Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Hartnell

The shots we had were right there, point blank and tonight we buried them.

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,

H. P. Lovecraft

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

Elias Zerhouni

The issues that we were facing were not related to stock holdings in great part, ... Therefore, this is where I convinced myself it was not necessary to have a blanket divestiture rule.

Richard Blumenthal

Taken as a package, this would be the functional equivalent of blanket immunity,

Ibrahim Hooper

It's irresponsible for the top elected official in any state to suggest blanket wiretapping of houses of worship.

Robin Hobb

Not intending to be funny: I sit at the keyboard, put my fingers on the keys and go. To me, it's the real secret of writing. Put yourself in front of the screen or the blank sheet of paper and get to work.

Everybody's figuring how they're going to get on with their life. There's probably a shortage of 2,000 boards a week globally now. It'll be months before things are back up to speed where any Joe Blow can get a blank -- maybe even years.

The blanket label of 'tech' does more harm than good for investors.

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.

Mark Ryan

It's not dissimilar to The Weather Channel where when someone signs on, they don't want to see a blank screen. They want to see what the weather is for their local community.

It's a costume that provides a natural look so we can spring from one character to the next. We don't use costumes or sets; it's just a blank canvas.

Jeff Myers

It's a blank slate. My only goal is to promote the game of golf so it should all fall into place.

They are working with a blank map. The good news is they're making really good progress and working very well together. They've looked at a lot of different information and they really, I think, want to minimize the impact of these boundary changes as much as possible.

It's a very comfortable situation. In Edmonton, I was sort of his security blanket and the guy that he looked to when he needed a first down. Hopefully I can fill that need for him in Hamilton and help this team get some wins.

Sharon Kay Penman

In writing my historical novels, I have to rely upon my imagination to a great extent. I think of it as 'filling in the blanks.' Medieval chroniclers could be callously indifferent to the needs of future novelists. But I think there is a great difference between filling in the blanks and distorting known facts.

Danny Elfman

I try to keep myself as blank and as unprepared as possible until that moment, ... I have to get my head into his head because it's not strictly about my own tastes and instincts. It's a collaboration.

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.

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,

Jack Vance

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.

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.

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.

Richard Blumenthal

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

Carolyn McCarthy

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

Ray Charles

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

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

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.