Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen is a big, big player, so he makes me work really hard. Every time he blocks my shot, then I don't want him to score on me. So he gives me that mentality to play hard every time.

Some guys like to start it out, and they get out of the blocks well. But from a mental standpoint, if I'm coming off the bench, I like to sit down and see what's going on. I can clear up some things when I get out there or try not to do the exact things that someone else has been messing up on.

Some look at a brick and see something to break a window with, others look at a brick and see the building blocks of a great building. You tell me who was the true visionary.

Robin Wright

My mother liked to buy houses, fix them up, and turn them over. We'd live somewhere for a few months and then move to another house, sometimes just two blocks away.

I was kind of sold on the idea of being one of the building blocks to try and help get the program back to where it once was.

Jermaine blocks a lot of shots, but he might have felt he just couldn't get to it. That's his decision.

I think it changes a game. Like when Ahmet blocks a shot in the post, (the opponents) start hesitating and looking to see where he is.

It busted out all the windows two blocks down.

I think it's livable. If they got running water to all these buildings that are obviously inhabitable, they could get the city cleaned up a lot faster because people would be cleaning up their own blocks and their own neighborhoods.

I think it's also important for our offensive line to finish blocks. We're still searching for consistency. We've got to finish blocks better and that includes wide receivers that are involved in the run game. And our runners have to continue to get better in terms of their vision in seeing things.

I thought we were gonna take it. We went up 2-0 and Donnie (Hansen) had some monster blocks to start off with.

I think you get a feel after a while when you watch guys as they're making blocks and can tell if they are just surviving in the game, or if they're looking to win the game.

Retail has already had a long run. Offices must still get out of the starting blocks but I am expecting offices to be better performers.

I think we had to get inside-out. If she blocks your shot, you've just got to keep attacking, keep going up.

Jim Webb

From the time I left the Marine Corps after serving as an infantry platoon and company commander in Vietnam, I decided that I would focus on immediate goals that inspired me to devote all of my energy to them, rather than putting together the more cautious and traditional building blocks of a predictable career.

Most of them cost less than $500. Someone who's in a wheelchair might need their desk elevated to fit the wheelchair. You could get creative and use cinder blocks if you want to.

Justin Williams leads the nation in blocks for a reason. He's got a long body and he's quick to get up (to block a shot). You've got to give him a lot of credit for stopping a lot of our offense.

Peter Gallagher

Maybe six blocks from where we live there is untold wealth. If your constituency is financially challenged, you're going to have to go elsewhere.

(Martinez) tries to psyche me out because I'm not that good with the (starting) blocks yet. But I'm trying to work harder, trying to get him. I think I will soon.

Lines are two blocks long in both directions, ... The lines were that long in the morning and (my husband) is in line now and said he expected it to take an hour.

Mark Johnson

I was there holding his jacket, ... We hotfooted after him for about six blocks and then got into a little wrestling match in the middle of an intersection.

George Williams

It felt real good. Just to see the open field and I got some good blocks and it was the first touchdown (in Stockton) for our team so it felt real good.

Seth Shostak

Virtually any pointed edifice is considered a candidate for alien engineering. After all, how could the Egyptians or Mayans have possibly stacked up stone blocks into pyramids?

We haven't seen a shot blocker like that. They had nine blocks in the game and obviously that leads into our somewhat miserable shooting percentage.

We put him in it, drove a couple blocks and took him out.

Whether it's first-and-short or fourth-and-long, he goes hard on every play. He makes the big plays, and he blocks for running backs. He's a complete player.

Dave Tippett

That was a pretty solid game on our part. The last three games, we've put a lot of building blocks in place. We've just got to keep building on it.

Suzanne Somers

Well, stress definitely blocks estrogen receptors, especially at my age, which means your estrogen levels drop even lower at this age.

What it actually does is blocks those receptors so serotonin can't go into them and cause more nausea.

We were kind of uncertain about ourselves going in. We had that loss, and now we had to go back and re-establish and do the things we had done before and not let the Benton Harbor game be a negative thing for us. We said let's do a positive thing and go out and play Niles basketball. I thought our kids did just that. We got out of the blocks quick like we needed to. And I thought we controlled the offensive tempo.

We definitely wanted to get out of the blocks fast. It was nice to get the early lead.

We didn't stay on our blocks long enough. We needed to stay low and hold our blocks longer for (Bob) Fitzpatrick and (Erik) Smithman.

Steve Aoki

A lot of my building blocks - who I am kind of as an artist - all came from being in L.A.