Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Marshall

To our knowledge, the current study is the first to identify a molecular mechanism that blocks both retrieval and reconsolidation of any type of memory. While much remains to be understood concerning the cellular processes underlying the effects of ERK in drug-stimulus associations and other types of learning and memory, the present findings offer hope for treating cue-elicited relapse in addicts.

Charles Krauthammer

The Democratic line is that the Republican House does nothing but block and oppose. In fact, it has passed hundreds of bills only to have them die upon reaching the desk of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He has rendered the Senate inert by simply ensuring that any bill that might present a politically difficult vote for his Democratic colleagues never even comes to the floor.

Bob Newhart

Well, if you’re a native Chicagoan, you know how dumb he [Dr. Robert Hartley] is. He gets on the Ravenswood El, he goes past his stop on Sheridan Road, he gets off in Evanston, where the El is on the ground, and then he walks back 55 blocks to his apartment. Now, would you want to have that man as a psychologist? A man who misses his stop every day?

This was as good a performance as I've seen in awhile. These guys were awesome. I could have called any play on my sheet today. The blocking was crisp, the running was outstanding, the effort was awesome.

We are here for a reason. We honestly feel they are the favorite but we are not a stepping stone for them. They are not going to step on us. We are a road block to the state title and they have to go through us.

Jerry Sloan

We did a very poor job in trying to block them off of the boards. They just killed us on the offensive boards.

Jane Asher

Spreadable butter is wonderful for cake-making: it's much easier to cream than the block type and slightly lighter because it's blended with oil.

Janine Benyus

Organisms dont think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block.

The program has made a gradual climb up the hill. And they've been the two building blocks of this program over the last four years.

Alan Garner

... I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience", and to follow Arthur Koestler's dictum: "Soak; and wait.

Al Yankovic

You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.

Charles Jencks

Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.

Charlene Li

From the consumer point of view, there may be questions about whether you'll have to be an AOL subscriber to get Time magazine, ... That combination of media with the access is one through which you may be able to block access to your competitors' subscribers.

Bill Hicks

They tell us "Rock'n'roll is the devil's music." Well, let's say we know that rock is the devil's music, and we know that it is, for sure ... At least he f-kin' jams! If it's a choice between eternal Hell and good tunes, and eternal Heaven and New Kids on the f-kin' Block ... I'm gonna be surfin' on the lake of fire, rockin' out.

Eckhart Tolle

Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship.

Candace Smith

We have a problem right now with people blocking the doors when people are trying get in and really slows everybody down.

Brian Greene

Far from being accidental details, the properties of nature's basic building blocks are deeply entwined with the fabric of space and time.

Bailee Madison

You try to become the character that you're working with. So for me, I try to block out the cameras and try to trick my mind that this is actually happening.

Barry Zito

We're having the bus stop five blocks away from the hotel, too. So they'll be walking the streets of Cleveland all pimped out.

David White

We're gonna have an infiltration parking lot so we're still looking for different kinds of paving block we're gonna use in this parking lot. We don't know for sure what we'll go with yet,

Barbara Hepworth

I love my blocks of marble, always piling up in the yard like a flock of sheep.

Barbara de Angelis

The obstacles in our path are not blocking us-they are redirecting us. Their purpose is not to interfere with our happiness; it is to point us toward new routes to our happiness, new possibilities, new doorways.

Benjamin Graham

The stock market resembles a huge laundry in which institutions take in large blocks of each others washing ... without rhyme or reason.

Brian Tracy

We have a mental block inside us that stops us from earning more than we think we are worth. If we want to earn more in reality, we have to upgrade our self-concept.

Brian Tracy

Turn your stumbling blocks into steppingstones to success.

Brad Goreski

Color-blocking two bold shades feels so modern.

Jane Jacobs

...frequent streets and short blocks are valuable because of the fabric of intricate cross-use that they permit among the users of a city neighbouhood.

Juvenal

The abuse of cabmen in a block.

Kirsten Gillibrand

If one of my colleagues wants to block a bill, they should stand up in front of the American people and explain why.

We've been improving, and offensively, we've been playing a little smarter. Our blocking was definitely much better than the first time we played them.

We ran better, we threw better, we blocked better. We just played a better game this week.

We're an informal group that meets and discusses genealogy and we try to get through road blocks by talking together.

Charles Bukowski

I walked around the block twice, passed 200 people and failed to see a human being.