Top 375 Block Quotes

Every single year I was on the block – could be cut, could be released.

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 best narcissists can block things out and act like nothing ever happened to just keep going.

For me, it’s never really been a road block for me to shoot, it’s just a matter of me continuing to shoot and shooting with confidence.

In the past years, I got in a lot of foul trouble because I was out of position, or because I was just too aggressive. I was trying to block too many shots. It’s really just learning when to take a chance at blocking shots, and to get to spots early.

It’s tough being a dictator, but I’ve always thought it must be tougher being a hanger-on to a dictator. The late nights spent listening to his crazed ranting, the weary rictus grin from smiling at bad jokes, the draining knowledge that one misjudged comment could land you on the chopping block.

I grew up on the South Side of Chicago, north Beverly. It was cool, everybody’s cool on the block.

I think you can develop your ability to be clutch, if that’s the word that you will use, your ability to focus and to be able to block out all the external stuff.

We were poor, yea, but I can’t say there was anything terrible about my youth. It was a Manhattan kind of life. There were lots of kids on the block, and we played in the back lots. We invented games and skated and played ball.

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

‘Shun security,’ I advise aspiring novelists when they complain to me that they are stuck. ‘Get disoriented. Maybe your agonizing writing block isn’t agonizing enough. Your enemy is comfort.’

To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.

I felt like I had a really bad case of writer’s block… Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can’t get it out, I start feeling bad about myself – a lot of self-loathing.

In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn’t unhappiness or even depression, it’s anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.

As kickers, it’s all about being able to block out the crowd noise, being able to block out certain aspects of the game, and just do your job no matter what the circumstances are.

There is one person who can help solve ‘writer’s block’. His name is Mr. Johnnie Walker.

My style is difficult to contain in a sentence; it’s ever evolving. Generally I’m drawn to clean cuts and avoid patterns. I tend to choose structure and block colors, but these are all just loose guidelines.

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.

When you’re running next to a guy who’s about to lay it up in transition, you just get out of the way because you know Giannis is coming to block it.

Never tackle, never go down, we’ve heard it over and over again. You have to try to keep Messi away from the goal and block him with multiple players while being as close to him as possible. He is too quick, too fast, too intense with the ball.

In my day, in my era, Ralph McDaniels, just being five and being at his block party, you could just got onstage.

It’s awesome to be running down the field, and your brother is next to you. We get to block together sometimes, and it’s fun to put a guy on his back together.

Television? It’s a gateway to writer’s block, isn’t it?

Writer’s block is your self-critic getting in the way, because creativity will just flow otherwise.

Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is completely nonsensical from a policy standpoint.

In Russia, they do not generally block the Internet and directly censor websites.

If there’s anything that offends me, especially if it’s towards my family, I just block them. I don’t accept that. I don’t get upset because I like to focus on the positive.

I did hidden-camera shows. I’ve been around the block a few times.

I can do it all, and I want to do it all. Put me on special teams. Ask me to block. Hand off. Catching passes.

I’m too busy to block everyone on Twitter.

We don’t need to block people down and get flagrants.

With pregnancy and nursing, the hormones mean your skin tends to be more sensitive to the light, so it’s very important to use sun block every day.

I spend days with writers’ block. It is a problem.

Christian music was such a huge foundation for me, even as a kid, and I grew to love Christian music not only because of the musicianship, which I thought was extraordinary, but because of the message in it. It was such a huge building block of who I was and who I would become.

Professionals don’t get writer’s block. I can always come up with the punch line.

I don’t get a lot of writer’s block, because it’s all based on research. I just start looking through my notes, and I can write garbage for days – I mean, some of it ends up being good.

We can put fear of the future in front of us to block us, or behind us to drive us forward. I feel like telling all the people who look like me to start trying to write. You don’t know it’s possible because it’s not often in front of you.

You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness.

Stress and worry, they solve nothing. What they do is block creativity. You are not even able to think about the solutions. Every problem has a solution.

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 going to get; you just put your fingers on the keys and hope.

I like ‘Brawl in Cell Block 99.’ I think Vince Vaughn is incredible and I’ve never seen Don Johnson like that. It is very realistic. Some people say it is a horror film. It is not a horror film at all. It is very realistic.

We’re a competitive family – we compete in everything we do: playing cards; if we’re walking down the street, we want to be the first one down the block.

I have an ear monitor to block outside noise when I’m performing. It makes it easier. But sometimes I like to take the ear monitor off and listen to the craziness going on.

When I was young, I thought it was normal to go to sleep to the sounds of sirens. People on my block were in the biggest gang in the city. They were my close friends – they showed me the ropes, who to watch out for.

Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.

In 2003, I introduced and passed The Tornado Shelters Act, which allows local governments to use Community Development Block Grant funds to construct storm shelters in manufactured housing communities.

Large fish such as tuna are shown already cut into fillets and bought by the block. Fillets should be almost transparent. Avoid tuna that looks rainbow-colored or black.

I see a really good tag on a building, a man passed out in the middle of the street, a couple hugging, a cop arresting a panhandler. I’m interested in how all these things are happening in one block.

I really want to help people because it seems to be there’s this mental block and people think in order to lose weight you have to give up things in your life that are good – and that just isn’t true. They feel like they’ve got to turn themselves into a monk.

If one of my colleagues wants to block a bill, they should stand up in front of the American people and explain why.

My main goal is to help the team as much as possible anyway I can. If they need me to shoot the three, I’ll shoot the three. If they need me to run the floor and block shots, I’ll do that also.

Perhaps one day we’ll be able to identify and block not just scams but the scammers themselves – before they even target their first victim.

Look at the New Kids on the Block, the Back Street Boys and *NSYNC… all those boy bands happened because of New Edition.

Being quick off the ground helps you block shots.

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.

We need to block dirty diesels getting public money – no question there.

There are a lot of people who give you the message that maybe you are not good enough, and the best thing you can do for yourself is to block out all of that noise.

My grandmother, Betty Bertha Bright, lived in the Armenian block in Kolkata. After ’36 Chowringhee Lane,’ we haven’t seen that part of the city in films.

I go back to things all the time. It’s really nice, too, like when I’m going through some kind of a writer’s block, and I’m feeling uninspired, I go to some of my oldest songs from over the years and sift through them, and one thing that’s very nice is to see how I’ve grown up a little bit. A little bit.