Best empty & blank Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In railway halls, on pavements near the traffic, They beg, their eyes made big by empty staring And only measuring Time , like the blank clock. No, I shall weave no tracery of pen-ornament To make them birds upon my singing tree: Time merely drives these lives which do not live As tides push rotten stuff along the shore.”

Made Bigs Eye Stuff Tree Singing Bird Empty Clock Staring Halls Pens Shore Tides Blank Traffic Rotten Ornaments Measuring Pavement Railway

Book:New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender

Source: New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender

“The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation you can make of it what you will”

Ifs Paper Empty Observation Blank Canvas Sheets Empty Canvas

Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“The blank space can be humbling. But I've faced it my whole professional life. It's my job. It's also my calling. Bottom line: Filling this empty space constitutes my identity.”

Whole Jobs Lines Space Identity Calling Empty Bottom Blank Filling Bottom Line Humbling Empty Space Professional Life Blank Space

Book:The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

“For me, the beauty of the blank page, or empty screen,staring up at nine thirty after two cups of coffee and a deep breath remains unique. The blankness invites scribbling on, mental drawing , and the best feeling I know - apart from the more obvious sensual ones - is the feeling of putting down the first thought and seeing it turn into symbols. Making an idea into an emotion.”

“The key role of entrepreneurs, like the most crucial role of scientists, is not to fill in the gaps in an existing market or theory, but to generate entirely new markets or theories. . .They stand before a canvas as empty as any painter's; a page as blank as any poet's.”

Roles Poet Theory Keys Pages Empty Scientist Entrepreneur Painter Gaps Crucial Blank Canvas

Book:The Spirit of Enterprise

Source: The Spirit of Enterprise

“The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words.”

Long Wisdom Pages Empty Blank

Book:Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings

Source: Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings

“Look...at...me..." he whispered. The green eyes found the black, but after a second, something in the depths of the dark pair seemed to vanish, leaving them fixed, blank, and empty. The hand holding Harry thudded to the floor, and Snape moved no more.”

Looks Hands Eye Found Black Dark Empty Green Moved Depth Leaving Fixed Pairs Blank Look At Me Snape Green Eyes Hand Holding

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.”

Trying All Things Empty Blank

Book:Shirley and The Professor

Source: Shirley and The Professor

“Most people are blind to magic. They move thru a blank and empty world. They’re bored with their lives and there’s nothing they can do about it. They’re eaten alive by longing and they’re dead before they die.”

People World Moving Dies Can Do Alive Magic Empty Blind Longing Bored Blank

Book:The Magicians: A Novel

Source: The Magicians: A Novel

“It seemed like the best weapons in my life had always been the most innocuous: empty plastic bins, a blank CD, an unmarked syringe, my smile in a dark room.”

Dark Rooms Weapons Empty Plastic Blank Cds Dark Room My Smile

Book:Forever

Source: Forever

“I wished there was some kind of switch on my brain. That I could turn it off in the same way that I could turn off the television. Just click it off and immediately empty my mind of all these images and worrying thoughts. And simply leave a blank screen. Or if I could just remove my head and put it on the bedside table and forget about it until morning. And then attach it again when I needed it.”

Ifs Way Mind Kind Turns Forget Brain Morning Worry Television Needed Empty Tables Screens If I Could Remove Blank Clicks Turn Off

Author:Marian Keyes

“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.”

Felt Emotion Empty Angry Screens Holes Void Blank Catching

Book:J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4

Source: J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4

“One thing I knew about the novelist’s task: when in doubt, write; when empty, write; when afraid, write. Nothing is more impenetrable than the blank page. The blank page is the void, the absence of sense and feeling, the white light of literary death.”

Writing Feelings Light White Doubt One Thing Pages Tasks Empty Absence Novelists Void Blank When In Doubt Blank Pages White Light

Author:Philip Sington

“Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House.”

House Nice Empty Blank Sheets Naughty Naughty Things

Author:Diane Cilento

“The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an arrest warrant or a band, nor is it any further away than the next sentence, the next best guess, the next sketch for the painting of a life portrait that might become a masterpiece. The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation, you can make of it what you will.”

Ifs Life Inspirational Might Turns Next Waiting Painting Band Paper Empty Sentences Observation Blank Canvas Portraits Sheets Masterpiece Arrivals Warrants Empty Canvas

Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.”

Creativity Creative Stage Pages Empty Leap Blank Leap Of Faith Blank Pages Artistic Creativity Empty Stage

Author:Julia Cameron

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