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  • Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

    Attributed without citation in Janice R. Matthews et al. "Successful Scientific Writing", p. 53, 2000.
  • Don't underestimate the power of the vigilante consumer.

  • I recall an incident involving the late George Stigler at a conference in Spain in the 1980s. Hearing that I had written a book on reason and natural law, Stigler started to ridicule reason, going so far as to say that there is as much reason in a monkey's antics as in any human act. At that point I asked him whether he was trying to tell me something about how he wrote his books; he gave me a blank stare and stormed out of the room.

    Book   Law   Trying  
    "Argumentation Ethics and The Philosophy of Freedom". mises.org. March 13, 2009.
  • You going to be a scientist when you grow up?” That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got.

    Philip Pullman (2007). “The subtle knife”, Knopf Books for Young Readers
  • Don't underestimate the power of the nonverbal. You'd be amazed how many people come in for interviews with poor posture, weak handshakes, and blank stares.

    Source: www.marieclaire.com
  • Most Americans do not know what their strengths are. When you ask them, they look at you with a blank stare, or they respond in terms of subject knowledge, which is the wrong answer.

  • Silverfish looked down. "Oh. Are you a dwarf?" Cuddy gave him a blank stare. "Are you a giant?" he said. "Me? Of course not!" "Ah. Then I must be a dwarf, yes."

    Dwarves   Giants   Blank  
    "Men at Arms (Discworld, Book 15)". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1993.
  • I went walking around the city some more, people watching with a cold, blank stare. And I saw your face in everyone, I swear.

    Cities   People   Faces  
    Song: High Times, Album: New Moon, 2007
  • Always it is thus with my new students, and especially with the human ones; the mind is the last muscle they train or use, and the one that they regard the least. Ask them about swordplay and they can list every blow from a duel a month old, but ask them to solve a problem or make a coherent statement and... well, I would be lucky to get more than a blank stare in return.

    Blow   Mind   Would Be  
    Christopher Paolini (2009). “Eldest: Book Two”, p.347, Random House
  • What is the environmental policy of the Republican Party? When I ask that question, I get a blank stare, if I'm president of the United States, we're going to address climate change and CO2 emissions in a business-friendly way.

    "Lindsey Graham: Caitlyn Jenner Is 'Welcome in My Party'". www.theatlantic.com. June 7, 2015.
  • In the studio, I do try to have a thought in my head, so that it's not like a blank stare.

    Trying   Blank   Staring  
  • When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows,' people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, for free.'

    Funny   Humor   People  
    Post to comp.os.linux.development.apps newsgroup, groups.google.com. March 8, 1995.
  • Last night I didn't realize I said "abortion" in my stand up comedy act instead of "circumcision." No wonder I got blank stares at "rabbi got faint at sight of blood."

    Funny   Night   Sight  
  • My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those who would murder innocents with abstract, serene satisfaction.

    Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.10, Canongate Books
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