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.
— Robin HobbThe 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.
— G.K. ChestertonShe was a blank, a wordless being. She was a hole in the universe.
— Jessica KhouryWisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.
— Criss JamiI enjoy the freedom of the blank page.
— Irvine WelshThe 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.
— Michael Bassey JohnsonHistory is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.
— Sara SheridanLiving 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.
— Louise GlückAtheism 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.
— Michael Bassey JohnsonOne 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.
— Vera Nazarian