Block Quotes · Page 21

Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.

— Arthur Miller

A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look…

— George Bernard Shaw

You the type that be runnin ya mouth. See you on the block wanna run in ya house.

— Nicki Minaj

My man slangs rocks like up the block, 143RD and Amsterdam by the smoke shop

— Redman

As a kid, I think I rearranged the rooms of almost every house on the block.

— Nate Berkus

Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform.

— George W. Bush

Grace and truth are spiritual DNA, the building blocks of Christ-centered living.

— Randy Alcorn

The writing ethic was influenced - when you have to write every day, there's no such thing as writer's block.

— Michael Connelly

Prose is like this big block - you write big paragraphs. I feel that when I'm reading and writing, that a prose…

— Bill Callahan

A beautiful feature in the colour wood-cut, and one unique in printing, is colour gradation... Two brushes are sometimes used, one charged…

— Walter J. Phillips

Everything [Ted] Cruz was doing was legal, it was aboveboard, but it was portrayed as Cruz is the villain, and here's [Donald]…

— Rush Limbaugh

When I asked my mother where babies came from, she thought I said rabies. She said you get them from being bitten…

— Woody Allen

But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to…

— George Eliot

In my profession you have to be very strong within yourself in order to block out the rejection and block out the…

— Melanie Griffith

I understand how you could see something in the root of a tree, a crack in the wall, in an eroded stone…

— Pablo Picasso

Sometimes I do get writer's block but it's more of a writer's doubt - I'll try and write but nothing goes anywhere…

— Robin Pecknold

I share with a lot of people who have seen The Green film at gay film festivals when you are the only…

— Paul Marcarelli

I suppose I'm not quite the oldest detective on the block - David Jason is. When's he going to retire and give…

— John Nettles

I put that in my management's hands and my company's hands. We sit down all together, the family, D-Block, my management and…

— Styles P

Funny how things change when you got a liquor in ya: You're quicker with the tongue, givin' me rhythm now. Block the…

— Pharoahe Monch

The violence in New York feels really mundane and banal to me. Whereas in the privacy of one's own home, say, like…

— Elizabeth Neel

Question the Chestnuts. Chestnuts: the new name for boobs? No. NO. Why would you even say that? Get your mind out of…

— Chuck Wendig

To me, the stories that have always intrigued me are the stories of people leaving my movies and being affected by them.…

— Terry Gilliam

The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore…

— John Stuart Mill

To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

— Alexander Pope

I am happy with my past, my present and my future. All three are miraculous building blocks of my beloved, wonderful life.

— Robert Muller

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

— Tom Selleck

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

— Jack Penn

There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write.

— Terry Pratchett

In a matriarchy men should be encouraged to take it easy, for most women prefer live husbands to blocks of shares and…

— J. B. Priestley

Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.

— Gustave Flaubert

With Usura With usura hath no man a house of good stone each block cut smooth and well fitting.

— Ezra Pound

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

— Nathan Myhrvold

Federal policy should not block those who are prepared to risk their own wealth to create an enormous energy export industry here…

— Mike Pompeo

It is a tremendous waste of energy to try to block anyone else. That same energy could be applied to furthering your…

— Frederick Lenz

Thought is the ultimate tonal. Each thought is like a dike that blocks out the nagual.

— Frederick Lenz

“(On her son) I've met writer's block. He is short, diapered and keeps unplugging my laptop. Good news: he can be conquered…

— Cyrese Covelli

Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block…

— Jonathan Swift

There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have…

— Martha Graham

I don't believe in writer's block or waiting for inspiration. If you're a writer, you sit down and write.

— Elmore Leonard