Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jon Katz

Kids leave us and go off on their own lives. Family members tell us what they think of us. Animals can't do that. They really are blank canvases, and we can project anything we want onto them. So the relationship is very pure and simple.

E. B. White

If you are cold at night, let the promise of my love cover you like a warm blanket

One does not burn a blanket to get rid of a flea.

Johnny Rutherford

No one can tell you how much it's going to cost -- it's a blank check,

Edgar Mitchell

I am very, very incredulous about what I see. I can't throw caveats in. I don't make blanket statements.

Silence within silence, no words within blank space, nothing on blank page, less within the void.

Right now, everything is wide open and it is a blank piece of paper.

Thornton Wilder

Many plays-certainly mine-are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

So few communities have the opportunity to take a blank canvas of land and create a core for its residents,

She threw back her blanket and said 'Hi!' ... She was a wonderful human being who was just freezing.

Randy Johnson

She was star-gazing. She was looking up to the sky, and her eyes had a blank look to them. They were empty.

She worries that Daisy's going to get cold in the winter, so I brought this blanket over.

Lindsey Graham

She's got to convince the conservative world that she understands the word 'strict constructionist, ... She's going to have to fill in those blanks and create a comfort level.

Summer Sanders

Make sure that when you look at your plate, it's a beautiful blank canvas to start with, and you want lots of color on there. You want to make sure you have whole grains and protein. It should not be beige in color; it should be green and bright red, and orange and yellow.

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.

Bob Hartley

It seems like every game, we have chances to get on the board first but we're not capitalizing. We're firing blanks right now.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Andrew Stanton

Well, I have no problem with 3-D but I don't think it's necessarily a blanket requirement for every film.

Albert Finney

It's a marvellous life, a gregarious life that we've had. We're very lucky in that way. Unlike writers or painters, we don't sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, 'How do I start? Where do I start?'

Arlen Specter

The president of the United States has the fundamental responsibility to protect the country. The president does not have a blank check.

Jimmy Carl Black

When some guy shows up with a shopping bag full of records and CD's and wants me to sign every one plus fifteen pieces of blank paper I wonder what the hell is he doing with all of that?

Both teams fought really hard in the second half. Quincy's just so comfortable with what they are doing on offense. We had a couple of 3-pointers and point blank shots that I would liked to have seen fall, but it didn't happen for us.

Anushka Sharma

I don't think I was a good model. I think I was born to emote and act. I would walk down the ramp and smile and they used to say, 'Give us a blank look.' It was really difficult not to smile.