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Image of Jeffrey Eugenides
He had the feeling that there was something physically behind his eyes, blocking the light.
- Jeffrey Eugenides
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Image of Kofi Annan
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development, an essential complement to investments in roads, dams, clinics and factories.
- Kofi Annan
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Image of Janet Evanovich
Ranger picked up and there was a moment of silence as if he was sensing me at the other end, taking my body temperature and heart rate long distance. “Babe,” he finally said. “Do you know the slum apartment building Bobby Sunflower owns on Stark?” “Yes. It’s on the same block as his funeral home.” “That’s the one. I’m going in to look for someone. If you don’t hear from me in a half hour maybe you could send someone to check.” “Is this a smart thing to do?” “Probably not.” “As long as you know,” Ranger said. And he disconnected.
- Janet Evanovich
Collection: Block
Image of Wayne Dyer
A woman asked me recently, "What are the blocks to my happiness?" I said, "The belief that you have blocks."
- Wayne Dyer
Collection: Block
Image of David Duke
The official keepers of the Holocaust wage an international campaign to silence the disturbing questions. Most people never even hear the revisionist position because Jewish forces dominate the media and block mainstream access to material that questions Holocaust orthodoxy.
- David Duke
Collection: Block
Image of T. B. Joshua
If God has called you, the more they block your way, the more that trouble and temptation, the more God's love is provoked. Each attempt to stop you asks for more evidence from God.
- T. B. Joshua
Collection: Block
Image of John de Ruiter
Well-being is like water moving down hill. When you block the water, the water turns into a reservoir, reservoir of well-being instead of a flow of well-being. To well-being it doesn’t make a difference.
- John de Ruiter
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Image of Frederick Lenz
It is a tremendous waste of energy to try to block anyone else. That same energy could be applied to furthering your own success.
- Frederick Lenz
Collection: Block
Image of F. Scott Fitzgerald
An unread book is just a block of paper.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Collection: Block
Image of Carl Andre
I was never good at painting. The great turning point came when I had a block of wood and I carved a shape into the wood and put a small piece of timber into that space - like a negative - and so it made an endless column, only inward.
- Carl Andre
Collection: Block
Image of Sue Grafton
I write because it's all I know how to do. Writing is my anchor and my purpose. My life is informed by writing, whether the work is going well or I'm stuck in the hell of writer's block, which I'm happy to report only occurs about once a day.
- Sue Grafton
Collection: Block
Image of Paula Fox
When I had a few francs, I spent them at a café on the Place de Longchamps, a block or so from my pension, where I could order a glass of Beaujolais and a plate of string beans in vinaigrette for the equivalent of fifteen cents.
- Paula Fox
Collection: Block
Image of Cornelia Funke
Is there anything in the world better than words on the page? Magic signs, the voices of the dead, building blocks to make wonderful worlds better than this one, comforters, companions in loneliness. Keepers of secrets, speakers of the truth...all those glorious words.
- Cornelia Funke
Collection: Block
Image of Dick Gregory
I was born and raised in St. Louis, and this little town, eight blocks away, place no one ever heard of, a black man there commands the attention of the world for months? That ain't my world.
- Dick Gregory
Collection: Block
Image of Jeff Foxworthy
You might be a redneck if there are four or more cars up on blocks in the front yard.
- Jeff Foxworthy
Collection: Block
Image of Ellie Goulding
If I've got Writer's Block it generally means that I don't have that much to say or something's not quite connecting. I have had Writer's Block a bunch of times and it's generally because I'm not able to write down what I'm feeling basically. Mostly, I just need to be alone really, or be with someone who can bring that out of me.
- Ellie Goulding
Collection: Block
Image of Aristotle
Every effort therefore must be made to perpetuate prosperity. And, since that is to the advantage of the rich as well as the poor, all that accrues from the revenues should be collected into a single fund and distributed in block grants to those in need, if possible in lump sums large enough for the acquisition of a small piece of land, but if not, enough to start a business, or work in agriculture. And if that cannot be done for all, the distribution might be by tribes or some other division each in turn.
- Aristotle
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Image of Natalie Goldberg
There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter what, keep that hand moving. Writing is really a physical activity.
- Natalie Goldberg
Collection: Block
Image of William H. Gass
As Rilke observed, love requires a progressive shortening of the senses: I can see you for miles; I can hear you for blocks, I can smell you, maybe, for a few feet, but I can only touch on contact, taste as I devour
- William H. Gass
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Image of John Green
Coal miners don't get coal miners' block.
- John Green
Collection: Block
Image of Nina Jacobson
Deb Zane, our casting director on the Hunger Games was very sanguine, from the beginning, about just blocking out what everybody else says that they want.
- Nina Jacobson
Collection: Block
Image of Sue Grafton
I only get writer's block about once a day.
- Sue Grafton
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Image of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
In the field of economics we maintain to this day some of the most primitive ideas, some of the most radically false ideas, some of the most absurd ideas a brain can hold. ... but all this give no uneasiness to the average brain. That long-suffering organ has been trained for more thousands of years than history can uncover to hold in unquestioning patience great blocks of irrelevant idiocy and large active lies.
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Image of Diane von Furstenberg
I had a very down-to-earth product, my wrap dress, which was really a uniform. It was just a simple little cotton-jersey dress that everybody loved and everybody wore. That one dress sold about 3 or 4 million. I would see 20, 30 dresses walking down one block. All sorts of different women. It felt very good. Young and old, and fat and thin, and poor and rich.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Collection: Block
Image of Malcolm Gladwell
Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.
- Malcolm Gladwell
Collection: Block
Image of Milton Friedman
Education spending will be most effective if it relies on parental choice & private initiative -- the building blocks of success throughout our society.
- Milton Friedman
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Image of Pope Francis
All too often, as we know from experience, people do not choose life; they do not accept the gospel of life, but let themselves be led by ideologies and ways of thinking that block life, that do not respect life, because they are dictated by selfishness, self-interest, profit, power and pleasure and not by love. ... As a result, the Living God is replaced by fleeting human idols, which offer the intoxication of a flash of freedom, but in the end bring new forms of slavery and death.
- Pope Francis
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Image of Nikki Giovanni
There is no such thing as writer's block. There is only not enough information. If you can't write, learn something.
- Nikki Giovanni
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Image of Bill Gates
The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity. To turn caring into action, we need to see a problem, see a solution, and see the impact. But complexity blocks all three steps.
- Bill Gates
Collection: Block
Image of Northrop Frye
It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.
- Northrop Frye
Collection: Block
Image of Diana Gabaldon
I work on multiple projects at a time because it keeps me from getting writer's block.
- Diana Gabaldon
Collection: Block
Image of Brian Greene
Far from being accidental details, the properties of nature's basic building blocks are deeply entwined with the fabric of space and time.
- Brian Greene
Collection: Block
Image of W. S. Gilbert
To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.
- W. S. Gilbert
Collection: Block
Image of Lance Armstrong
If you go to Wikipedia and you look at the Tour de France, there's this huge block in World War One with no winners, and there's another block in World War Two. And then it seems like there's another world war.
- Lance Armstrong
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Image of Ricky Gervais
Try something. And never be afraid to fail. That failure is useful too. It's just another building block.
- Ricky Gervais
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Image of Andre Gide
Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.
- Andre Gide
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Image of Billy Graham
'God is Love' means that He tries constantly to block your route to destruction.
- Billy Graham
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Image of Jeff Olson
Each and every incomplete thing in your life or work exerts a draining force on you, sucking the energy of accomplishment and success out of you as surely as a vampire stealing your blood. Every incomplete promise, commitment and agreement saps your strength, because it blocks your momentum, inhibits your ability to move forward, to progress and improve. Incomplete things keep calling you back to the past to take care of them.
- Jeff Olson
Collection: Block
Image of William Gibson
Home. Home was BAMA, the Sprawl, the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis. Program a map to display frequency of data exchange, every thousand megabytes a single pixel on a very large screen. Manhattan and Atlanta burn solid white. Then they start to pulse, the rate of traffic threatening to overload your simulation. Your map is about to go nova. Cool it down. Up your scale. Each pixel a million megabytes. At a hundred million megabytes per second, you begin to make out certain blocks in midtown Manhattan, outlines of hundred-year-old industrial parks ringing the old core of Atlanta.
- William Gibson
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Image of Stephen Jay Gould
Advocates for a single line of progress encounter their greatest stumbling block when they try to find a smooth link between the apparently disparate designs of the invertebrates and vertebrates.
- Stephen Jay Gould
Collection: Block
Image of Lights
The downs are the times when you lose sight of who you are and that happens along the way sometimes...Writer's block when you doubt yourself and you get insecure.
- Lights
Collection: Block
Image of Morgan Parker
Sometimes it's just rejecting stereotypes, sometimes it's creating work. Sometimes it's just blocking out the noise.
- Morgan Parker
Collection: Block
Image of Martha Graham
There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.
- Martha Graham
Collection: Block
Image of Ira Glass
I seen a pig so big it’d block out the sun.
- Ira Glass
Collection: Block
Image of Neil Gaiman
I don't believe in "writer's block". I try and deal with getting stuck by having more than one thing to work on at a time. And by knowing that even a hundred bad words that didn't exist before is forward progress.
- Neil Gaiman
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Image of Jerry Garcia
The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That's reality. The reality that's being talked about is something else entirely.
- Jerry Garcia
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Image of Mehmet Murat Ildan
The 'stream' we call science always flows forward; sometimes reactionary beavers block its flow, but the stream is never defeated by this; it accumulates, gathers strength; its waters get over the barrage and continue on their course. The advancement of science is the advancement of God, for science is nothing but human intelligence, and human intelligence is the most valuable treasure God has bequeathed us.
- Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Image of Christopher Hitchens
But you'll notice, you will notice that Russia and China, invariably at the United Nations, move to block American action, to repress or hem in or punish other kinds of outlaw. Who stands behind Mugabi at the United Nations? Russia and China do. Who tried successfully to prevent the United Nations from speaking with one voice on its most signal violation of its resolutions, Iraq? Russia and China, again. North Korea the same. Burma the same.
- Christopher Hitchens
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Image of Mitch Hedberg
If you are flammable and have legs, you are not blocking a fire exit.
- Mitch Hedberg
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