Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thornton Wilder

Many plays-certainly mine-are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

So few communities have the opportunity to take a blank canvas of land and create a core for its residents,

One does not burn a blanket to get rid of a flea.

Johnny Rutherford

No one can tell you how much it's going to cost -- it's a blank check,

Edgar Mitchell

I am very, very incredulous about what I see. I can't throw caveats in. I don't make blanket statements.

I feel like they need to come back and demonstrate some prudence, and better management, before we write them a blank check.

David Keene

From now on, this administration will find it difficult to muster support on the right without explaining why it should be forthcoming. The days of the blank check have ended.

Fundamentally, you can say we have a blank sheet of paper on the table right now, but with the principles and criteria on which we will appoint these people.

I was sitting here on this blanket so, here's the truck - maybe 6 feet.

Jeff Greene

I'm always signing blank deeds. That's how an escrow company works.

Jeremy Roenick

I'm a little shook up. When you take two shots, point blank to the face like I have in the past two months, it's a pretty scary thing. I have to see how the neurological stuff turns out and how my body reacts before I do anything.

I have a scar on my nose from being shot with a BB, so yeah, it can hurt. I'm sure if they put it point blank in your eye it could do serious damage.

She threw back her blanket and said 'Hi!' ... She was a wonderful human being who was just freezing.

Randy Johnson

She was star-gazing. She was looking up to the sky, and her eyes had a blank look to them. They were empty.

She worries that Daisy's going to get cold in the winter, so I brought this blanket over.

Lindsey Graham

She's got to convince the conservative world that she understands the word 'strict constructionist, ... She's going to have to fill in those blanks and create a comfort level.

Silence within silence, no words within blank space, nothing on blank page, less within the void.

I?d love to be able to contact any surviving relatives of the remainder of the crew. All my efforts so far have drawn a blank other than finding Lorne?s brother. It would be fantastic if any of the relatives in Canada, if traced, could be there for the dedication.

Rick Santorum

I don't know yet, ... But I am concerned President Bush nominated someone who is a blank slate. I'm disappointed he wanted to nominate someone like that instead of someone with a record.

Diana Quick

That was the fun of acting, being a blank canvas you could transform into the character - Indian princess, 20s vamp, Mother Courage, Oxford don, 94-year-old wife.

Damien Hirst

But it's like the horror of being in a studio with a blank canvas. I used to always run out of ideas because there are so many possibilities and I would just think, well what am I going to do now!

Kenny Chesney

I was standing onstage last year, and I felt like I wanted to be somewhere else. No matter how many people were out there, it all just felt like a blank sheet of paper.

The question is whether or not you're going to put it into things to improve quality of care, or whether you're just going to get a blank check.

Today's college graduates take IM in the office for granted. If you protect your email systems but ignore IM, it's like locking the doors but leaving your windows open. Your security initiatives have to blanket both IM and email.

Virat Kohli

You have to stay fresh and blank in your mind when you go out to bat. You complicate things, and you're gone.

David Blunkett

I'm in favour of a sensible development of response units and their deployment in any circumstance where there may be a risk to the officers themselves or the neighbourhood they're in. I'm not in favour of a blanket arming of the police.

Marcus Aurelius

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

Shari Sebbens

I'm a believer, but an unsettled one. I think it has something to do with the fact that my grandmother always told me she would come back and tickle my feet at night time when she passed away. She hasn't gotten me yet. But I keep the blanket over my feet at night, no matter how hot it is.

Nicolle Wallace

I didn't have a special secret about Sarah Palin. I just had a feeling and some concerns. Her blank stares and her lashing out in some interviews, I think, gave voters pause about her, too.

Liberty Ross

I still have my Levi's jacket that I bought on the Portobello Road when I was 14, and it's like part of me, you know, it's got oils in it, and it's my comfort, security blanket or something.

Edward Norton

When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script.

Neneh Cherry

What's sometimes really overwhelming in Sweden is the uniformity. People kind of disappear by all looking the same and wearing the same clothes. There are a lot of great individuals, but it can become a very blank and bleak picture.

I didn't know until high school that I was interested in writing in any real way. But there was this boy that I had a crush on, and I used to tell him all the time what I felt about him. Finally he gave me a blank journal and said to write it all down - and it didn't take me very long to realize how much I loved writing.