Famous Quotes & Sayings

We squandered three great (scoring) chances early in the first half. Two times we were at point blank range and failed to capitalize.

Diablo Cody

I really just love to open a blank document and spew, whereas with a screenplay I have to be more judicious.

Douglas Adams

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

Lesley Gore

When I wake up in the morning, and I go to the piano, and there's a blank sheet of paper in front of me, by the end of the day, that could be a gold mine. You really do need to wake up and expect that the world is your oyster because it very well may be.

Kristen Schaal

I probably shouldn't say this about all animals, but at least the farm animals that I've hung out with, and even when I go to the zoo usually, they're like a blank slate. I guess that's why I like them. They're puppets, and you can imagine them being anything you want.

Mike Robinson

This was a shift from a person selling on the street on a blanket to being in a more closed environment. It suggests that it requires a little more work on their part. It's good that we are forcing them further underground.

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

James Nesbitt

When I turned 40, subconsciously, life was a blank sheet. Before, it was disjointed, and I was very displaced and quite mad, but it was a brilliant time. Everyone thinks I must have been unhappy.

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,

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.

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.

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.

Andrew O'Hagan

A theatre is not a blank page for editorial, it is not a soapbox or a Tannoy system: it is a conscience that wakes with what is happening in the space, and wakes further still in response to what people are making of it.

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.

Becky G

Even though I know who I am, musically I'm a blank canvas. I know what colors I want to use, but I don't know what picture I want to paint yet.

Timothy Hutton

What I learned at that moment on the subway 30 years ago, staring at my blank passport, was this: If you have an impulse to do something, and it's not totally irresponsible, why not do it? It might just be the journey you've always needed.

Jonathan Haidt

The most important thing to realize is we're not blank slates at birth. We don't start off with nothing in our heads, and then get imprinted entirely by our environment. There's something in our heads on the day we're born, and then we grow up and make choices.

James De La Vega

I was blown away by being able to color. Then I started to draw... bringing a blank white canvas to life was fascinating.

Dakota Fanning

I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and pretend that I was pregnant. Then, I would go through childbirth.

We actually see the fans in there now. We've seen it blank and it just looks great. It looks even better with the fans in there screaming.

We are living in this blank white, and for us it's definitely not paradise. If we, as a society, want to treasure freedom of speech, and the way we live, we have to be careful what we endorse.

We are living in this blank white, and for us it's definitely not paradise.

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.