Quotes About Slate

Human nature is tabula rasa (a blank slate).7

Being editor of 'Slate' is the best job I've ever had because of the freedom and support given to me by Don Graham and the Post Co. and because of the opportunity to work with colleagues I admire and adore.

Philosophy finds itself to be no longer anything but the heir to a fabulous mystical theology, but missing a God and wiping the slate clean.

diverting one's attention from the past was not the same as envisioning and embarking upon a future. On the other hand, if the past were razed, the slate wiped clean, maybe fewer people would confuse it with the future, and that at least would be something.

Florence did, however, attend Mass regularly in Corpus Christi, the Catholic church on Maiden Lane, and Freda wondered if she professed her contrition and was absolved (Florence had taught her the word). How handy it must be to have one's slate wiped clean on a regular basis.

What I wanted was that walk: slate and windy, the sky overcast but not threatening rain. I

I think there is a difference between Slate and Salon. I think we both serve important functions on the Internet. As more and more Websites disappear, I'm thankful Slate is still around because it makes things less lonely.

Anne had brought her slate down on Gilbert's head and cracked it—slate not head—clear across.

And then - thwack! - Anne had brought her slate down on Gilbert's head and cracked it - slate not head - clear across.

Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that I've been doing all of my life, which is freestyle hip-hop.

Big stone house," Joe answered. "Slate roof. Stands back from the road a way. Nobody's been living there for some time, though." "You're observant," the banker commented. For a moment he was silent, as if trying to make a decision. He pulled nervously at his hatbrim. "Okay, boys," he said finally. "You want to be detectives. Take a look around there on your hike.

Nothing mattered much to me for a time there, after you told me you could never love me, Anne. There was nobody else–there never could be anybody else for me but you. I´ve loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school

while the men worked in the slate quarries," Bruhn said. "It was magical.

Under the changes of weather it may look like marble or like sea water, black as slate in the fog, white as tufa in sunlight.

I think the real reason you're such a goody-two shoes is because this is your Judicially constructed personality. The you you know is Judicial Recon, because you were a juvenille when what happened, happened. So they gave you a clear slate and a clean bill of health.

The ultimate evil is the weakness, cowardice, that is one of the constituents of so much human nature. When, rarely, unalloyed nobility does occur, its chances of prevailing are slim. Yet it exists, and its mere existence is reason enough for not wiping the name of mankind off the slate.

Sophara scrawled orders on a slate and handed it to one of the libationarians, whose encyclopedic knowledge of the contents and locations of all the bottles kept the bar running.

I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.

It's time to wipe the slate clean, recriminalize gambling, just like we did in this country 100 years ago

The mind cannot be a blank slate, because blank slates don't do anything.

It was actually nice to get a fresh, clean slate when I came to America.

I just cleared the slate and thought of her as a mother and went from there.

I may be inexperienced, but at least I come with a clean heart and a clean slate.

It is undeniably the duty of the opposition party to field a credible slate of candidates for the nation's highest office.