Quotes About Slate

#1. And then - thwack! - Anne had brought her slate down on Gilbert's head and cracked it - slate not head - clear across.

L.M. Montgomery

#2. We don't have to start all over again and try to keep the slate clean. There is no more slate.

Jerry Bridges

#3. You need to be as clean of a slate as you can be, as an actor. You have to try to be open to every experience.

Cillian Murphy

#4. Everyone starts out with a clean slate to soil.' (Daisy, 'Friendship on Fire', p. 280)

Danielle Weiler

#5. 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.

Tabitha Soren

#6. My grandfather was a lot like a white Jewish George Jefferson, and he did not enjoy my work very much.

Jenny Slate

#7. I'm just kind of focused on playing the game and try to get better at certain things and wipe the slate clean every night.

Patrick Kane

#8. His gaze lingered on her mouth and she shuddered. God, he was beautiful. There was something deep in his slate-colored eyes - something stirring, soulful - and Cassandra found herself wanting to know more.

Remy Landon

#9. Amy Rapp, my producing partner, and I are drawn to character-driven material. We're developing and producing movies and TV, fiction and non-fiction, studio and independent, broadcast and cable, theatre, and web so our slate is really diverse.

Meredith Vieira

#10. Women love to be asked more about their clothes than their work. We're dolls; we made a wish to become alive.

Jenny Slate

#11. Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail, but every day is a clean slate and a fresh opportunity

Gretchen Rubin

#12. Look, life is only comprehensible through a thousand local gods ... spirits of certain trees, of certain curves of brick walls, of certain fish and chip shops if you like. And slate roofs, and frowns in people, and slouches ... I'd say to them, Worship all you can see, and more will appear ...

Peter Shaffer

#13. It's exciting to play someone who is a bit tougher than I am. I liked feeling those adjustments.

Jenny Slate

#14. Online magazines such as Salon, Slate, and Suck, had already made an elementary discovery: a reader staring into the equivalent of a thirty-watt bulb didn't want to confront thousands of words. The medium required a little extra white space, a sort of oasis for the optic nerve.

James Marcus

#15. Who needs to be a Phoenix for rebirth? One simply requires themselves and an instrument to clean the slate and start over, perhaps create their own world where everything is better..

TheBakaViolinist

#16. I'd like to be in a female version of The Fugitive. Something where I don't have to be ripped up like an action star, but be a normal, healthy lady who is framed and on the run. I'd have to run from explosions and punch people in the face but not rappel down a building.

Jenny Slate

#17. Love is not an equation, as your father once wanted me to believe. It's not a contract, and it's not a happy ending. It is the slate under the chalk and the ground buildings rise from and the oxygen in the air. It is the place I come back to, no matter where I've been headed.

Jodi Picoult

#18. We love rom-coms, but it's getting to where we don't identify with any of the women in them.

Jenny Slate

#19. Duchess's knee, while plates and dishes crashed around it
once more the shriek of the Gryphon, the squeaking of the Lizard's slate-pencil, and the choking of the suppressed guinea-pigs, filled the air, mixed up with the

Lewis Carroll

#20. Contrary to what some parents might believe or hope for, children are not born a blank slate. Rather, they come into the world with predetermined abilities, proclivities and temperaments that nurturing parents may be able to foster or modify, but can rarely reverse.

Jane Brody

#21. I probably shouldn't say this about all animals, but at least the farm animals that I've hung out with, and even when I go to the zoo usually, they're like a blank slate. I guess that's why I like them. They're puppets, and you can imagine them being anything you want.

Kristen Schaal

#22. Every day when a man or woman gets dressed, they are in effect defining who they are. That daily clean slate is a time in our lives when we can determine who we want to be.

Kenneth Cole

#23. It's only at first sight,when the mind's a blank slate,that you get the purest look.
So I fold the flap back,and write:
Tumbleweeds.

Alyson Noel

#24. Great Benefactor! How absurd- to want pain! Can there be anyone who doesn't know that pain is a negative quality, and that if you add them up it reduces the sum we call happiness? so it follows ...
But ... nothing follows. The slate is clean. Naked.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#25. Our new millennium began, and it seemed a little bit possible--though surely if we examined the thought too closely, it would evaporate--that a brighter time might be ahead; we have, after all, the round, clean slate of the new number, the row of zeros after the initial digit in 2000.

Mark Doty

#26. I haven't had television since 1991, and it definitely influences me. As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a joke in my head, because every time you turn on television or radio, it wipes the slate clean - at least in my case.

Chuck Palahniuk

#27. A lot of times what's satisfying to me in comedy is when a woman successfully does self-care.

Jenny Slate

#28. Everybody starts with a clean slate only altered by unnecessary hate.

Melanie Chisholm

#29. Earth-toned slate, and the walls were painted in a golden-brown color. Everything looked luxurious. My mother would have died if she saw this place. It looked like a palace. We walked through the hallway into a large open room, which had floors

Cameo Renae

#30. We are curious creatures, we Taiwanese. Orphans. Eventually, orphans must choose their own names and write their own stories. The beauty of orphanhood is the blank slate.

Shawna Yang Ryan

#31. I feel like when I go on stage I feel so excited at the prospect that there will be a true connection.

Jenny Slate

#32. What we need,' Henry says, 'is a fresh start. A blank slate. Let's call her Tabula Rasa.

Audrey Niffenegger

#33. Whenever people tell you they are going to wipe the slate clean, it's your slate they mean to wipe.

P. J. O'Rourke

#34. I'm tired of someone being called 'quirky' because they tripped or got a stain on their shirt. It's like a beautiful blonde lady who's quirky because she has bedhead, or she's quirky because she sometimes says the wrong, cute thing. I like it when women are quirky as human beings.

Jenny Slate

#35. My room is cleared. My head is cleared. Earlier, around dawn, I took out the last load of trash. I look around and see what's left. Nothing. There is no more Daelyn Rice. As I was. As I am. Or will become. I'm a blank slate

Julie Anne Peters

#36. That time when you're waiting for a job can be the most impactful and important time because you develop your preferences as a person. Knowing what you like will make you more confident. And then you'll stand out.

Jenny Slate

#37. It looks like I'm just gonna keep getting really, really happy and sad and embarrassed and excited and disappointed for the rest of my life, so let's just do that.

Jenny Slate

#38. I've called myself an accidental activist because I came to it not on purpose.

Jenny Slate

#39. I always loved to sing and was very, very loud. I wanted to be a movie star, like Judy Garland.

Jenny Slate

#40. It is so hard for musicians when they step into acting is they're not coming in as a blank slate, they're coming in with a real set idea of who they are, where they're coming from, what their politics are, what their tastes are.

Shirley Manson

#41. I really like working. I can't think of a job I didn't like. I was in an Alvin and the Chipmunks movie, which is not my idea of folk art; but I really enjoyed making it, and everyone was really nice.

Jenny Slate

#42. I got great sex education, and I always knew that if I wanted to be sexually active, I had to have safe sex.

Jenny Slate

#43. The sky," he wrote on his slate, "is my living room. The woods are my parlor. The lonely lake is my bath. I can't remain behind a fence all my life.

E.B. White

#44. That was something that I learned: It's actually okay if the way that I do my best is when I'm treated well.

Jenny Slate

#45. Don't think twice. If it's a character that you feel compelled to play and story that you feel needs to be told, don't think twice.

Jenny Slate

#46. Learn to travel light. Do anything necessary to start each new relationship with a clean slate.

Annette Vaillancourt

#47. There is no release
In a bodkin or disease,
Nor can there be a work so great
As that which cleans man's dirty slate.

William Butler Yeats

#48. There are so many different stories. You can choose to tell them, or not, but they certainly have the right to exist

Jenny Slate

#49. I always just wanted to be a movie actress, like Lily Tomlin or Ruth Gordon. I just imagined myself being in a movie, wearing stylish women's clothing the way I saw Amy Irving wearing it.

Jenny Slate

#50. A woman who is not ready to have a baby making it work is not a happy ending to me. It's a personal nightmare.

Jenny Slate

#51. Our goodness, our badness all develop from social experience, the company we keep, the things we're taught when we're young. We start with a clean slate. It's everyone else who fucks us up.

S. Walden

#52. Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.

D. B. Weiss

#53. When I would go on stage I would start to feel that the eyes that watching me weren't kind. And it took me a while to realize that those eyes were my own eyes.

Jenny Slate

#54. If I'm not the best aunt in America, then I don't know what's going on.

Jenny Slate

#55. When absolutes are abandoned for principles, the U.S. Constitution becomes a blank slate for anyone's graffiti.

Wayne LaPierre

#56. I've only been acting since 2009 and I learn more and more with each job. I think I prepare and I'm very focused and I have a good work ethic that I learned in school.

Jenny Slate

#57. Don't apologize. Don't explain. Don't ever feel less than. When you feel the need to apologize or explain who you are, it means the voice in your head is telling you the wrong story. Wipe the slate clean. And rewrite it.

Shonda Rhimes

#58. I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.

Ben Kingsley

#59. Because sometimes it's easier to start over with a clean slate than to drag the baggage of your past with you wherever you go.

Shaun David Hutchinson

#60. They'll all get to know me firsthand, the little and the big, the small and the great. They'll get to know me by being kindly forgiven, with the slate of their sins forever wiped clean.

Eugene H. Peterson

#61. Rain fell more steadily now. Grey and unrelenting. Nobody seemed to notice. Rain on the puddles. Rain on the high brickwork. Rain on the slate roofs. Rain on the rain itself.

Colum McCann

#62. What is a modern poet's fate? / To write his thoughts upon a slate; / The critic spits on what is done, / Gives it a wipe - and all is gone.

Thomas Hood

#63. Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.

George Sand

#64. We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.

Vinoba Bhave

#65. My mum's family are from Blaenau Ffestiniog, the slate town. My grandfather was Elis Humphreys Roberts, so that's quite Welsh isn't it?

Simon Fowler

#66. I think that, unfortunately, people who are maybe threatened by feminism think that it's about setting your bra on fire and being aggressive, and I think that's really wrong and really dangerous.

Jenny Slate

#67. America is indeed a revelation, though not quite the one that was planned. Given a clean slate, man, it was hoped, would write the future. Instead, he has written his past.

Mary McCarthy

#68. I feel I have to be totally cemented in my position, all: 'You can't tell me what to do with my body', but there is another part of me that is, you know, myself: vulnerable, with lots of doubts.

Jenny Slate

#69. War is a difficult time for everybody - for soldiers on the front and for the people on the road. War takes away from us everything that we know, as we know it. It gives us a blank slate to re-write our lives and for ink it gives us blood.

Preeti Bhonsle

#70. The Old Fortress at Tirfang, it had a bad name: witches built it, raised it by magic, infecting even the ordinary materials in which they worked - stone, timber, and slate - with their dark sorceries.

Madeline Howard

#71. 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.

Namie Amuro

#72. I had some friends that went to this hypnotist to stop smoking, and I kind of love things that seem magical. And I liked that it was in Santa Monica, and I had to go near the ocean to get my brain washed out or whatever. So I went there. And I went on a Thursday, and I got hypnotized.

Jenny Slate

#73. Don't get seduced by your own stuff; work hard to keep a blank slate state of mind each time you watch your film.

James Cameron

#74. It's important to say women are complex.

Jenny Slate

#75. It was actually nice to get a fresh, clean slate when I came to America.

Margot Robbie

#76. I'm not one to wallow, but I am one to feel the sting of a slap for a while, I think.

Jenny Slate

#77. I want a clean slate with you, Clare. You're special to me. I don't know what we're doing or where it's going but I've never felt anything like this, and I can't mess that up by doing the same shit I've always done.

J.L. Berg

#78. It's 2014, and the fact that anybody has to fight for the right to do what they want to do with their body in a safe and responsible way is infuriating.

Jenny Slate

#79. I was a teenager in '95, so I didn't dress like a woman then. I was really small. I remember wishing I wasn't wearing Gap Kids.

Jenny Slate

#80. I do think that character types trend. As a female comedian, the parts that come my way are often terrible women.

Jenny Slate

#81. It was so quick for me on 'SNL.' It's not something I consider to be, like, one of the big spaces in my career.

Jenny Slate

#82. Their shadows sported over the hills like cats, chasing the sunlight over sparkling granite and dull slate, the bright dry grass and the small hidden gleams of water.

Pamela Dean

#83. I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.

L.M. Montgomery

#84. I waited my whole life to be a woman, so now my clothes are fairly tight.

Jenny Slate

#85. 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.

Peter Bart

#86. Life says: Write down your experiences in a notebook, not on a blackboard. Don't start with a clean slate, but with a new page, so you can look back.

Naveed Nawab Ali

#87. Mandelion spread itself like a butterfly of brick and slate.

Frances Hardinge

#88. For some reason, I never watched Lifetime but just discovered it. I was like, 'Oh, it's all rom-coms!'

Jenny Slate

#89. I didn't hit puberty until I was, like, 17, so I love to talk about that.

Jenny Slate

#90. What do you want to be then ?"
He crooks a finger under my chin,aiming those mysterious slate blue eyes into mine."Unforgettable.

T. Torrest

#91. If you're in a good marriage, you have the sense that it won't be forever.

Jenny Slate

#92. 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 lightWithers gray-green, and takes the grass's tone.

Arthur Symons

#93. I've become very interested in the ways things can change even with someone you've known for many years and you've committed to for life. How drastic can you damage things in the way you speak to someone?

Jenny Slate

#94. I'd like to do a little bit of everything. I think the only thing I can't do is a British accent, so that's out. No Shakespeare for me. Unless it's like one of those modern-day remakes.

Jenny Slate

#95. I tend to watch things that aren't really the genre of my own work.

Jenny Slate

#96. There's a brief moment when you first wake up, where you have no memories. A blissful blank slate, a happy emptiness.

Candace Bushnell

#97. I miss a lot about England when I'm working away, even the slate grey skies.

Sean Bean

#98. Otherwise it was barren as a desert, just long dunes of brick and cement and slate and asphalt.

Peter Dickinson

#99. I think that there have been a lot of fear-based assertions that feminism is about aggression, and that is incorrect and untrue. Feminism is about equality; that's what it's about.

Jenny Slate

#100. I am a blank slate - therefore I can create anything I want.

Tobey Maguire