Best Slate Quotes

97 Slate quotes by 91 unique authors

When things are going well, you do have the sense that what you’re writing is being fed to you in some way. Auden compared writing… — Martin Amis
We don't have to start all over again and try to keep the slate clean. There is no more slate. — Jerry Bridges
One look at each other and it was immediately understood that they both needed a clean slate,,, The obliteration of memory. — Colum McCann
Seeking means admitting that you do not know. Once you have cleared your slate, truth can imprint itself upon it. — Jaggi Vasudev
I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank slate, that they… — Juan Cole
A mind devoid of prepossessions is likely to be devoid of all mental furniture. And the historian who thinks that he can clean his mind… — Allen Johnson
The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It's not a blank slate, but it isn't written in stone, either. — Alison Gopnik
My parents, who were Communists, always pretended to be American patriots. You can always convince yourself you are: 'I love America, I just want it… — David Horowitz
America is indeed a revelation, though not quite the one that was planned. Given a clean slate, man, it was hoped, would write the future.… — Mary McCarthy
I am a blank slate - therefore I can create anything I want. — Tobey Maguire
I think there is a difference between Slate and Salon. I think we both serve important functions on the Internet. As more and more Websites… — David Talbot
Writing is still on my slate. — Jaleel White
We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off. — Vinoba Bhave
When things aren't working out for people, the end of the world seems like an easy way to wipe the slate clean. — Evan Glodell
Stepped out into the cold, collar high, under the slate gray sky. The air was smoking and the streets were dry, and I wasn't joking… — Ani DiFranco
Y'see, I get so bored so easily. I like to start with a clean slate each time. Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out… — Carl Hiaasen
Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that I've been doing… — Roshon Fegan
Slate is not a political magazine but a lot of what it does is politics. — David Plotz
What is a modern poet's fate? / To write his thoughts upon a slate; / The critic spits on what is done, / Gives it… — Thomas Hood
Every day when a man or woman gets dressed, they are in effect defining who they are. That daily clean slate is a time in… — Kenneth Cole
Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake. — Patti Smith
A fool may scrawl on a slate and if no one has the wit to wipe it clean for a thousand years, the scrawl becomes… — Mark Lawrence
No judge writes on a wholly clean slate. — Felix Frankfurter
I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative. — Ben Kingsley
The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero. — Steven Pinker

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