Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Callahan

Prose is like this big block - you write big paragraphs. I feel that when I'm reading and writing, that a prose book is kind of monolithic. But a song is more like a feather or something.

Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Transistor budgets are exploding when you get to 65 and 45 nanometers, and the number of transistors is massive. Every chip is going to have significant blocks of technology, so the interconnects between those blocks would be an interesting place for us to look at.

Bobby Bowden

You can't. But I know this: Joe's teams block and tackle.

Barry Alvarez

We had a specific block put in. It would have had a chance, but the punter cooperated by dropping the ball.

Writer's block is the greatest side effect of boredom

Ron Wyden

Everybody comes to a hearing, and they could be giving the same position paper from 10 years ago. All they need to do is change the dates, ... If you look at the tapestry of environmental legislation today . . . both sides have the capacity to block each other.

As the (Oakridge) game progressed, we started relaxing and got into our offense. I was very pleased with our defense tonight, especially our blocking and our digging.

As the visiting allocation exceeds the capacity of the Jimmy Seed Stand we have been left with no option other than to open a number of east stand blocks to travelling Orient fans.

Asteroids are the leftover building blocks of rocky planets like Earth. We can't directly see other terrestrial planets, but now we can study their dusty fossils.

Kevin Yoder

D.J. is just looking for ways to win and will do anything it takes to win. If it takes a pass or a block or a rebound, he's going to get it. He's versatile.

Devon is a very versatile player. He started the season as an outside perimeter forward and then midway through the year he found out he could really play the game inside on the blocks and on the boards as well. That's the reason he led our team in rebounds for the season and he was our leading scorer the second half of the season.

Peter Mandelson

continues to keep everything else blocked at the gate, we cannot get to Hong Kong in the shape we need.

To survive, I blocked most of the war out. I thought I'd left it behind, but when I heard that song again, the music sent me back to the memories and I couldn't turn my back on them anymore. There was this necessity inside of me to just let things out.

Jimmy White

This woman was chronically sick and her family called us for help during the storm, but we couldn't put a vehicle on the roads, ... After the winds died down, there was no way to get to her because Highway 15 where she lived was blocked by fallen trees.

Terry Hoeppner

Vince Lombardi had the seven blocks of granite. Well guess what? We have the seven blocks of limestone.

We are very pleased to have secured the exploration rights to this interesting block and to be participating in Madagascar's fast-growing exploration effort.

We didn't have to block some crazy looks which may have created problems for us. But at the same time, they did a pretty good job.

Rubin Carter

We are going to have to be able to get off our blocks and tackle well. They are a very good opponent. They don't quit, and they play hard.

We had scenes where people are lined up for blocks and blocks.

Joseph Addison

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

Joseph Addison

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

What I would like to do is get some of their big people in foul trouble. I'm sure that, with their size, they probably try to block a lot of shots. So, hopefully, we can draw a lot of fouls.

Nathan Vasher

We got a lot of field to the right, and I just felt like I could just outrun a lot of the guys with that angle. Everybody on defense threw a block somewhere to try and get me in the end zone.

We knew from watching the film that they (Trinity) liked to block shots, so we knew if we gave them double-pump fakes that maybe we could get them in foul trouble. We worked on it in practice and tonight it really paid off.

Shawn Springs

We kind of laughed when we saw that they were going to open it up like that. You can't come out with four wide receivers all the time on us, not with Gregg. No one can block Gregg all game like that.

Tony Dungy

You have to learn offensive blocking schemes and especially when rushing the passer you get blocked differently, ... Larry had to call some (assignments) for us on Sunday with Corey not as familiar with what we're doing. Montae has always done that the last two years. Larry did a good job of getting us into some of the right things.

You have to try to block his cuts. Stay in his face the entire game wherever he is. He likes to come off screens a lot. He's more of a deadly shooter, I think, than a dribble drive player.

This year for the first time we're having an Ice Walk. A carver from Maine is putting four to five blocks of ice in front of restaurants that will be lit up. We hope to have more next year, which will make it really nice.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

We're strongly in favor of the U.N. plan for a solution to the Cyprus conflict. Hopefully a solution can be found before the end of this summit, but we cannot and will not let it block our decisions on enlargement.

We're strongly in favor of the U.N. plan for a solution to the Cyprus conflict, ... Hopefully a solution can be found before the end of this summit, but we cannot and will not let it block our decisions on enlargement.

Jane Byrne

There is always a testing of the new kid on the block in politics.