Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marc Bulger

I'm sure it's clean. I didn't give myself up. He made a block and finished it. It doesn't happen if I don't throw the interception. So that's the frustrating part.

Alan King

Infrastructures that are too small for the number of students are not emphasized as much when you have block scheduling, because students only have to change classes about three times, as opposed to six,

I know Walter can block Porter. If he couldn't, we wouldn't be in this game.

Chris Alexander

I knew my shot wasn't dropping, so the next thing is to rebound, make my free throws, and block shots.

I just want to play defense, stick to my strength, be a good defensive player, block shots, run the floor and rebound. I think that's what they brought me here to do.

I laid into them probably the hardest I have all year. We had a lack of intensity on defense lack of effort to block out was unacceptable.

Ted Cruz

I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'

Graeme Souness

I'm a big boy and I've been around the block a few times,

John Scofield

The language is still being massaged, but the intent would be to block this specific deal.

The consumer has already embraced Target as a fashion resource. Target's growth now is getting that higher-fashion consumer, the one who wants to be the first on the block with a trend.

John Harbaugh

The first thing we're looking to do is change the way we're playing. Play better, block better, be more physical, do a better job of scheming. That's what we need to do.

Thad Cochran

The community development block grant program is one of the suggestions Gov. Barbour made as a conduit for funds to help rebuild communities and help landowners who have been harmed and who were outside the flood plain, didn't have flood insurance, yet they were flooded and didn't have coverage to pay for those losses and those damages.

The concept of the tripartite nexus also gives us insight into how to develop novel drugs to save certain cells. For example, if we could block the formation of the nexus in children receiving radiation or chemotherapy for cancer, we might be able to save otherwise healthy cells from the side effects of these treatments. Or, we might be able to encourage the formation of the tripartite nexus in cells that pose a threat to the body.

Neal Boortz

Our current tax code is one that was designed by and for the benefit of politicians and lobbyists. It punishes achievement and rewards laziness. It punishes the voting blocks unimportant to politicians, and rewards voting blocks who keep them in office.

Neale Donald Walsch

Obstacles are not opposing you, but merely and gently re-routing you. It is important not to view that which stands in your way as your 'enemy.' It can often be your best friend, sending you on a detour that takes you around what would have been your biggest stumbling block.

Nate Berkus

I think I was the only kid on the block who knew about furniture scale by the time I was 8.

Nate Berkus

As a kid, I think I rearranged the rooms of almost every house on the block.

Mike Lowell

If you're good, you fail seventy percent of the time. You have to be mentally capable of blocking that out and keep going.

Jose Saramago

In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don't talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer's block, all those things that we hear about writers.

Jose Padilha

I don't actually like blocking actors. I prefer giving actors freedom. They don't have to step on a precise mark with me. Instead of giving marks to the actors I like to give marks to the camera.

Joni Mitchell

Unlike some of my peers, I haven't really hit a writer's block. When I hit a block I just paint, which is an old crop rotation trick.

Joni Mitchell

Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block.

Kenneth Frampton

From the Berlin tenement reform law of 1897 to H. P. Berlage's plan for Amsterdam South of 1917, designers and theorists in Germany and Holland moved toward the development of a perimeter residential block that would preserve the plastic continuity of the street while opening up the resultant courtyard for use as an enclosed semi-public space.

Jonathan Swift

For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.

Jonathan Safran Foer

What the meat industry figured out is that you don't need healthy animals to make a profit. Sick animals are more profitable... Factory farms calculate how close to death they can keep animals without killing them. That's the business model. How quickly they can be made to grow, how tightly they can be packed, how much or how little can they eat, how sick they can get without dying...We live in a world in which it's conventional to treat an animal like a block of wood.

Jonathan Safran Foer

There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is the kind that adds, building with clay, piling it on. The way I write novels is to keep piling on and piling on and piling on.

Narendra Modi

Harnessing e-governance moves the access to governance from long queues at offices to any internet point. In Gujarat, our UN awarded widely acclaimed SWAGAT e-governance system ensures that long-term grievances are resolved through use of online applications and video-conferencing across all district and block offices.

Louise Hay

As my mind can conceive of more good, the barriers and blocks dissolve. My life becomes full of little miracles popping up out of the blue.

The guys worked really hard to get out and contest shots, and we did a much better job of blocking out. We got off to a good start, which is always important. We're just happy to come away with a win.

Jacques Maritain

In point of fact, Western philosophy has never set itself free of Christianity: wherever Christianity did not have a hand in the construction of modern philosophy it served instead as a stumbling block.

Helen Garner

Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect halves. Such was my elation that I ran inside, put on our ancient cracked record of Aretha Franklin singing Respect and danced all by myself for half an hour in our living room, without inhibition, almost crying with jubilation – not just about the wood, but because I could live competently some of the time, and because that day I liked myself.

Hedrick Smith

This is precisely the purpose of censorship - not only to block unwanted views, but to keep people who are unhappy from knowing how many millions of others share their unhappiness; to keep the dormant opposition from awakening to its own developing strength.

Hedi Slimane

My parents offered me my first camera for my birthday and I developed an exclusive passion for it over the years. Since I was not the most social kid on the block, the camera helped me to express myself, invent my own language - something like a secret garden. I decided early on I would not write in a diary but take silent photographs instead.