Best White Space Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“White Space is where the world and all distraction falls away. Where the voice of the Divine can be heard. Where the Truth of who you are is found. Where miracles happen.”

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Author:Valerie Rickel

“In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way there are white spaces between written words. We simply hallucinate word boundaries when we reach the end of a stretch of sound that matches some entry in our mental dictionary.”

Source: The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

“We like books that have a lot of dreck in them, matter which presents itself as not wholly relevant (or indeed, at all relevant) but which, carefully attended to, can supply a kind of "sense" of what is going on. This "sense" is not to be obtained by reading between the lines (for there is nothing there, in those white spaces) but by reading the lines themselves looking at them and so arriving at a feeling not of satisfaction exactly, that is too much to expect, but of having read them, of having "completed" them.”

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Author:Donald Barthelme

“There must be an open space in the paintings - an entry space for the viewer, or even for me. Just white space where you can get into it.”

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Author:Norbert Bisky

“Singapore gives 10% "white space" time to all of its teachers to come up with their own innovations outside of the official curriculum. This encourages teachers to turn to their colleagues for inspiration and ideas.”

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Author:Andy Hargreaves

“There's a sameness about American poetry that I don't think represents the whole people. It represents a poetry of the moment, a poetry of evasion, and I have problems with this. I believe poetry has always been political, long before poets had to deal with the page and white space . . . it's natural.”

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Author:Yusef Komunyakaa

“There are still many large white spaces on the map of human knowledge. You can go discover them. So do it. Get out there and fill in the blank spaces. Every single moment is a possibility to go to these new places and explore them.”

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Author:Peter Thiel

“The silences express so much and are so crucial in music, and prose does not allow for the creation of these silences, these white spaces on the page or the computer screen.”

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Author:Pattiann Rogers

“I think I'm still just as conflicted about the war as I always was. On the one hand, I was a soldier carrying out his duty, following his allegiance to his country and to the mission at hand. But yet, there was always this unease plaguing me. "What are we doing here?" "Are we really fixing this country or are we doing more harm than good?" And the most pressing question: "How do we pull ourselves out of this quicksand?" I think I'm still there in that white space you mentioned, trying to get clarity for myself on what this war did to us as a nation.”

Thinking Trying Stills War Country Hands Nations Space White Duty Soldier Following Missions Harm Clarity Allegiance Fixing Quicksand White Space

Author:Dave Abrams

“I'm a compulsive enjamber. I'm drawn to half-meanings created by the line, so that's definitely an element of craft that's always on my mind. And I'm a big devotee of the short line, of couplets and tercets, and of irregular stanzas with lots of white space. I've got to give the dense language room to breathe!”

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Author:Anna Journey

“There's relief in white space for the reader.”

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Author:Leni Zumas

“If I looked at some of these pieces as if this project was not spoken-word but just short anthology, I probably would have fussed with some of the sentences, you know? Syllabication and prosody and such crap. Because the printed word is etched in stone. But for reading purposes I accepted this book of texts in the manner in which I wrote them, no need to fuss. Most of the shorter stuff was written as poetry. Meaning lots of white space on the page.”

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Author:Richard Meltzer

“Witness Donald Trump's current presidential campaign. So first people need to find the white spaces, the unexploited or underexploited niches where there is less competition and more opportunity.”

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Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer

“I also learned to tell a story. I think I learned from poetry how to time a story. Poetry's timing, beats and pauses. That white space on the page is as important as the black. The bottom of the page is blackout. It's performance.”

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Author:Sandra Cisneros

“I use the term "fool's gold white space" to highlight a common problem for innovation. People see a market that doesn't exist, and assume that one should exist.”

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Author:Scott D. Anthony

“Once you know the reason why - you've defined your white space of canvas on which you can paint and create a new concept idea. No matter how creative you are - and thus how much creative space you need - there's always some fundamental values and drivers your brand should seek to address - in order to become successful.”

“Film relates to almost every other form of expression, but poetry is a bit abstract in its strength and sometimes even the white spaces on the page are evocative almost as much as where the text is. Certain poets have played with that.”

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Author:Jim Jarmusch

“I don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall.”

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Author:Annie Leibovitz

“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.”

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Author:Margaret Atwood

“You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem.”

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Book:The Paul Chowder Chronicles: The Anthologist and Traveling Sprinkler, Two Novels

Source: The Paul Chowder Chronicles: The Anthologist and Traveling Sprinkler, Two Novels

“The newspaper stories were like dreams to us, bad dreams dreamt by others. How awful, we would say, and they were, but they were awful without being believable. They were too melodramatic, they had a dimension that was not the dimension of our lives. We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.”

People Stories Dream Space White Our Lives Paper Edges Newspapers Awful Dimensions Print Gaps Blank Papers Believable Bad Dream White Space

Book:The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“In the printed page the only real things are the paper and the ink; the white spaces play the same part in aiding the eye to take in the meaning of the print as do the black letters.”

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Book:Under the apple trees

Source: Under the apple trees

“White space is to be regarded as an active element, not a passive background.”

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Author:Jan Tschichold

“Poetry is a process of getting back to the unconscious. Hence, I am always writing-even when I'm not facing the white space. I feel writers are like reservoirs of images. We take in what is around us.”

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Book:Blue notes: essays, interviews, and commentaries

Source: Blue notes: essays, interviews, and commentaries

“Plenty of white space and generous line spacing,and don't make the type size too miserly. Then you will be assured of a product fit for a king.”

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Author:Giambattista Bodoni

“Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space.”

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Author:Richard Corliss

“There is no straight path from your seat today to where you are going. Don't try to draw that line. You will not just get it wrong, you'll miss big opportunities. And I mean big-like the Internet. Careers are not ladders, those days are long gone, but jungle gyms. Don't just move up and down, don't just look up, look backwards, sideways around corners. Your career and your life will have starts and stops and zigs and zags. Don't stress out about the white space-the path you can't draw- because there in lies both the surprises and the opportunities.”

“I am sure in some years from now you will see new posters with just white space and four lines in Garamond.”

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Author:Adrian Frutiger

“The poet is born with the capacity of arranging words in such a way that something of the quality of the graces and inspirations he has received can make itself felt to other human beings in the white spaces, so to speak, between the lines of his verse. This is a great and precious gift; but if the poet remains content with his gift, if he persists in worshipping the beauty in art and nature without going on to make himself capable, through selflessness, of apprehending Beauty as it is in the divine Ground, then he is only an idolater.”