Slate Quotes

Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail, but every day is a clean slate and a fresh opportunity. (Gretchen Rubin)
I think there is a difference between Slate and Salon. I think we both serve important functions on the Internet. As more and more Websites disappear, I'm thankful Slate is still around because it makes things less lonely. View quote
David Talbot
If I don't think about anything, and start with a clean slate, in terms of what I have to do, a lot of different ideas come up, and I can think about things more openly. View quote
Namie Amuro
We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off. View quote
Vinoba Bhave
Philosophy finds itself to be no longer anything but the heir to a fabulous mystical theology, but missing a God and wiping the slate clean. View quote
Georges Bataille
People attack Scientology, I never forget it, always even the score. People attack auditors, or staff, or organizations, or me. I never forget until the slate is clear. View quote
L. Ron Hubbard
The gray-green stretch of sandy grass, Indefinitely desolate; A sea of lead, a sky of slate; Already autumn in the air, alas! One stark monotony of stone, The long hotel, acutely white, Against the after-sunset light Withers gray-green, and takes the grass's tone. View quote
Arthur Symons
Every American wants a clean slate, but nobody wants to lose what they've got. View quote
Rob Sheffield
Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up. View quote
Erik Larson
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. View quote
Alison Gopnik
There's nothing so attractive as a blank slate. Take one attractive man, slap on a thick coat of daydream, and voila, the perfect man. With absolutely no resemblance to reality. (Lauren Willig)
When things aren't working out for people, the end of the world seems like an easy way to wipe the slate clean. View quote
Evan Glodell
Writing is still on my slate. View quote
Jaleel White
Substantially fewer films will be produced over the next year or two. And a significant portion of the production costs of the reduced slate will be borne by hedge funds and other investment groups. View quote
Peter Bart
Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that I've been doing all of my life, which is freestyle hip-hop. View quote
Roshon Fegan
Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic. View quote
Tabitha Soren
I just stepped out of the dark, still forest and found myself on a rising hill. In front of me I saw a valley, surrounded by fertile hills, in which a town stood and the newly covered slate roof of the tower glowed in the evening light. Through the richly-flowered, carpeted meadow the river meandered.. .And behind the hills lay the mountains.. ..cliff after cliff rose far out into the horizon.. .Filled with soaring joy I stood there a long time and looked at the beautiful area.. View quote
Caspar David Friedrich
There is constant sun, good weather all the time, the ocean like a slab of slate - there is nothing less picturesque than this combination. View quote
Berthe Morisot
As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean. View quote
Jeanne Moreau
You can draw any kind of picture you want on a clean slate and indulge your every whim in the wilderness in laying out a New Delhi, Canberra, or Brasilia, but when you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax. View quote
Robert Moses
I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank slate, that they could use Iraqis as guinea pigs. (Juan Cole)
No judge writes on a wholly clean slate. View quote
Felix Frankfurter
Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking. View quote
Frederick Buechner
I am a blank slate - therefore I can create anything I want. View quote
Tobey Maguire
I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative. View quote
Ben Kingsley