Block Quotes · Page 10

Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

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

— Rakim

They got a committee to get me off my block.

— Beastie Boys

Prescription for writer’s block: fear of poverty.

— Peter Mayle

I always make hardcore songs, hits for the block.

— Prodigy

“Just keep mum and “block” them’ you’re told.”

— Mary Beard

I'm too busy to block everyone on Twitter.

— Drew Pinsky

Lots of times I have to leave the goal to block a ball.

— Ederson

Clarity precedes mastery. Craft clear and precise plans/goals/deliverables. And then block out all else.

— Robin Sharma

I'm very boring, really: I live on the Upper East Side, a block from the park. I have three kids. I go…

— Colum McCann

A hero is a goddam stupid thing to have in the first place and a general block to anything you might wanta…

— Lester Bangs

Now I wonder who is gonna be president: Tweedle Dumb, or Tweedle Dumber-- And who is gonna have the big block buster…

— Ani DiFranco

At the core of all successful societies are procedures for blocking the advancement of bad men

— Paul Collier

Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.

— Bjarke Ingels

Then there was a kid in the neighborhood about three blocks away, his name was Bobby Beavis.

— Mike Judge

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

— Colleen O'Connor

I write because it's all I know how to do. Writing is my anchor and my purpose. My life is informed by…

— Sue Grafton

We often block our own blessings because we don't feel inherently good enough or smart enough or pretty enough or worthy enough...…

— Oprah Winfrey

I am much more involved in the filmmaking experience on Mag Seven. I'm much more involved in story elements, casting decisions, the…

— Michael Biehn

New York being what it is, our museums are vertical, not horizontal. That means the stumbling blocks to architectural clarity are unavoidable…

— Jerry Saltz

He felt full of a dense and sour substance that was blocking his chest, and it wasn't grief. After all those years,…

— Etgar Keret

The American economy has always been driven by the entrepreneurial nature of its citizens, and blocking access to affordable health care will…

— Paul Gillmor

He hasn't lost his vision. That's one thing. He's good. The guy is smooth and knows how to set up blocks. He's…

— Jake Delhomme

This is the greatest stumbling block in our spiritual discipline, which, in actuality, consists not in getting rid of the self but…

— Thomas Merton

This is another thing which I really like investigating in my novels: what is it that makes an intimate society, that makes…

— Alexander McCall Smith

There is a real hunger for information about Obama and a sense that information is not being covered or, in some cases,…

— Dinesh D'Souza

A devotee who can call on God while living a householder's life is a hero indeed. God thinks: 'He is blessed indeed…

— Ramakrishna

And, you know, being able to wear the stars and stripes, when you step up on one of the blocks or, you…

— Michael Phelps

The Idea of Anti-imperialism is... to be considered on several grounds. First, it is traditionally pervasive in the United States, though given…

— Robert Conquest

I never thought I'd get to see Rome," Hazel said. "When I was alive, I mean for the first time, Mussolini was…

— Rick Riordan

Before my father would open up a karate school in a particular neighborhood, he'd clean up the block - kick all the…

— Lupe Fiasco

The choices we’re working with here are a block universe, where past, present and future all coexist simultaneously and everything has already…

— Audrey Niffenegger

I only get writer's block about once a day.

— Sue Grafton

Intellectual understanding blocks empathy.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

Death: Do you never stop questioning? Antonius Block: No. I never stop.

— Ingmar Bergman

Where I come from, the block become your daddy.

— Lil Wayne

He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.

— Edmund Burke

I grew up in church and on the block; the best of both worlds.

— BJ the Chicago Kid

I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.

— Mackenzie Crook

Television? It's a gateway to writer's block, isn't it?

— Alex Turner