Slate Quotes - Page 5

• What is a modern poet's fate? / To write his thoughts upon a slate; / The critic spits on what is done, / Gives it a wipe - and all is gone.

  Thomas Hood

  Writing, Fate, Giving

  'A Joke' in a common-place book of Hallam Tennyson's, in Hallam Tennyson 'Alfred Lord Tennyson, A Memoir' (1897) vol. 2, ch. 3 (not found in Hood's Complete Works)

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• Slate is not a political magazine but a lot of what it does is politics.

  David Plotz

  Political, Doe, Magazines

  "The "How Does a Host of Working Work?" Transcript" by Adam Davidson, David Plotz, www.slate.com. May 18, 2015.

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• Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that I've been doing all of my life, which is freestyle hip-hop.

  Roshon Fegan

  People, Hip Hop, Hips

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• Y'see, I get so bored so easily. I like to start with a clean slate each time. Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Jobs, Book, Character

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• We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.

  Vinoba Bhave

  Infancy Is, Childhood, Action

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• When things aren't working out for people, the end of the world seems like an easy way to wipe the slate clean.

  Evan Glodell

  People, Work Out, Wipe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A fool may scrawl on a slate and if no one has the wit to wipe it clean for a thousand years, the scrawl becomes the wisdom of ages.

  Mark Lawrence

  Years, Age, Wipe

  Mark Lawrence (2012). “King of Thorns”, p.137, Penguin

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• No judge writes on a wholly clean slate.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Writing, Judging, Clean

  "The Commerce Clause under Marshall, Taney, and Waite". Book by Felix Frankfurter, 1937.

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• We don't have to start all over again and try to keep the slate clean. There is no more slate.

  Jerry Bridges

  Trying, Clean

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God’s Unfailing Love”, p.13, Tyndale House

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• You can draw any kind of picture you want on a clean slate and indulge your every whim in the wilderness in laying out a New Delhi, Canberra, or Brasilia, but when you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax.

  Robert Moses

  Meat, Want, Way

  "The Power Broker" by Robert Caro, (p. 849), 1974.

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• Philosophy finds itself to be no longer anything but the heir to a fabulous mystical theology, but missing a God and wiping the slate clean.

  Georges Bataille

  Philosophy, Missing, Heirs

  "'L'Expérience Intérieure' ('Inner Experience')". Book by Georges Bataille, translated by Leslie Anne Boldt, p. 9, 1988.

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• Far away, where the swallows take refuge in winter, lived a king who had eleven sons and one daughter, Elise. The eleven brothers--they were all princes--used to go to school with stars on their breasts and swords at their sides. They wrote upon golden slates with diamond pencils, and could read just as well without a book as with one, so there was no mistake about their being princes. Their sister Elise sat upon a little footstool of looking-glass, and she has a picture-book which had cost the half of a kingdom. Oh, these children were very happy; but it was not to last thus forever.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Daughter, Brother, Stars

  Hans Christian Andersen (1993). “Andersen's Fairy Tales”, p.45, Wordsworth Editions

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• "Write that down," the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.

  Lewis Carroll

  Funny, Kings, Humorous

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: 150th Anniversary Edition: Celebrating Lewis Carroll's North East Connections”, p.72, My World

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• The gray-green stretch of sandy grass,Indefinitely desolate;A sea of lead, a sky of slate;Already autumn in the air, alas!One stark monotony of stone,The long hotel, acutely white,Against the after-sunset lightWithers gray-green, and takes the grass's tone.

  Arthur Symons

  Sunset, Autumn, Air

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• Absurdism, like methodical doubt, has wiped the slate clean. It leaves us in a blind alley. But, like methodical doubt, it can, by returning upon itself, open up a new field of investigation, and in the process of reasoning then pursues the same course. I proclaim that I believe in nothing and that everything is absurd, but I cannot doubt the validity of my proclamation and I must at least believe in my protest.

  Albert Camus

  Believe, Doubt, Fields

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.10, Vintage

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• I no longer believe the conservative message that children are naturally selfish and destructive creatures who need civilizing by hierarchies or painful controls. On the contrary, I believe that hierarchy and painful controls create destructive people. And I no longer believe the liberal message that children are blank slates on which society can write anything. On the contrary, I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.

  Gloria Steinem

  Family, Children, Selfish

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• People attack Scientology, I never forget it, always even the score. People attack auditors, or staff, or organisations, or me. I never forget until the slate is clear.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  People, Auditors, Never Forget

  "Manual Of Justice". Book by L. Ron Hubbard, www.xenu.net. 1959.

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• You have a clean slate every day you wake up. You have a chance every single morning to make that change and be the person you want to be. You just have to decide to do it. Decide today’s the day. Say it: this is going to be my day.

  Brendon Burchard

  Morning, Wake Up, Want

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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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• Thus, true long-term change is brought about not by destructive passion of the moment but by well-reasoned constructive action. Violent shock of Armageddon that leaves nothing in its wake but a blank slate is not a solution, only a postponement of progress.

  Vera Nazarian

  Passion, Long, Progress

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• With everything you do as an actor, you obviously know the full story. But the person watching it doesn't, necessarily. So, you just have to discipline yourself to wipe the slate clean as you go along.

  Luke Evans

  Discipline, Stories, Actors

  Source: www.elle.com

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• It was a lot of fun to play a character [in Swiss Army Man] with no inhibitions, and with no knowledge of the world, and who comes into the world kind of like a blank slate. It means there's no template or blueprint for how you need to play certain scenes.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Fun, Character, Mean

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• It's time to wipe the slate clean, recriminalize gambling, just like we did in this country 100 years ago

  John Warren Kindt

  Country, Gambling, Years

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• Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.

  Erik Larson

  Book, Ideas, Blank

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• 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.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Principles, Lines, Matter

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