Blank Quotes
But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did not want to think. She wanted to force her mind to become a blank and lie back, and accept quietly, tolerantly, whatever came.
We are here to inscribe ourselves on the universe, and it is not inappropriate to remind ourselves of this when blank slates are given us.
I have just put my soul as a blank into the hand of Jesus, my Redeemer, and desired Him to write on it what He pleases; I know it will be His image.
Don't get seduced by your own stuff; work hard to keep a blank slate state of mind each time you watch your film.
Not even thinking about anything. My mind is a blank. We just want to enjoy the moment.
When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.
We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.
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.
People know that I always do my hair and makeup, but I also love doing crafts. I love getting a blank canvas and painting something.
Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the blank earth and the result thereof.
I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store.
For me, it's always been the initial business - just getting a word down, any words down, on a blank piece of paper. Once I've done that, I'm away. Beginning is one half of the deed.
Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas?
A blank page of paper and a pen is the greatest invention its so exciting to be confronted by possibility.
One must go for a film with an open mind; a film best impacts you when your mind is a blank page to the film.
Perfect isn't normal, nor is it interesting. I have no features without makeup. I am pale. I have blond lashes. You could just paint my face - it's like a blank canvas. It can be great for what I do.
By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm talking to my best friend or one of my grandchildren.
We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs.
I can't pass up a blank book when I see it in a bookstore. And I write a sentence in it, and then I put it away.
Mr.Blank's reputation as a card shark had preceded him. No one accused him of being dishonest, but on the other hand no one accused him of being honest.
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.
On acting to daughter Isabella Rossellini: Keep it simple. Make a blank face and the music and the story will fill it in.
Routine is the one thing the can get you killed. It tells the enemy where you're going and when you're going to be there.
They could take sesame seeds off the market and I wouldn't even care. I can't imagine 5 years from now saying, "Remember sesame seeds? What happened? All the buns are blank!"
The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation you can make of it what you will
Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.
What makes people and companies and artistic directors and choreographers interested in working with dancers is the ability to kind of let go of everything you think you know and be a blank canvas.
...the sun rose each morning to stare into my face with the blank but touching gaze of a lovely retarded child.
It seems strange that some artists fear a blank canvas, when it has been a major contributory factor to great paintings.
The void is a mouth crying to be filled, a blank mind aching for thought, a cavity desperate for shape. What is not implies what is.
As Justice Sandra Day O'Connor stated, even a state of war is not a blank check for a president to do whatever he wants.
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 do, cloudless if possible.
Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.
No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it's still a blank sheet of paper and you're still panicking like hell that you've got nothing new to say.
Night-time is when I brainstorm; last thing, when the family's asleep and I'm alone, I think about the next day's writing and plan a strategy for my assault 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.