Blank Quotes

• The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Differences, Jogging

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• Every time you look at a blank piece of paper, you're doing something new. You have to step onto that blank territory and remind yourself the sky didn't fall in the last time you wrote. Writing is a question of overcoming your fears-and everybody has them.

  William Zinsser

  Fall, Writing, Sky

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• A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Writing, Giving

  "The Poetics of Reverie". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1960.

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• Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life.

  Douglas Pagels

  New Year, New Day, Pages

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• My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.

  Dirk Benedict

  Paper, Rooms, Favorites Things

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• Blank pages inspire me with terror.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Inspire, Pages

  Margaret Atwood (1990). “Margaret Atwood: Conversations”, Princeton, N.J. : Ontario Review Press

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• I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer.

  Jenny Agutter

  Patience, Doubt, Paper

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• Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

  A. R. Ammons

  Vision, Definitions, Way

  A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Writing, Blank Mind, Feelings

  Vladimir Nabokov (2017). “Lectures on Literature”, p.379, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House.

  Diane Cilento

  Nice, Naughty, House

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• Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying that you understand your responsibility, you have a political conscience and you came to vote, but you don't agree with any of the existing parties and this is the only way you have of saying so.

  Jose Saramago

  Beach, Party, Mean

  "Still a street-fighting man". Interview with Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2006.

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• I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.

  Anna Quindlen

  Life, Beach, Ocean

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.11, Ballantine Books

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• I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

  Andy Warhol

  Tombstone, Artist, Names

  Andy Warhol, Kynaston McShine (1989). “Andy Warhol: a retrospective”

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• I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Writing, Humor

  FaceBook post by Steve Martin from Feb 29, 2012

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• I'm not giving the president a blank check, period.

  Jim McDermott

  Giving, President, Checks

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• Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.

  John Updike

  Morning, Character, Fog

  John Updike (2012). “Collected Poems, 1953-1993”, p.186, Knopf

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• The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.

  Steven Pinker

  Zero, Simple, Mind

  "A biological understanding of human nature". Edge Interview, www.edge.org. September 8, 2002.

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• My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time, and there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling.

  Al Jarreau

  Rain, Eye, Blue

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• A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Wall, Loneliness, Support

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• If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Stars, Book, Dark

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• A stem cell is essentially a blank cell capable of becoming another, more differentiated cell-type in the body, such as a skin cell, a muscle cell or a nerve cell.

  Virginia Foxx

  Cells, Skins, Body

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• Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

  Gene Fowler

  Inspirational, Writing, Blood

  Attributed without citation in Janice R. Matthews et al. "Successful Scientific Writing", p. 53, 2000.

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• Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

  William Shatner

  Art, Writing, Character

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• In the studio, I do try to have a thought in my head, so that it's not like a blank stare.

  Cindy Crawford

  Trying, Staring, Studios

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• I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

  Andy Warhol

  Tombstone, Names, Headstone

  Andy Warhol, Annette Michelson, B. H. D. Buchloh (2001). “Andy Warhol”, p.111, MIT Press

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