Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Hoy

I don't tend to listen to music in training, except maybe the radio in the gym. I do use music prior to racing though; it helps to fire me up plus it's good for blocking out the distractions around me.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.

George W. Bush

It's important for young men and women who look at the Nebraska champs to understand that quality of life is more than just blocking shots.

George Takei

To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.

George Orwell

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?

George Eliot

But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.

Frank Grillo

You get spoiled on Captain America, where your trailers two blocks long and its got three bedrooms.

Christopher Alexander

On the geometric level, we see certain physical elements repeated endlessly, combined in an almost endless variety of combinations... It is puzzling to realize that the elements, which seem like elementary building blocks, keep varying, and are different every time that they occur .... If the elements are different every time that they occur, evidently then, it cannot be the elements themselves which are repeating in a building or town; these so-called elements cannot be the ultimate "atomic" constituents of space.

Christopher Alexander

One begins to think with that new building block, rather than with littler pieces. And finally, the things which seem like elements dissolve, and leave a fabric of relationships behind, which is the stuff that actually repeats itself, and gives the structure to a building or a town.

Robert Sterling

Hopefully H&R Block has their stuff together this year. It would be very ugly if they did not.

He's the sixth man of the year because when he comes in he gives 110 percent. When the other guys get in foul trouble or need a break, he does the job for us blocking shots, getting rebounds, tip-ins, doing all the right things.

He's like my brother. He can score points in bundles. He can rebound, block shots and he's just like me ? he can't play defense.

He's a natural-born leader. So we brought him in knowing he can think, knowing he can make plays. But he's one of those unsung heroes. He finishes checks, he blocks shots. He does a lot of the dirty work.

He said the improvements will include 33 blocks of total infrastructure reconstruction, including sewer lines, water lines, lighting and concrete, which will &#8220completely change the face of Havre.

Larry Coker

He's an older player. A veteran player and I think he'll help us in the run blocking and pass protection.

He's an extremely intelligent guy who picked up the system. And a big part of that is pass protection. That's the No. 1 thing. Can you pick up our scheme and the blocking we're doing? Because before you can do anything, before you can carry the football, you have to protect the quarterback. That's No. 1.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

Franz Beckenbauer

It's quite possible that Beckham suffers from a mental block at big tournaments

Frantz Fanon

The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity will have to address this question, no matter how devastating the consequences may be.

Jerry Stiller

I've been around the block a lot and I've had a merry trail for 55 years.

Jermaine O'Neal

I think blocking a shot at a crucial point of the game is the most incredible feeling.

Jennifer Hudson

Don't block your blessings. Don't let doubt stop you from getting where you want to be.

Jeffery Deaver

Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.

Jeffery Deaver

I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block. When I find myself frozen-whether I'm working on a brief passage in a novel or brainstorming about an entire book-it's usually because I'm trying to shoehorn an idea into the passage or story where it has no place.

Jeff Olson

Each and every incomplete thing in your life or work exerts a draining force on you, sucking the energy of accomplishment and success out of you as surely as a vampire stealing your blood. Every incomplete promise, commitment and agreement saps your strength, because it blocks your momentum, inhibits your ability to move forward, to progress and improve. Incomplete things keep calling you back to the past to take care of them.

George Bernard Shaw

A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.

Gale Harold

You are preparing yourself for a scene, and the most important thing is to remain emotionally available and remain in the moment with your scene partner. You don't want to let your own self-consciousness block the flow of creativity that's coming out so that you can act and react, and play what the scene is all about.

Erich Fromm

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

Erica Jong

The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.

Erica Jong

Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.

Javier Bardem

Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there's curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn't speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn't felt in a while. But I like it.

Before you fax your statements you can block out any information you wish. I only need the dollar figures. It's that simple. Once I complete my research I provide a free report detailing exactly how much money is being wasted each month because of high fees.

Greg Cipes

I park two blocks away from Nickelodeon studios and I hop on my skateboard and I skateboard the rest of the way to the studio.