Block Quotes
I've learned... That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.
I never ride horseback now because my sympathy with the under-dog is too keen. After we have a gone a few blocks, I always dismount and say to the horse: 'We'll walk it together, old dear.
There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write.
There is an authentic biology of hope. Belief and expectation - the key elements of hope - can block pain by releasing the brain's endorphins and enkephalins, mimicking the effects of morphine.
Come on fathers, don't hesitate, send them off before it's too late. Be the first one on the block to have your boy come home in a box.
Anytime you lose one fight in the UFC, you kind of have to feel like you are on the chopping block. There is so much competition in this sport.
The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.
For a healthy alternative to buffalo wings, slide the bone of a human finger into a block of tofu and bake.
I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette.
Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform.
I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?
writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all
Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we're the biggest weirdos on the block.
A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.
Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own brief years and, perhaps, in a few tales his parents tell him.
I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.
View a stumbling block as a learning opportunity. If you allow it to defeat you, it will. Honestly, if I give everything I have, I can't be disappointed with the outcome.
Gladio had been necessary during the days of the Cold War but, in view of the collapse of the East Block, Italy would suggest to Nato that the organisation was no longer necessary.
I have no problem walking in New York because I have a very brisk pace: By the time anyone recognizes me, it's too late, I'm four blocks away from them.
I think it's the idea that beauty could be power, and that with power comes immortality, and with power comes control, and all of these other things are blocking her heart.
The statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish.
One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.
Emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood.
Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past.
Talent may get someone off the starting blocks faster, but without a sense of direction or a goal to strive for, it won't count for much
We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.
Laziness is the one common deficiency in mankind that blocks the establishment of a perfect world in which everyone leads a happy life.
Everyone praises the views you get from mountain tops, but no one talks about the views that they block.
The universe cannot show you anything which you've intentionally chosen to block from your reality.
She wasn't feeling nothing. She was feeling too much. She was blocking it all out. That was a survival skill, and her still-beating heart was proof that it worked.
I spend my weekends sleeping and watching DVDs, and eating at restaurants within a 2-block radius of my apartment.
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
There are three kinds of forms in the human figure: Ovoid forms - egg, ball and barrel masses; Column forms - cylinder, cone; Spatulate forms - box, slab and wedge blocks.
Humankind won't find peace as long as we're treating feeling animals as if they were so many blocks of wood.
Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.
An actress should never, ever, be asked to run beside a van in red disco boots for more than about half a block, and then only if her child is being kidnapped.
I am a clairaudient healer. My specialty is being able to discern the blocks within a person's energy that are prohibiting them from being free, happy, and powerful.
Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.
The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.