Famous quotes containing the word blank:
“If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: Mother is working on her five-act tragedy in blank verse! you would be surprised how they would respect you. They would probably all become playwrights.”
—Brenda Ueland (18911985)
“... when I exclaim against novels, I mean when contrasted with those works which exercise the understanding and regulate the imagination.For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and obtain a little strength by a slight exertion of its thinking powers ...”
—Mary Wollstonecraft (17591797)
“I have often wondered how they manage to get return envelopes which miss, by one-quarter of an inch, fitting the blank you are supposed to return. They say, Please fill out and return the enclosed envelope, and the enclosed envelope is always one-quarter of an inch too small.”
—Robert Benchley (18891945)