H R H R Block Quotes

#1. Memory is subject to a filtering process that we don't always recognize and can't always control. We remember what we can bear and we block what we cannot.

Sue Grafton

#2. Apple has never allowed ad-blocking software on the iPhone or iPad. This is one among many reasons that I ditched both. Not because I hate ads all that passionately, but because it's an example of the obsessive corporate control Apple maintains over its environment.

Kevin Drum

#3. How about that McDonald's two blocks from Ground Zero? That's killed more people than the 19 hijackers.

Michael Moore

#4. block three times in search of a suitable parking space. We got there, and almost before I had closed the door behind him he said all the work was terrible. I

Jojo Moyes

#5. The teacher has nothing to do with people who use their mental powers to block the enlightenment of others. These people lack control. What can you teach someone who lacks control?

Frederick Lenz

#6. Marriage is all about knowing the ins and outs and the intimate details, and your wife is supposed to be the person you know best. But my brother and I think alike, know everything about one another, and when we get together, we block everything else out. Nothing exists in our world except for us.

Jon Heder

#7. One must avoid getting stuck in the negative memories because these can block personal growth.

Hina Hashmi

#8. A world where players have enough power to block everyone else's initiatives but no one has the power to impose its preferred course of action is a world where decisions are not taken, taken too late, or watered down to the point of ineffectiveness. Without

Moises Naim

#9. 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.

David Gries

#10. You are so intense. Like a storm. It's shocking how intense you are.

Francesca Lia Block

#11. Questions draw us together. Answers push us apart.

Peter Block

#12. One the next corner stood a cinder block restaurant with a hand-painted sign that read CHICKEN & WAFFLES. There was a queue of twenty people outside.
You Americans have the strangest taste. What planet is this?

Rick Riordan

#13. Well, you live and you learn, and generally in that order. I

Lawrence Block

#14. I am very proud of the role I played in getting legal equality for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and in helping get rid of the prejudice by being visible about it, helping to block the conviction of Bill Clinton of impeachment.

Barney Frank

#15. I haven't written in a week. It's like holding your breath under water. You feel an awful constriction and then the instinct to propel yourself.

D.A. Botta

#16. Ones vision is not a road map but a compass.

Peter Block

#17. I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted.

Francois Mauriac

#18. If Kyle Korver blocks your shot there should be a penalty box you should go to!

Jeff Van Gundy

#19. Confront the page that taunts you with its whiteness. Face your enemy and fill it with words. You are bigger and stronger than a piece of paper.

Fennel Hudson

#20. DeLois lived up the block on 142nd Street and never had her hair done, and all the neighbourhood women sucked their teeth as she walked by. Her crispy hair twinkled in the summer sun as her big proud stomach moved her on down the block while I watched, not caring whether or not she was a poem.

Audre Lorde

#21. Laziness is the one common deficiency in mankind that blocks the establishment of a perfect world in which everyone leads a happy life.

William Feather

#22. I was here, and I loaded a shotgun on Independence Day, but I didn't kill anybody. I didn't drone any children. I didn't steal any children's future. I didn't sell this country into debt. I didn't do any of the crimes that the man two blocks over at the White House is responsible for,

Adam Kokesh

#23. Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.

Vernon Howard

#24. Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.

Steve Martin

#25. I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.

Tom Hooper

#26. Sylvie wishes the anti-depressants had been around when she was in her early twenties, not only to rescue her from the dark tunnels that came when her brother first got sick, but also to keep her from fucking all those assholes.

Francesca Lia Block

#27. Writing is a sickness only cured by writing.

Niall Williams

#28. Because they have shamefully trampled underfoot the grace of God, they have forfeited all rights to compassion.

Daniel I. Block

#29. Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success.

Ted Sundquist

#30. This assignment could damn well project all the words across my face and the ink stain my hands a gory mess before I finished it.

Jazz Feylynn