Famous Quotes & Sayings

He said it was my fault because I challenged the press, which I didn't do by the way. That never happened. I didn't challenge, I wasn't stupid enough to issue a blanket challenge to the entire media.

Jessy Schram

Any show that includes guns or machinery or stuff like that, you need to trust who's around you because blanks are flying.

Simon Mawer

Pundits always have something to write about; the novelist just has a blank screen.

Our entry blank says 33, and if we get to that number and nobody gets bumped like last year, so be it,

Patrick McHenry

Often a blank slate gets to the court and then leans to the left,

John Carroll

After a couple minutes of travel talk, they get that blank look.

Zell Miller

Now is the time. This is our time. Call and write our senators and organize and tell your friends to do the same. Cover this process in a blanket of prayer. ... This is our chance to be doers of the word and not hearers only.

a thin record of work with constitutional cases. It's not a blank slate, but it's very, very thin.

George Carlin

a blank slate -- and you get to play.

John Carey

A blank helpless sort of face, rather like a rose just before you drench it with D.D.T.

A man who's got a very nice tractor would rather perhaps have it inside with a blanket on it and perhaps put his wife outside.

They have been very vocal. You can fill in the blanks of what they are saying. They are really upset.

Dean McAmmond

They have always seemed like they were going to move me. To finally pull the trigger and it be a blank is, on one end, disappointing because I think I could help a team in the playoffs. I'm not getting any younger. It would have been nice to be in the playoffs, for sure. I've been in Edmonton before, so that would have been exciting.

The "west" - what curse has fallen upon it that at the term of its trajectory it produces only these businessmen, these shopkeepers, these racketeers with their blank stares and atrophied smiles... is it with such vermin as this that a civilization so delicate and so complex must come to an end?

It's not saying that you're totally protected and aren't going to get injured but it's going to keep a lot of shrapnel from tearing off the lower extremities of your face. We've shot this with a 12-gauge shot gun from point-blank range which is about a meter or three feet. It stopped that. We've shot it with a 44-magnum point-blank range. It stopped that. We shot it with a .357 at point blank range and it stopped all of it.

For a writer to sit before a blank page, as a painter before a white canvass or general before a bloodless field; before the first scribble of creation, is a moment like no other. The writer is consumed by the trice of bliss, jollity, determination, and sensitive to a true and deepest affection.

They executed better today than we did. That's point blank what it comes down to. There's no excuse for us only scoring 14 points. I don't care who we're playing or where we're playing. Hey, we came down here to Jacksonville. I felt like we could have won. We should have won, but we didn't execute in the second half at all.

There was nothing going on in this place for it seemed like eternity. Everything just went blank in my mind.

Terry Teachout

You've probably never thought about it before unless you happen to write for a living, but professional writers are doomed to spend most of their waking hours sitting by themselves at a desk, staring at a blank computer screen and waiting for lightning to strike.

H. P. Lovecraft

If we were sensible we would seek death--the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.

Marc Singer

I'd see people in the middle of winter sleeping under a blanket in the snow, ... I'd be looking at them from my window and I would think, 'What's going through that person's mind?'

If depression had settled like a blanket on the minds of most players,

However, it wasn't burnt, neither sold as pulp paper. A few years later, its blank spots were re-used for other sketches.

I don't like giving blanket contracts. This is one of the things the city of Pasadena is losing control over.

Collectors just drop signed blank checks in front of the dolls. You're at these shows, and you're like a rock star. You have people come up with magazines and wanting your autograph.

Carolyn McCarthy

and here we are giving them (the industry) blanket immunity.

James Fenton

The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank verse does not sound like a series of identically measured lines. It sounds like a series of subtle variations on the same theme.

Richard Blumenthal

The claims are legal blanks -- no more than a lot of noise and smoke.

Ray Charles

Music is the chalk to the blackboard of life. Without it everything is a blank slate

Jason Martin

A Harley is a blank canvas. We take it to a whole new extreme.

A great deal of work still remains for getting EUV mask blanks ready for manufacturing, but our cleaning methodology has removed another barrier. We are well positioned for the tasks ahead.

A governor has the power to stay executions or commute sentences on a case-by-case basis, not to issue a blanket moratorium. We have put in place the safeguards necessary to protect innocent men and women from being executed.

This is a golden opportunity for the newspapers to get a blank sheet and reinvent themselves.