Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ann Coulter

Walking back from the convention site I chatted with a normal Bostonian for several blocks -- who must have identified me through our covert system of signals. He was mostly bemused by the Democrats' primetime speakers and told me he used to be an independent, but for the last 20 years found himself voting mostly Republican. Then he corrected himself and said he votes for the American.

Andy Burnham

People might have said we were scaremongering. But here we are: the Competition Commission is intervening, for the first time, in the NHS, to block the sensible collaboration between two NHS hospitals. They can no longer deny it, it’s absolutely clear.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual and personal responsibility that we can come up, we can pursue our dreams and our aspirations and we won't be blocked by government regulation, by the inability to get a loan as a small business to make our dreams come true.

Bill Nelson

We had a punt blocked and that was pretty disappointing. But they didn't score on it.

Norv Turner

We had a number of plays yesterday and the week before in the running game where we're one play, one block away. One time it's maybe the tight end on the back side, one time it's the guard pulling, one time the back doesn't make the cut he's capable of making or he just misses the hole by a little bit.

Taurean Green

When they block shots, when they get a dunk and when they just do what they do, it fires the whole team up. Just doing what they do, I think it can turn a game. I think it lifts our team.

When the TV comes back on, parents can control what their family sees before it hits the TV screen. Generations of parents relied on the off button or changed the channel when they saw programs that weren't right for their family. Now parents have even more options, like the v-chip, ratings, cable or satellite blocking programs, to limit what comes up on your TV.

Eddie Jones

When the time comes you've got to make stops. You've got to contest shots, block shots and make it tough for them. We're doing it as a team. Every night we get better at helping each other.

Jonathan Swift

Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.

Nancy Kress

Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

We blocked them inside the city. Their rear is blocked.

Colum McCann

I'm very boring, really: I live on the Upper East Side, a block from the park. I have three kids. I go for a jog around the park every day with my dog.

We had some guys competing and that is definitely a start for this program and a building block for the future. I was proud of them. These guys have shown that they can work to get better and I love that.

(Webb) blocked a shot and sent it back into the stands after play had already stopped on a personal foul. It was an accident; he didn't mean to do it. But the call on him really fired our crowd up, which got us going.

We are looking for some kind of resolution. Hopefully, we can get with the City Council members and work something out. We never wanted to block this project. We'd still like to see it happen. We would like to be a part of the new development. That's all we ever wanted.

We are just north of the Theater District, just east of the Galleria. We are only a few blocks from the lake from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

We're at the point right now where it's getting close to being too much. But there are more revenues being pulled off this one block now than there was all of Broadway back in '93.

We're a team that has a chance to be really solid by the end of the year. I think we're very talented. I think we're better at blocking and better at defense. But we lost a lot of swings on the left with Mira.

Eric Schmidt

There are a tremendous number of moneymaking sites, ... We try to block the most popular ones and take care of the rest through education.

Kat Graham

When you get bullied, you automatically think that you're the reason why you're getting bullied. The reality is, it's about them, not you... I'm all about blocking people. I'm all about saying, 'You know what, I don't need this in my life.'

Cathy Rigby

I remember secretly going off and crying. All of a sudden I'm being blocked and have to be intimate in a scene, and I'm going, 'I can't even look people in the eye very well. How am I ever going to do this?'

We didn't block well, especially in the first half. We didn't tackle well on occasion and the punt return.

We didn't block out, and we didn't rebound. Not only did we shoot too many threes, but we took them too quickly. We knew going in that we couldn't play at their pace, but we got caught up in their transition game and that hurt us.

Billy Donovan

We don't have the luxury of making a mistake on the backboard, and we make mistake after mistake. For every time one of our guys gets praise for blocking a shot, when they don't, they give up position by leaving the floor too early.

We're not very big, but we block out very well because we have to.

We are removing the game from our shelves as soon as possible, and will block purchases of the game at point-of-sale until that removal is complete.

We are one fit team, ... We are one quick team. I don't know if we will be an elite level blocking team but this is the fastest team we've ever had at Florida.

Adam Leipzig

When we are in our studios, in our private space... we need to block out the outside world; we need to disbelieve anything that would doubt us, because - everyone will doubt us if we allow them that space.

Abraham Maslow

Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.

We've blocked very well on offense. That success running the football has opened up so many other options for us.

Alex Steffen

In almost all city governments in America, the small group of people who don't want change are able to block change.

Alfred North Whitehead

We must not expect simple answers to far-reaching questions. However far our gaze penetrates, there are always heights beyond which block our vision.

We do block specific Internet sites - by the nature of their content.