Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maria Miller

Marriage is one of the most important institutions we have, it binds society and families together, it is a building block that promotes stability. This bill supports and cultivates marriage.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

Marc Webb

I think it's really important, when you're redefining a character [ Spider-Man], for the audience to experience things that they haven't experienced, from the ground up. I wanted to build a character. I feel like point of view is a really crucial thing in the story, and that you need to build up the emotional building blocks, so that you can experience all the other emotions in a very specific way, rather than just experiencing it in an intellectual way.

Pete Wentz

You can live with me in this house I've built out of writers blocks.

Peter George Peterson

Many Republicans have what I call a 'tax-cut syndrome' where they have never seen a tax cut they didn't really like and didn't see a tax increase they didn't hate and do everything they could to block.

Questlove

I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.

Quincy Jones

We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too.

Quentin Crisp

Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn t?

Quentin Tarantino

One of the things when you write, well the way I write, is that you are writing your scenario and there are different roads that become available that the characters could go down. Screenwriters will have a habit of putting road blocks up against some of those roads because basically they can't afford to have their characters go down there because they think they are writing a movie or trying to sell a script or something like that. I have never put that kind of imposition on my characters. Wherever they go I follow.

Naveen Jain

Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.

Nathaniel Branden

Suppose you feel you cannot accept some fact about yourself. Then own your refusal to accept. Own the block. Embrace it fully. And watch it begin to disappear. The principal is this: Begin where you are-accept that. Then change and growth become possible.

Mother Teresa

Failure is merely feedback that there is something blocking the path of the emergence and expansion of the greatest version of yourself.

Mother Teresa

What we sometimes consider a stumbling block is rather a rock we can step on.

Mike Judge

Then there was a kid in the neighborhood about three blocks away, his name was Bobby Beavis.

Terry Brooks

I would also argue that there is a good chance that an outline will help you stave off any onslaught of writer's block. Let me advise you right up front that I am not a big believer in writer's block. I think writer's block is God's way of telling you one of two things - that you failed to think your material through sufficiently before you started writing, or that you need a day or two off with your family and friends.

Linda Hamilton

Anybody not wearing a two-million sun block is gonna have a pretty bad day.

Paul Valery

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

Madeleine L'Engle

The virgin birth has never been a major stumbling block in my struggle with Christianity; it's far less mind boggling than the Power of all Creation stooping so low as to become one of us.

John Abraham

It seems like it. I feel I get doubled a lot. I guess the first few games I got off kind of fast. People watch film, they know who to block and who to look out for. I definitely think they've been doing a lot of things to slow me down.

A lot of enterprise stuff will probably be up on the chopping block because they tend to be weak in that area.

A lot of the previous findings kept bringing us back to PGE2 and its receptors. So we investigated whether it's possible to block the EP1 receptor so PGE2 couldn't trigger toxic effects.

A lot of times when you try to kick away from Ted and Tone it messes up the rhythm of the punter, ... Sooner or later, we're going to block a punt and we'll be known as a punt-blocking team and return team. That's the goal.

They must visit our decimated neighborhoods. They must see the devastation block by block.

Ben Howland

They must have eight guys who are long, athletic, bouncy and can block shots. It's like walking into a human fly swatter.

Bill Belichick

They have good players. Not just (Stroud and Henderson), but certainly they're a big focus of it and they're right in the middle. You have to deal with them every play. It's not like you have a corner where you can throw to the other side or you have an outside linebacker (where) you can run away from him. It's two tackles. There is no play where you can run that you don't have to block them.

They have a nice block and we were supposedly not trying to hit middle. (Setter) Taylor (Lynn) did not want to push her sets too far (outside).

This features gives IT pros a centralized way to control and block the use of these devices with the machine.

They shut us down the whole game. Our offense didn't move the ball. We didn't block and didn't make plays. We had two fumbles on pass plays and didn't have any pass protection.

They shut us down the whole game, ... Our offense didnt move the ball. We didnt block and didnt make plays. We had two fumbles on pass plays and didnt have any pass protection.

It's tough to block out all that stuff. Our group supported each other. Most of it was out of our control.

It struck me that Chuck Grassley was like a guy with a bucket of water who runs up to a burning house only to run past it and throw a bucket of water on a house a block down because it might catch fire in 40 or 50 years.

Alison Bales

For me, it's always defense. I get so excited when I block shots, and I think the team does a great job of encouraging that. If I block a shot, I know I've got a chest bump coming.

You don't stick cameras in people's faces. You don't block them from leaving the entrance. You don't jump in their way just because they are letting someone off.