Block Quotes · Page 14

I am reading Henry James...and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.

— Virginia Woolf

I stand upon a block of stillness. It is more secure than any sidewalk. I bring with me my own sidewalk.

— Jane Roberts

You have to focus on your job, and if you focus on your job, you block everything out.

— Donovan McNabb

[In The Dark Backward ] someone who has writer's block and kills people in A Cabin By The Lake. I guess he's…

— Judd Nelson

Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is completely nonsensical from a policy standpoint.

— Richard Carmona

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

— Frank Knight

Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion. I repeat: Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion.

— Ezra Taft Benson

She gave him such a look... Man oh man, if looks could kill. That one might have totalled a city block.

— Garrison Keillor

A man on his owns knows that he is best advised to leave his dumbbell neighbors alone. But let him join a…

— Bill Bonner

I went to big, broken, under-resourced public schools, but we had a real sense of community, because those were days in the…

— Deval Patrick

Why do you lie" I ask her. "To block the truth." Fair enough. Naomi goes on. "Where did we get it in…

— Anonymous

The Global Poverty Project's mission is to stand up for the world's poorest people. We fight for the full funding of Millennium…

— Hugh Evans

I'm going to get a new hairdo and look terrific and go back to school and even if nobody notices, I'm going…

— Joanne Woodward

Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some…

— Zaha Hadid

In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the…

— Jose Saramago

When I did plays in high school and college, I never remember memorizing my lines, but once I had blocking, I had…

— Greta Gerwig

More and more, I have come to realize how thoughts and concepts are all that block us from always being . .…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

Meggie Folchart: Having writer's block? Maybe I can help. Fenoglio: Oh yes, that's right. You want to be a writer, don't you?…

— Anonymous

I think a lot of times when people have "creative blocks" and I know my share of friends do as well if…

— Rainn Wilson

The headline in the Washington Post: "Democrats Confident They Can Block Trump's Agenda After Spending Bill Win." They think now they can…

— Rush Limbaugh

You must realize that it is the ordinary way of God's dealings with us that our ideas do not work out speedily…

— Thomas Merton

Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage…

— Walter Benjamin

90 percent, 85 to 90 percent of Israeli citizens in Judea-Samaria, in the West Bank, live in clusters, in urban blocks. Everybody…

— Benjamin Netanyahu

I never have [suffered writer’s block], although I’ve had books that didn’t work out. I had to stop writing them. I just…

— Margaret Atwood

I often wonder if my knowledge about God has not become my greatest stumbling block to my knowledge of God.

— Henri Nouwen

If Kyle Korver blocks your shot there should be a penalty box you should go to!

— Jeff Van Gundy

The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of…

— Anonymous

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

— Julia Child

I am a firm believer that you can make a difference in someone's life - whether they're thousands of miles away, or…

— Michelle Monaghan

A block of blood should not have the word "cake" after it...they might as well say "shite gateau

— Karl Pilkington

When you are young and rebellious, you don't want to be in the house. You want to be on the block.

— Prodigy

Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the…

— Tennessee Williams

So much can be learned by any filmmaker by studying his work, in terms of blocking, staging, editing and sound.

— Ramin Bahrani

I was a good surfer because we grew up a block from the water, and my father took us to the ocean…

— Jolene Blalock

Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.

— Robert B. Parker

The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.

— William James

I'm not going to make every shot. I'm not going to get every block. I can't let one play affect me the…

— Roy Hibbert

Sometimes it's just rejecting stereotypes, sometimes it's creating work. Sometimes it's just blocking out the noise.

— Morgan Parker

John Boehner will be the new speaker unless, out of habit, he blocks his own confirmation.

— Stephen Colbert

The Brigham Young University (BYU) campus was just a few blocks from my home and tuition was minimal.

— Paul D. Boyer