Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Rice

Protect your voice and your vision. If going on the Internet and reading Internet reviews is bad for you, don’t do it. … Do what gets you to write and not what blocks you. … Don’t take any guff off anybody.

Anna Garlin Spencer

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.

Ambrose Bierce

BIRTH, n. The first and direst of all disasters. As to the nature of it there appears to be no uniformity. Castor and Pollux were born from the egg. Pallas came out of a skull. Galatea was once a block of stone. Peresilis, who wrote in the tenth century, avers that he grew up out of the ground where a priest had spilled holy water. It is known that Arimaxus was derived from a hole in the earth, made by a stroke of lightning. Leucomedon was the son of a cavern in Mount Etna, and I have myself seen a man come out of a wine cellar.

Anthony Kiedis

I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when they don't, they don't.

Alicia Keys

I promised myself that I'd never actually admit to listening to 'New Kids on the Block.'

Alice Walker

You are saying, are you not, I said to Manuelito, that stories have more room in them than ideas? [...] He laughed. That is correct, Señor. It is as if ideas are made of blocks. Rigid and hard. And stories are made of a gauze that is elastic. You can almost see through it, so what is beyond is tantalizing. You can't quite make it out; and because the imagination is always moving forward, you yourself are constantly stretching. Stories are the way spirit is exercised.

Ann Coulter

Walking back from the convention site I chatted with a normal Bostonian for several blocks -- who must have identified me through our covert system of signals. He was mostly bemused by the Democrats' primetime speakers and told me he used to be an independent, but for the last 20 years found himself voting mostly Republican. Then he corrected himself and said he votes for the American.

Andy Burnham

People might have said we were scaremongering. But here we are: the Competition Commission is intervening, for the first time, in the NHS, to block the sensible collaboration between two NHS hospitals. They can no longer deny it, it’s absolutely clear.

Amy Waldman

In Germany, you have a huge official memorial to the murdered Jews and then you have this artist who's been putting these stumbling blocks, these brass cobblestones, outside the houses Jews were taken away from. It's somewhat controversial and has met some resistance.

You can block shots. We didn't get in any lanes. All their shots got through all night, and they blocked a ton of our shots.

Win or lose, you didn't know, but there was no doubt at all that we were going to give an effort. The guys were going to block shots for each other. They were going to take hits for each other. You could sense that right from the morning breakfast all the way through. I think that's the feeling the guys have and we've tried as a staff to continue that this week.

Larry Coker

We can't block him, ... He'll be an outstanding player. He's smart, plays hard every down. He's good.

When it comes to blocking for Mike Vick, you have to stay on your blocks a lot longer,

Norv Turner

When it happens over and over, and it's no call, no call - then a call ... The touchdown by Randy Moss looked like a touchdown to me. The call on Langston Walker looked like a good block to me.

We've got to run the football, but not just with our quarterbacks. ... We are blocking better, and Marcus Cross and Ryan Bohm have gotten better at running it.

We've done small ones before, but this is a big part of the city. Our guys have gone through the course two or three times. They decide which streets to block off and what will work.

Andy Gray

We take so much pride (in blocking kicks), I just think last year we got a little complacent,

We suggest companies take the necessary precaution of blocking all .RAR files until the outbreak has been contained.

Bob Lewis

What you're doing by moving the stadium is creating six city blocks for an exciting new development. It creates employment opportunity and it's not something that would have happened on the south side of the old stadium.

This was as good a performance as I've seen in awhile. These guys were awesome. I could have called any play on my sheet today. The blocking was crisp, the running was outstanding, the effort was awesome.

We are here for a reason. We honestly feel they are the favorite but we are not a stepping stone for them. They are not going to step on us. We are a road block to the state title and they have to go through us.

Jerry Sloan

We did a very poor job in trying to block them off of the boards. They just killed us on the offensive boards.

Jane Asher

Spreadable butter is wonderful for cake-making: it's much easier to cream than the block type and slightly lighter because it's blended with oil.

Janine Benyus

Organisms dont think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block.

We use some draw knifes, where you can actually put the wooden block between your legs and you have a set of draw knifes and they will dig into the wood and pull up. We use some hand routers, we also have electric routers, but a lot of it is specialty hand tools, they're wood working tools that you actually get in there and chisel away some of the wood.

A. S. Byatt

I like to write about painting because I think visually. I see my writing as blocks of color before it forms itself. I think I also care about painting because I'm not musical. Painting to me is not a metaphor for writing, but something people do that can never be reduced to words.

Ricky Gervais

Try something. And never be afraid to fail. That failure is useful too. It's just another building block.

The process was corrupt and we never really had a chance to convince the Justice Department to block this map.

Bret Michaels

I'm not the new kid on the block anymore. Writers always use the phrase "aging rocker," and I'm like, "What other option do I have?" You're either aging or you're dead.

Brand Blanshard

If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application.

Brandi Carlile

So much of the way a singer physically damages their voice could be caused by stress or nerves. I would never be so brazen as to assume that it's the only problem but there's got to be a reason that a martial artist can harness enough peace to smash his head through a cinder block without leaving a scratch.

Bob Ehrlich

Every Maryland family wants financial security, schools that work, quality healthcare, safer neighborhoods, and ever-expanding economic opportunity. These are the building blocks of a superior quality of life.

Bob Dylan

Come Senators, Congressman, please heed the call, don't stand in the doorway, don't block the hall.