Block Quotes

But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.
Ed Bradley

Fun, Said, Else

Charles Haley changed the way the Cowboys played football in the 90s. And the reason why I say that is because he was such a dominant force coming off the edge, where it took two and three to block him.
Emmitt Smith

Football, Him, Two

At the end of the block where I used to live in Coconut Grove in Miami, there's a swampy area, a no-name alcove with a little mangrove estuary. It's beautiful.
Karen Russell

Beautiful, Live, End

Mr. Speaker, we have reached a point in history where some have forgotten that it is the family, not the government, that is the fundamental building block of our society.
Jim Ryun

Family, History, Government

When you play guard, you're not going to block a lot of shots. Inside, you're going to block shots.
Oscar Robertson

Play, Inside, Guard

In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that's ok.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

Different, Same, Sense

The president deserves someone who can block for his policies.
Judd Gregg

Someone, President, Deserves

Spreadable butter is wonderful for cake-making: it's much easier to cream than the block type and slightly lighter because it's blended with oil.
Jane Asher

Wonderful, Oil, Butter

Now that the there is a path for the people of Puerto Rico to express their self-determination on Puerto Rico's political status, there are some who seek to block that path.
Dick Thornburgh

Political, Path, Express

Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time.
Lukas Foss

Work, Time, Nothing

Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.
Peter Diamandis

True, Thinking, Innovation

I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case.
Floyd Abrams

War, Government, Important

The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.
Floyd Abrams

Government, Respect, Bad

Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm.
Carlo Collodi

Time, Fire, Put

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

Street, Skyscraper, Creates

Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth.
Jeremy Paxman

Truth, Thought, Off

There is a real hunger for information about Obama and a sense that information is not being covered or, in some cases, even being withheld. There is a sense that there are elements of the media that are protective of Obama, that they would rather block a story that is embarassing about Obama than let the American public decide.
Dinesh D'Souza

Real, Sense, American

I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.
Randy Newman

Remember, Writer, Four

If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two blocks-but never three.
Robert Motherwell

Time, Two, Find

You need to see what the actor needs. This one wants to be talked to privately. That one doesn't mind if you block it for them. Just tell me the truth and I'll adapt to it.
Penny Marshall

Truth, Mind, Tell

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

Time, Violence, Stuff

The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Today, Greatest, Woman

I was trying to spend it as quickly as possible. Because I'm so lazy, all that money created a block. I was flying around the world, staying at fancy hotels, having fun and trying to get rid of it as quickly as possible, so I could get on with some more work.
Evan Dando

Work, Money, Fun

I'm very boring, really: I live on the Upper East Side, a block from the park. I have three kids. I go for a jog around the park every day with my dog.
Colum McCann

Live, Boring, Around

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

Couple, Biggest, Grave

I don't story board. I do something else, which is, I block it. We then train to the blocking. In other words, when everybody's training, they're actually training a lot of the moves that we are definitely going to use, and then, I do a lot of photography of that, and that becomes where the cameras go.
Michael Mann

Words, Training, Else

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.
Fred Saberhagen

Writing, Problem, Far

There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.
Zoe Lister-Jones

Kids, Shame, Concert

In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.
Tim Bishop

Age, Time, Science

But as you say, the fundamental stumbling block is the question of the future of the economy. And it's not just the sort of economic laboratory question, of what kind of system would best generate growth, which is the way it's presented.
Joe Slovo

Best, Future, Question

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