Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Dessen

But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable,walking through this life half-sleeping,everything at arm's length or farther away. I understood those mermaids.I didn't care if they sang to me.All I wanted was to block out all the human voices as they called me name again and again,pulling me upward into light,to drown.

Sandra Cisneros

The ego's blocking the light from coming.

Roland Barthes

The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.

Wil Wheaton

Some ISPs are blocking all BitTorrent traffic, because BitTorrent can be used to share files in a piratical way. Hollywood lobbying groups are trying to pass laws which would force ISPs to block or degrade BitTorrent traffic, too. Personally, I think this is like closing down freeways because a bank robber could use them to get away.

Ronald Reagan

The founders of the United Nations expected that member nations would behave and vote as individuals after they had weighed the merits of an issue - rather like a great, global town meeting. The emergence of blocks and the polarization of the United Nations undermine all that this organization initially valued.

Winston Damarillo

Morphlabs is excited about the OpenStack release of Essex. We believe that this release positions OpenStack to become the foundation for next generation dynamic cloud infrastructure. We are building a fully-converged private platform around Essex, leveraging best-of-breed cloud building blocks to deliver a high-performance, flexible solution. This release marks a major a proof point of OpenStack’s commitment to open community development and pluggable APIs, which benefits the entire cloud ecosystem.

Wes Montgomery

Playing octaves was just a coincidence. And it's still such a challenge, like chord versions, block chords like cats play on piano. There are a lot of things that can be done with it, but each is a field of its own. I used to have headaches every time I played octaves, because it was extra strain, but the minute I'd quit I'd be all right. But now I don't have headaches when I play octaves.

Warren Farrell

In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.

Zaha Hadid

Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.

Yulia Tymoshenko

Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.

William H. Gass

As Rilke observed, love requires a progressive shortening of the senses: I can see you for miles; I can hear you for blocks, I can smell you, maybe, for a few feet, but I can only touch on contact, taste as I devour

William Barclay

Faith in God is the instrument which enables men and women to remove the hills of difficulty which block their path.

Walter Jon Williams

I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.

William Feather

Laziness is the one common deficiency in mankind that blocks the establishment of a perfect world in which everyone leads a happy life.

William Feather

Avoid letting temper block progress-keep cool.

William Stafford

There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

Winston Churchill

May there not be methods of using explosive energy incomparably more intense than anything heretofore discovered? Might not a bomb no bigger than an orange be found to possess a secret power to destroy a whole block of buildings-nay, to concentrate the force of a thousand tons of cordite and blast a township at a stroke? Could not explosives even of the existing type be guided automatically in flying machines by wireless or other rays, without a human pilot, in ceaseless procession upon a hostile city, arsenal, camp or dockyard?

Rhonda Byrne

The only reason any person does not have enough money is because they are blocking money from coming to them with their thoughts.

Rick Riordan

I think every writer struggles in some way with writers block. The trick is to plan out what you are going to say beforehand. I found out that if you make an outline you're much less likely to get blocked when you get into the middle of the story.

Sandra Cisneros

There are two things you need to ask for, to open up that channel, so you get the light. One is humility, because our ego is always going to block that guidance, and so you ask for humility.And the second thing you're going to ask for is courage, because what you're going to be asked to do is bigger than what you think you can do.

Samuel Johnson

A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of statuary is owing to its difficulty. You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot.

Vladimir Nabokov

Ideas in modern Russia are machine-cut blocks coming in solid colors; the nuance is outlawed, the interval walled up, the curve grossly stepped.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Some heat, some spice and plenty of citrus are the building blocks of many North African fish dishes.

Yoko Ono

I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.

Wyclef Jean

When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing.

Zoe Lister-Jones

There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.

Our block today really carried over from our experience last night. I felt like we didn't leave the gym. We read their offense really well and knew exactly what they were doing.

Billy Donovan

Our blocks in the Miami game came the right way. They came with our big guys playing good post defense, moving their feet. When someone from Miami committed to shooting the basketball, most of our blocked shots were on the ball.

Our block is getting better, but as coaches, we can never be happy or satisfied. We are just going to enjoy the rest of the weekend and prepare for USC.

Donald Davis

Our 5-year-old son didn't come home from the bus stop. house was only one block from the bus stop. It would take him about 2 minutes to walk from the bus stop to our house.

Right now people are angry. They are wailing and crying. Some of them have blocked roads in the town and we are trying to control the situation.

Rock the Block wasn't planning on putting on an event this semester, but we couldn't turn down the opportunity to help out a good cause.

Rebounding is why we were in the game. When you are a smaller team, you have to block out.