Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

If you're doing budget planning in business, you budget for the downside risks, not for the most optimistic scenario. But the federal government doesn't have to worry too much -- it's the only business that has a blank check.

In the courtroom for the last six months, I didn't see much emotion at all. When I looked over there, it was a blank stare,

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.

Terry Gilliam

In New York, we used to go outside film studios and get reels of blank film, and we used to draw on them, do flipper books, that sort of thing.

H. P. Lovecraft

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

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.

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.

But I think that the trusts would be better off treating obesity or getting people to lose weight rather than introducing a blanket ban,

Laura Bush

I remember feeling as if a blanket had been thrown over our school,

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ray Charles

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

If there is a key we don't have, we have key blanks that can be cut to fit.

Rod Blagojevich

I think a blanket anything is usually wrong. We're talking about convicted murderers, and I think that is a mistake.

Amy Fisher

I just love making pictures, ... It's really kind of magical to have a blank page and have something form itself on the page under your direction. I think it's that process that's keeps it forever interesting.

I have no emotion. It's a blank in my mind.

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.

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