Blank Quotes

Last night I didn't realize I said "abortion" in my stand up comedy act instead of "circumcision." No wonder I got blank stares at "rabbi got faint at sight of blood."

I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

I did actually sit down with a blank sheet of paper once. I think the phone rang and that was the end of my literary career.

I'm going to get a pair of wire-snips, and I've also started a new campaign to have blank CDs on jukeboxes so you can play the silence.

Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging.

But to me, the most important page in my daughter's book is the last one - because it's blank. It says, "Your Hero's Photo Here," and, "Your Hero's Story Here."

It's a neat experience to go from the blank page to an actor elevating it to the audience understanding it - the full life of that is why I became a writer.

I've been at the funerals of a lot of people in my neighborhood. Sometimes when I sit back and relax, I think about that and just blank out.

The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank.

What have I gained by health? Intolerable dullness. What by mode meals? A total blank.

I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.

As a writer, if you have something on a page, you can start moving it around and get something you like. But if you have a blank page, it's just gonna be a blank page.

If you can get sexual attention and then (or therefore) succeed as a writer - or [fill in career blank] - that means you're a writer worthy of literary respect?

Being a broadcaster, man, you just sort of paint from a blank canvas, in a way.

The most terrifying thing in my life is a blank sheet of paper.

I like Stallone, because he writes. He sits down with a blank page and comes up with another Rambo movie. That isn't very easy for anybody. He's made it successful on top of that.

Eyes wide and blank as the buttons on a first Communion coat.

My memories pale as I prevail upon them again and again. They become more and more ghostly. I fear nothing so much as losing them altogether and having only my blank endless mind to live in.

The Republicans initially sort of saw George W. Bush as a blank canvas, didn't they? It seems like they interviewed him when he was governor of Texas to see what kind of candidate he could be.

Marriage is not for me. I tell you that I am Blank Verse. I am talent, and I do not rhyme with Love. I am talent and I do not rhyme with man.

I went walking around the city some more, people watching with a cold, blank stare. And I saw your face in everyone, I swear.

Shooting someone point blank still generates an explosion out of the end of a gun, even if the projectile is somehow ineffective.

He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing that he had forgotten had happened to him.

Our actions are like blank rhymes, to which everyone applies what sense he pleases.

There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.

I fear if I cannot think again, if my mind suddenly goes blank. It will be embarrassing.

The religion of the atheist has a God-shaped blank at it's heart.

I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents.

..Yet if today has no meaning, the past was a Blank and the future is a Chaos.

Joy, grief, desire or fear, whate'er the name The passion bears, its influence is the same; Where things exceed your hope or fall below, You stare, look blank, grow numb from top to toe.

I realized that I'm a child." William looked point-blank at her chest. "No.

... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to paint, my reason for painting.

The Four Inevitabilities: 1. Musty Books. 2. Uninteresting Nature. 3. Dull Existence. 4. Blank Nirvana, buy that boy.

The human bones are but vain lines dawdling, the whole universe a blank mold of stars.

Magazines are another medium I love, because 95% is simply based on 'How the hell are we going to fill all this blank space?

We got victims out there that are getting shot four and five times, point blank range. That's not self-defense. You're not going to tell me that's self-defense.

I don't believe in writer's block. Most of writer's block is having too much time on your hands. My mantra is that you can always edit a bad page; you can't edit a blank page.

Justice [Sandra Day] O'Connor also brought balance to our highest court; most recently, as been repeated many times, when she cautioned about how war doesn't give a blank check.

I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank. So I can start again and get it right.

The construction industry likes nothing more than a blank canvas onto which they can impose a brand new building, because that way they can make more money.

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

...when truths disappear, they leave behind blank spaces, and that is also dangerous.

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 absolutely no resemblance to reality.

Take my friends and my home - as an outcast I'll roam: Take the money I have in the bank: It is just what I wish, but deprive me of fish, And my life would indeed be blank.

Because I'm not writing all the time (thank goodness), my mind is sometimes pleasantly blank.

Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.

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 smile in a dark room.

The key thing is that you start every film from sort of a blank page, almost like you discover it like a child discovers a new world.

At some point if you're a professional writer, no matter what, it always comes down to you staring at the blank page by yourself.