One the next corner stood a cinder block restaurant with a hand-painted sign that read CHICKEN & WAFFLES. There was a queue… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
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… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
the walk liberating, I was released from forms, from the perpendiculars, straight lines, blocks, boxes, binds of thought into the hues, shadings,… — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
How often do we stand convinced of the truth of our early memories, forgetting that they are assessments made by a child?… — Benjamin Zander Copy Share Image
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Once you get the script, you then hope you can get the director that you want. Then you hope he can get… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
Religion is a superstition that originated in man's mental inability to solve natural phenomena. The Church is an orgainized institution that has… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
You try to become the character that you're working with. So for me, I try to block out the cameras and try… — Bailee Madison Copy Share Image
Some knitters say that they buy yarn with no project in mind and wait patiently for the yarn to "speak" to them.… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
We Americans are a funny people. We say that our favorite outdoor recreation is 'walking for pleasure' (or so it is reported… — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
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God gave a law ... called justice. But they have made a law for themselves that is terrible and intricate, and they… — Jessie Sampter Copy Share Image
Excessively precise economic analysis can lead to assessing everything in terms of its easily measurable melt value - the value that thieves… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
Anyone who realises what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just… — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
The longer I am in this work, the more I realize that intellectual struggles are merely the hazardous waste of life, blocking… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
I'm not the most talented writer in the world. I know that. But I also know that I'm disciplined, that I work… — David B. Coe Copy Share Image
This was something that was obsessing me and creating a writer's block. To get involved and get stuck in, get the proper… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
I realized that whatever your path, whatever your calling, the most damaging thing you can do is let other voices define you… — Katie Couric Copy Share Image
It is a good idea to become involved with sports and athletics. It makes you strong. You need to be strong to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
For decades, we've been trying to cook up the building blocks of life, in the lab, and recreate the origins of it… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When generally people make race-based jokes to me - even if they're not technically racist, they're sort of based on me being… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
I've learned what Trump has taught - we need to put our best foot forward and don't let anybody block us from… — LaToya Jackson Copy Share Image
Americans have an extraordinary love-hate relationship with the rich culture they've created. They buy, watch and read it even as they ban,… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
The danger always exists that our technology will serve as a buffer between us and nature, a block between us and the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Domingue (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
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The power of mistakes enables us to reframe creative blocks and turn them around...The troublesome parts of our work, the parts that… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
New York is so serious about the creation of work. Everything is happening so fast, it feels like there's another studio, another… — Diplo Copy Share Image
The biggest road block to action on genocide and other human rights crimes is ignorance. Most people just don't know that such… — John Prendergast Copy Share Image
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The matter is - we are actors playing roles [in Planet Apes] and they happen to be in this instance apes but… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
I’ve never had a writer’s block, but still I think: Is it going to happen this time? You never know what you’re… — Elton John Copy Share Image
All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily. Plumbers don't get plumber's… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
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I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
I don't let myself believe in writer's block. I feel very strongly writing is habit as much as an art or a… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
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There was no more grass, no flowers, not even any moss: dusty granite blocks covered the ice and an occasional grinding groan… — Chris Bonington Copy Share Image