The white façades of the villas and apartment houses were like blocks of time that had crystallised beside the road.
The best way in the world for breaking up a writer's block is to write a lot.
Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.
It was past midnight. From the carpark of the apartment blocks, a human figure with an unsteady gait emerged.
The only reason any person does not have enough money is because they are blocking money from coming to them with their thoughts.
Because with time blocking out the bad, memory is always bound to be a bit naive and stupidly optimistic.
Writer’s block, I just drove around it four times. All my favorite writers live there.
As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process.
There's only a couple stats that matter. No one cares how many blocked shots a guy has, how many hits.
I live on the same block where I grew up. We belong to the same parish where I was baptized. Janesville is that kind of place.
I'm not the type that's going to sit and preach to people if they don't need it just because I've been around the block a few times.
Sometimes jobs are jobs, and when you guest star on television, you're also working with a guest director. You're the new kid on the block, because everyone else is already in the ensemble.
Facebook is blocked in mainland China, but is used heavily by the rest of the Chinese-speaking world, including Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan.
The current administration has made the decision to cut dollars going for community development block grants, for various incentives to bring cities back.
By fully experiencing and going beyond an emotional block - through the layers of doubt and fear - you experience the emotion of who you truly are.
The GOP doesn't seem particularly afraid of being perceived as blocking reform, despite efforts by the Obama White House to establish that narrative.
I think at some point during the course of the game, I will have an impact - whether it's blocking or whether it's catching the football.
Republicans believed that their job was not governing but blocking any idea coming from President Obama and the Democrats, and wiping out Democrats in the 2012 election.
At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19... and it was devastating.
Forgiving ourselves and learning from our inevitable mistakes transforms failure from a stumbling block into a stepping stone.
In my day, in my era, Ralph McDaniels, just being five and being at his block party, you could just got onstage.
