Famous Quotes & Sayings

We concentrated on blocking out because I knew Eagle Valley was really athletic.

We have been consistent with the industry in offering parental controls. We endorse a consumer's right to block objectionable programming.

Jonathan Harris

We don't block for Jason any differently than Brandon, but there is a difference. Brandon's more forceful, but Jason's shifty. We'll get the job done with either one.

David Bohm

If each one of us can give full attention to what is actually ‘blocking’ communication while he is also attending properly to the content of what is communicated, then we may be able to create something new between us, something of very great significance for bringing to an end the at present insoluble problems of the individual and of society.

David Bohm

There is a difficulty with only one person changing. People call that person a great saint or a great mystic or a great leader, and they say, 'Well, he's different from me - I could never do it.' What's wrong with most people is that they have this block - they feel they could never make a difference, and therefore, they never face the possibility, because it is too disturbing, too frightening.

David Wong

Tried to escape, to block out the fact that I was being eaten alive by arachnids. For some reason the only thing I could replace it with was the image of being eaten by tiny clowns.

Dan Quayle

I've heard people say that [I have a short attention span]. I don't feel I do, because when I'm interested in something I'll stay in focus as long as it is necessary... If you get off on something I'm not very interested in, it's very easy for me to block it out. It's easy for me to block things out.

We had a counterculture then, a huge block of people who differed with the values of our society. In that era, things were polarized to the extent that a person would wear either a peace sign or a flag.

Logan Mankins

We had a breakdown. People were blocking the wrong guys.

We had a tough time blocking them. We had a tough time tackling them. We didn't do a good job as coaches. We didn't do a good job as players.

We had a tough time blocking, tackling, and didn't do a good job as coaches and players, ... We didn't open up enough holes and sustain enough blocks on offense. It's always a combination of things, and we just need to keep working and get better.

Billy Graham

'God is Love' means that He tries constantly to block your route to destruction.

Imre Kertesz

I am no historian, but Hungary is a country which has never known democracy - and by that, I mean not a democratic political system, but an organic process which has mobilised the entire country's society. In the case of Hungary, this development was blocked by the growth of the Ottoman empire in the 16th century.

Chip Conley

Once you know the emotional building blocks of anxiety, you can influence them.

We came in as the new kid on the block in the City of Champions, and the people here embraced us from the start,

We call it a party for a purpose. It's not a sit-down dinner. To me, it's a neighborhood block party and a night on the town combination.

Well, I was surprised because I just seen $2.21 and $2.19 right down the road, two blocks away.

Matt Mullenweg

With Akismet there was an interesting dilemma. Is it for the good of the world Akismet being secret and being more effective against spammers, versus it being open and less effective? It seemed more people would be helped by blocking spam.

Stephen Kinzer

The long conflict between Israel and Palestine has, for better or worse, become the world's conflict. It permanently destabilizes the Middle East, blocks the settlement of urgent crises, and intensifies looming threats to the West.

It isn't unusual to see children climb into a car every morning to be ferried to the front door of a school that's just a few blocks away.

Jimmy Rollins

But the more negative stuff there is, you try to block it out, but you still feel it. Whether you hear it or not, you still feel the negativity.

But Sammy came up big and got the block for us.

Gerald Wilson

But Lunceford was playing great music, and he was just a wonderful human being. We didn't even curse in front of him. We would play seven different shows a day at the Paramount Theater in New York, and we had seven different uniforms. People were lined around the block from Broadway to Seventh Avenue.

Pico Iyer

If we do away with semi-colons, parentheses and much else, we will lose all music, nuance and subtlety in communication - and end up shouting at one another in block capitals.

Marilynne Robinson

Teaching is a distraction and a burden, but it's also an incredible stimulus. And a reprieve, in a way. When you're trying to work on something and it's not going anywhere, you can go to school and there's a two-and-a-half-hour block of time in which you can accomplish something.

Marc Bulger

We have the luxury of having four really good receivers when we are in our quad package, ... At the same time, since Isaac is going to be down, Dane (Looker) can step in and play the fourth receiver, but Kevin, like I said after the game, could start for most teams. And there are different things that Kevin does better than Isaac, but at the same time, there are a lot of things that Isaac brings to our team that we will miss, route-running and blocking and just being that leader out there. So, we'll miss him if he can't go, but Kevin, he knows what he's doing.

Tyler is our primary passer on the serve receive and he's very sure-handed. He blocks on the weak side and he does very well there. He can hold his own in the back row, too.

Eric Davis

Tyler has been blocking a lot of shots for us this season. He not only blocks shots but he changes shots.

Travis was fast, a great receiver. Jordan, a linebacker, would knock your block off. Off the field, they were just regular kids. Good boys.

Joey Gathright

When I saw him get the ball, I knew it was going to be close. So, I was just trying to go as hard as I can. He was blocking the plate, so I just tried to go through him. I'm not the type to run people over.

We need to figure out a way in which we can block the funnel effect from New Orleans east and then plan such that we can do the same thing on the west bank. Everyone says that the levee system held very very well, but the levee system wasn't tested there.

We never could sustain anything offensively because we couldn't block them. They were just too physical. Too strong.

We've been getting a lot of shots blocked so I was just trying to make sure I got the puck to the net.