Block Quotes - Page 39

A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.

Stressing and obsessing over your vision blocks it.

Stress is actually the number one thing that blocks people from their happiness and well-being and from getting what they want.

People will try to block you. Some will do it just for pure hostility. But most others are just afraid of themselves.

Because we are living in a culture increasingly dominated by fear where many feel blocked.

Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.

The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.

I am weary seeing our laboring classes so wretchedly housed, fed, and clothed, while thousands of dollars are wasted every year over unsightly statues. If these great man must have outdoor memorials, let them be in the form of handsome blocks of buildings for the poor

Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.

The actual work of recording a record or making a film just requires that you consciously block the time out to do that and nothing else. That's what I do.

I remember hating New Kids on the Block from the sidelines because all of the girls loved them. They would just fawn over them. Oh my gosh, Joey I love you! When I was younger, I really couldnt stand them.

Una's face was an unbroken block of calculation, saving where, upon her upper lip, a little down of hair fluttered. Yet it gave one an uncanny feeling. It made one think of a tassel on a hammer.

I too saw the wooden horse blocking the stars.

A closed mouth gathers no foot. A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking. A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.

It's very dangerous to pretend to be open-minded when you're the exact opposite. I think feminists are only making it worse by blocking out all other viewpoints but their own, only reading their own propaganda and only associating with each other.

To people who make moving ads that block the view of websites: Not only will we not buy from you, but we want shrews to eat your liver.

I don't hate anyone. I simply block them out using hellish visions in a blind white rage. But if I see them out I'm pleasant.

If you've ever sang in falsetto, you know that your throat is between your voice and your mouth. In a standard voice, you sing from your belly. And when you sing in a falsetto, you're blocking that. It gives it a filter. It gives it a character. It's less revealing.

I know I have to do the right thing. And the sooner you do the right thing, the better. You get it over with, and you don't have to worry about it anymore. But who does that in real life? Instead, you procrastinate and think about it and put it off and think about it some more until that one little pebble grows into a giant block inside your head.

A Queen track has those big, thick, block harmonies.

So much of the way a singer physically damages their voice could be caused by stress or nerves. I would never be so brazen as to assume that it's the only problem but there's got to be a reason that a martial artist can harness enough peace to smash his head through a cinder block without leaving a scratch.

Come Senators, Congressman, please heed the call, don't stand in the doorway, don't block the hall.

That's our mission: to clean and green New York City - one block at a time.

The boarded-up homes, the decaying storefronts, the aging church rolls, kids from unknown families who swaggered down the streets - loud congregations of teenage boys, teenage girls feeding potato chips to crying toddlers, the discarded wrappers tumbling down the block - all of it whispered painful truths.

You try to become the character that you're working with. So for me, I try to block out the cameras and try to trick my mind that this is actually happening.