Top 100 Bloch Quotes
#1. He [Bloch] was one of those touchy, highly-strung people who cannot bear to have made a blunder, will not admit it to themselves, and whose whole day is ruined by it.
Marcel Proust
#2. Marc Bloch was born in 1886, fought in World War I,
Clive James
#3. Which drew from Bloch nothing more instructive than "Sir, I am absolutely incapable of telling you whether it has rained. I live so resolutely apart from physical contingencies that my senses no longer trouble to inform me of them." "My
Marcel Proust
#4. I know there was nothing anyone could do. But they were taking away an 86-year-old grandmother to a horrible death, and the village where she had lived all her life, where everybody loved her, had just looked on. The only thing that anyone had had to say was, 'Mrs. Bloch, don't be afraid ...
Heda Margolius Kovaly
#6. If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important.
Arthur Bloch
#7. Thanking you once more, I want to wish you the best of luck for your future life and to conclude by saying to you: Dream your dreams and may they come true!
Felix Bloch
#8. She was afrad of him, now. Yes, she must be. Because not once, all through this, had she called him "son".
Robert Bloch
#9. The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules - the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.
Arthur Bloch
#10. I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.
Felix Bloch
#12. Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to youth; and with your permission I shall consider you as representing here not only the academic youth of Sweden nor even of Europe but also of America.
Felix Bloch
#13. I think perhaps all of us go a little crazy at times.
Robert Bloch
#14. Truth is like fire; to tell the truth means to glow and burn.
Gustav Klimt
#16. Besides, that thing was waiting for him. Waiting for him -
Robert Bloch
#17. And then, as he ripped back the shower curtains and stared down at the hacked and twisted thing sprawled on the floor of the stall, he realized that Mother had used her keys.
Robert Bloch
#19. Once you began speculation about that, once you admited to yourself that you didn't really know how another person's mind operated, then you came up against the ultimate admission - anything was possible.
Robert Bloch
#20. It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
Felix Bloch
#21. A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do.
Arthur Bloch
#22. Lila closed her mouth, but the scream continued. It was the insane scream of an hysterical woman, and it came from the throat of Norman Bates.
Robert Bloch
#23. I haven't had this much fun since the rats ate my baby sister
Robert Bloch
#24. The car was in the swamp. And the hamper was in the trunk. And the body was in the hamper. The twisted torso and the bloody head. But he couldn't think about that. He mustn't. There were other things to do.
Robert Bloch
#25. Man is that which has still much before it. He is repeatedly transformed in his work and by it. [...] The authentic in man and in the world is potential, waiting, living in fear of being frustrated, living in hope of succeeding.
Ernst Bloch
#26. Forget the pat, let the dead burry the dead.
Robert Bloch
#27. We're all not quite as sane as we pretend to be.
Robert Bloch
#28. HLADE'S LAW:
If you have a difficult task give it to a lazy man - he will find an easier way to do it.
Arthur Bloch
#29. In not making the decision, you've made one. Not doing something is the same as doing it.
Iwan Bloch
#30. Builder pattern is more verbose than the telescoping constructor pattern, so it should be used only if there are enough parameters, say, four or more.
Joshua Bloch
#31. A man without religion is like a fish without a bicycle.
Arthur Bloch
#32. Yes, Norman, I suppose you're right. That's where I'd probably be. But I wouldn't be there alone." Norman slammed the door, locked it, and turned away. He wasn't quite sure, but as he ran up the cellar steps he thought he could still hear her chuckling gently in the dark.
Robert Bloch
#33. And Ricardo has no interest in the war coming to a rapid end. He is making a fortune out of it. So long as it continues and Portuguese neutrality is maintained, he will become one of the richest men in Europe.
Michael Bloch
#34. The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.
Arthur Bloch
#35. It is hard to write even the smallest piece of code correctly.
Joshua Bloch
#36. It's all right", he said, wondering at the same time why there were no better words, why there never are any better words to answer fear and grief and loneliness. "It's all right, believe me.
Robert Bloch
#37. That was still my meat - the true-detective yarn. I picked it up and started to read it over, wondering for the ten thousandth time why so many people are interested in crime and its solution.
Robert Bloch
#38. Sure God created man before woman, but then again you always make a rough draft before creating the final masterpiece.
Robert Bloch
#39. Evil exists everywhere. Sometimes I think our limited senses are designed to protect us from awareness of its presence. We trust them to provide us with knowledge but it may be that they block out realization of horrors we cannot bear.
Robert Bloch
#41. Learning the art of programming, like most other disciplines, consists of first learning the rules and then learning when to break them.
Joshua Bloch
#42. When you choose a language, you're choosing more than a set of technical trade-offs-you're choosing a community.
Joshua Bloch
#43. Dunn's Law:
Careful planning is no substitute for dumb luck.
Arthur Bloch
#44. He managed to retain a cheerful smile at all times - though, in the dreams, he screamed.
Robert Bloch
#45. The ABC of our profession is to avoid these large abstract terms in order to try to discover behind them the only concrete realities, which are human beings.
Marc Bloch
#46. Women with bare arms are not allowed into church, but they let naked Jews dig their own graves.
Ernst Bloch
#47. The very names we use to describe ancient ideas or vanished forms of social organization would be quite meaningless if we had not known living men.
Marc Bloch
#48. Strange how everyone tried to disguise truth with nonsense. Like the slang for death: kicking the bucket, wiped out, snuffed, wasted, blown away. The light touch to dispel the heavy fear.
Robert Bloch
#49. The most tragic form of loss isn't the loss of security; it's the loss of the capacity to imagine that things could be different.
Ernst Bloch
#50. Any given program will expand to fill all available memory.
Arthur Bloch
#51. Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.
Marc Bloch
#52. People who can least afford to pay rent, pay rent. People who can most afford to pay rent, build up equity.
Arthur Bloch
#53. So I had this problem
work or starve. So I thought I'd combine the two and decided to become a writer.
Robert Bloch
#54. The thought came creeping, just as the numbness came creeping, stealing over his senses, softly, smoothly, there in the silken silence.
Robert Bloch
#55. Norman stirred, turned, and then fell into a darkness deeper and more engulfing than the swamp.
Robert Bloch
#56. If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.
Arthur Bloch
#57. There is a tremendous power in positive thinking. When you expect the best, you literally create a thought field that magnetizes that which you desire. Like attracts like.
Douglas Bloch
#58. Mothers sometimes are overly possessive, but not all children allow themselves to be possessed.
Robert Bloch
#59. Abundance is the natural state of the universe
of this there can be
no doubt. Just as the number of stars in the heavens or drops of water in the ocean is beyond counting, so are the spiritual and material blessings that have been prepared for us.
Douglas Bloch
#60. The sun surrendered its splendor - why, it was like poetry; he was a poet; Norman smiled. He was many things. If they only knew - - But
Robert Bloch
#61. But first he was going to take a drink, a big drink, because he needed one. And it didn't matter whether he drank or not, nothing mattered now; it was all over. All over, or just beginning.
Robert Bloch
#62. But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.
Marc Bloch
#63. The cleaner and nicer the program, the faster it's going to run. And if it doesn't, it'll be easy to make it fast.
Joshua Bloch
#64. Norman Bates heard the noise and a shock went through him.
Robert Bloch
#66. Premature optimization is the root of all evil. - Donald E. Knuth [
Joshua Bloch
#67. Their smiles were cracking. Glass is brittle.
Robert Bloch
#68. A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely beautiful when her lips are closed.
Robert Bloch
#69. One advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they have names.
Joshua Bloch
#70. The light shone down on his plump face, reflected from his rimless glasses, bathed the pinkness of his scalp beneath the thinning sandy hair as he bent his head to resume reading.
Robert Bloch
#71. In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.
Felix Bloch
#73. The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.
Marc Bloch
#74. The room was plainly but adequately furnished; she noted the shower stall in the bathroom beyond. Actually, she would have preferred a tub, but this would do.
Robert Bloch
#75. Talk about not knowing other people - why, when you came right down to it, you didn't even know yourself!
Robert Bloch
#76. A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.
Arthur Bloch
#77. That's the way girls were
they always laughed. Because they were bitches.
Robert Bloch
#78. We like to test things ... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.
Henry W. Bloch
#79. I know why you didn't bother to switch on the sign. I know why you haven't even gone up to open the office tonight. You didn't really forget. It's just that you don't want anyone to come, you hope they don't come." "All
Robert Bloch
#80. Nature's message was always there and for us to see. It was written on the wings of butterflies.
Kjell Bloch Sandved
#81. The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on.
Robert Bloch
#82. But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity.
Felix Bloch
#83. First Rule of Acting: Whatever happens, look as if it were intended.
Arthur Bloch
#84. The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.
Marc Bloch
#85. When working on a project, if you put away a tool that you're certain you're finished with, you will need it instantly.
Arthur Bloch
#86. But meanwhile he had to do something about the way his heart pounded.
Robert Bloch
#87. The biggest mistake you can make is thinking you know who you are.
J.P. Bloch
#88. The lesson is clear: As impractical as it may sound, the safest and most secure way to lead your life is to follow your dream.
Douglas Bloch
#89. Mother would be in real trouble right now.
Robert Bloch
#90. A week ago, Norman would never have dared. But this wasn't a week ago, it was now, and things were different. It was now, and he had to face the truth.
Robert Bloch
#91. If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.
Arthur Bloch
#92. What kind of a hick town is this, anyway?" she murmured. "A bank is held up and the sheriff is in church. What's he doing, praying that somebody will catch the robbers for him?
Robert Bloch
#93. It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities of life.
Felix Bloch
#94. Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.
Arthur Bloch
#95. Because I hold an Israeli passport, I have a share in all the wrongs that are done to the Palestinians ... I want to be able to say that I did all I could to prevent the bloodshed.
Chana Bloch
#96. There's nothing to this telepathy business. It's all in the mind.
Robert Bloch
#97. No trouble at all. Mother's gone back to bed, and she won't be doing any cooking - I was only going to set out some cold cuts and make some coffee. If that's all right with you." "Well -
Robert Bloch
#98. Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.
Robert Bloch
#99. A conclusion is the place where you get tired of thinking.
Arthur Bloch
#100. Forget the past, let the dead bury the dead. Things were working out fine, and that was the only thing he had to remember.
Robert Bloch
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