Famous Quotes & Sayings

Iyanla Vanzant

Why are you measuring? This is how you block, delay, hinder, obstruct and deny his place in the life as a father.

Hugh Jackman

Writer's block is just a symptom of feeling like you have nothing to say, combined with the rather weird idea that you should feel the need to say something. Why? If you have something to say, then say it. If not, enjoy the silence while it lasts. The noise will return soon enough.

Our guys have a great deal of trust in him. They know he can score every time and they're going to block their butts off for him.

Our kids did exactly what they were supposed to do in the those 48 seconds. We got a couple of shots, but their defense managed to block them. What we did was 90 per cent of the battle. The other 10 is hoping you get a lucky bounce.

Anthony Williams

Our strength is probably our hitting and blocking because we're strong hitters and we leap well, ... We need to work on our setting and our floor movement, being where we need to be on the court.

We're a team that has a chance to be really solid by the end of the year. I think we're very talented. I think we're better at blocking and better at defense. But we lost a lot of swings on the left with Mira.

Kat Graham

When you get bullied, you automatically think that you're the reason why you're getting bullied. The reality is, it's about them, not you... I'm all about blocking people. I'm all about saying, 'You know what, I don't need this in my life.'

Tyler is our primary passer on the serve receive and he's very sure-handed. He blocks on the weak side and he does very well there. He can hold his own in the back row, too.

Adam Leipzig

When we are in our studios, in our private space... we need to block out the outside world; we need to disbelieve anything that would doubt us, because - everyone will doubt us if we allow them that space.

Chuck D.

Usually one person can't block him on that line. He gives centers a fit.

Larry Brown

We watch every film and it seems like the same things are prevalent every night. Blocking out, getting loose balls, making hard cuts, setting good screens, running back.

Two of the onshore blocks are well into the interior of the country.

Two men were shot right there, ... One was shot in the back, the other in the leg, and the third I was told made it a block and a half before he died in the street. I did not go down to see the body.

Mary Wright

The reason they're looking at the site is to have a visual from Douglas . We would block the visual if we stayed.

Heywood Broun

Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other.

We came in as the new kid on the block in the City of Champions, and the people here embraced us from the start,

We call it a party for a purpose. It's not a sit-down dinner. To me, it's a neighborhood block party and a night on the town combination.

Well, I was surprised because I just seen $2.21 and $2.19 right down the road, two blocks away.

Stephen Kinzer

The long conflict between Israel and Palestine has, for better or worse, become the world's conflict. It permanently destabilizes the Middle East, blocks the settlement of urgent crises, and intensifies looming threats to the West.

It isn't unusual to see children climb into a car every morning to be ferried to the front door of a school that's just a few blocks away.

Curtis Sliwa

Block Watch, Crime Watch, we have hundreds of thousands of Americans, every day and night, risking their lives, going out for no pay as volunteers, protecting Americans like all of you and not asking anything in return. And the other day I'm speaking in a high school in New Jersey and the youngsters go, oh, you're just like Zimmerman.

Curtis Sliwa

I've buried six Guardian Angels who have been shot and killed in the line of duty. I was stalked myself, had a gunman go pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, five hollow point bullets, God save me. What do you think this is? This isn't Zimmerman. But unfortunately, he's become the face of Block Watch, Crime Watch.

David Byrne

I've never had writer's block.

David Bohm

If each one of us can give full attention to what is actually ‘blocking’ communication while he is also attending properly to the content of what is communicated, then we may be able to create something new between us, something of very great significance for bringing to an end the at present insoluble problems of the individual and of society.

David Bohm

There is a difficulty with only one person changing. People call that person a great saint or a great mystic or a great leader, and they say, 'Well, he's different from me - I could never do it.' What's wrong with most people is that they have this block - they feel they could never make a difference, and therefore, they never face the possibility, because it is too disturbing, too frightening.

David Wong

Tried to escape, to block out the fact that I was being eaten alive by arachnids. For some reason the only thing I could replace it with was the image of being eaten by tiny clowns.

Jimmy Rollins

But the more negative stuff there is, you try to block it out, but you still feel it. Whether you hear it or not, you still feel the negativity.

But Sammy came up big and got the block for us.

Gerald Wilson

But Lunceford was playing great music, and he was just a wonderful human being. We didn't even curse in front of him. We would play seven different shows a day at the Paramount Theater in New York, and we had seven different uniforms. People were lined around the block from Broadway to Seventh Avenue.

Anita Sarkeesian

There are people I've blocked for a long time who will still respond to every single person that replies positively to me on Twitter. I have quite a few cyber-stalkers like that.

Chip Conley

Once you know the emotional building blocks of anxiety, you can influence them.

Steve Aoki

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

Clifford Stoll

The virtual community? The word virtual does not mean "virtue." It means "not." When I go to the store and they say: The shirt that you brought in is virtually done. It means it is not done, in the same way that the virtual community is not a community. There is no commitment there. When you log off, you are not a member of it anymore. My flesh and blood community, the sense of knowing my neighbor, knowing the guy across the street, having dinner with the people down the block, getting along with each other and making compromises, that's a genuine community with a commitment.