Block Quotes

• I understand how you could see something in the root of a tree, a crack in the wall, in an eroded stone or pebble. But marble? It comes off in blocks and doesn't evoke any image. It does not inspire.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Wall
  • Tree
  • Roots

• I've only suffered writer's block badly once, and that was during the writing of Chamber of Secrets. I had my first burst of publicity about the first book and it paralysed me. I was scared the second book wouldn't measure up, but I got through it!

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Book

• If you're hungry, God is feeding. You know, if you're listening; He is speaking. And I think sometimes trouble and intense hardship can make us - it made me at times, you know, block our ears, shut our eyes, it's like too much. But actually He's speaking, He's encouraging us, He's loving us all the time.

  

  Darlene Zschech
  • Thinking
  • Listening
  • Hardship

• New Kids on the Block are on season two [Full House ], so that was just a huge lifelong dream come true. Joey McIntyre is great. He is a real actor too; he is just not a famous boy-band musician.

  

  Andrea Barber
  • Great
  • Real
  • Kids

• My blood G cold, never seen my dad cry. And I'm a bleed your block til the cash dry!

  

  Vincenzo Luvineri Army of the Pharaohs
  • Dad
  • Cold
  • Cry

• Successful people see adversity as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block.

  

  Shawn Achor
  • Successful
  • Adversity
  • Stumbling

• Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time - if not of my block - being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Time
  • Women
  • Printed

• Suddenly she felt strong and happy. She was not afraid of the darkness or the fog and she knew with a singing in her heart that she would never fear them again. No matter what mists might curl around her in the future, she knew her refuge. She started briskly up the street toward home and the blocks seemed very long. Far, far too long. She caught up her skirts to her knees and began to run lightly. But this time she was not running from fear. She was running because Rhett's arms were at the end of the street.

  

  Margaret Mitchell
  • Strong
  • Running
  • Block

• Turn your stumbling blocks into steppingstones to success.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Success
  • Turns
  • Stumbling

• LEGO has essentially taken the concrete block, the building block of the world, and made it into the building block of our imagination.

  

  Ayah Bdeir
  • Imagination
  • Block
  • Lego

• Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion. I repeat: Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Pride
  • Block
  • Zion

• I've learned... That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Children
  • Father
  • Simple

• I often tell people to stop being afraid of writing bad poetry, or bad anything. I think that a lot of times, when people claim that they have writer's block, or that they get stuck, it's just because they're scared of writing bad things.

  

  Sarah Kay
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn't?

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • People
  • Good
  • May

• When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.

  

  Robert Rodriguez Chingon
  • World
  • School
  • Home

• Writer's block to me is where you stop because you're afraid to go forward because you're not sure of what really should be happening next and you think, my gosh, if I choose this... you've got a hundred millions of avenues you could possibly go down but it's all an assess of characters.

  

  Homer Hickam
  • Character
  • Should
  • Next

• Here’s the million-dollar question: how are you going to write this book if you’re afraid to start writing? Give your friend Doubt a name, and then block his calls.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Question

• The Brigham Young University (BYU) campus was just a few blocks from my home and tuition was minimal.

  

  Paul D. Boyer
  • Home
  • Campus
  • Tuition

• But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable, walking through this life half-sleeping, everything at arm's length or farther away. I understood those mermaids. I didn't care if they sang to me. All I wanted was to block out all the human voices as they called me name again and again, pulling me upward into light, to drown.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Sleep
  • Care
  • Walking

• Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.

  

  Annie Dillard
  • Aim
  • Block
  • Wood

• If you can't fall asleep, learn how to meditate. I would recommend you listen to a beautiful tape called Spiritual Power, Spiritual Practice Energy Evaluation Meditations For Morning and Evening, 1998. It was the one that got me out of my writer's block when I was writing Caramelo. It's by Carolyn Myss.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Writing
  • Beautiful
  • Fall

• The ego's blocking the light from coming.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Light
  • Ego
  • Block

• Having lived long enough to go at least once or twice around the block, I'm noticing that the strangeness is not receding The strangeness seems to be accelerating.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Enough
  • Seems
  • Noticing

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

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Eye
  • Color
  • Ignorance

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