Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Webb

From the time I left the Marine Corps after serving as an infantry platoon and company commander in Vietnam, I decided that I would focus on immediate goals that inspired me to devote all of my energy to them, rather than putting together the more cautious and traditional building blocks of a predictable career.

For most people the whole getting dressed up thing is just a myth. You should wear whatever is comfortable. It's not like you're going to a private yacht club. I'd say the outfit of choice is shorts, a T-shirt and a hat to block the sun.

Martin Brodeur

Goalies that like to react to pucks won't have a problem. Those goalies that block shots instead of stopping shots, will find it's going to be a little tougher for them, especially in close.

I got cold hard cash for Christmas. Five bucks frozen in a block of ice.

Devin Hester

I got a great block from my teammates. I'm very happy, but I won't dwell on this.

I go into every tournament expecting to win. It was a little tougher here with the cross country travel, but I try to block all that out and just keep my mind and body at an even keel.

Hubert Humphrey

If the tobacco officials had really changed, ... they would not have waited until Minnesota secured a court order to mandate the documents' release, and if tobacco officials had really changed, they would not perpetuate their cover-up by continuing to block our efforts to uncover 39,000 documents containing their deepest, darkest secrets.

If the deal is blocked on terms that aren't consistent with a due diligence process, that sends a loud and clear message to our friends that maybe they should rethink investments in the U.S..

If systems administrators block these URLs at their gateways, it's not going to break anything.

if some matters block us and need time, then it might take a little time.

He tries to block everything. When you go in there, you've got to go in strong, or you don't go at all.

I grew up with guys who would run circles around me intellectually, ... But I always had opinions about things. You kind of had to when you grew up going to school 10 blocks from the White House.

Andy Reid

If we didn't understand the importance of special teams before, we certainly do after today. You have to take that part of the game seriously, too. You have to take care of the football and you have to block and tackle.

Ralph Richardson

If these railroad crossings were fixed right with metal devices that come down and block traffic, people couldn't pull up and get killed,

I got the same line as last year. And they block real well and they are opening holes for me. If they don't, they come up to me and say they'll get it the next time,

Lleyton Hewitt

I got out of the blocks well today, ... I went out there with a game plan and just executed it. I did what I needed to do and didn't feel that under pressure.

I got out of the blocks pretty good today. I changed the setting on my blocks and it worked out well.

James Inhofe

If they're in cell block 1A or 1B, these prisoners - they're murderers, they're terrorists, they're insurgents. Many of them probably have American blood on their hands. And here we're so concerned about the treatment of those individuals.

If they got running water to all these buildings that are obviously inhabitable, they could get the city cleaned up a lot faster because people would be cleaning up their own blocks and their own neighborhoods.

Weldon had a great return to start the game and Patrick did a great job. We are (close to breaking one). I was looking at the film last week (against Hawaii) and twice we were truly one block away from scoring. We've got to do a better job of staying on our blocks, but we're getting close.

We're trying to?move away from this idea of control, blocking and locking down the Internet. We're moving toward enabling the Internet by giving users tools to help improve safety.

There are many factors involved in disease progression, and the type of virus is one of them. Our work may help us tease out what about this particular virus causes disease progression, and that may help us figure out how to stop it, either by preventing the spread, or blocking the mechanism to keep it from being so pathogenic.

Heywood Broun

Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other.

Chip Conley

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

Bryan Fuller

If somebody is mean or rude, I just, I don't engage - just block and say, 'Well, that's not very polite.'

Tim Buckley

The play of the game was the missed block out on the free throw and he got the offensive rebound and put it back in and that kind of turned the tide right there. He did the things that he needed to do when his team needed to win. That's what we're searching for. We're searching for someone to make those kinds of plays in defining moments.

Anita Sarkeesian

There are people I've blocked for a long time who will still respond to every single person that replies positively to me on Twitter. I have quite a few cyber-stalkers like that.

Matt Stajan

We seem to be creating a lot of odd-man rushes. We're killing a penalty, but we seem to be jumping into the play and doing things like blocking shots to create a 2-on-1. We seem to be able to score and we're finishing those chances and I can't really explain why.

Mitch Mitchell

We've been back on schedule this week, ... First, we have to get focused on playing again. We have to block them better up front than last year.

We need to get out of the blocks with our offensive game a little better. We?re not scoring quickly enough.

John Wilson

The government should step in and block this sale.

The defense played great. Unfortunately, we didn't quite get the blocking we expected from the offense and that hurt us. But we're getting better and, hopefully, the wins will come.

Bill Callahan

Prose is like this big block - you write big paragraphs. I feel that when I'm reading and writing, that a prose book is kind of monolithic. But a song is more like a feather or something.