Famous Quotes & Sayings

Their big guy was blocking shots and he did a nice job of hanging around and making us change our shots a bit.

Their offensive line comes off the ball, and I didn't know if we could handle them. They did a good job of blocking last year, and we couldn't stop them. We stopped them on offense.

Doug Martin

Their offensive line blocks out the sun. Those guys are like eclipses out there. Some big bodies.

Jose Gomez

Their linebackers did a good job of blocking the middle, so we had the option to kick it out,

These are literally the building blocks of our planetary system.

LaVar Arrington

This has been the greatest building block I've been a part of. I just hope and pray that I am a part of it next year.

LaVar Arrington

This has been the greatest building block I have been a part of. We had a heck of a game and we will move on from there, but I am not going to dwell on that.

This is a good building block for Bayer.

Ben Cohen

This helps explain why the food industry has blocked any efforts to have hearings.

This is a history project. We are going to the edge of the solar system, collecting the original building blocks of the planets and bringing them back to our labs.

All I remember is that one time when I was a sophomore and she was a senior, I blocked her really bad. I always wanted to defend her and be the best, and try to do everything to stop her.

Philip Guston

If the artist starts evaluating himself, it’s an enormous block, isn’t it?

Peter Diamandis

Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.

Penelope Lively

The place didn't look the same but it felt the same; sensations clutched and transformed me. I stood outside some concrete and plate-glass tower-block, picked a handful of eucalyptus leaves from a branch, crushed them in my hand, smelt, and tears came to my eyes. Sixty-seven-year-old Claudia, on a pavement awash with packaged American matrons, crying not in grief but in wonder that nothing is ever lost, that everything can be retrieved, that a lifetime is not linear but instant. That, inside the head, everything happens at once.

Martin Scorsese

Always get to the set or the location early, so that you can be all alone and draw your inspiration for the blocking and the setups in private and quiet. In one sense, it's about protecting yourself; in another sense, it's about always being open to surprise, even from the set, because there may be some detail that you hadn't noticed. I think this is crucial. There are many pictures that seem good in so many ways except one: They lack a sense of surprise, they've never left the page.

Maria Sharapova

When I walk through that gate to the court, that's my escape. I block out everything, good and bad.

Nina Garcia

My style is about making things last forever. When you're on a budget, it can be daunting to spend $300 on a pair of boots or a coat. But such basics are the building blocks from which your look is crafted.

John Friend

Be trustworthy. Steadiness and integrity lead to energetic opening in the other as the blocks in relating dissolve away with deepening trust over time.

Joe Haldeman

Writer's block? Don't worry about it. Either it goes away or you die.

Joe Hill

That was one thing you found out when you were stoned, or wasted, or feverish: that the world was always turning and that only a healthy mind could block out the sickening whirl of it.

Geoff Thompson

Blocking and countering like they do in the films doesn't work, so don't bother trying.

Garrison Keillor

She gave him such a look... Man oh man, if looks could kill. That one might have totalled a city block.

Elisha Cuthbert

The problem with TV now is that there's so much competition, that you're always on the chopping block.

John Cornyn

If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan majority from voting on the President's judicial nominees.

John Burdett

Shun security, I advise aspiring novelists when they complain to me that they are stuck. Get disoriented. Maybe your agonizing writing block isnt agonizing enough. Your enemy is comfort.

Lolo Jones

Greatness finds us by obstacles in front of us. I don’t look at hurdles as obstacles blocking my path but opportunities to overcome.

LL Cool J

Suckas on my jock when I walk down the block, I really don't care if you're jealous or not.

Madeleine L'Engle

The virgin birth has never been a major stumbling block in my struggle with Christianity; it's far less mind boggling than the Power of all Creation stooping so low as to become one of us.

John F. Kennedy

Peaceful circulation has been interupted by barbed wire and concrete blocks. For a city or a people to be truly free, they must have the secure right, without economic, political or police pressure, to make their own choices and live their own lives.

We're so accessible, we're inaccessible. We can't find the off switch on our devices or on ourselves.... We want to wear an iPod as much to listen to our playlists as to block out the rest of the world and protect ourselves from all that noise. We are everywhere - except where we actually are physically.

Linda Hamilton

Anybody not wearing a two-million sun block is gonna have a pretty bad day.

Lil Mama

In my day, in my era, Ralph McDaniels, just being five and being at his block party, you could just got onstage.

Lil Wayne

Where I come from, the block become your daddy.