Mind Goes Blank Quotes

#1. What happens to me when I'm provoked is that I get tongue-tied and my mind goes blank. Then I spend all night tossing and turning trying to figure out what I should have said

Nora Ephron

#2. If your mind goes blank, don't forget to turn off the sound.

Steven Smith

#3. I respond, thoughts dropping away, like pebbles plopping one by one in water, sinking down, down into dark oblivion.

Sophie Jordan

#4. I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.

Anna Quindlen

#5. Finished playing your sex games?" she asked point-blank.
"I wasn't doing anything to your mind, Elena. Not that time."
Oh, shit.

Nalini Singh

#6. Our life is a blank book and we are the authors......... Write and shape your story as much as the mind can imagine it

Jason Calder

#7. Am I a man of great wisdom? Hardly! Even when a simple person brings me a question, my mind goes utterly blank, I just thrash it out until I've exhausted every possibility.

Confucius

#8. Because I'm not writing all the time (thank goodness), my mind is sometimes pleasantly blank.

Lydia Davis

#9. The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.

Steven Pinker

#10. I fear if I cannot think again, if my mind suddenly goes blank. It will be embarrassing.

Goenawan Mohamad

#11. When I swing at a golf ball right, my mind is blank and my body is loose as a goose.

Sam Snead

#12. My advice to the reader approaching a poem is to make the mind still and blank. Let the poem speak. This charged quiet mimics the blank space ringing the printed poem, the nothing out of which something takes shape.

Camille Paglia

#13. When you let your mind go blank,' he said, 'or when you stop talking for a long time, something happens. Time becomes different. It goes away. It doesn't come back until you start to say something.

Peter Hoeg

#14. I guess I was an early method actress. I would go to a quiet part of the sound stage with my mother. I wouldn't think of anything sad, I would just make my mind a blank. In a minute I could cry.

Shirley Temple

#15. Of all false assertions that ever went into the world under the banner of a great name and the mail armor of a well-turned phrase, Locke's comparison of the mind to a blank sheet of paper appears to me among the most untrue.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#16. There are few experiences as depressing as that anxious barren state known as writer's block, where you sit staring at your blank page like a cadaver, feeling your mind congeal, feeling you talent run down your leg and into your sock.

Anne Lamott

#17. Have dinner with me tonight."
Augusta blinked, mind blank. Then said, "The five-second rule applies here. You can take the invite back and we can pretend you never asked."
He scowled and repeated, "Have dinner with me.

Ann Bruce

#18. Olivier looked at him blankly. But the Chief Inspector had seen that look before. It was, in fact, almost impossible to look blank. Unless the person wanted to. A blank face to the Chief Inspector meant a frantic mind.

Louise Penny