Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Ferguson

Somehow in the confines in his mind, he started putting together this dream, which is how he described it to his peer group. The police didnt want to talk about the dream, and the next thing, it was a fact. In his initial statements, it was a dream, he wasnt sure about it and they filled in the blanks for him.

Andrew Miller

I think the secret is, no matter how good you are Saturday night, on Monday morning you start with a blank page,

Mark Gatiss

I think one of the few faults in Dickens is that mostly his lead characters are blanks - who is David Copperfield, who is Oliver Twist? And yet he takes such joy in populating the rest of his novels with these fantastic, grotesque people like Pecksmith and so on.

Dan Brown

I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold.

John Roberts is no longer a blank slate, he has an extensive record and that record is far outside the mainstream.

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.

Stephen Sondheim

Everybody faces a blank piece of paper, no matter what they've written or painted or composed before. I can't imagine approaching every single new project with-without doubt.

Daniel Boulud

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

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.

Jon Katz

Kids leave us and go off on their own lives. Family members tell us what they think of us. Animals can't do that. They really are blank canvases, and we can project anything we want onto them. So the relationship is very pure and simple.

Thomas Chalmers

But a blank he cannot be: there are no moral blanks; there are no neutral characters.

business world covered in a blanket of hesitation.

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.

Guy Ritchie shoots a blank with Revolver ,

I don't think we've ever played a game that ugly. I don't remember ever missing that many point blank shots, making that many turnovers and still having the lead.

John Milton

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.

Terry Pratchett

God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of the players, (ie everybody), to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.

E. B. White

If you are cold at night, let the promise of my love cover you like a warm blanket

We may have some blanks to fill, but I'm confident we'll do that.

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

Lord Byron

He had written much blank verse, and blanker prose.

David Boies

There is evidence of what we see here is an exit strategy for Netscape -- that because of the blanket Microsoft has put over it, Netscape was not able to continue its pattern of innovation.

We've seen a lot of interest -- and a lot of questions -- from parents and students looking for either a laptop or desktop depending on their needs. And related accessories are doing well, like blank CDs and flash memory drives.

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,

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

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,