I love seeing blank days in my calendar.
The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.
Anger clearly has its proper place at work, which is neither wholly absent nor ever present. The manager who is an emotional blank is just as hard to work for as the volcanic boss, and both can do great harm by setting an unhelpful example for what kind of emotional expression is expected and accepted.
Foursquare makes maps special. We take maps that are blank and put dots on them to help you figure out what to do.
The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.
You have to stay fresh and blank in your mind when you go out to bat. You complicate things, and you’re gone.
The key thing is that you start every film from sort of a blank page, almost like you discover it like a child discovers a new world.
I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer.
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.
Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
Having my name called to be the first pick for the Phoenix Suns was mind-blowing. Having all that confidence and leading up to that point when I saw Adam Silver come out, I was just waiting for my name, and when he called it, my mind went blank.
Warner Bros. never really got behind the solo work. They always kind of drew a blank. I think they always were thinking, ‘Well, this is nice, but let’s get back to what’s really important.’
Sometimes when you’re doing fantasy, that’s the most important thing, is to be a blank space, because the last thing you want to do ever as an actor is judge yourself or the character or the movie that you’re in. You want to just play the moment as best you can. Juilliard helped me do that.
Listen to Your Heart’ was a blank slate. Yeah, there was this outside idea of ‘Bachelor in Paradise’ meets ‘A Star Is Born,’ but what does that mean? You have to actually define that, make it happen.
Make sure that when you look at your plate, it’s a beautiful blank canvas to start with, and you want lots of color on there. You want to make sure you have whole grains and protein. It should not be beige in color; it should be green and bright red, and orange and yellow.
As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.
I enjoy performing, always, but when you’re taping a gig, you’ve got to blank out this mass apparatus of self-consciousness that’s surrounding you, this invitation to drown in self-consciousness. Otherwise you just won’t be able to do anything.
Every weekday morning, I picture my first paragraph while I hike with my dog Milo near Mulholland Drive, looking out over the San Fernando Valley. I edit the paragraph, then memorize it, so that when I get back home and sit down at my computer, the blank screen’s tyranny lasts only a second or two. A brief reign!
I have this fantasy. I’m walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank. So I can start again and get it right.
My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.
The critics didn’t like it at all. They felt it was crude and violent without meaning, and they dumped on it. ‘Point Blank’ marked a shift in movie-making, and they weren’t ready for it. However, I think those were the last negative words ever said about it.
Sometimes the very best of all summer books is a blank notebook. Get one big enough, and you can practice sketching the lemon slice in your drink or the hot lifeguard on the beach or the vista down the hill from your cabin.
Migration gives a blank cheque to put anything you don’t feel like addressing in the memory hold. No neighbours can go against the monster narrative of your family.
The mild creaminess of cottage cheese makes it a perfect blank canvas for almost any flavor combination, savory or sweet. Since it’s so soft, I usually try to give it some textural contrast in the form of something crunchy. Brightening it up with acid is also a must.
An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.
If you look at all the pictures of women in magazines, everybody’s got a forehead that looks like a billboard. Completely blank.
I like ‘1989,’ the whole album. ‘Welcome to New York,’ ‘Blank Space,’ ‘Bad Blood’ – all of it!
Let’s just say, if I weren’t a model, I’d be a walking collage. I see my body as a blank canvas that’s aching to be decorated; I find it all very fascinating.
Space is a canvas, as large and blank as any ever created, for it is indeed creation itself, and it calls to us to paint upon it with our own dreams and imaginations anything we wish, anything we want, and anything we can imagine.
I find myself on Yelp typing in ‘the best ‘blank’ all the time: best cheese, best ice cream, best pizza.
In the middle order the game is a little more laid out for you, whether you are batting first or chasing down a score, so you are a bit more reactive to the situation in front of you. Opening up, it is pretty much a blank canvas and dependent on how you play.
In the ’80s and ’90s, China went through a giant change. It needed all resources. At the time, I was in the recycled paper business, and I realized the China market was a blank slate.
My favorite Taylor Swift song is between ‘Blank Space’ and ‘Wildest Dreams.’
A little more than 30 years ago, Bernie Marcus, Arthur Blank, Pat Farrah and I got together and founded The Home Depot.
Once, and only once, I walked on stage and my mind went utterly blank! I had no idea why I was there! My fellow actors had to rescue me. I was very young and new to the business, so I’m glad it didn’t give me stage fright for the rest of my life!
‘I’ is the word everyone uses to refer to themselves. On the one hand, it points to a specific person, but it’s also this blank space that you can insert yourself into; it’s a chute into empathy.
Blank paper has always inspired me.
What I loved about Radio 3 back in the olden days, when it didn’t give a toss about the youth, were the silences – socking great caesuras just left blank for quiet reflection.
I was blown away by being able to color. Then I started to draw… bringing a blank white canvas to life was fascinating.
I don’t think there is anything wrong with white space. I don’t think it’s a problem to have a blank wall.
We called ourselves The Blanks because when we say who we are, everyone stares at us with a blank expression. But when we then say ‘Ted’s band from ‘Scrubs’ everyone goes, ‘Oh yeah, you guys.’
What is it about the blank page that makes me want to hurl myself into a game of solitaire? I ask myself these kinds of questions while I’m playing solitaire.
Being an actor all of my life is kind of a collaborative, social form of interpretive art. Sitting down with a blank page every day by yourself is a different feeling.
Lee Marvin was my godfather and a very close friend of my father’s. My father directed the very successful ‘Point Blank’ in which Lee Marvin starred.
Music is such an odd thing when you think about it – behind an image until you take it away, and then you realize a movie sounds blank without it.
Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day’s progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.
Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
When I turned 40, subconsciously, life was a blank sheet. Before, it was disjointed, and I was very displaced and quite mad, but it was a brilliant time. Everyone thinks I must have been unhappy.
If you put a blank canvas in front of Matisse and say, ‘This has to be a success,’ who’s going to pick up a paintbrush?
I write in the afternoon, from about 12 until 6 or 7. I use an upstairs room as my office. Once I get going I keep at it, and it usually takes about six months from the first blank screen until ‘The End.’
I photograph artists, and some of them are very well known, but if you ask the average man on the street, ‘Do you like Anselm Kiefer?’ He would stare at you with a blank stare, because these are not celebrities. They are celebrated in a specific circle.
When I model I pretty much go blank. You can’t think too much or it doesn’t work.
A stem cell is essentially a blank cell capable of becoming another, more differentiated cell-type in the body, such as a skin cell, a muscle cell or a nerve cell.
Everybody faces a blank piece of paper, no matter what they’ve written or painted or composed before. I can’t imagine approaching every single new project with-without doubt.
America doesn’t have poor people, they have temporarily embarrassed millionaires: meaning there are people who are poor for now but that’s all about to end when ‘blank’ happens, or when the number comes in, or when the invention takes off.
