Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Tournier

The most tragic consequence of our criticism of a man is to block his way to humiliation and grace, precisely to drive him into the mechanisms of self justification and into his faults instead of freeing him from them. For him, our voice drowns the voice of God.

Paul D. Boyer

The Brigham Young University (BYU) campus was just a few blocks from my home and tuition was minimal.

John Searle

I want to block some common misunderstandings about understanding: In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word understanding.

Martin McDonagh

I don't even subscribe to writer's block being a truthful thing. I've had writer's laziness quite often. But I think it's all about sitting down and facing down the blank page and doing it, and I've always been ok at that.

Nick Harkaway

ARGH! There's no such thing [as writer's block]. Seriously: THERE. IS. NO. SUCH. THING. You know what there is? There's a bunch of problems, creative and otherwise, that can stop you writing. They are not block. They are important skills.

Mary Garden

My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.

Mary Garden

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.

Mary Garden

For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.

Mary J. Blige

My God is a God who wants me to have things. He wants me to bling. He wants me to be the hottest thing on the block.

Martha Graham

There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it...

Marshall McLuhan

Our electrically-configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition. We can no longer build serially, block-by-block, step-by-step, because instant communication insures that all factors of the environment and of experience co-exist in a state of active interplay.

Oswald Chambers

When we discern that people are not going on spiritually and allow the discernment to turn to criticism, we block our way to God. God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede

Paul Ryan

I live on the same block where I grew up. We belong to the same parish where I was baptized. Janesville is that kind of place.

Patrick Kelly

I never tell my age because I hope I'll always be the new kid on the block.

Pat Buchanan

Homosexuality is not a civil right. Its rise almost always is accompanied, as in the Weimar Republic, with a decay of society and a collapse of its basic cinder block, the family.

Judd Gregg

The president deserves someone who can block for his policies.

Joseph Sobran

Tax time approaches, and Americans are as always paying H & R Block billions to help them save some of their wealth from their ravenous government. Pitiful, in a way: it underlines the grim but unacknowledged fact that the government is their enemy and they have to hire protection from it. But don't we enjoy 'self-government'? Well, if we have it, I'd hardly say we enjoy it. True, we aren't being taxed by the monarch of Great Britain, but our American-born rulers claim far more of our wealth than the British monarchs ever did.

Lisi Harrison

One question:do you want to hang ten or BE a ten?"-Massie Block

Little Richard

Rock 'n' roll doesn't glorify God. You can't drink out of God's cup and the devil's cup at the same time. I was one of the pioneers of that music, one of the builders. I know what the blocks are made of because I built them.

Nelly

Imagine blocks and blocks of no cocaine, blocks with no gun play.

Neill Blomkamp

If it takes several billion years to develop the building blocks which you need, like RNA and DNA, and then those can build multicellular life and then multicellular life can be honed with natural selection to a point where it becomes sentient like us, then at some point that sentient being can begin to manipulate the matter around it to build better sentient life.

Rachel Nichols

I have a lot of Twitter rules. I never swear on Twitter, and if anybody's inappropriate, I block them. I have young followers.

R. L. Stine

If you do enough planning before you start to write, there's no way you can have writer's block. I do a complete chapter by chapter outline.

Noam Chomsky

Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.

Joey Harrington

We're still as confident, as optimistic as we ever were. You know we hit a little stumbling block here, but I think it's going to be good for us because we can learn from it.

Jodi Picoult

I don't believe in writer's block. Most of writer's block is having too much time on your hands. My mantra is that you can always edit a bad page; you can't edit a blank page.

Jodi Picoult

Chicken,' Josie said. 'Have you ever been in love?' Peter looked at Josie, and thought of how they had once tied a note with their addresses to a helium balloon and let it go in her backyard, certain it would reach Mars. Instead, they had received a letter from a widow who lived two blocks away. 'Yeah,' he said. 'I think so.

Jodi Picoult

Writer's block is for people who have the luxury of time.

Jodi Picoult

I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper, didn't it always manage to fix itself the night before the paper was due? Writer's block is having too much time on your hands.

John Green

Coal miners don't get coal miners' block.

Mario Puzo

I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.

Niklas Zennstrom

Talent can pop up anywhere in the world, it's not just one city block,

Nicole Richie

Fame and fortune are calling. Are we taking the call or blocking the number?