Famous Quotes & Sayings

Norman Mailer

Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.

Orison Swett Marden

What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.

Peter So

That fountain's function is to create wealth, and more importantly it serves to block the straight road leading into the park.

Brian Robison

It's in my head even before the kick is off that I'm going to block it.

Matt Cain

It looked out of date, like it was from the '50s. (Without students on the committee) they might have gone with the script. It seems like everybody likes the block letters now.

Kent Anderson

It's disappointing that we haven't got (the running game) going. But I can feel it in practice lately; I know we're going to get better. We noticed in the first two games that it was always one guy who didn't get his block or who let up too soon on a play. We've got to make sure everybody's blocking somebody this week. We expect it out of ourselves.

Cynthia McFadden

I try to block it out of my mind. I have not been thinking about it, just, you know, sitting up there on the jury stand.

Bill Belichick

They consistently knock the line of scrimmage back. They're hard to block and if you stay on them and block them, then it's hard to get to the next level. It's hard to get up to the linebackers. And if you get off of them too quick, then they penetrate.

Tomas Holmstrom

They can't do much to you anymore. Now, they try to stand in front of you and block the shot rather than push you around.

Abby Cohen

We expect profit growth to decelerate in the second half of 2004.

Miroljub Labus

I expect the negotiations to kick off on 10 October,

Andy Reid

I expect them to step up and do a nice job. I always tell them that you just focus in on your fundamentals and until you get the feel of it, you focus in on that football, run the routes the right way and you will be fine.

Eric Rothdeutsch

I expect them to say that things are still challenging.

Chris Bailey

I expect them to play the whole season with 4-4-2,

Jason Smith

I expect them to go in. If they don't, I'm not worried about it.

Andy Reid

I expect them to do a nice job. If you focus in on the football and run the routes the right way, you'll be fine.

George Flint

I expect them to be very nitpicky on this one. I think they're going to be very thorough.

Emily Tucker

I expect them to be top runners in future seasons.

Michael Beasley

It was an honor to be a part of history, but honestly I don't remember all the games we've played. I do remember the trips, though, and that's what we will miss the most ? all those good times.

Rick Pennypacker

There's some people up here who are a little upset that he's not going to Penn State. He's only going to get bigger, stronger, and faster. He could have had a lot more statistics if we had been worried about that sort of thing. Several of our games were over at halftime or otherwise his numbers could have been even better.

Donald Trump

We have to be extremely vigilant and extremely careful when it comes to nuclear. Nuclear changes the whole ball game.

Adelina Sotnikova

To compete at the Olympic Games, I dreamed of any medal, but frankly speaking, I wanted a gold one.

Adam Dunn

Cincinnati needs to take notes from Houston. Houston fans are among the top five fans in the game.

Anna Torv

I didn't know much about video games.

Ani Difranco

I did not design this game; I did not name the stakes. I just happen to like apples; and I am not afraid of snakes.

Ally Carter

You don't need a search warrant to go through someone's trash. Seriously. Once it hits the curb it is totally fair game-you an look it up.

Allen Iverson

I never took the game for granted as far as not having to work on what I needed to do to accomplish all of the things that I wanted to accomplish.

Dino De Laurentiis

You have to kill the bad guy.

Curtis Joseph

I'm usually a patient guy anyway.

Corin Nemec

I got to do a whole slew of TV movies playing the bad guy, including an episode of Smallville. That would never have happened if I hadn't done the Stand.

Anthony Hopkins

When I was a young guy, I knew everything. Now I know very little. I know less and less as the time goes on.

Cillian Murphy

You know, I'm a skinny Irish guy.

Anthony Bourdain

One of life's terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they're doing.

Amanda Seyfried

I'm never going to be with a guy that can't deal with my friendship with him.

Andrew Vachss

Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.

Joe Thornton

Those guys are going to get signed. It's just a matter of time.

Diana Oblinger

While the practice is not necessarily widespread, there are a lot of them,

Theaster Gates

All kinds of performance practices have a certain register of power or solemnity.

Longchenpa

To reject practice by saying, 'it is conceptual!' is the path of fools. A tendency of the inexperienced and something to be avoided.

Pete Carroll

We're not going to do anything different for this game since we're not treating this game any different than another game. Every game is a championship game for us, so we'll treat this one, the last one and the next one exactly the same. And that goes for our practices leading up to it as well.

Shunryu Suzuki

We do not slight the idea of enlightenment, but the most important thing is this moment, not some day in the future. We have to make our effort in this moment. This is the most important thing for our practice.

Shunryu Suzuki

The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes. Zen practice is to open up our small mind.

Marco Rubio

It is true, we should not be discussing in a wide spread way the exact tactics that we're going to use because that allows terrorist to know to practice how to evade us.

Marcus Aurelius

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

Marcus Aurelius

Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their mind.

Charles Bukowski

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

Alberto Salazar

I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.

Alberto Salazar

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

Alfred Kazin

Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the port. Here, where the perspective is fixed by the towers of Manhattan and the hills of New Jersey and Staten Island, the channels running between seem fingers of the world ocean. Here one can easily embrace the suggestion, which Whitman felt so easily, that the whole American world opens out from here, north and west.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Alex D. Linz

Home Alone was a lot and a lot and a lot of standing and sitting and walking and running and it was physically demanding but in this, I'm doing back flips and riding ostriches. It's physically demanding in a new way, so it's fun.

Alex Garland

When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn’t need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that’s just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it’s just what you’ve been searching for all these years.

Alex Ferguson

David impresses by his example on the field. He never stops running, he plays with supreme confidence, he always tries his hardest and he scores important goals. (on David Beckham)

Alec Baldwin

Anderson Cooper has a job to do. And that job is to try to reinforce his credibility in the gay community after the fact that you couldn’t get him out of the closet for 10 years with a canister of tear gas. Now he’s the sheriff; now he’s running around writing everybody a ticket!

Pierre Lafontaine

We're not really competitive yet, but we're sure getting there.