Block Quotes

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.

Any time you do physical stuff, violence, it is controlled. It's a little bit like you block the move.

I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.

'The Sopranos,' for instance, is arguably the best cable show of all time. They could have made a movie, but that show ended so perfectly, it would almost be a disadvantage to make a movie like that. Then again, if you made a 'Sopranos' movie, people would be lined around the block to go see it.

It's impossible to walk a block in Miami, in Los Angeles, San Antonio without running into someone who is being deeply impacted by a broken legal immigration system.

Many later commented on the fact that large numbers of those engaged in the most senseless acts of destruction were left well alone by cops, indeed people dressed as Black Block members were seen freely making their way across police lines and talking to cops.

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

I was a good surfer because we grew up a block from the water, and my father took us to the ocean the way other fathers take their kids to the park.

I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't been a problem.

AT&T will not block access to the public Internet or degrade service, period.

But at some point, we've got to have disciplined play and have got to coach better. I'm not putting it on the players. We've got to coach them to tackle and block better. It's as simple as that. If we can do those things, we'll have a chance.

My God is a God who wants me to have things. He wants me to bling. He wants me to be the hottest thing on the block.

Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we're the biggest weirdos on the block.

The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.

If they're in cell block 1A or 1B, these prisoners - they're murderers, they're terrorists, they're insurgents. Many of them probably have American blood on their hands. And here we're so concerned about the treatment of those individuals.

When I was fighting communism, there was rapid development of satellite television and cell phones, and communism, to survive, would have to block all these information devices.

Our centers spread the floor, shoot the three and block shots. We can play pick and pop.

Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.

A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

And opposite the bench, the dock, divided by a partition, with the women to the left and the men to the right, as it is on the stairs or the block in polite society.

The government has convinced parents that at some point it's no longer their responsibility. And in fact, they force them, in many respects, to turn their children over to the public education system and wrest control from them and block them out of participation of that. That has to change or education will not improve in this country.

At the end of the competition, I played the Liszt concerto and I felt my head was on the block. Well, I won.

I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper, didn't it always manage to fix itself the night before the paper was due? Writer's block is having too much time on your hands.

We're strongly in favor of the U.N. plan for a solution to the Cyprus conflict. Hopefully a solution can be found before the end of this summit, but we cannot and will not let it block our decisions on enlargement.

Where I come from, the block become your daddy.