Block Quotes

I can multitask very well. But I know exactly when to block off anything coming in from the outside and just stay focused on the film.

Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.

Failure does not exist. Once you hit the construction zone road blocks, follow the detour signs to get back to ur original path.

Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?

Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time - if not of my block - being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.

Color-blocking two bold shades feels so modern.

Information is the new atom or electron, the fundamental building block of the universe ... We now see the world as entirely made of information: it's bits all the way down.

An acceptance of your cultural inheritance, and at the same time a dislike of it, is a building block of good art.

I found the emotion that as an athlete you block out, and it really helped me to understand myself as a person. I'm a really emotional person and it helped make me a better person.

When my brother, Todd [Fisher], was born my father was already with Elizabeth [Taylor]. I was 19 or 20 when I first spent a block of time with him.

He is ready to cleanse you, It is sin, after all, that lies at the door and blocks you way to the Savior.

I learnt a blend of different martial arts - not in great depth, obviously - but various moves such as kicks, blocks and punches. It was all quite fun.

It's often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they're going.

My father, never chooses me for anything. Unless he needs a human shield. Thirty years and all I am to him is a hunk of meat to block buck shot. Told you dad needed me. Who's the best man now?

Everybody is talking and everybody is trying to block things out, but eventually you just yell, "Action!," everybody starts moving, the camera starts going, and you get a take.

Plot and scene are still the hardest things for me, though I think they're the building blocks of what makes a story work.

I have blocks of time where I'm working intently on something.

One of the rather unedifying truths about grief is it does block out more or less everything. It has a solipsistic quality to it.

If the most you can do right now is walk around the block, then do that, and you will be surprised how quickly you increase your endurance and enthusiasm for moving and breathing.

Work on psychological blocks like shame and guilt - they falsely color your reality.

Sometimes I use my jokes as building blocks for larger bits. I like to draw and play music, so sometimes I do those things along with the jokes.

The vast silence of Buddha overtakes and overrules the oncoming roar of tragic life that fills alleys and avenues; it blocks the way of pedicabs, police, convoys.

Remember the importance of small actions. They're the building blocks in the architecture of your life, the quiet victories you win for yourself each day.

I'm full of admiration for the Queen. She's done a fantastic job. She has had an awful lot of blocks along the road and has overcome them all. I'm anything but an antimonarchist.

I realized that people don't quite understand what I do when I was the new kid on the block and a lot of Hollywood was offering me fairly cheesy projects.

People move into a house a block down the road. You know who's going in. You can see and you report them to the local police. Everybody's their own cop in a way. You got to do it.

I think that Paul Gasol is the most skilled big man in the NBA today with his ability to post on either block, the way he runs the floor, and the way he can shoot the mid-range jump shot.

My favorite part is that 1-on-1 matchup... Block out everything else and stare into that guys eyes.

I had a lot of negativity growing up, so I understand how to block the negativity out.

I think virgins are far more interesting to write about. If we've been around the block a few times, we know what to expect. Not so with virgins.

Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.

If you get too well-known in comedy, I do believe it blocks people from taking you in drama.

If I were Achilles I would put my foot in a f**k off block of concrete!

I grew up as a tomboy. I was always barefoot, running races with the guys on the block, climbing trees, and beating kids up.

The problem with TV now is that there's so much competition, that you're always on the chopping block.

When stars collide, like you and I, no shadow blocks the sun" - The One

I’ve never had a writer’s block, but still I think: Is it going to happen this time? You never know what you’re going to get; you just put your fingers on the keys and hope.

I agree that not responding, and blocking his email, is the way to deal with the man you hope falls silent again.

Religion is a superstition that originated in man's mental inability to solve natural phenomena. The Church is an orgainized institution that has always been stumbling to block progress.

With Usura With usura hath no man a house of good stone each block cut smooth and well fitting.

An unread book is just a block of paper.

Our God listens to us. Our God is a living God. He's not a block of wood you made up that's not going to answer you. My God listens to me. He answers me.

Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity.

One-third of your plays are special teams, so to block a punt and get good field position out of it and score was big.

I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation

We thought philosophy ought to be patient and unravel people's mental blocks. Trouble with doing that is, once you've unravelled them, their heads fall off.

If someone is in the same state of mind and doesn't seek to block your success, you have a friend. Such friends are rare, and if you find such a friend, value them.

It is important to have intensive blocks of time together. During our nights together there is a tremendous interchange of knowledge, power and awareness.

In Zen, and in other forms of self discovery, we do have a transference that occurs where psychically, information, blocks of attention, are transferred to the student.

The teacher has nothing to do with people who use their mental powers to block the enlightenment of others. These people lack control. What can you teach someone who lacks control?