Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aaron Paul

With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.

This was a blanket release of all claims. And I am not in a position to comment on the veracity of the allegations.

Dave Checketts

What's been done in the past I really have no control over. Frankly, I like the fact that we have kind of a blank canvas with some young talent, some very good draft picks and a chance to really build.

Charles Krauthammer

I have a horror of the blank page. I simply cannot write on a blank page or screen. Because once I do, I start to fix it, and I never get past the first sentence.

Huston Smith

I am critical of modernity giving science and technology a blank check as if it were the fountain of all truth. That is not true. And I think I may have introduced a word which has now caught on quite a bit, scientism. Science is good. It simply reports a discovery.

We knew if we let them play their game with all the energy they had, it was going to be a long game for us. We just tried to do the same. We put the blanket on them in the neutral zone, and they got frustrated right off the bat.

Rachel Sklar

Twitter is an astounding platform for information, but it's a total blank slate - which means it's an astounding platform for disinformation, too.

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.

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,

John Carroll

After a couple minutes of travel talk, they get that blank look.

Zell Miller

Now is the time. This is our time. Call and write our senators and organize and tell your friends to do the same. Cover this process in a blanket of prayer. ... This is our chance to be doers of the word and not hearers only.

It was very surreal, it was very traditional. We were bringing offerings, and I had a blanket in my hands, offering it to Chief Julio.

Terry Teachout

You've probably never thought about it before unless you happen to write for a living, but professional writers are doomed to spend most of their waking hours sitting by themselves at a desk, staring at a blank computer screen and waiting for lightning to strike.

A man who's got a very nice tractor would rather perhaps have it inside with a blanket on it and perhaps put his wife outside.

The "west" - what curse has fallen upon it that at the term of its trajectory it produces only these businessmen, these shopkeepers, these racketeers with their blank stares and atrophied smiles... is it with such vermin as this that a civilization so delicate and so complex must come to an end?

There was nothing going on in this place for it seemed like eternity. Everything just went blank in my mind.

Jessy Schram

Any show that includes guns or machinery or stuff like that, you need to trust who's around you because blanks are flying.

A wet blanket was provided by the Palm offering.

They have been very vocal. You can fill in the blanks of what they are saying. They are really upset.

Dean McAmmond

They have always seemed like they were going to move me. To finally pull the trigger and it be a blank is, on one end, disappointing because I think I could help a team in the playoffs. I'm not getting any younger. It would have been nice to be in the playoffs, for sure. I've been in Edmonton before, so that would have been exciting.

They executed better today than we did. That's point blank what it comes down to. There's no excuse for us only scoring 14 points. I don't care who we're playing or where we're playing. Hey, we came down here to Jacksonville. I felt like we could have won. We should have won, but we didn't execute in the second half at all.

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.

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?'

Before, it was more of a blank stare. Now, he'll turn his eyes to you and look you in the eyes when you talk to him. You can look at his eyes and know if it's him.

A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens.

Mark Shapiro

Vindication is the last thing I feel, ... The only thing I feel is satisfaction that I am no longer being met with blank stares.

Tim Collins

I've been in this gym for five years, and I could not stand seeing that blank wall up there. Every summer we hold a camp, and I tell the fourth- through eighth-graders, 'Look at that wall, who's going to be the first ones to get their year up there?' Thank goodness we don't have to look at that wall anymore.

We are starting with a blank piece of paper, as will be the Americans,

Bryce Dallas Howard

I'm not an NRA member, but that doesn't mean I didn't appreciate shooting blanks out of a machine gun.

Corporal punishment is prohibited, but it's not a blanket policy that prohibits an employee from ever touching a student. There are situations when an employee may have to intervene physically in situations such as student fights.