Best Slate Sayings
97 Slate quotes by 91 unique authors
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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
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Every American wants a clean slate, but nobody wants to lose what they've got.
— Rob Sheffield
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Amy Rapp, my producing partner, and I are drawn to character-driven material. We're developing and producing movies and TV, fiction and non-fiction, studio and independent,…
— Meredith Vieira
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When I pointed to him his palms slipped slightly, leaving greasy sweat streaks on the wall, and he hooked his thumbs in his belt. A…
— Harper Lee
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Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the…
— Jodi Picoult
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What we need,' Henry says, 'is a fresh start. A blank slate. Let's call her Tabula Rasa.
— Audrey Niffenegger
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I am very fond of the oyster shell. It is humble and awkward and ugly. It is slate-colored and unsymmetrical. Its form is not primarily…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Without memories to cloud it, the mind perceives with absolute clarity. Each observation stands out in stark relief. In the beginning, when there's not yet…
— Nicole Krauss
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The desirable virgin is sexy but not sexual. She's young, white, and skinny. She's a cheerleader, a babysitter; she's accessible and eager to please (remember…
— Jessica Valenti
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I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Please allow me to wipe the slate clean. Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Blank-slate friendships were thin and temperamental. She knew that. There was no history there to cement people together, for better or worse.
— Sarah Addison Allen
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Qhuinn's eyes shifted away from his buddy--and just happened to measure the distance down to the stone patio below. Hmm . . . doing a…
— J R Ward
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A baby is such a blank slate, like training the understudy for a role you're planning to leave. You truly hope your replacement will do…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Patch's eyes were slate black, darker than a million secrets stacked on top of each other. He dropped his gaze to the ring in his…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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My room is cleared. My head is cleared. Earlier, around dawn, I took out the last load of trash. I look around and see what's…
— Julie Anne Peters
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Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's…
— Frederick Buechner
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Blot your misdeeds out (if you are particularly conscientious), by a good deed, as soon as you can; just as we did a correct sum…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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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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Nothing mattered much to me for a time there, after you told me you could never love me, Anne. There was nobody else -- there…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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I know absolutely nothing about where I'm going. I'm fine with that. I'm happy about it. Before, I had nothing. I had no life, no…
— Gregory Galloway
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The apartment was entirely, was only, for her: a wall of books, both read and unread, all of them dear to her not only in…
— Claire Messud
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Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail, but every day is a clean slate and a fresh opportunity
— Gretchen Rubin
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I loved him in that moment, loved him more than I'd ever loved anyone, and I wanted to to tell them all that I was…
— Khaled Hosseini
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I have personal issues with clutter. I, personally, am very minimalist and like a clean slate. I like to throw everything away.
— Tempestt Bledsoe
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