{"quotes":[{"text":"Gankis lifted an arm to point at the distant shale cliffs. 'And in the face of it there were thousands of little holes, little what-you-call-'ems...'Alcoves,' Kennit supplied in an almost dreamy voice. 'I call them alcoves, Gankis. As would you, if you could speak your own mother tongue.","author":"Robin Hobb","tags":["alcoves","answer","arm","blank","captain","cliff","funny","language","mother","name","point","query","question","response","sarcasm","sarcastic","title","tongue","voice","wit","witty","word"],"id":54501,"author_id":"Robin+Hobb"},{"text":"The future is a blank wall on which every man can write his own name as large as he likes; the past I find already sovered with scribbles, such as Plato, Isaiah, Shakespeare, Michael Angelo, Napoleon. I can make the future as narrow as myself; the past is obliged to be as broad and turbulant as humanity.","author":"G.K. Chesterton","tags":["blank","future","past","tradition"],"id":126131,"author_id":"G.K.+Chesterton"},{"text":"She was a blank, a wordless being. She was a hole in the universe.","author":"Jessica Khoury","tags":["blank","hole","scifi","self","universe","vitro"],"id":126716,"author_id":"Jessica+Khoury"},{"text":"Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["blank","college","confirmation","confirmed","development","education","exam","experimentation","fill-in-the-blank","imagination","intelligence","knowledge","learning","risk","school","study","test","wisdom"],"id":127119,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.","author":"Irvine Welsh","tags":["enjoy","page","blank "],"id":146900,"author_id":"Irvine+Welsh"},{"text":"The future is as blank as a plane sheet if you don't have an eagle's eye, that's why you should climb to a vantage point to get a good perspective view at your future.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["ahead","ahead-of-the-future","blank","blank-sheet","climb","climbing","dream","dreaming","eagle","eagle-s-eye-view","eye","fly","flying","flying-without-wings","forever","future","goal","goal-setting","god","good-perspective","meditation","michael-bassey-johnson","paper","power","prognostication","reveal","revelation","success","sun","the-ladder-of-success","tomorrow","vantage-point","view","viewers","vivid","vividly"],"id":153129,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.","author":"Sara Sheridan","tags":["blank","gaps","history","stories","storytelling","writing"],"id":162670,"author_id":"Sara+Sheridan"},{"text":"Living things don't all requirelight in the same degree. Some of usmake our own light: a silver leaflike a path no one can use, a shallowlake of silver in the darkness under the great maples.But you know this already.You and the others who thinkyou live for truth and, by extension, loveall that is cold.","author":"Louise Glück","tags":["alone","blank","cold","cold-hearted","darkness","emotionless","empty","flowers","gluck","lamium","leaf","light","living","loneliness","love"],"id":192209,"author_id":"Louise+Gl%C3%BCck"},{"text":"Atheism is a lack of belief...What about the powers of darkness, and that of light, will you trace both to nothing? Then you must have created yourself.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["atheism","atheist","belief","blank","creation","dark","dark-knowledge","darkness","demon","disbelieve","false","false-religion","galaxy","hypocrisy","hypocrite","michael-bassey-johnson","pagan","religion","space","theology","ufo","unbelieve","unbeliever"],"id":240744,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"One of the strangest things is the act of creation.You are faced with a blank slate—a page, a canvas, a block of stone or wood, a silent musical instr.","author":"Vera Nazarian","tags":["act-of-creation","birth","blank","blank-slate","create","creating","creation","creative","creativity","creator","divine","form","issue","make","maker","making","shape"],"id":252924,"author_id":"Vera+Nazarian"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}