Slate's Quotes

#1. Count yourself lucky, how happy you must be - you get a fresh start, your slate's wiped clean. Count yourself lucky - God holds nothing against you and you're holding nothing back from Him.

Eugene H. Peterson

#2. It's quite a feeling to finish something you have been 10 years beholden to and to have a clean slate.

Chad Harbach

#3. Developing countries present a real opportunity for sustainable consumption. There, we can start from a clean slate and develop appropriate products and services that serve people's needs in a more efficient, integrated way.

Paul Meyer

#4. I wanted to be in New York because I wanted to be on 'SNL.' I spent a lot of time wanting to be on 'Saturday Night Live' as a kid. That's what I wanted.

Jenny Slate

#5. The question isn't whether we're guilty; it's how we deal with that guilt. Do we seek to shift it; seek to work it off; carry it till it crushes us; or give it to Jesus, let Him deal with it, and know the burden lifting wonder of a clean slate?

Mike McKinley

#6. There's a lot of different parts to me, so it makes total sense to me that I would do a big TV show or studio movie and then do a free comedy show the next day. They both feel equally important to me.

Jenny Slate

#7. 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.

Frederick Buechner

#8. We all have one thing in common: Happy New Year! It's a clean slate.

Eric Thomas

#9. I never know what you're thinking. Sometimes you're so closed off ... like an island slate. You intimidate me. That's why I keep quiet. I don't know which way your mood is going to go. It swings from north to south and back again in a nanosecond.

E.L. James

#10. The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate ... is a totalitarian's dream.

Steven Pinker

#11. I've been fortunate enough to match up the material I'm producing with the right buyer, the company that will make it and that wants it, and that isn't saying yes to be nice, but is saying yes because they want and need that movie and it's going to be important on their slate.

Nina Jacobson

#12. I learned my lesson early in my career that it's not helpful to go and look at what other people's opinions are.

Jenny Slate

#13. For too long we've been told about 'us' and 'them.' Each and every election we see a new slate of arguments and ads telling us that 'they' are the problem, not 'us.' But there can be no 'them' in America. There's only us.

William J. Clinton

#14. 'Saturday Night Live' will always be this amazing, powerful behemoth, but it's also not the only thing happening in comedy anymore.

Jenny Slate

#15. 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

#16. You are not waiting for your life to start. It's going on right now.

Jenny Slate

#17. People like to talk about clean slates. But the only truly clean slate is a new one. The rest are gray from whatever's been written on them before.

J.P. Delaney

#18. My baseline function is I'm usually really happy and optimistic. I think I really genuinely like being alive, and I've got a spring in my step - that's what I've been like all my life.

Jenny Slate

#19. To properly do penance one must express contrition for one's sins and perform acts to repair the damage caused by those transgressions. It is only when those acts are complete that the slate can truly be wiped clean and amnesty gives way to a new beginning.

Emily Thorne

#20. I fidget and change my outfit a lot. It's really a way of keeping myself comfortable.

Jenny Slate

#21. Twitter is an astounding platform for information, but it's a total blank slate - which means it's an astounding platform for disinformation, too.

Rachel Sklar

#22. TV can be fairly rigid. I've done enough Network TV to know that it's fun but if I have to go somewhere every day maybe it's not the most satisfying [job].

Jenny Slate

#23. I think it's important to not just speak to like-minded people.

Jenny Slate

#24. People love to do that, to point to some single phenomenon, assign it all the blame, and wipe the slate clean, like when overeaters sue McDonald's for making them fat pigs.

Jonathan Tropper

#25. 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.

Alison Gopnik

#26. Usually what is difficult for me are things that make me feel scared. That's when difficulties rather than challenges arise.

Jenny Slate

#27. People say that the best part about doing animation is that you don't have to dress up to go to work, but I don't believe that. I dress up to go to work. I dress up for an airplane. I think it's just focusing your skillset, focusing on your voice and the comedy.

Jenny Slate

#28. There's not one type of stand-up, just like there's not one type of woman.

Jenny Slate

#29. I don't know exactly what's next. But I do know now that it's something rather than nothing.

Jenny Slate

#30. You're always putting yourself into your work. There's no separation; it's just how you use yourself and transform.

Jenny Slate

#31. It's important to say that it's not just men that can be man-children. Women can be grown-up women and still have the playfulness of people who are younger.

Jenny Slate

#32. The religion that has transformed Western civilization for two millennia is a blank slate for liberals. Their closest reference point is conservative Christians, meaning people you're not supposed to hire. And these are the people who carp about George Bush's alleged lack of intellectual curiosity.

Ann Coulter

#33. There's so much interference, so much static and people's voices talking about what you do and why you do it that I've learned to be like, 'No, no.' It's actually simple. I just do this.

Jenny Slate

#34. You have a clean slate every day you wake up. You have a chance every single morning to make that change and be the person you want to be. You just have to decide to do it. Decide today's the day. Say it: this is going to be my day.

Brendon Burchard

#35. Patch's eyes were slate black, darker than a million secrets stacked on top of each other. He dropped his gaze to the ring in his hand, turning it over slowly.
"Swear you'll never stop loving me," I whispered.
Ever so slightly, he nodded.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#36. Tears streamed down my face. I was so happy I wanted to shout it from the rooftop. But at the same time I knew that that afternoon's downpour would have made the slate tiles so slippery that achieving any kind of purchase would have been impossible.

Alan Partridge

#37. I tend to be really spacey, but I don't think it's because I'm unintelligent - it's just my imagination and a little bit of ADD.

Jenny Slate

#38. I think sometimes in comedy the characters are often sacrificed for the joke, and it's more important for it to be funny than for there to be love.

Jenny Slate

#39. It's not good for me to see things while they're being edited. I can be highly critical, so I try to stay away.

Jenny Slate

#40. There's a whole thing now in the entertainment industry that's like, 'You need to write for yourself. Those are the people that are really valuable.' And it's just like, 'I don't want to! I just want to act!'

Jenny Slate

#41. You don't realize it until you go out and take a look, but there are so many ways in which sexism is just allowed in our culture, not just in the entertainment industry. It's just allowed to be there, and that's not acceptable anymore. And I think it's really important to be very vocal.

Jenny Slate

#42. Tomorrow when I awaken, the slate will be clean, and a new day will stretch before me. God's mercies are new every morning.

Lori Hatcher

#43. There is something to grace and deportment, but you determine that for yourself. That's something you own.

Jenny Slate

#44. I grew up idolizing Madeline Kahn and Lily Tomlin and Carol Burnett, Ruth Gordon, Rosalind Russell, Amy Irving, women who were stylish and real actresses who did real work and could not be replaced with anyone else. You cannot cast anyone else in Madeline Kahn's roles.

Jenny Slate

#45. I used to have this toy, a magic slate. You wrote or drew on it and then, just by pulling up the plastic cover, everything you did disappeared and you could start new. Maybe everyone feels that on New Year's Eve: They can pull up the magic sheet and rewrite their lives.

V.C. Andrews

#46. I feel a lot of life in me and a lot of creative energy, and I think it's better suited somewhere it can run free.

Jenny Slate

#47. How can I impress strangers with the gem-like flame of my literary passion if it's a digital slate I'm carrying around, trying not to get it all thumbprinty?

James Wolcott

#48. I want to write a studio movie, but probably one that's for me to be in.

Jenny Slate

#49. I always wanted to be a children's author, and I have a really big library of children's books. All the ones from when I was little, they are just so beautiful. I read kids' books, and they calm me down.

Jenny Slate

#50. You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can produce a wrong answer.

George Bernard Shaw

#51. Simply to render oneself able to understand what other Christian thinkers have themselves come to understand and to more or less felicitously communicate requires that one's mind not be a blank slate but already properly formed, disciplined, and exercised.

Gregory B. Sadler

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. 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

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

P. J. O'Rourke

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

Audrey Niffenegger

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

Jenny Slate

#58. 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

#59. 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

#60. 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

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

Jenny Slate

#62. 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

#63. 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

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

Jenny Slate

#65. 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

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

Gretchen Rubin

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

Jenny Slate

#68. 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

#69. 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

#70. 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

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

Jenny Slate

#72. 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

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

Danielle Weiler

#74. 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

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

Jerry Bridges

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

L.M. Montgomery

#77. 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

#78. I play a lot of characters where I don't even speak in my own voice. I learned about focus and I learned to trust that things can work when they're not heightened and that it's interesting when things are pared down.

Jenny Slate

#79. It's a blank slate here, filled with possibility.

Suzanne Young

#80. 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

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

Candace Bushnell

#82. 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

#83. 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

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

Jenny Slate

#85. 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

#86. 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

#87. 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

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

Jenny Slate

#89. Diverting one's attention from the past was not the same as envisioning and embarking upon a future. On the other hand, if the past were razed, the slate wiped clean, maybe fewer people would confuse it with the future, and that at least would be something.

Richard Russo

#90. 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

#91. 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

#92. 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

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

Wayne LaPierre

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

Jenny Slate

#95. 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

#96. 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

#97. 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

#98. 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

#99. 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

#100. 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