Blank Quotes
539 Blank quotes by 450 unique authors
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I don't like people who speak or think in terms of gaining anybody's confidence. If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated…
— Ayn Rand
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Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it…
— Aldo Leopold
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For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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We rarely get to prepare ourselves in meadows or on graveled walks; we do it on short notice in places without windows, hospital corridors, rooms…
— Thomas Harris
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He thought about all the holes in him, the blank places, the voids where others felt things. When it came down to it, he was…
— J R Ward
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I often think of death. True. Suicide is a reasonable option. True. My sins are unpardonable. I stare at the question. My sins are unpardonable.…
— James Frey
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One thing I knew about the novelist’s task: when in doubt, write; when empty, write; when afraid, write. Nothing is more impenetrable than the blank…
— Philip Sington
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What are you doing now?" Al questioned "Seeing if your circumcision is gone? It is. My expression went blank, and Trent hesitated. He looked at…
— Kim Harrison
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Koschei, Koschei,” she whispered. “What would I have been if I had never seen the birds? I am no one; I am nothing. I am…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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A thousand for his love expired each day, And those who saw his face, in blank dismay Would rave and grieve and mourn their lives…
— Farid al-Din Attar
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Geek cred points for trying to stump me, but sorry, you'll have to do better than that. Would you like to try anime for a…
— Rachel Caine
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The afrit batted his eyelashes with a ostentatious lack of concern. "Indeed? Have you a name?" "A name?" I cried. "I have MANY names! I…
— Jonathan Stroud
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The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it…
— Pablo Picasso
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As I lay on my back in bed staring up at the blank, white ceiling the stillness seemed to grow bigger and bigger until I…
— Sylvia Plath
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White in the moon the long road lies, The moon stands blank above; White in the moon the long road lies That leads me from…
— A. E. Housman
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I know what it’s like to be distracted. To seek out distractions. To exhaust yourself doing every other little thing rather than face a blank…
— Rainbow Rowell
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What have I gained by health? Intolerable dullness. What by mode meals? A total blank.
— Charles Lamb
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The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.
— Jean Paul
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The resolving of the ethical, is freedom; the negative resolution also has this, but the freedom, blank and bare, is as if tongue-tied, hard to…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.
— George A. Sheehan
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The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Somebody finally has to get out an ad, often after hours. Somebody has to stare at a blank piece of paper. Probably nothing was ever…
— Fairfax M. Cone
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Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Apart from their other characteristics, the outstanding thing about China's 600 million people is that they are "poor and blank". This may seem a bad…
— Mao Zedong
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The ideal view for daily writing, hour for hour, is the blank brick wall of a cold-storage warehouse. Failing this, a stretch of sky will…
— Edna Ferber
Who Wrote These Blank Quotes
450 authors contributed a total of 539 Blank Quotes, led by these top contributors: