Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Louv

We tend to block off many of our senses when we're staring at a screen. Nature time can literally bring us to our senses.

Richard Powers

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

Richard Rodriguez

You don't know Mexico, man. You have trivialized Mexico. You are a fool about Mexico if you think that Mexico is five blocks. That is not Mexico; that is some crude Americanism you have absorbed.

Richard Rodriguez

'm constantly depressed by the Mexican gang members I meet in East L.A. who essentially live their lives inside five or six blocks. They are caught in some tiny ghetto of the mind that limits them to these five blocks because, they say, "I'm Mexican. I live here." And I say, "What do you mean you live here - five blocks? Your granny, your abualita, walked two thousand miles to get here. She violated borders, moved from one language to another, moved from a sixteenth-century village to a twenty-first-century city, and you live within five blocks?"

Richard Carmona

Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is completely nonsensical from a policy standpoint.

Sarah Dessen

I remembered Owen telling me how music had saved him in Phoenix, that it drowned everything out, and it was the same for me now. As long as I had something to listen to, I could blur the things I didn't want to think about, if not block them out completely.

Sarah Dessen

But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable,walking through this life half-sleeping,everything at arm's length or farther away. I understood those mermaids.I didn't care if they sang to me.All I wanted was to block out all the human voices as they called me name again and again,pulling me upward into light,to drown.

Sandra Cisneros

The ego's blocking the light from coming.

Roland Barthes

The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.

Sarah McLachlan

I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else

Sarah Kay

I often tell people to stop being afraid of writing bad poetry, or bad anything. I think that a lot of times, when people claim that they have writer's block, or that they get stuck, it's just because they're scared of writing bad things.

Sandra Tsing Loh

When faced with writer's block, lower your standards and keep going.

Walter Jon Williams

I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.

William Feather

Laziness is the one common deficiency in mankind that blocks the establishment of a perfect world in which everyone leads a happy life.

William Feather

Avoid letting temper block progress-keep cool.

William Stafford

There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

Winston Churchill

May there not be methods of using explosive energy incomparably more intense than anything heretofore discovered? Might not a bomb no bigger than an orange be found to possess a secret power to destroy a whole block of buildings-nay, to concentrate the force of a thousand tons of cordite and blast a township at a stroke? Could not explosives even of the existing type be guided automatically in flying machines by wireless or other rays, without a human pilot, in ceaseless procession upon a hostile city, arsenal, camp or dockyard?

William S. Burroughs

Biologically speaking the Afro-Asiatic block is in the ascendancy - always remember that both Negro and White are minority groups - the largest race is the Mongoloid group.

Virginia Woolf

The hatchet must fall on the block; the oak must be cleft to the centre. The weight of the world is on my shoulders. Here is the pen and the paper; on the letters in the wire basket I sign my name, I, I, and again I.

Winston Damarillo

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Wes Montgomery

Playing octaves was just a coincidence. And it's still such a challenge, like chord versions, block chords like cats play on piano. There are a lot of things that can be done with it, but each is a field of its own. I used to have headaches every time I played octaves, because it was extra strain, but the minute I'd quit I'd be all right. But now I don't have headaches when I play octaves.

Warren Farrell

In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.

Zaha Hadid

Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.

Yulia Tymoshenko

Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.

Warren Buffett

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

Wayne Dyer

A woman asked me recently, "What are the blocks to my happiness?" I said, "The belief that you have blocks."

Walter Bagehot

I'm not the kind of writer who's able to block out the world around me. I'm mindful of our own haves and have-nots, how our culture often blames and punishes the have-nots. I worry about our precarious economic and political climate.

Virginia Woolf

I am reading Henry James...and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.

Wentworth Miller

I spend my weekends sleeping and watching DVDs, and eating at restaurants within a 2-block radius of my apartment.

Werner Erhard

The only two things in our lives are aliveness and patterns that block our aliveness.

Ryan Tedder

With iPhones, nobody has an excuse for writer's block. If you're at Whole Foods getting your green tea extract and you have a melody, you just drop it into your voice memo and save it for later.

Jostein Gaarder

Moreover, nature's blocks had to be eternal-because nothing can come from nothing.

Kim Jee-woon

But when there were certain moments or scenes that required a very specific nuance or performance, I myself would act out the scene or the sequence and that would inspire the actors. Of course, I can't really express emotions on camera, but I was very active in showing a certain action or a blocking for an actor. I would also participate in certain stunts myself and because of that, I would get bruises or cuts on my knees and elbows.