Pain has an element of blank

I have often wondered how they manage to get return envelopes which miss, by one-quarter of an inch, fitting the blank you are supposed…

— Robert Benchley

But that quickly faded, and he frowned. "You're bleeding," he said. "What happened?" Claire sighed and held up her wrist to show him the…

— Rachel Caine

I've always been a very restless person. I work hard, spend too much time looking after my son, I dance like a mad thing,…

— Paulo Coelho

“When I came back, they gave me blank looks. Some said, 'I don't think I've seen you for days.' Some not even that. And…

— Meša Selimović

Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not. He may be…

— Thomas Chalmers

The acting background helped a lot when I started writing. I was training for it. In acting class they teach you about the stakes…

— Carol Higgins Clark

The American people reject the idea of giving Washington a blank check to increase the debt limit.

— Martha Roby

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our…

— Rodney Atkins

“As I stare at the blank page, I am at once awash inwords but unable to find the ones I want to use.”

— Carrie Ryan

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

Bullies enjoy dark happiness; these are the blank parts that eventually fill their minds with nothingness.

— Emily Shanks

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

— Sara Sheridan

If men's minds were like dominoes, surely his would be the double blank.

— P. G. Wodehouse

“There isn’t any way to be. I will meet you where you’ve gone. The cards are blank; the cards are empty there. If I…

— Alice Notley

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

— Andy Warhol