Quotes of: Blocked Keyword

There's no point for me in being a writer and having all these blocked places where I feel I can't think freely and imagine freely. There just really is no point.

Binyavanga Wainaina

I want to block some common misunderstandings about 'understanding': In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word 'understanding.'

John Searle

I think of all my time as existing in 15-minute blocks. Most people think in terms of 30-minute chunks, but I've found that when I free up more time, I waste it.

Alexa Von Tobel

From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks.

Omar Bongo

Harry Block: All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.

Deconstructing Harry

Harry's Father: I'm a Jew. I don't believe in Heaven. Harry Block: Where do you want to go? Harry's Father: A Chinese restaurant.

Deconstructing Harry

Harry Block: All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.

Deconstructing Harry

Harry Block: Six shrinks later, three wives down the line, and I still can't get my life together.

Deconstructing Harry

Ikuei Sasaki: This is done in such a way that the family does not see. The anus must sometimes be blocked. The cotton wool is rolled, and pressed deep into the anus. This prevents seepage.

Departures

Nick Rice: [blocking a lecherous comment toward a colleague] What are you doing, Reynolds. Why are you here, your DVD player broken?

Law Abiding Citizen

Antonius Block: Faith is a torment. It is like loving someone who is out there in the darkness but never appears, no matter how loudly you call.

The Seventh Seal

When I first came into money, I bought six or seven homes. One weekend I went to Miami and bought an apartment and a mansion several blocks from each other, which was not that bright!

Daymond John

Picasso is a character that has pursued me for a long time and I always rejected. He deserves a lot of respect because I am from Malaga, and I was born four blocks from where he was born.

Antonio Banderas

One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.

Majora Carter

We don't have a unitary society anymore, you know; it's very fragmented. I look up and down my block in Silverlake and there is a different universe in every house.

Janet Fitch

While there have been terrific advances in the state of technology around heuristics, behavior blocking, and things like that, technology is only a part of the approach to solving the problem with the more important aspect involving putting the right...

John W. Thompson

I felt like I had a really bad case of writer's block... Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.

Eminem

I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette.

Frederik Pohl

Well, I get my subject on Wednesday night; I think it out carefully on Thursday, and make my rough sketch; on Friday morning I begin, and stick to it all day, with my nose well down on the block.

John Tenniel

[a flock of sheep block the road as the car screeches to a halt] Richard Hannay: Hello, what are we stopping for? Oh it's a whole flock of detectives.

The 39 Steps

Garrison: How far is Chalk Four from the crash site? Harell: Six blocks, sir. Garrison: They need to haul ass.

Black Hawk Down