Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

George Bernard Shaw

A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.

Gale Harold

You are preparing yourself for a scene, and the most important thing is to remain emotionally available and remain in the moment with your scene partner. You don't want to let your own self-consciousness block the flow of creativity that's coming out so that you can act and react, and play what the scene is all about.

Erich Fromm

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

Erica Jong

The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.

Erica Jong

Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.

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.

I used to walk past this block of flats and wonder: 'Who could have built that? What were they thinking? What were they trying to do?

I wanted him to throw the same pitch and I gave him a signal to tell him, 'I'll block this one,'

Mike Tomlin

Teams have been blocking him for three or four years now. He always has to take on a blocker - a tackle, a guard, a back. He has a rush plan just like a defensive end, and he takes it personally.

Mamie Gummer

I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.

I've haven't looked at the film, but for a point guard especially, it seems unreal. I know we blocked a lot of shots, but I'm not sure if that total is right. If it is, that is pretty impressive.

I've had some talks with Andreas and his agent. Andreas played very well for us. My feeling would be we would like to have him back next year. He's really solid, gives us size, he's a good penalty killer, and that was a tremendous blocked shot last night. He's been a pleasant surprise.

I've got everything, ... The only thing I have that he doesn't is I come down and hit you in the mouth when I take on a block. He doesn't really care about doing that too much. I say you keep hitting that guy blocking you and blowing him up, they won't want to do it anymore. They'll slide away and say, 'Oops, I missed the block.' They didn't want to get it upside the head.

I'm just happy to run for my team. I was running hard because they're blocking so hard for us.

It was sweet. The defense turned around and started blocking for me and they made a clear path to the end zone.

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.