Famous Quotes & Sayings

Darin Strauss

Constant rejection. No security. Career paths being dictated by freelance reviewers. And of course, the terror of the writing desk, of the blank page. Why is it so hard for our non-writer friends to understand this - that it's a job?

Don't give them just a blanket and a bowl of soup. Give them housing and services, and eventually that person goes out and gets a job.

Eleanor Catton

There was a computer in our garage when I was growing up, and I'd go out there in winter and wrap myself in a blanket and write a story.

Ray Charles

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

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.

David Sanborn

I'm trying to kind of keep my mind a blank for a while, and just see what filters in, and be non-specific about what I listen to.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

He said it was my fault because I challenged the press, which I didn't do by the way. That never happened. I didn't challenge, I wasn't stupid enough to issue a blanket challenge to the entire media.

Laura Bush

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

Elias Zerhouni

The issues that we were facing were not related to stock holdings in great part, ... Therefore, this is where I convinced myself it was not necessary to have a blanket divestiture rule.

Simon Mawer

Pundits always have something to write about; the novelist just has a blank screen.

Scott Hartnell

The shots we had were right there, point blank and tonight we buried them.

Arlen Specter

I made the point that the president doesn't have a blank check. He didn't choose to engage me on that point.

Carolyn McCarthy

and here we are giving them (the industry) blanket immunity.

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.

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

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.