Blank Quotes

539 Blank quotes by 450 unique authors

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… — Michael Morpurgo
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
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. — Vladimir Nabokov
A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens. — Sandra Day O'Connor
You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page. — Jodi Picoult
The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero. — Steven Pinker
The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the… — Steven Pinker
I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out… — Anna Quindlen
Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you… — Jose Saramago
Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character… — William Shatner
We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs. — Michael Shermer
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… — Patti Smith
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product. — Edward Steichen
Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of… — John Updike
If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an… — Eddie Vedder
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
I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't… — Andy Warhol
Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them. — Thornton Wilder
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
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… — Isaac Asimov
God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart,… — Charlotte Bronte
To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream. — Sylvia Plath
you must not come lightly to the blank page. — Stephen King
You can fix anything but a blank page. — Nora Roberts
I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else,… — Chuck Palahniuk

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