Block Quotes
1192 quotes by 1012 authors
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The soybean itself is a notably inauspicious staple food; it contains a whole assortment of "antinutrients" - compounds that actually block the body's absorption of…
— Michael Pollan
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I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people if they are sorry for…
— Agatha Christie
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I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when they don't, they…
— Anthony Kiedis
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She wasn't feeling nothing. She was feeling too much. She was blocking it all out. That was a survival skill, and her still-beating heart was…
— Rachel Vincent
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It is this kindness of his that unsettles me most. I can dodge a blow or block a knife. I am impervious to poison and…
— R.L. LaFevers
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He beat back the Greeks and reclaimed Rome for our people. Indeed, he was the one who destroyed the Macedonian threat and who single-handedly annihilated…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!
— Tennessee Williams
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How can you stand touching her?†my sister blurted, staring at our clasped hands. “Doesn’t that hurt?†I seized on the change of topic. “These…
— Jeaniene Frost
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Writer's block — so what? Write something bad. Just throw it in the trash can when you're done, you're always improving. That kind of writing…
— N.D. Wilson
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Only teenagers think boring is bad. Adults, grown men and women who've been around the block a few times, know that boring is a gift…
— Tana French
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A block of blood should not have the word "cake" after it...they might as well say "shite gateau
— Karl Pilkington
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Mama, I know you used to ride the bus. Riding the bus and it’s hot and bumpy and crowded and too noisy and more than…
— Marsha Norman
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They were now both ready, not to begin from scratch, but to continue with a love that had survived for thirteen years in hibernation. They…
— Guillaume Musso
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He had the feeling that there was something physically behind his eyes, blocking the light.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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I too saw the wooden horse blocking the stars.
— Derek Walcott
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If clouds are blocking the sun, there will always be a silver lining that reminds me to keep on trying.
— Matthew Quick
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The only reason any person does not have enough money is because they are blocking money from coming to them with their thoughts.
— Rhonda Byrne
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When you discard arrogance, complexity, and a few other things that get in the way, sooner or later you will discover that simple, childlike, and…
— Benjamin Hoff
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Tried to escape, to block out the fact that I was being eaten alive by arachnids. For some reason the only thing I could replace…
— David Wong
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Writer’s block is my unconscious mind telling me that something I’ve just written is either unbelievable or unimportant to me, and I solve it by…
— Orson Scott Card
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