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Quotes About Blank

Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.
~ Jacques Lacan
There are no coincidences, Silette wrote. Only mysteries that haven't been solved, clues that haven't been placed. Most are blind to the language of the bird overheard, the leaf in our path, the phonographic record stuck in a groove, the unknown caller on the phone. They don't see the omens. They don't know how to read the signs. To them life is like a book with blank pages. But to the detective, it is an illuminated manuscript of mysteries.
~ Sara Gran
All this was very loose guessing, and I don't pretend it was ingenious or scientific. I wasn't any kind of Sherlock Holmes. But I have always fancied I had a kind of instinct about questions like this. I don't know if I can explain myself, but I used to use my brains as far as they went, and after they came to a blank wall I guessed, and I usually found my guesses pretty right.
~ John Buchan
I met this six-year-old child, with this blank, pale, emotionless face, and the blackest eyes... the devil's eyes." ~Dr. Sam Loomis/Halloween
~ John Carpenter
The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.
~ Jean Paul
My commitment to Atlanta and passion for sports and competition make this acquisition a perfect fit for me.
~ Arthur Blank
Knowing this secret, being the only one chosen to know, makes me feel important in a way. But it's a negative importance, it's the importance of a blank sheet of paper. I can know because I don't count. I feel singled out, but also bereft.
~ Margaret Atwood
She had an idea, but it was the wrong idea. It was hardly even an idea, just a white idea balloon with no writing inside it.
~ Margaret Atwood
I don't want to remember. The past has become discontinuous, like stones skipped across water, like postcards: I catch an image of myself, a dark blank, an image, a blank.
~ Margaret Atwood
We begin to climb and my husband catches up with me again, making one of the brief appearances, framed memories he specializes in: crystal-clear image enclosed by a blank wall.
~ Margaret Atwood
Therefore, have done with this nonsense: you have no ground for hope: dismiss, at once, these hurtful thoughts and foolish wishes from your mind, and turn to your own duty, and the dull blank life that lies before you. You might have known such happiness was not for you.
~ Anne Bronte
Take my friends and my home - as an outcast I'll roam: Take the money I have in the bank: It is just what I wish, but deprive me of fish, And my life would indeed be blank.
~ Lewis Carroll
Anita's face got blank, like she couldn't find the expression to put on it.
~ Elizabeth Strout
there is a cultural blank spot that never ever leaves, only it is not a spot, it is a huge blank canvas and it makes life very frightening.
~ Elizabeth Strout
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
Katin tried to look reservedly doubtful. The expression was too complicated and came out blank.
~ Samuel R. Delany
A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens.
~ Sandra Day O'Connor
History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.
~ Sara Sheridan
When you reach the end and press ENTER, the top line rolls out of sight, and a blank line appears on the bottom of the screen for new text. This is called scrolling.
~ Arnold Robbins
Let me run over the principal steps. We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind, which is always an advantage. We had formed no theories. We were simply there to observe and to draw inferences from our observations.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time......why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time, my greatest regret is how much I believed in the future.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
For the first time in my life, my future was a blank page. It was perfect. And beyond scary.
~ S.T. Bende, Elsker
When a person speculates about my identity, it reveals something about their own background and preferences. If the canvas is blank; the only thing people can see on its surface is themselves.
~ John Twelve Hawks
Pain—has an Element of Blank—It cannot recollectWhen it begun—or if there wereA time when it was not—
~ Emily Elizabeth Dickinson