Block Quotes

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.

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.

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 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.

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

I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.

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.

In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views.

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.

I'm not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.

In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain.

The current administration has made the decision to cut dollars going for community development block grants, for various incentives to bring cities back.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.

The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.

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.