Blotting Quotes

#1. Looking back across the years, so many pictures flash on the screen of my memory that just as I begin to see one clearly, another slides in, blotting out the first, itself to be pushed aside by the next and the next and the next.

Conrad Veidt

#2. It wasn't being an alcoholic - it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having my teens in my early thirties: blotting out your life, not having to think about anything.

Julie Walters

#3. ... that same hardware and tackle shop his dad got lost in for hours while Kache waited in the truck, writing lyrics on the backs of old envelopes his mom kept in the glove compartment for blotting her lipstick. Kache had written around the red blooms of her lip prints.

Sere Prince Halverson

#4. I've learned all my hair and makeup tricks on the set, and I incorporate all kinds of things when I'm getting ready, and I'm big on blotting papers. I get a very shiny forehead, which I like to call my inner glow coming out.

Elizabeth Banks

#5. I can get incredibly erotic about blotting paper.

Steven Morrissey

#6. I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

John Millington Synge

#7. Love is a universal migraine. A bright stain on the vision, Blotting out reason.

Robert Graves

#8. If I had my way, I would write the word 'insure' over every door of every cottage and upon the blotting pad of every public man, because I am convinced that, for sacrifice that are conceivably small, families can be secured against catastrophes which otherwise would smash them forever.

Winston Churchill

#9. Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn't catch up, it overtakes ... blotting out the future.

Sarah Dessen

#10. God's forgiveness is not just a casual statement; it is the complete blotting out of all dirt and degradation of our past, present, and future.

Billy Graham

#11. Penology ... has become torture and foolishness, a waste of money and a cause of crime ... a blotting out of sight and heightening of social anxiety.

Paul Goodman

#12. As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.

Will Self

#13. I always have mini bottles of Unbreakable, the fragrance I did with my husband. I'm Armenian, so I'm oily and always have blotting papers.

Khloe Kardashian

#14. When I travel, I have to have blotting sheets. It's so much better to remove the oil than to cover it up because then your skin just looks cakey.

Bethany Mota

#15. As her lungs pumped and her head cleared, she wondered if all the effort she'd put into blotting out the pain had deadened her ability to feel pleasure, too. What a shame. What a loss.

Susan Donovan

#16. Become like a sheet of blotting paper and soak it all in. Later on you can figure out what to keep and what to unload.

Haruki Murakami

#17. The eternal silence of the great white desert. Cloudy columns of snow drift advancing from the south, pale yellow wraiths, heralding the coming storm, blotting out one by one the sharp-cut lines of the land.

Robert Falcon Scott

#18. We produced a bundle of pens, a copious supply of ink, and a goodly show of writing and blotting paper. For there was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationary.

Charles Dickens

#19. Morse stared morosely at the blotting paper. It's just not my sort of case, Lewis. I know it's not a very nice thing to say, but I just get on better when we've got a body - a body that died from unnatural causes. That's all I ask. And we haven't got a body.

Colin Dexter

#20. As far as I have seen, at school ... they aimed at blotting out one's individuality.

Franz Kafka

#21. This depravation of our nature is nothing else but the blotting out of God's image in us.

Heinrich Bullinger

#22. Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on them distinctly. They swallow the ink, and you find a large spot.

Augustus William Hare

#23. Instead of trying to hold on, to push myself into this force, I let go. And I fall into what I can't explain, into a sensation that is everything and nothing, light and dark, hot and cold, alive and dead. Soon the power is the only thing in my head, blotting out all my ghosts and memories.

Victoria Aveyard

#24. Everything man needs is in the world.

Idries Shah

#25. I begin to see my life as a small part of something grander, more elegant: the intertwined nature of the souls of man.

Raoul Wientzen

#26. God knows I gave my best in baseball at all times and no man on earth can truthfully judge me otherwise.

Shoeless Joe Jackson

#27. A sweet life is a sweaty life.

Toni Sorenson

#28. Siobhan said that when you are writing a book you have to include some descriptions of things. I said that I could take photographs and put them in the book. But she said the idea of a book was to describe things using words so that people could read them and make a picture in their own head.

Mark Haddon

#29. We can make, to ourselves, very much stronger suggestions than anyone else can, whoever that person may be.

Emile Coue

#30. I would not presume to be as experienced as some of my senior and more esteemed colleagues. But there is something to be said for the impartiality of youth. New perspectives sometimes yield revelations disregarded by those of a more inveterate nature. Old dogs and new tricks, as it were.

Randy Henke

#31. My first impression of Van Halen was that David Lee Roth was a god, and that so was Eddie.

Dave Mustaine

#32. [ ... ] intuition can sometimes get things wrong. And intuition is what people use in life to make decisions.

Mark Haddon

#33. American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.

Martin Fleischmann

#34. You know, I don't support esoteric approaches to acting.

Christoph Waltz