Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gabrielle Zevin

I don't believe in writer's block.

Mackenzie Crook

I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.

Jimmy Carter

The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or '79.

Flip Saunders

The last three weeks, they might as well take the Defensive Player of the Year trophy and send it for the fourth time, or whatever, because when you look at all the things he's doing, as far as from defensive rebounding, blocking shots, steals, he's doing everything. He has been phenomenal.

Kirk Ferentz

The last two years we've gotten the punt block for six. But today it went the other way.

The lineup they've got out there causes problems, because they're so quick and agile. It's traditional for us to try to find a big body. Now, we've got guys trying to chase a little guard. They're harder to block out.

The living quarters, fortunately where the home is, is OK, but there are some visible cracks in the ground. The concern right now is of course the property, but more so if it's going to block the stream, if that slide goes across.

The little things in the first half, I think that's what lost the game for us. We had silly turnovers, fouls on 3-point shooters, not blocking out (Brian) Randle and stuff. Stuff like that, we need to toughen up.

John Foxe

The league's already addressed that. Until the rules change as far as cut blocking and the legality of it, those things are going to continue to happen.

Elliott Smith

I don't really think of time off as writing blocks. I think that's a western notion of demonizing inactivity. When your imagination decides it needs to take a nap. maybe that's what it needs to do.

Elmore Leonard

I don't believe in writer's block. I don't know what that is. There are just certain little areas that I know I'm going to get through. It's just a matter of finding a way.

Elmore Leonard

I don't believe in writer's block or waiting for inspiration. If you're a writer, you sit down and write.

Ella Fitzgerald

Once, when we were playing at the Apollo Theater, Holiday was working a block away at the Harlem Opera House. Some of us went over between shows to catch her, and afterwards we went backstage. I did something then, and I still don't know if it was the right thing to do—I asked her for her autograph.

The difference in the game was as simple as rebounding. In the first half we didn't block out. We forced tough shots, but we gave them three or four opportunities. In the second half we owned the defensive glass and that made a difference because we only had to defend for three or four passes and then we forced tough shots and rebounded the ball.

All the carving blocks of ice come from Canada where the water is purer and they know how to produce the quality and clarity of ice that we need in ice sculpting.

Hoda Kotb

One day, right after my mastectomy, I went for a walk in Central Park, and there was this mob of people blocking the road. I thought, 'Oh, great, now I'm stuck!' but then I suddenly realized that it was a breast cancer walk.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Today is the blocks with which we build.

Henri Nouwen

I often wonder if my knowledge about God has not become my greatest stumbling block to my knowledge of God.

Herodotus

Although extraordinary valor was displayed by the entire corps of Spartans and Thespians, yet bravest of all was declared the Spartan Dienekes. It is said that on the eve of battle, he was told by a native of Trachis that the Persian archers were so numerous that, their arrows would block out the sun. Dienekes, however, undaunted by this prospect, remarked with a laugh, 'Good. Then we will fight in the shade.

Heather O'Neill

Sometimes when you are standing still and it’s snowing, you think that you hear music. You can’t tell where it’s coming from either. I wondered if we all really did have a soundtrack, but we just get so used to it that we can’t hear it anymore, the same way that we block out the sound of our own heartbeat.

Hamid Karzai

The ongoing war in Afghanistan is being imposed on us, and Afghans are being sacrificed in it for someone else's interests. We are not blocking the interests of the United States or other major powers. But we are demanding that if you consider Afghanistan the place from which to advance your interests, then you should also pay attention to Afghanistan's interests.

Gustave Flaubert

Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The cause which is blocking all progress today is the subtle scepticism which whispers in a million ears that things are not good enough to be worth improving. If the world is good we are revolutionaries , if the world is evil we must be conservatives . These essays, futile as they are considered as serious literature, are yet ethically sincere , since they seek to remind men that things must be loved first and improved afterwards.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.

For several years I've been writing 100-word pieces. More recently I've been putting them together in groups of two and three. I don't see them as sequences, but rather as companion pieces, the way that diptychs often work. The idea comes originally from the paintings of Michael Venezia who places blocks of painted wood next to each other. Proximity is a godsend. The quote is from Wallace Stevens.

Jim Ryun

Mr. Speaker, we have reached a point in history where some have forgotten that it is the family, not the government, that is the fundamental building block of our society.

Jim Rohn

Failure is a few Errors in judgment repeated everyday. The man says, Well I didn't walk around the block today and it didn't kill me, so it must be okay. No, no, it is that kind of error in judgment that after six years has him out of breath and panting as he walks from his car to his office. You can't make those kinds of mistakes; it will end up costing you.

Times when I feel like I'm the last man, that's when I tend to play bad. So I try to block that out and just have fun. I feel extremely confident. The defense had an energy we haven't had all year. We feel like one unit right now, and that's important heading into the playoffs.

Michael Young

All my linemen were blocking right, they did their job. I'm just really proud (of them).

A block of more than 100,000 voters is not uninteresting for politicians, especially with next year's federal elections coming up.

It's just not in the back of your mind. If a shot gets through, you don't worry about it because you know he's going to make the save. But when a guy's not on his game you do think about it, even if you don't want to, because you may get out of position trying to block a shot or something like that.

It's just doing what you do in practice, ... (Left guard) Geoff Townsend made a nice block and I was able to get outside.

Tubby Smith

It's just a lack of mental concentration. You jump up and block a shot. You don't reach in or grab a guy by the shirt; that's something we're trying to get him to understand.