Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Robert Guillaume

Racism may be as systemic as it always was. It is the great problem of America. It's the one stumbling block that I don't believe was ever smoothed over.

Robert Ashley

Opera on television in Europe is very important. If you think about it in the broadest sense: a lot of the dramas made in India with music are practically operas. They're not sung but they have a very big appeal. I don't know why American television people are so stupid but at the moment, they just seem to have some sort of a block. They just do what they do and they do it for a certain number of years. Then it wears out and they try something else. It's just a matter of time I think.

Robert B. Parker

Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.

Robert Anton Wilson

Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals; censorship blocks transmission.

Richard Louv

We tend to block off many of our senses when we're staring at a screen. Nature time can literally bring us to our senses.

Richard Powers

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

Richard Rodriguez

You don't know Mexico, man. You have trivialized Mexico. You are a fool about Mexico if you think that Mexico is five blocks. That is not Mexico; that is some crude Americanism you have absorbed.

Richard Rodriguez

'm constantly depressed by the Mexican gang members I meet in East L.A. who essentially live their lives inside five or six blocks. They are caught in some tiny ghetto of the mind that limits them to these five blocks because, they say, "I'm Mexican. I live here." And I say, "What do you mean you live here - five blocks? Your granny, your abualita, walked two thousand miles to get here. She violated borders, moved from one language to another, moved from a sixteenth-century village to a twenty-first-century city, and you live within five blocks?"

Richard Carmona

Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is completely nonsensical from a policy standpoint.

Ron White

Apparently I ain't the only cat on the block digs cheetos.

Rollo May

The danger always exists that our technology will serve as a buffer between us and nature, a block between us and the deeper dimensions of our own experience.

Rollo May

In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.

Rumi

We bury our seeds and wait, Winter blocks the road, Flowers are taken prisoner underground, But then green justice tenders a spear

Steve Cropper

I'm a Top 40 record guy. I remember the hits and don't remember the flops. Something in my brain blocks them out.

Stephen Spender

Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.

Ron Livingston

Any time you do physical stuff, violence, it is controlled. It's a little bit like you block the move.

Russel Honore

During the aftermath of Katrina, National Guard troops were positioned on every block to establish a sense of safety and source of help for the people in need. They did not leave communities until people were safe and sound.

Rush Limbaugh

It was some UN agency that issued a report saying we're beyond the point of return here. And there was a picture of a polar bear on a little, tiny block of ice, which is a fraudulent - there are more polar bears than ever. The arctic ice caps are not melting. There's so much garbage out there.

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.