Block Quotes

1192 quotes by 1012 authors

Love could never bloom in a concrete block room. — Janet Fitch
I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real, to see day lilies and swimming pools, loyalty… — Alice Hoffman
And yet every so often, the heart of America, shuddering with indignation, sends a nervous spasm through the gentle back of the Andes, and tumultuous… — Che Guevara
Well, anyway, her death changed our lives for the better, because it brought a kind of awareness, a specific sense of purpose and appreciation we… — Elizabeth Berg
I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that… — Mario Puzo
Home. Home was BAMA, the Sprawl, the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis. Program a map to display frequency of data exchange, every thousand megabytes a single pixel… — William Gibson
Are you ready? I'm three blocks past ready. Pardon? Skip it. — Timothy Zahn
He felt full of a dense and sour substance that was blocking his chest, and it wasn't grief. After all those years, life now seemed… — Etgar Keret
I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night… — Khaled Hosseini
Through my blue fingers, pink grains are falling, haphazard, random, a disorganized stream of silicone that seems pregnant with the possibility of every conceivable shapeâ€¦… — Alan Moore
We are walking down the street holding hands. There is a playground at the end of the block, and I run to the swings and… — Audrey Niffenegger
Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn't merely that of a pygmy blocking… — Novalis
The public loves to create a hero....Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like… — Grace Metalious
Mad Eye' Moody on the Avada Kedavra curse: "Not nice," he said calmly. "Not pleasant. And there's no counter curse. There's no blocking it. Only… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes. — Jacques Barzun
I paused for a light at Hamilton and TWlfth and noticed the Nissan was running rough at idle. Two blocks later it backfired and stalled.… — Janet Evanovich
Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July. — Arthur Miller
Caring about someone isn't complicated. It isn't easy. But it isn't complicated, either. Kinda like lifting the engine block out of a car. — Jim Butcher
If your Soviet neighbor is trying to set fire to your house, you can't be worrying about the Arab down the block. If suddenly it's… — Max Brooks

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