all — what do they want, a crowd looking over their typewriters? Or those who talk about having to stare at a blank page — do they want someone to write on it?

  Wilfrid Sheed

  Loneliness, Writing, Typewriters

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• For me, it's always been the initial business - just getting a word down, any words down, on a blank piece of paper. Once I've done that, I'm away. Beginning is one half of the deed.

  Colin Dexter

  Done, Pieces, Half

  Source: strandmag.com

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• Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what’s not supposed to be there.

  John Prine

  Writing, Leaving, Pieces

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• Frankly, I see a lot of little girls dressed in ways I think are not very appropriate. It's too much too soon, and it causes a lot of cognitive dissonance about who they are - are they an 8-year-old, or are they a miniature fill-in-the-blank-celebrity? Parents have to draw the line.

  Hillary Clinton

  Girl, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Our immediate influence in b-boying was James Brown, point blank.

  Crazy Legs

  Influence, Brown

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• When absolutes are abandoned for principles, the U.S. Constitution becomes a blank slate for anyone’s graffiti.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Graffiti, Principles, Constitution

  "NRA chief: Obama makes 'mockery' of American freedoms" by Lateef Mungin, www.cnn.com. January 28, 2013.

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• Being a broadcaster, man, you just sort of paint from a blank canvas, in a way.

  Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

  Men, Way, Canvas

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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• I went walking around the city some more, people watching with a cold, blank stare. And I saw your face in everyone, I swear.

  Elliott Smith

  Cities, People, Faces

  Song: High Times, Album: New Moon, 2007

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• For a Man cannot believe a Miracle without relying upon Sense, nor Transubstantiation without renouncing it. So that never were any two things so ill coupled together as the Doctrine of Christianity and that of Transubstantiation, because they draw several ways, and are ready to strangle one another: For the main Evidence of the Christian Doctrine, which is Miracles, is resolved into the certainty of Sense, but this Evidence is clear and point blank against Transubstantiation.

  John Tillotson

  Christian, Believe, Men

  John Tillotson (1685). “A discourse against transubstantiation”, p.40

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

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Dirty, Pages, Sun

  Song: Unwritten, Album: Unwritten, 2004

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• History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.

  Sara Sheridan

  Space, Stories, Good Story

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• If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: 'Mother is working on her five-act tragedy in blank verse!' you would be surprised how they would respect you. They would probably all become playwrights.

  Brenda Ueland

  Mother, Children, Doors

  Brenda Ueland (1987). “If You Want to Write”

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