It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.
[Flounder has just fired a blank cartridge near Neidermeyer's horse, and the horse has dropped dead] Bluto: Holy shit! D-Day: There were blanks in that gun! Flounder: I didn't even point the gun at him! Bluto: Holy shit! [D-Day checks the gun] D-Day:...
Whatever the unknown in Europe, it had to be better than the known in a small town, where truth was hidden behind smiles, pleasantries, and an abundance of stretch lace at weddings. Whatever, the yet-to-be-written truth about her own life, it seemed ...
Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House.
A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.
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.
The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It's not a blank slate, but it isn't written in stone, either.
To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left.
Whenever you are examining someone else's belongings, you are bound to learn many interesting things about the person of which you were not previously aware.
Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.
You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous and tyrannical; the page is made of time and matter; the page always wins.
Are you sure?" Aidan asked, "Gavriel's still a vampire." "He warned me about you and about them. He didn't have to. I'm not going to repay that by-" she hesitated, then frowned. "What did you call him?" "That's his name," Aidan sighed, "Gavriel. The ...
Don't think too much. There'll be time to think later. Analysis won't help. You're chiseling now. You're passing your hands over the wood. Now the page is no longer blank. There's something there. It isn't your business yet to know whether it's going...
I am a buyer of blank books. Kids find it interesting that I would buy a blank book. They say, "Twenty-Six dollars for a blank book! Why would you pay that?" The reason I pay twenty-six dollars is to challenge myself to find something worth twenty-si...
It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right.
The doctrine of a soul that outlives the body is anything but righteous, because it necessarily devalues the lives we live on this earth.
Nothing invests life with more meaning than the realisation that every moment of sentience is a precious gift
Finding the discipline, the motivation, the focus, the passion to sit down in front of a blank piece of paper or a blank computer screen every day and then to make it come alive with characters and with plot is incredibly exciting and at the same tim...
Pages and pages and pages with words all over the pages. My goodness, what fun. What fun to write whatever words occur.
At school, I would read the City pages before I read the sports pages.
