Block Quotes

The building block of every community is family.

The block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece... We're the block of marble and God is the sculptor, and the chisel is.... everything.

Go to the club or go to the block or go hang out and things start coming.

Try something. And never be afraid to fail. That failure is useful too. It's just another building block.

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

The media is the great middleman. Trump doesn't need a middleman to get his message out. Trump's crowds are five blocks long.

Prudence is sometimes stretched too far, until it blocks the road of progress.

Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.

Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I’m afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities?

I've never suffered from writer's block. I have plenty of ideas, sometimes too many. I've always had a strong imagination. If it dries up I'll stop and look for another career.

Writer's block? Don't worry about it. Either it goes away or you die.

Sometimes writer's block is no more than a signal that you have not done enough research.

Working memory capacity is really the ability to hold and manipulate information while you're actively trying to block out distraction.

The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block...

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.

That's our mission: to clean and green New York City - one block at a time.

Come Senators, Congressman, please heed the call, don't stand in the doorway, don't block the hall.

I'm not the new kid on the block anymore. Writers always use the phrase "aging rocker," and I'm like, "What other option do I have?" You're either aging or you're dead.

A Queen track has those big, thick, block harmonies.

I don't hate anyone. I simply block them out using hellish visions in a blind white rage. But if I see them out I'm pleasant.

To people who make moving ads that block the view of websites: Not only will we not buy from you, but we want shrews to eat your liver.

Una's face was an unbroken block of calculation, saving where, upon her upper lip, a little down of hair fluttered. Yet it gave one an uncanny feeling. It made one think of a tassel on a hammer.

The actual work of recording a record or making a film just requires that you consciously block the time out to do that and nothing else. That's what I do.

The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.

Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.

The bully on the block who beats up somebody doesn't become more powerful. All they do is walk around inside their own mind with an inflated ego.

People will try to block you. Some will do it just for pure hostility. But most others are just afraid of themselves.

That was one thing you found out when you were stoned, or wasted, or feverish: that the world was always turning and that only a healthy mind could block out the sickening whirl of it.

Coal miners don't get coal miners' block.

I've learned what Trump has taught - we need to put our best foot forward and don't let anybody block us from anything that we wish to do or want to do.

Anybody not wearing a two-million sun block is gonna have a pretty bad day.

Suckas on my jock when I walk down the block, I really don't care if you're jealous or not.

Education spending will be most effective if it relies on parental choice & private initiative -- the building blocks of success throughout our society.

I cannot live without flowers everywhere. I grew up having a big garden, the size of a city block, in Rombas.

Smash creative blocks. Change the problem or sneak up on it from a different direction. Try something fresh - a new way with an old theme, a different point of view, unusual tool.

To block the construction of centralized power projects, as not being 'appropriate' or 'sustainable' is to condemn billions of people to continued poverty and disease-and millions to premature death.

That's why I call the Senate the graveyard of democracy, because even when you have 58 senators, they can block it and block it and block it.

If you don't keep pushing the limits, you wake up one day and you're the "center square to block."

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.

Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.

Our beliefs act as lenses. These lenses can help us see things we can't otherwise see, but they can also block us from seeing parts of reality.

Stand up and pledge with me: A government of the United States is not on the auction block. And America is not for sale!

You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!

If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.

Truth is beauty

You can't doubt so much, Psyche

... 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.

I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when they don't, they don't.

Don't be discouraged by writer's block. Writer's block just means you need to listen to other music.

Now [Sue Grafton] loves writer's block, seeing it as a message from the psyche that the narrative is headed in the wrong direction.