Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Nietzsche

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

Franz Beckenbauer

It's quite possible that Beckham suffers from a mental block at big tournaments

Frantz Fanon

The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity will have to address this question, no matter how devastating the consequences may be.

Jerry Stiller

I've been around the block a lot and I've had a merry trail for 55 years.

Jermaine O'Neal

I think blocking a shot at a crucial point of the game is the most incredible feeling.

George Eliot

But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.

Frank Grillo

You get spoiled on Captain America, where your trailers two blocks long and its got three bedrooms.

Christopher Alexander

On the geometric level, we see certain physical elements repeated endlessly, combined in an almost endless variety of combinations... It is puzzling to realize that the elements, which seem like elementary building blocks, keep varying, and are different every time that they occur .... If the elements are different every time that they occur, evidently then, it cannot be the elements themselves which are repeating in a building or town; these so-called elements cannot be the ultimate "atomic" constituents of space.

Christopher Alexander

One begins to think with that new building block, rather than with littler pieces. And finally, the things which seem like elements dissolve, and leave a fabric of relationships behind, which is the stuff that actually repeats itself, and gives the structure to a building or a town.

Chris Hoy

I don't tend to listen to music in training, except maybe the radio in the gym. I do use music prior to racing though; it helps to fire me up plus it's good for blocking out the distractions around me.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.

George W. Bush

It's important for young men and women who look at the Nebraska champs to understand that quality of life is more than just blocking shots.

George Takei

To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.

George Orwell

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?

Ezra Miller

If one took a role with the intention of, "I'll show them what I can do!," then it's not going to be good because the ego is going to just block everything.

Ezra Pound

With Usura With usura hath no man a house of good stone each block cut smooth and well fitting.

Ezra Taft Benson

Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion...Pride is ugly; it says if you succeed I am a failure...Pride is basically competitive in nature. When competition ends, pride ends.

Ezra Taft Benson

Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion. I repeat: Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion.

Francis Parkman

Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses.

Francis Chan

Our God listens to us. Our God is a living God. He's not a block of wood you made up that's not going to answer you. My God listens to me. He answers me.

Jennifer Capriati

You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too.

Jennifer Egan

I haven't had writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly.

Jennifer Egan

I haven’t had trouble with writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, clichéd writing, outright flailing around. Writing that doesn’t have a good voice or any voice. But then there will be good moments. It seems writer’s block is often a dislike of writing badly and waiting for writing better to happen.

Jeff Sessions

There's been this attempt to block Donald Trump, in primary candidates and Democrats, that - to try to make everything he says some sort of extreme overstatement.

Grimes

My manager lives on my block; four of the apartments in my apartment complex of seven are people I know. It's a really close-knit community, and almost everyone on these few blocks are artists or graphic designers, because we live right on the cusp of a warehouse district.

Giulio Andreotti

Gladio had been necessary during the days of the Cold War but, in view of the collapse of the East Block, Italy would suggest to Nato that the organisation was no longer necessary.

He's the sixth man of the year because when he comes in he gives 110 percent. When the other guys get in foul trouble or need a break, he does the job for us blocking shots, getting rebounds, tip-ins, doing all the right things.

He's like my brother. He can score points in bundles. He can rebound, block shots and he's just like me ? he can't play defense.

He's a natural-born leader. So we brought him in knowing he can think, knowing he can make plays. But he's one of those unsung heroes. He finishes checks, he blocks shots. He does a lot of the dirty work.

He said the improvements will include 33 blocks of total infrastructure reconstruction, including sewer lines, water lines, lighting and concrete, which will &#8220completely change the face of Havre.

Larry Coker

He's an older player. A veteran player and I think he'll help us in the run blocking and pass protection.

He's an extremely intelligent guy who picked up the system. And a big part of that is pass protection. That's the No. 1 thing. Can you pick up our scheme and the blocking we're doing? Because before you can do anything, before you can carry the football, you have to protect the quarterback. That's No. 1.

Chevy Stevens

For 'Never Knowing,' I outlined it and then blocked it out on my office wall with index cards, but things still happened organically.