Famous Quotes & Sayings

They blocked me in so I couldn't get out. I couldn't escape. They started breaking the windows, then they choked me until I couldn't move. After that, they hit me in the face and knocked me out.

They blocked a shot or two early, and I think started hurrying us a little bit. I don't think it was a situation where we were not ready to play or intimidated ... or anything like that. They are nice team. We're a nice team.

J. J. Johnson

They blitzed their safeties a lot in the first half. I got great blocking and good holes from the offensive line.

Bill Belichick

They consistently knock the line of scrimmage back. They're hard to block and if you stay on them and block them, then it's hard to get to the next level. It's hard to get up to the linebackers. And if you get off of them too quick, then they penetrate.

London Fletcher

They did a good job of blocking the run and getting us in defenses where our secondary guy was the cutback player,

They can't do much to you anymore. Now, they try to stand in front of you and block the shot rather than push you around.

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

They weren't doing a great job of blocking her out. We mentioned to her early on that she could have a really great rebounding night.

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.

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.

Matt Stajan

We seem to be creating a lot of odd-man rushes. We're killing a penalty, but we seem to be jumping into the play and doing things like blocking shots to create a 2-on-1. We seem to be able to score and we're finishing those chances and I can't really explain why.

Mitch Mitchell

We've been back on schedule this week, ... First, we have to get focused on playing again. We have to block them better up front than last year.

We need to get out of the blocks with our offensive game a little better. We?re not scoring quickly enough.

John Wilson

The government should step in and block this sale.

The defense played great. Unfortunately, we didn't quite get the blocking we expected from the offense and that hurt us. But we're getting better and, hopefully, the wins will come.

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.

Dan Quayle

I've heard people say that [I have a short attention span]. I don't feel I do, because when I'm interested in something I'll stay in focus as long as it is necessary... If you get off on something I'm not very interested in, it's very easy for me to block it out. It's easy for me to block things out.

Columbus Short

What dancing has helped me with is blocking; it makes me comfortable with my body. You know how to hit your mark, you know how to embody a swagger. But sitting down and looking across the table at another actor and being able to go to battle on screen is nothing to do with singing or dancing.

Colm Toibin

Writer's block! It doesn't exist. You just long for ideas to go away so you have an idea of peace.

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.

Dwight Yoakam

The actual work of recording a record or making a film just requires that you consciously block the time out to do that and nothing else. That's what I do.

We started to look at the business fundamentals very differently and focused on the blocking and tackling and the competitive environment, which is a very different way of doing business.

We used to call this a block party. We changed it this year to give it a (unique) identity.

Athol Fugard

I've had one experience of writer's block in my life, and it was living hell. It was a terror for me.

Stephen Gaghan

I can't separate the process of writing from the visual process. I'm speaking only for myself here, but I'm a highly visual writer. In my imagination, when I'm thinking of a scene, I think of every last detail of it: The space, the color palette, the blocking of the actors, the placement of the camera.

Steve Aoki

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

John Harbaugh

We need to block better and do a better job scheming,

We need to block and tackle well, that's been a lot of our focus. We always execute on offense and defense, the bottom line is it's just blocking and tackling. We're very optimistic about this year. I think the Ocean will be on a real upswing this year. There's not weeks off for anybody.

When we lost Trent it looked like the wheels fell off offensively, ... I was disappointed in the blocking up front and the protection was not good. T.C. has to play better as well.

Billy Donovan

When we lost three in a row, I said it's good for our team because it is helping them figure out how to win. They didn't understand a missed block out, a broken defensive assignment, giving up 3-point shots could cause us to lose.