Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Nesbitt

When I turned 40, subconsciously, life was a blank sheet. Before, it was disjointed, and I was very displaced and quite mad, but it was a brilliant time. Everyone thinks I must have been unhappy.

Bruce Lee

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water.

Dakota Fanning

I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and pretend that I was pregnant. Then, I would go through childbirth.

Virat Kohli

You have to stay fresh and blank in your mind when you go out to bat. You complicate things, and you're gone.

Andrew O'Hagan

A theatre is not a blank page for editorial, it is not a soapbox or a Tannoy system: it is a conscience that wakes with what is happening in the space, and wakes further still in response to what people are making of it.

We actually see the fans in there now. We've seen it blank and it just looks great. It looks even better with the fans in there screaming.

We are living in this blank white, and for us it's definitely not paradise. If we, as a society, want to treasure freedom of speech, and the way we live, we have to be careful what we endorse.

We are living in this blank white, and for us it's definitely not paradise.

Becky G

Even though I know who I am, musically I'm a blank canvas. I know what colors I want to use, but I don't know what picture I want to paint yet.

Timothy Hutton

What I learned at that moment on the subway 30 years ago, staring at my blank passport, was this: If you have an impulse to do something, and it's not totally irresponsible, why not do it? It might just be the journey you've always needed.

Jamie Dixon

We want to help all our guys in any way we can, if they want to further their careers, but our focus is on our guys and getting ready for (first-round opponent) Louisville. People are smart enough to know when the right time is to talk about other schools. Every situation is different, so to give a blanket statement wouldn't be the right thing to do.

Marie Lu

Writing the first draft of a new story is incredibly difficult for me. I will happily do revisions, because once I can see the words on the page, I can go about ripping them up and moving scenes around. A blank page, though? Terrifying. I'm always angsty when I'm working my way through a first draft.

Diana Quick

That was the fun of acting, being a blank canvas you could transform into the character - Indian princess, 20s vamp, Mother Courage, Oxford don, 94-year-old wife.

Damien Hirst

But it's like the horror of being in a studio with a blank canvas. I used to always run out of ideas because there are so many possibilities and I would just think, well what am I going to do now!

Kenny Chesney

I was standing onstage last year, and I felt like I wanted to be somewhere else. No matter how many people were out there, it all just felt like a blank sheet of paper.

The question is whether or not you're going to put it into things to improve quality of care, or whether you're just going to get a blank check.

Today's college graduates take IM in the office for granted. If you protect your email systems but ignore IM, it's like locking the doors but leaving your windows open. Your security initiatives have to blanket both IM and email.

David Blunkett

I'm in favour of a sensible development of response units and their deployment in any circumstance where there may be a risk to the officers themselves or the neighbourhood they're in. I'm not in favour of a blanket arming of the police.

Marcus Aurelius

When a poet presents you with blank leaves you should consider it no small present

Shari Sebbens

I'm a believer, but an unsettled one. I think it has something to do with the fact that my grandmother always told me she would come back and tickle my feet at night time when she passed away. She hasn't gotten me yet. But I keep the blanket over my feet at night, no matter how hot it is.

Nicolle Wallace

I didn't have a special secret about Sarah Palin. I just had a feeling and some concerns. Her blank stares and her lashing out in some interviews, I think, gave voters pause about her, too.

Liberty Ross

I still have my Levi's jacket that I bought on the Portobello Road when I was 14, and it's like part of me, you know, it's got oils in it, and it's my comfort, security blanket or something.

I didn't know until high school that I was interested in writing in any real way. But there was this boy that I had a crush on, and I used to tell him all the time what I felt about him. Finally he gave me a blank journal and said to write it all down - and it didn't take me very long to realize how much I loved writing.

Jonathan Haidt

The most important thing to realize is we're not blank slates at birth. We don't start off with nothing in our heads, and then get imprinted entirely by our environment. There's something in our heads on the day we're born, and then we grow up and make choices.

James De La Vega

I was blown away by being able to color. Then I started to draw... bringing a blank white canvas to life was fascinating.

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.

look at the videos, they prove (fill in the blank here).

Andrew Miller

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

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.

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

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.