Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rebecca MacKinnon

Facebook is blocked in mainland China, but is used heavily by the rest of the Chinese-speaking world, including Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan.

I saw the blocked extra point and, of course, my heart went into my throat. ... I was just sitting there, really just thinking overtime.

John Cornyn

People are actually running out of fuel, ... Unfortunately, the roads are blocked now, in essence.

Our kids never quit, but we just never tackled well and the kicking game, especially, hurt us. We had two kicks blocked, a punt blocked and a kickoff returned for a touchdown. That hurt us tremendously.

That changed the momentum completely, when Devin blocked that field goal.

That blocked punt was a key factor for us winning the game. It is always nice when you call something and it works. It changed the momentum in the game.

We ran better, we threw better, we blocked better. We just played a better game this week.

Helen Sharman

I get standing ovations at meetings when I say Britain should be involved in human spaceflight. Unfortunately, that goal has been blocked by a handful of people in high office.

Bob Ney

We're not going to put a wall around the Capitol, ... We're going to have perimeter security. We're going to have certain streets that have been blocked and certain ones that are open. But we want a free flow of people into this Capitol with people doing tours, doing the things that people need to do in the people's house in the Congress.

Scott Skiles

We responded particularly well tonight. When things didn't go our way, we didn't go into one of our tremendously long droughts and hang our heads and look defeated. We did the reverse. We picked it up on defense and blocked some shots and got out in the open floor.

Craig Smith

We've watched three of their games on film. They play in a very good league and finished second. Their 6-foot-9 kid (Ronald Wright) leads the country in blocked shots. They have great size and they're an excellent shooting team.

We blocked the written procedure in order to seek further clarity on the decision.

Anita Sarkeesian

There are people I've blocked for a long time who will still respond to every single person that replies positively to me on Twitter. I have quite a few cyber-stalkers like that.

Exits on roads were blocked off for a hundred miles, you had to keep going and couldn't look back.

The intensity and effort was a lot better than last week at Westville. We blocked pretty well. Our offensive line did a super job and it was just a great overall team effort. It was a fun night of football.

O. Henry

Any time you get a blocked shot, a big rebound, (or) a dunk, it can ease your nerves and makes it easier to play after that. But I knew the game wasn't over, and I kept that in mind afterward.

In many respects, the hardest part is preparation. This is the only rally of the year that takes place in full snow conditions with winter temperatures to match and there is a lot of work that's exclusive to just this event, for instance, making sure that components and seals work in the low temperatures and don't ice up. Bizarrely enough, overheating is a big problem in Sweden as the radiator can become blocked with snow.

I'm just trying to do my job. The guys are getting some good blocked shots for me and letting me see the rest.

Matt Hasselbeck

It was a dream come true. I remember being at that game. I remember when he blocked a kick in that game. It's probably one of my favorite memories of all time.

They blocked me in so I couldn't get out. I couldn't escape. They started breaking the windows, then they choked me until I couldn't move. After that, they hit me in the face and knocked me out.

They blocked a shot or two early, and I think started hurrying us a little bit. I don't think it was a situation where we were not ready to play or intimidated ... or anything like that. They are nice team. We're a nice team.

Is there a chance that this crane will collapse? Is there a chance that just a section of it will just fall through? So, not to take any chances, we have blocked off several streets.

We didn't skate at all. They came here and they were committed to getting two points. They blocked shots, cleared the front of the net. They did a lot of little things to get two points.

What are we doing (getting) a consolation prize for saying we blocked better than the other guys? Yippee,

We slowed the tempo down, didn't get in a hurry. We blocked out a lot better.

Charlie Villanueva

I heard them, I heard them, ... But I blocked everything out, and I was really confident when I stepped to the line and knocked them down.

I probably should have pump-faked and jumped into him. But I didn't. I shot it. He put it right back in my face and I ended up on the ground. That's how hard he blocked it.

If you watched Justin Gage and watched how he blocked (last Sunday), several of those big runs Thomas (Jones) had, he's (Gage) on the edge doing what he does, being a tremendous blocker.

John Sheridan

In a key provision of the Energy Policy Act, Congress clearly intends to provide a federal remedy for certain energy projects that are being blocked by an individual state.

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!

He's starting to understand how hard he has to play and the intensity level. He's making shots, which has given him some confidence, and he's blocked some shots as well.

E. O. Wilson

He stood in our end and watched his guy score after like three guys had blocked shots, ... I just said, 'That's enough.' He'd seemed indifferent and I had to grab his attention. He needed to be kicked in the butt and he got it. He got some pressure from his teammates to back up the stuff I was saying, and to his credit, he's played hard ever since. And that's including practice, which is important, too.

Hours before the Georgian invasion, Russia had been working to secure a United Nations Security Council statement calling for a renunciation of force by both Georgia and South Ossetians. The statement that could have averted bloodshed was blocked by western countries.