Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bridgit Mendler

The voting station was like a block and a half from my house, so me and my parents just walked on over and cast our ballots, and it was really cool. I love the civic pride of being a part of this national activity.

Edmund Burke

He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.

Eckhart Tolle

Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship.

Bob Newhart

Well, if you’re a native Chicagoan, you know how dumb he [Dr. Robert Hartley] is. He gets on the Ravenswood El, he goes past his stop on Sheridan Road, he gets off in Evanston, where the El is on the ground, and then he walks back 55 blocks to his apartment. Now, would you want to have that man as a psychologist? A man who misses his stop every day?

Benjamin Netanyahu

I'm the prime minister who removed 400 checkpoints, barriers, road-blocks and so on to facilitate the growth of the Palestinian economy.

Eddie Izzard

If you get too well-known in comedy, I do believe it blocks people from taking you in drama.

Daymond John

If you don't educate yourself, you'll never get out of the starting block because you'll spend all your money making foolish decisions.

Contrails are denser and block sunlight much more than natural cirrus clouds.

David Duke

The official keepers of the Holocaust wage an international campaign to silence the disturbing questions. Most people never even hear the revisionist position because Jewish forces dominate the media and block mainstream access to material that questions Holocaust orthodoxy.

David Brooks

I think the Republican budget priorities are messed up. I salute for the way they're attacking some of the entitlement programs, but they are taking huge cuts, by pretending they're just block-granting it to the states, out of Medicaid, from the least fortunate.

Barney Frank

I am very proud of the role I played in getting legal equality for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and in helping get rid of the prejudice by being visible about it, helping to block the conviction of Bill Clinton of impeachment.

Arne Jacobsen

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.

Ban Ki-moon

The basic building block of peace and security for all peoples is economic and social security, anchored in sustainable development. It is a key to all problems. Why? Because it allows us to address all the great issues-poverty, climate, environment and political stability-as parts of the whole.

Ariel Gore

One thing that blocks flow is self-consciousness.

Ariana Grande

Block out all the negative energy, and just love.

Diane Ackerman

Writer's block is a luxury most people with deadlines don't have.

Demetri Martin

Sometimes I use my jokes as building blocks for larger bits. I like to draw and play music, so sometimes I do those things along with the jokes.

Elizabeth Warren

The bankers might not have said it in so many words, but gradually their strategy emerged: Target families who were already in a little trouble, lend them more money, get them entangled in high fees and astronomical interest rates, and then block the doors to the bankruptcy exit if they really got in over their heads.

Edward Whitacre, Jr.

AT&T will not block access to the public Internet or degrade service, period.

Barbara Hepworth

I love my blocks of marble, always piling up in the yard like a flock of sheep.

Barbara de Angelis

The obstacles in our path are not blocking us-they are redirecting us. Their purpose is not to interfere with our happiness; it is to point us toward new routes to our happiness, new possibilities, new doorways.

You don't want to become guilty of plagiarism by letting someone else's words get inadvertently mixed in with your own. If you do feel the need to paste in a block of research while you're writing, be sure to highlight the copied text in a different color so you can go back and remove or rewrite it entirely later.

We've been improving, and offensively, we've been playing a little smarter. Our blocking was definitely much better than the first time we played them.

We ran better, we threw better, we blocked better. We just played a better game this week.

We're an informal group that meets and discusses genealogy and we try to get through road blocks by talking together.

Charles Bukowski

I walked around the block twice, passed 200 people and failed to see a human being.

Charles Bukowski

writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all

Elizabeth Warren

We've seen filibusters to block judicial nominations, jobs bills, political transparency, ending Big Oil subsidies - you name it, there's been a filibuster.

Benjamin Graham

The stock market resembles a huge laundry in which institutions take in large blocks of each others washing ... without rhyme or reason.

Brian Tracy

We have a mental block inside us that stops us from earning more than we think we are worth. If we want to earn more in reality, we have to upgrade our self-concept.

Brian Tracy

Turn your stumbling blocks into steppingstones to success.

Brad Goreski

Color-blocking two bold shades feels so modern.

Jane Jacobs

...frequent streets and short blocks are valuable because of the fabric of intricate cross-use that they permit among the users of a city neighbouhood.