Famous Quotes & Sayings

Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Transistor budgets are exploding when you get to 65 and 45 nanometers, and the number of transistors is massive. Every chip is going to have significant blocks of technology, so the interconnects between those blocks would be an interesting place for us to look at.

Larry Brown

We watch every film and it seems like the same things are prevalent every night. Blocking out, getting loose balls, making hard cuts, setting good screens, running back.

The portability of USB devices makes it easy to accidentally infect an enterprise network with contagions carried in from a home computer. The most effective method of preventing other computers on the network from being infected is by detecting and blocking at the packet level with an inline network intrusion prevention system (IPS) like Reflex Security's.

Two of the onshore blocks are well into the interior of the country.

Two men were shot right there, ... One was shot in the back, the other in the leg, and the third I was told made it a block and a half before he died in the street. I did not go down to see the body.

Mary Wright

The reason they're looking at the site is to have a visual from Douglas . We would block the visual if we stayed.

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.

Howard Dean

When you first elected me, I said that we would take our country back vote by vote, block by block, and neighborhood by neighborhood. We are making progress toward our goal.

Nikolai Khabibulin

When you play well right from the start, you feel better, ... I think guys in front of me played (well), especially in overtime they blocked a lot of shots. It was a very good effort.

Andy Reid

There are a couple of reasons. On a couple of them, they've been overloaded on that side, and that got us into a little trouble. There have been some guys that have just come free, and we need to block better. We will get that straightened out.

We were sustaining our blocks better and staying on them. There were four of five plays that could have made the difference in our offense.

We've got to block better and we have to play defense better. When you give up 42 points, it's the whole defense that's a problem.

Henry Lawson

And opposite the bench, the dock, divided by a partition, with the women to the left and the men to the right, as it is on the stairs or the block in polite society.

Carlo Collodi

Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm.

With each thing that you do, all the fears in life and safeguards block out, or obscure, who you truly are. I think that just a glimpse of the person ever comes through in most material.

John Harbaugh

We need to block better and do a better job scheming,

We need to block and tackle well, that's been a lot of our focus. We always execute on offense and defense, the bottom line is it's just blocking and tackling. We're very optimistic about this year. I think the Ocean will be on a real upswing this year. There's not weeks off for anybody.

When we lost Trent it looked like the wheels fell off offensively, ... I was disappointed in the blocking up front and the protection was not good. T.C. has to play better as well.

Billy Donovan

When we lost three in a row, I said it's good for our team because it is helping them figure out how to win. They didn't understand a missed block out, a broken defensive assignment, giving up 3-point shots could cause us to lose.

Mike Hoffman

We will look at the blocks on offer and decide whether to bid.

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.

we know that Saddam and his followers are ready to do anything when it serves their interest and to block the work of the court.

We were not even in it from the get-go. They played very good defense. We didn't block out very well. We missed a lot of shots and really didn't play well until we had a nice run there in the second quarter, and then we turn around and they run 12 or 13 straight off.

We were very unhappy with our blocking and execution offensively (last week). I think our senior linemen stepped up this week and did a great job tonight.