Quotes About Blanks

When judging a product, we rarely have exhaustive scientific data to go by. As a result, if we are to form a complete picture, we must fill in the blanks, just as we must in our visual perception.

Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage.

Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!

Most actors do that. They fill in the blanks. You don't want to play a cipher.

But I just think we've got such a continuity with what we're doing that most people come in and fill in the blanks. And sometimes we leave a lot of blanks to be filled.

I try to research or make up for myself what happened in any character's life. From when he was born until the first page of the script. I fill in the blanks.

Every life has its actual blanks, which the ideal must fill up, or which else remain bare & profitless forever.

I wish all guns had blanks, and that's all we shot out of guns, because then I'd recommend that everyone has as many guns as they can. Just wandering around with that big loud sound exploding, and the force of it, is a blast.

You fire blanks, but the guns eject real brass, hot cartridges. They're, like, 400 degrees.

She filled up all blanks with unmanifested perfections, interpreting him as she interpreted the works of Providence, and accounting for seeming discords by her own deafness to the higher harmonies. And there are many blanks left in the weeks of courtship, which a loving faith fills with happy assurance.

Ashes keep drifting onto my paper, charcoal snowflakes on a minefield of blanks, words bouncing around off each other uttering impotent images of sight sound terror life crying for recognition, narcissistic eunuchs reflecting my face, ruining the snowfield.

The human imagination abhors a vacuum, after all, and seeks to fill in the blanks in a life or a history

Memory makes demands that you often can't keep. Memory is faulty because it insists on filling in the blanks.

Hopefully after a year or two of touring around eventually we'll just be The Blanks. We do pretty much everything we do on 'Scrubs' in our show, but it's not presented as Ted's Band.

I love shooting guns. Not at people or animals, but I love shooting blanks!

The hero's journey software in our heads is demanding to be lived out. The blanks are insisting on being filled in.

While actors play with guns for make-believe, the guns themselves are by no means make-believe; they're real. Even when the actor is using blanks, there are all kinds of safety protocols to follow when shooting one at someone. Pulling the trigger is the easy part.

You shoot blanks with your other salamander, too, Jeremy

He thought about all the holes in him, the blank places, the voids where others felt things. When it came down to it, he was really just a screen, more empty than solid, his emotions blowing through him, only angry catching and holding.

It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than that he should adopt the melancholy device of using blanks or asterisks.

The whole idea that the rescue was staged or the soldiers were shooting blanks, that's just obvious stuff. Why would you do that in the middle of a war? It's just crazy.

Approximating involves making a series of educated guesses systematically by partitioning the problem into manageable chunks, identifying assumptions, and then using your general knowledge of the world to fill in the blanks.

Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage?

More ominously, Native American tribal areas were not included on early European maps of the Americas, giving readers of those maps the impression no one lived there—at least, no one of consequence. No landowners. These are the kinds of blanks that fire Marlow's imagination in Conrad's Heart of Darkness—the blanks that certain minds found to be a call for colonialism and conquest.