Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marilynne Robinson

Teaching is a distraction and a burden, but it's also an incredible stimulus. And a reprieve, in a way. When you're trying to work on something and it's not going anywhere, you can go to school and there's a two-and-a-half-hour block of time in which you can accomplish something.

Tyler is our primary passer on the serve receive and he's very sure-handed. He blocks on the weak side and he does very well there. He can hold his own in the back row, too.

We didn't stay on our blocks long enough. We needed to stay low and hold our blocks longer for (Bob) Fitzpatrick and (Erik) Smithman.

We didn't skate at all. They came here and they were committed to getting two points. They blocked shots, cleared the front of the net. They did a lot of little things to get two points.

Aaron Rodgers

I think you can train yourself to block out some of that pressure and replace it with confidence. It's about preparation, and the more prepared I am, the less pressure I feel and the more confident I am. As your confidence grows, it's only natural that the pressure you feel diminishes.

A. R. Ammons

the walk liberating, I was released from forms, from the perpendiculars, straight lines, blocks, boxes, binds of thought into the hues, shadings, rises, flowing bends and blends of sight ...

Aeschylus

But still the block of Vengeance firm doth stand, and Fate, as swordsmith, hammers blow on blow.

Adam Leipzig

When we are in our studios, in our private space... we need to block out the outside world; we need to disbelieve anything that would doubt us, because - everyone will doubt us if we allow them that space.

Travis was fast, a great receiver. Jordan, a linebacker, would knock your block off. Off the field, they were just regular kids. Good boys.

We need to figure out a way in which we can block the funnel effect from New Orleans east and then plan such that we can do the same thing on the west bank. Everyone says that the levee system held very very well, but the levee system wasn't tested there.

We never could sustain anything offensively because we couldn't block them. They were just too physical. Too strong.

We've been getting a lot of shots blocked so I was just trying to make sure I got the puck to the net.

We've been focusing on our punt return team trying to block punts. We've blocked three punts before this game and returned two for touchdowns, so that's been a team that's been effective for us.

We've been focusing on our punt return team trying to block punts, ... We've blocked three punts before this game and returned two for touchdowns, so that's been a team that's been effective for us.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

Understanding the intentions of a play is so key because you can block a guy into the running back if you don't know how the play is supposed to work or where the back is going to come out.

We came through and made a big block on a punt and scored off of that. We've got to do a better job ourselves of kick coverage, punt protections and extra points.

We had too many missed blocking assignments, and that takes you out of your game,

We didn't even have a block (call) on. Derek just made a hero play.

We had to step up our serve-receive and block coverage, as well as defense, to make the plays we needed to make. We did just that in the first game.

We will actually petition the Federal Communications (Commission) to remove the block on jamming cell phones.

Mike Nolan

We've lost production out of the offense. That hurts, and you have to try to make up for that in other ways. We certainly have confidence in our two wide receivers from a playmaker standpoint, as well as at running back, (but) you need somebody to stretch the middle of the field, and our tight end position has been more in a blocking mode than anything else.

We have to keep them off the offensive boards. We lost the game because we didn't block out.

Billy Donovan

We're not at all telling our guys when the shot is up, you need to block shots. We're more concerned about challenging shots and then being able to block out and rebound to start the break. That's where our focus has been.

Seth Shostak

Virtually any pointed edifice is considered a candidate for alien engineering. After all, how could the Egyptians or Mayans have possibly stacked up stone blocks into pyramids?

Chuck D.

Usually one person can't block him on that line. He gives centers a fit.

William Shakespeare

You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!

Henry Lawson

And opposite the bench, the dock, divided by a partition, with the women to the left and the men to the right, as it is on the stairs or the block in polite society.

Carlo Collodi

Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm.

With each thing that you do, all the fears in life and safeguards block out, or obscure, who you truly are. I think that just a glimpse of the person ever comes through in most material.

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.

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.

Mike Hoffman

We will look at the blocks on offer and decide whether to bid.