Blank Quotes
539 Blank quotes by 450 unique authors
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These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort of books I…
— Marcel Proust
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Always it is thus with my new students, and especially with the human ones; the mind is the last muscle they train or use, and…
— Christopher Paolini
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You going to be a scientist when you grow up?” That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got.
— Philip Pullman
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Hours later the blank sheet still stared at me, and I beat my fist against the desk in fury and fustration, striking it so hard…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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Jamie," I said, "how, exactly, do you decide whether you're drunk?" Aroused by my voice, he swayed alarmingly to one side, but caught himself on…
— Diana Gabaldon
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My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom…
— Virginia Woolf
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Ultimately, we are all products of the experiences we have and the decisions we make as children, and it remains a peculiar detail of human…
— Simon Pegg
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It's not words, so much, just my mind going blank and thoughts reaching up up up, me wishing I could climb through the ceiling and…
— Sara Zarr
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He is the dark prince. The all-powerful one. The leader of the creatures of the night." Then Meena said, "I'm confused then. I thought the…
— Meg Cabot
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Now every mortal has pain and sweat is constant, but if there is anything dearer than being alive, it's dark to me. We humans seem…
— Anne Carson
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Well, for that matter, I was also a good friend of Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Francis Bacon, Albert Einstein, and John, Paul, George, and Ringo."…
— Alyson Noel
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Be proud of your mistakes. Well, proud may not be exactly the right word, but respect them, treasure them, be kind to them, learn from…
— Neil Gaiman
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It seemed like the best weapons in my life had always been the most innocuous: empty plastic bins, a blank CD, an unmarked syringe, my…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Cole sat back up, slowly, and I opened my eyes. His expression, as ever, was blank, the face he wore when something mattered. He said,…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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I feel like I am involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with…
— Neil Gaiman
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Her silence was the blank space between the words.
— Paulo Coelho
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I felt my cell phone buzz, and I looked at the screen. Ranger. “Your GPS just went blank,” Ranger said when I answered. “The car…
— Janet Evanovich
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Once again, I was reminded that Tally was the prettiest girl I'd ever met, and when she smiled at me my mind went blank. Once…
— John Grisham
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You okay?" Anton asks, looking at me like he's trying to figure out if I'm drunk. His plans depend on me. I look as blank…
— Holly Black
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...the sun rose each morning to stare into my face with the blank but touching gaze of a lovely retarded child.
— James Crumley
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There's nothing so attractive as a blank slate. Take one attractive man, slap on a thick coat of daydream, and voila, the perfect man. With…
— Lauren Willig
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All literature, highbrow or low, from the Aeneid onward, is fan fiction....Through parody and pastiche, allusion and homage, retelling and reimagining the stories that were…
— Michael Chabon
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I wished there was some kind of switch on my brain. That I could turn it off in the same way that I could turn…
— Marian Keyes
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Since Percy’d lost his memory,his whole life was one big fillin-the-blank. He was____________________, from____________________. He felt like ____________________, and if the monsters caught him, he’d…
— Rick Riordan
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To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.
— Aldo Leopold
Who Wrote These Blank Quotes
450 authors contributed a total of 539 Blank Quotes, led by these top contributors: