Famous Quotes & Sayings

Honore de Balzac

A grass blade believes that men build palaces for it to grow in. Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of marble and it brings them down. This power of feeble life which can creep in anywhere is greater than that of the mighty behind their cannons.

He blocked my shot but nobody got the ball. I got it, looked, no one stepped up and I hit the shot.

He blocked a few shots and I think we started looking for him and missed some easy ones. Those are the shots that we've got to make to keep the flow going in the game.

Mark E. Smith

He can go to the basket, but he's not finishing. They had some big guys in there blocking the shots without leaving the ground.

He and Carl Crawford represent two premier building blocks of the organization.

He broke the school record last year and he had 108 blocks this year coming into the regional. To get 20 in one game though is very surprising.

Steve Smith

He actually ran me over when I was blocking for him. That just shows you how hard he was running.

He attacked, and she blocked the knife with her left hand, grabbing the knife, ... She stated he jerked the knife away, slicing her hand.

He pretty much changed the game. They had wide-open shots, and he would run out, and they wouldn't even take them. They were hesitating to shoot because he had blocked so many shots before.

Jim Calhoun

He plays a great game with great enthusiasm. He's dedicated himself the past year to be a starter this year. He was the difference maker today. He cleaned up the middle by blocking shots and obviously scored a few baskets for us.

Hugh Hefner

The Westwood Cemetery is just a few blocks from my home, and a number of my very dear friends are buried there.

Hugh Jackman

Writer's block is just a symptom of feeling like you have nothing to say, combined with the rather weird idea that you should feel the need to say something. Why? If you have something to say, then say it. If not, enjoy the silence while it lasts. The noise will return soon enough.

I figured it would be close like this. It's pretty typical of the Midland High-Abilene High rivalry. We knew (the Lady Eagles) were going to have a good blocking game." ()

If he chooses to sign it, we will be filing a lawsuit in short order to block it.

Mardy Fish

If he hit the first serve hard, I would have to block it back quickly,

I doubt that we will literally block publication.

I?d planned to run Block Island. But with my asthma, I decided to look for something shorter.

I dropped two unnecessary strokes on the short Par-4 fourth and another on the long Par-4 sixth after I blocked my driver into the short rough.

I don't think anything is going to change. We are going to block for them the same way we block for Jerome and Duce. You don't have to give him too much because you know he is going to hit it 100 mph.

Jon Gruden

I am not going to use his injury as an excuse for us having 50 yards rushing in a game. We've got to block better, we've got to finish better. And if we need to explode on somebody, run over somebody, make somebody miss to make yards, that's what we've got to do,

I am one of seven board members. I am in the minority on the voting block and have been for 10 years, and I'm used to that. But in the past I have not had go through so many hoops and jump so many hurdles.

Josh McCown

I feel comfortable, ... I am seeing things, seeing blitzes. That is something that I feel like we are getting better at as a team and as a front five. We are blocking a lot better in pass protection and doing a good job." ()

I don't think we had one guy on the court as big as any of their starters. The kids blocked out and played tough.

Jim Haslett

I don't think us traveling every game has anything to do with dropping balls, not blocking the right people and not tackling, ... I don't think that has anything to do with it.

Tubby Smith

He's not being aggressive, not blocking shots and other people are playing better than he is.

He's making me look good. I'm the guy blocking for him, so I don't mind. As long as somebody is doing good and getting in the end zone, I'm happy.

Bobby Bowden

How do you scout blocking and tackling? You don't.

Scott Peterson

how to change stumbling blocks into stepping stones.

He's in there and even if he doesn't block the shot he makes you adjust.

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.

Javier Bardem

Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there's curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn't speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn't felt in a while. But I like it.