Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jason Mraz

Transformation is my favorite game and in my experience, anger and frustration are the result of you not being authentic somewhere in your life or with someone in your life. Being fake about anything creates a block inside of you. Life can’t work for you if you don’t show up as you.

Herbert Marcuse

Many, and I think the determining, constitutive facts remain outside the reach of the operational concept. And by virtue of this limitation this methodological injunction against transitive concepts which might show the facts in their true light and call them by their true name the descriptive analysis of the facts blocks the apprehension of facts and becomes an element of the ideology that sustains the facts. Proclaiming the existing social reality as its own norm, this sociology fortifies in the individuals the "faithless faith" in the reality whose victims they are.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

An unread book is just a block of paper.

Isobelle Carmody

The mirror had broken into millions of pieces and the wind blew them all over the world. If a person got a speck in their eye, the person would only see the ugly side of things from then on, but if a piece got in their blood and it reached their heart, it would freeze into a solid block of ice and they couldn't feel anything anymore

Ira Glass

I seen a pig so big it’d block out the sun.

Ilya Bryzgalov

OK, they fire the puck from the blue line. Chief usually yelling 'block the shot' at the defensemen. They doesn't have the goalie gear, but they have to block the shot. So who is more crazy, me or the defensemen? Who is more weird?

Robert Sterling

Hopefully H&R Block has their stuff together this year. It would be very ugly if they did not.

Anquan Boldin

Honestly, I watched film today and a lot of this stuff is just pathetic, just to say the least. There were times where they were right there. I could see if it was a situation where they were blocked or couldn't see. Man, you've got a plain view.

Richard Hamilton

His energy was off the hook, ... He rebounded. He had five blocked shots in the first quarter. We just fed off that.

His head was on the rim, blocking like 10 shots a game and hitting 3-point jumpers. It's very rare for someone like him to be overlooked. It's not like he was in Idaho or Montana. He was in Indianapolis.

Walter Jones

Hey, he's going to vote for his team. He's got a relentless pace. He's one of the guys you have to block until the play is over. Watching film, he's been on my side most of the time, so I expect to see a lot of him.

His airways will block off within two minutes two minutes is what I have to get him some kind of rescue meds to keep his airways open.

Chris (Chambers) is a good receiver, just like (New England's top wide receiver) Deion Branch. David is able to help his other receivers a lot and he also blocks well for running backs. So I think he'd be a nice fit.

Caffeine only temporarily blocks the signals to your brain that let you know you?re tired.

Canine influenza is really the new kid on the block for vets to consider in the differential diagnosis for kennel cough.

Before you fax your statements you can block out any information you wish. I only need the dollar figures. It's that simple. Once I complete my research I provide a free report detailing exactly how much money is being wasted each month because of high fees.

Greg Cipes

I park two blocks away from Nickelodeon studios and I hop on my skateboard and I skateboard the rest of the way to the studio.

Jack Kramer

I'm thinking I've seen this a million times, ... The blocking was outstanding.

I'm not the most talented writer in the world. I know that. But I also know that I'm disciplined, that I work my butt off, and that I make myself write as much as I can. Writer's block is a luxury I can't afford. I'm a professional writer, which means that I put my butt in the chair each day, and I write. Simple as that.

I'm hoping for a break. And we got one with that blocked kick.

David Walton

I lived in Koreatown for five years, and I lived blocks away from about seven karaoke bars.

If there is nowhere else to put it, I guess it has to go near the beach, but if it is at all possible it shouldn't block anyone's water views.

Michael Shifter

If the opposition parties are seen as not being constructive and blocking everything Morales tries to do that would not be in their own interests.

Oliver Luck

I packed the family up in the car, and we went to the game, at the old Mile High, and it was a real downpour, just torrential rain. It turned out that there was a mudslide that blocked off I-70 so we had to take this huge detour and ended up getting home at something like four in the morning. I actually called Don up and said that I hoped that my experience with soccer would get better from here!

I had a friend that lived here on Waccamaw Drive not too far from the pier, but I couldn't find her house, ... We finally found it a couple of blocks west.

If you don't get your shot off in time, or you don't bring it strong, he will block it.

I just tried to block everything out. I just focused on hitting the shots.

Camren Bicondova

I love New York. I can walk half a block and I'm at the grocery store. I don't have to drive anywhere.

I love the river, ... We lived right on the Mississippi, four blocks away.

Jay Payton

I love Oakland because they gave me an opportunity and I want to be here and help them win, but if I'm not an everyday guy, I'd be open to whatever else is out there. If Boston had an everyday job in center field, I certainly wouldn't block that.

I love the idea of New Yorkers being able to move blocks and blocks through Manhattan without encountering a single car, bus or truck,

I know an elderly society matron in Singapore who would rather walk in the scorching sun for blocks on end rather than have her chauffeur drive into the Central Business District at peak hour and pay the $1.50 surcharge.

In the sixth, not being able to block the ball, that was huge. We might still be playing. ... We didn't stop them after that, but we didn't score any runs either, so it's a moot point.