Blank Quotes

539 Blank quotes by 450 unique authors

The human bones are but vain lines dawdling, the whole universe a blank mold of stars. — Jack Kerouac
Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can. — Danny Kaye
There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick… — Charles Dickens
A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God. — Sidney Sheldon
What avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map? — Aldo Leopold
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… — Milorad PaviÄ‡
Noticing and remembering everything would trap bright scenes to light and fill the blank and darkening past which was already piling up behind me. The… — Annie Dillard
I wept like a child. It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was. Nor was it the presence… — Yann Martel
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 bandage.… — Rachel Caine
Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and… — Neil Gaiman
The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words. — Jack Kerouac
You can't edit a blank page — Nora Roberts
The light struck upon the trees in the garden, making one leaf transparent and then another. One bird chirped high up; there was a pause;… — Virginia Woolf
Look...at...me..." he whispered. The green eyes found the black, but after a second, something in the depths of the dark pair seemed to vanish, leaving… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought was to be… — Charlotte Bronte
How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary. — Craig Thompson
Writing is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier… — Adam Johnson
It was Russia, January 5, 1943, and just another icy day. Out among the city and snow, there were dead Russians and Germans everywhere. Those… — Markus Zusak
The shops in High Street still have their metal grilles down, blank-eyed and sleeping. My name is scrawled across them all. I'm outside Ajay's newsagent's.… — Jenny Downham
Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect… — Haruki Murakami
I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100. — Woody Allen
What we need,' Henry says, 'is a fresh start. A blank slate. Let's call her Tabula Rasa. — Audrey Niffenegger
She didn't care anymore... and she got no pleasure from the work she did, but she did it. Everything bored her. She found that when… — Louise Fitzhugh
If anyone ever asks you what panic is, now you can tell them: an emotional blank spot that leaves you feeling as if you've been… — Stephen King
Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring you in the face like some imbecile. You don't know how paralyzing that is,… — Vincent Van Gogh

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