Block Quotes
I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block, the problem is idea block
I saw the dudes who would be the gangsta, big-time guys on the block, but would also be dedicated fathers. It was kind of weird to see that dual story that everybody has.
That's kind of the weird thing about Salad Days. I had to block time off from touring and tell my management and label like no press, no nothing. Let me make an album. You guys are running me dead.
I haven't had writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly.
Stevie Wonder always smells so good... I'm like a DEA dog, I can smell people a block away!
But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.
The downs are the times when you lose sight of who you are and that happens along the way sometimes...Writer's block when you doubt yourself and you get insecure.
I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't been a problem.
It is a good idea to become involved with sports and athletics. It makes you strong. You need to be strong to deal with this world and the powers and forces that block enlightenment.
It was not a mere man he was holding, but a giant; or a block of granite. The pull was unendurable. The pain unendurable.
You get spoiled on Captain America, where your trailers two blocks long and its got three bedrooms.
Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.
I don't believe in writer's block or waiting for inspiration. If you're a writer, you sit down and write.
Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion...Pride is ugly; it says if you succeed I am a failure...Pride is basically competitive in nature. When competition ends, pride ends.
Organisms dont think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block.
Well, pull up an ice block and lend an ear. Now you know how Santa uses these flying reindeer to pull his sleigh.
A creative block is a fear about the future, a guess about the dangers dwelling in the dark computer and the locked studio.
I don't really think of time off as writing blocks. I think that's a western notion of demonizing inactivity. When your imagination decides it needs to take a nap. maybe that's what it needs to do.
You might be a redneck if there are four or more cars up on blocks in the front yard.
If you do enough planning before you start to write, there's no way you can have writer's block. I do a complete chapter by chapter outline.
When there is a psyche-disrupting event in your life, it can prevent you from getting the long blocks of sleep at night that are so important to healthy aging.
Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship.
When I was fighting communism, there was rapid development of satellite television and cell phones, and communism, to survive, would have to block all these information devices.
In the mornings I used to say goodbye to my wife like someone going to work. I'd leave the house, walk around a few blocks, and come back like a person arriving at the office.
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.
Now that the there is a path for the people of Puerto Rico to express their self-determination on Puerto Rico's political status, there are some who seek to block that path.
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.
When you start to build a serious wardrobe, the navy blazer is the very first piece you should choose. It can be a building block for an entire work and casual wardrobe.
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.
The World Trade Center was for me not only out of scale vertically, but it was also out of scale in plan. It occupied several blocks that were all massed together.
The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or '79.
Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is completely nonsensical from a policy standpoint.
The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty.
The Brigham Young University (BYU) campus was just a few blocks from my home and tuition was minimal.
I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.
Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.
Everyone faces defeat. It may be a stepping-stone or a stumbling block, depending on the mental attitude with which it is faced.
Health-wise, I couldn't have said what my life expectancy would've been if I'd just carried on doing solid blocks of stand-up.
People have writer's block not because they can't write, but because they despair of writing eloquently.
The NFL offensive blocking is played differently; they use their hands instead of their head and shoulders.
Mr. Speaker, we have reached a point in history where some have forgotten that it is the family, not the government, that is the fundamental building block of our society.