Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sandra Tsing Loh

When faced with writer's block, lower your standards and keep going.

Warren Buffett

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

Wayne Dyer

A woman asked me recently, "What are the blocks to my happiness?" I said, "The belief that you have blocks."

Walter Bagehot

I'm not the kind of writer who's able to block out the world around me. I'm mindful of our own haves and have-nots, how our culture often blames and punishes the have-nots. I worry about our precarious economic and political climate.

Virginia Woolf

I am reading Henry James...and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.

Wentworth Miller

I spend my weekends sleeping and watching DVDs, and eating at restaurants within a 2-block radius of my apartment.

Werner Erhard

The only two things in our lives are aliveness and patterns that block our aliveness.

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?

William S. Burroughs

Biologically speaking the Afro-Asiatic block is in the ascendancy - always remember that both Negro and White are minority groups - the largest race is the Mongoloid group.

Virginia Woolf

The hatchet must fall on the block; the oak must be cleft to the centre. The weight of the world is on my shoulders. Here is the pen and the paper; on the letters in the wire basket I sign my name, I, I, and again I.

William J. Clinton

We need to be creating a world that we would like to live in when we're not the biggest power on the block.

William James

The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as a sculptor works on his block of stone. In a sense the statue stoodthere from eternity. But there were a thousand different ones beside it, and the sculptor alone is to thank for having extricated this one from the rest.

William James

The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.

William Gibson

Home. Home was BAMA, the Sprawl, the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis. Program a map to display frequency of data exchange, every thousand megabytes a single pixel on a very large screen. Manhattan and Atlanta burn solid white. Then they start to pulse, the rate of traffic threatening to overload your simulation. Your map is about to go nova. Cool it down. Up your scale. Each pixel a million megabytes. At a hundred million megabytes per second, you begin to make out certain blocks in midtown Manhattan, outlines of hundred-year-old industrial parks ringing the old core of Atlanta...

Sarah Rees Brennan

And what are you doing here, Nicholas? Decided to watch me sleep?" "Yes," said Nick, and bowed is head over his sword again. He had tissues, oil, and sandpaper laid out on the windowsill in front of him, and a little stone block he was passing his sword up and down, very carefully. "I came to gaze upon your sleeping face. Only you had the blanket over your head, so I just had to gaze at a lump I thought was your sleeping face, and that turned out to be your shoulder. Which just wasn't as special." ~Nick and Mae

Sarah Palin

To choose and be so adamant about this exact location just a block or two away from 9/11, again is that knife, it feels like.

Ryan Tedder

With iPhones, nobody has an excuse for writer's block. If you're at Whole Foods getting your green tea extract and you have a melody, you just drop it into your voice memo and save it for later.

W. S. Gilbert

To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.

Wayne Dyer

Everything you're currently against blocks you from abundance.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Secondhand experience breaks down a block from the car lot.

Vita Sackville-West

Days I enjoy are days when nothing happens, When I have no engagements written on my block, When no one comes to disturb my inward peace, When no one comes to take me away from myself And turn me into a patchwork, a jig-saw puzzle, A broken mirror that once gave a whole reflection, Being so contrived that it takes too long a time To get myself back to myself when they have gone.

Saul Williams

I don't really believe in writer's block or anything like that. If I'm not feeling words, I may pick up an instrument and play with sounds or delve into different types of creativity and expression.

Sarah Dessen

I remembered Owen telling me how music had saved him in Phoenix, that it drowned everything out, and it was the same for me now. As long as I had something to listen to, I could blur the things I didn't want to think about, if not block them out completely.

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.

Sarah McLachlan

I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else