Famous Quotes & Sayings

If you want to figure out where we are going, just look at the building blocks we are already assembling. The elements we already have in the portfolio provide us key capabilities that fit into an end-to-end solution.

If you watch him enough, it comes through - the way he tips through at the rims, like blocking a volleyball. He's got great instincts.

If you watched Justin Gage and watched how he blocked (last Sunday), several of those big runs Thomas (Jones) had, he's (Gage) on the edge doing what he does, being a tremendous blocker.

If you were to block off the entire Mexican border, they would just come through the ocean.

John Sheridan

In a key provision of the Energy Policy Act, Congress clearly intends to provide a federal remedy for certain energy projects that are being blocked by an individual state.

I guess you could say that Courtney is a jack of all trades. He can block, he can catch. Flem is ... the blocking tight end and I'm the receiving guy.

Janet Fitch

We don't have a unitary society anymore, you know; it's very fragmented. I look up and down my block in Silverlake and there is a different universe in every house.

Janet Fitch

Love could never bloom in a concrete block room.

Janet Fitch

And I realized as I walked through the neighborhood how each house could contain a completely different reality. In a single block, there could be fifty seperate worlds. Nobody ever really knew what was going on just next door.

Janet Evanovich

Ranger picked up and there was a moment of silence as if he was sensing me at the other end, taking my body temperature and heart rate long distance. “Babe,” he finally said. “Do you know the slum apartment building Bobby Sunflower owns on Stark?” “Yes. It’s on the same block as his funeral home.” “That’s the one. I’m going in to look for someone. If you don’t hear from me in a half hour maybe you could send someone to check.” “Is this a smart thing to do?” “Probably not.” “As long as you know,” Ranger said. And he disconnected.

Jane Roberts

I stand upon a block of stillness. It is more secure than any sidewalk. I bring with me my own sidewalk.

Etgar Keret

I think living in Israel and wanting to change reality is the best prescription for never-ending writer's block.

Etgar Keret

I don't like the expression "writer's block" because I think it presupposes that you have a problem with your plumbing. I really think it's the other way around.

Jeremy Paxman

Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth.

Frank Zappa

Stupidity is the basic building block of the universe.

Fred Saberhagen

I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't been a problem.

Ha-Joon Chang

Democracy and markets are both fundamental building blocks for a decent society. But they clash at a fundamental level. We need to balance them.

Jesse Ventura

If you behave like a good citizen, and you upgrade and improve your property, your reward will be the government will take more money from you. So using that analogy, you should let your house become the shithole on the block and they'll reduce your taxes and you'll pay less. Be a bad citizen with your neighbors, right? You'll save money then.

Mika Brzezinski

My family was always active, and our thing was family walks. Not walks around the block, but more like eight-mile hikes up mountains.

Kirk Ferentz

Getting to the linebackers is difficult. Blocking them is another challenge.

Julia Child

Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is a 300-pound blocking back who has been splitting firewood nonstop for the last twelve hours on a subzero day in Manitoba.

Julia Cameron

Workaholism is a block, not a building block.

Julia Cameron

Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of a flower at the end of a slender green stem.

Milton Friedman

Education spending will be most effective if it relies on parental choice & private initiative -- the building blocks of success throughout our society.

J. K. Rowling

I've only suffered writer's block badly once, and that was during the writing of Chamber of Secrets. I had my first burst of publicity about the first book and it paralysed me. I was scared the second book wouldn't measure up, but I got through it!

Guillermo del Toro

I had gotten to the point where I just didn't want to perform anymore - I didn't want to be on the chopping block anymore. I started to want to withdraw and retreat from it.

Grace Jones

This is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you're rocking

Ja Rule

I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.

Jennifer Aniston

When somebody follows you 20 blocks to the pharmacy, where they watch you buy toilet paper, you know your life has changed.

Jeanne Moreau

Life has to flow. But if you start worrying about it, you block time.

Jim Jarmusch

I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being.

Jim DeMint

Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.

Jess Walter

I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in my office and torture the keys. My one saving grace as a writer is that, if I'm having trouble with the novel I'm writing, I write something else, a poem or a short story. I try to avoid writer's block by always writing something.