Blank Quotations | Page 3

I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page.

You can't edit a blank page

If you want a blank spot on the map, you gotta leave the map behind.

The truth is, the difference between a studio photographer and a photojournalist is the same as the difference between a political cartoonist and an abstract painter; the only thing the two have in common is the blank page. The jobs entail different talents and different desires.

This is a golden opportunity for the newspapers to get a blank sheet and reinvent themselves.

The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank verse does not sound like a series of identically measured lines. It sounds like a series of subtle variations on the same theme.

The Energy Policy Act of 2005 is a blank check to the federal government?s energy industry friends ? and Islander East is trying to cash it,

A Harley is a blank canvas. We take it to a whole new extreme.

All you ever hear about are cases where juries award $3 million, (but) those are very few and far between. I have been involved in this for over 20 years, and juries are very difficult to persuade to do anything other than what the evidence shows. They are not in the back room looking to give people a blank check.

We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, 'here and now' without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.

Life is fired at us point blank.

I started carrying blank books like this one around, which I would fill with all the things I couldn't say...

I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.

An analogy would be when you're scanning the radio dial and you get the same station separated by a small blank space. The size of the blank space is directly proportional to the strength of the magnetic field at the location in space where the station is being broadcast.

I'm not giving the president a blank check, period.

When I model, I pretty much blank. You can't think too much or it doesn't work.

You going to be a scientist when you grow up?” That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got.

Silverfish looked down. "Oh. Are you a dwarf?" Cuddy gave him a blank stare. "Are you a giant?" He said. "Me? Of course not!" "Ah. Then I must be a dwarf, yes.

Writer's block.. when one curses the blinking cursor on the blank page.

Characterization in a play is like a blank check which the dramatist accords to the actor for him to fill in.

I'm quite a softy, yes. I have a blank spot with respect to visual art, but I have perhaps a compensating hypersensitivity to poetry and music.

History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.

Blank-slate friendships were thin and temperamental. She knew that. There was no history there to cement people together, for better or worse.

Every day a little life, a blank to be inscribed with gentle thoughts.

Life without laughing is a dreary blank.

Slander, whose whisper over the world's diameter, as level as the cannon to its blank, transports its poisoned shot.

Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a piece of blank paper until your forehead bleeds

I am the blank page between the Old and the New Testament.

From the cheerful ways of men / Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair / Presented with a universal blank / Of nature's works to me expunged and razed, / And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.

People imagine that Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin arrived in Yalta with a blank sheet of paper to decide the fate of Europe. Nothing could be further from the truth.

When a poet presents you with blank leaves you should consider it no small present

Computers make me totally blank out.

BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters - the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot acceptably write any kind.

After the erection of the Chinese Wall of Milton, blank verse has suffered not only arrest but retrogression.

a blank slate -- and you get to play.

My memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges.

God is a blank sheet upon which nothing is found but what you yourself have written.

Most Americans do not know what their strengths are. When you ask them, they look at you with a blank stare, or they respond in terms of subject knowledge, which is the wrong answer.

Pain has an element of blank

Her silence was the blank space between the words.

Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books!

Just slap something on it when you see a blank canvas staring at you with a sort of imbecility.

Just dash something down if you see a blank canvas staring at you with a certain imbecility. You do not know how paralyzing it is, that staring of a blank canvas which says to the painter: you don't know anything.