Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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?

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.

Jennifer Capriati

You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too.

Jennifer Egan

I haven't had writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly.

Jennifer Egan

I haven’t had trouble with writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, clichéd writing, outright flailing around. Writing that doesn’t have a good voice or any voice. But then there will be good moments. It seems writer’s block is often a dislike of writing badly and waiting for writing better to happen.

Jeff Sessions

There's been this attempt to block Donald Trump, in primary candidates and Democrats, that - to try to make everything he says some sort of extreme overstatement.

Grimes

My manager lives on my block; four of the apartments in my apartment complex of seven are people I know. It's a really close-knit community, and almost everyone on these few blocks are artists or graphic designers, because we live right on the cusp of a warehouse district.

Giulio Andreotti

Gladio had been necessary during the days of the Cold War but, in view of the collapse of the East Block, Italy would suggest to Nato that the organisation was no longer necessary.

Ezra Miller

If one took a role with the intention of, "I'll show them what I can do!," then it's not going to be good because the ego is going to just block everything.

Ezra Pound

With Usura With usura hath no man a house of good stone each block cut smooth and well fitting.

Ezra Taft Benson

Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion...Pride is ugly; it says if you succeed I am a failure...Pride is basically competitive in nature. When competition ends, pride ends.

Ezra Taft Benson

Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion. I repeat: Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion.

Francis Parkman

Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses.

Francis Chan

Our God listens to us. Our God is a living God. He's not a block of wood you made up that's not going to answer you. My God listens to me. He answers me.

If he chooses to sign it, we will be filing a lawsuit in short order to block it.

Mardy Fish

If he hit the first serve hard, I would have to block it back quickly,

I doubt that we will literally block publication.

I?d planned to run Block Island. But with my asthma, I decided to look for something shorter.

I dropped two unnecessary strokes on the short Par-4 fourth and another on the long Par-4 sixth after I blocked my driver into the short rough.

I don't think anything is going to change. We are going to block for them the same way we block for Jerome and Duce. You don't have to give him too much because you know he is going to hit it 100 mph.