Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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It looked out of date, like it was from the '50s.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.

They are trying to block this (alliance) for their own competitive interests, and have done a fairly good job in distracting people.

They wanted me to be a running back. They told me they were going to make me a Paul Hornung. Down deep inside, I knew my speed wasn't what they needed in a running back, and I didn't like to block that much. It wasn't a hard decision.

They would block off the roads, get into fights out front. They were just really a nuisance.

Things don't always go as planned. They had to improvise. They were quite creative in finding ways to block the wind and rain from hitting their displays.

It's bothered me for a while. I had to overcome this mental problem I've had in the finals. I had to block it out of my head.

Andrew Miller

It's ideal for us to manage all our data -- both block and file -- through our SAN.

It was an in-between decision whether you go block it or not. Because if he misses it and I miss it, they're going to get the rebound and tip in for the last second. I was kind of hesitant.

Bret Bielema

Oh, no, ... I commented (on) the reaction of some of their players. ... At that point in time, the block was totally legal. I have no problem with that. I just don't like to see the part of the game where people make a celebration at the cost of someone's injury.

It was a great building block for next season. The girls are already super motivated to get back in the gym and that's a good sign. They're excited with what we accomplished but eager to do even more next year.

Michael Redd

It was a great block and probably the play of the game.

It's like a football team that doesn't know how to block and tackle. It doesn't make much sense to spend time learning plays if they can't block and tackle.

It's a lot more fun to run block than it is to pass block, because pass blocking you're kind of sitting back there letting the guys run right at you. Run blocks, you're kind of taking more of the initiative. It was fun.

Bob Stoops

It matters, your game plan. But in the end, there are a lot of ways to play defense, and there are a lot of ways to run or throw the football. If you don't block anybody, I don't care what your grand scheme is, if that nose guard is in your backfield three yards, it doesn't (matter).

It's going to be Butler and Iroquois Round 4. It should be exciting. We'll have to block out and keep them off of the boards.

It's going to be like a block party, and lots of fun.

It's good music. But after awhile, you learn to block it out.

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.

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.

Neill Blomkamp

If it takes several billion years to develop the building blocks which you need, like RNA and DNA, and then those can build multicellular life and then multicellular life can be honed with natural selection to a point where it becomes sentient like us, then at some point that sentient being can begin to manipulate the matter around it to build better sentient life.

Joey Harrington

We're still as confident, as optimistic as we ever were. You know we hit a little stumbling block here, but I think it's going to be good for us because we can learn from it.

Jodi Picoult

I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper, didn't it always manage to fix itself the night before the paper was due? Writer's block is having too much time on your hands.

Martha Graham

There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it...

Paul Ryan

I live on the same block where I grew up. We belong to the same parish where I was baptized. Janesville is that kind of place.

Kendall Jenner

If I see something really nasty on Twitter, I will usually delete it or block the person because I don't want to see that every day Get to know me, and then you can talk about me!

Julian Assange

Cryptography is the essential building block of independence for organisations on the Internet, just like armies are the essential building blocks of states, because otherwise one state just takes over another.

Marsha Norman

Mama, I know you used to ride the bus. Riding the bus and it’s hot and bumpy and crowded and too noisy and more than anything in the world you want to get off and the only reason in the world you don’t get off is it’s still fifty blocks from where you’re going? Well, I can get off right now if I want to, because even if I ride fifty more years and get off then, it’s the same place when I step down to it. Whenever I feel like it, I can get off. As soon as I’ve had enough, it’s my stop. I’ve had enough.

Mario Puzo

I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.

Nicole Richie

Fame and fortune are calling. Are we taking the call or blocking the number?

Muhammad Ali

When you come to the fight Don't block the halls and don't block the door, for y'all may go home after round four.

Mitch Hedberg

If you are flammable and have legs, you are not blocking a fire exit.