Quotes of: Stumbling-block Keyword

This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.

Shaquille O'Neal

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

Thomas Carlyle

Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.

Tom Hayden

The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.

Knute Rockne

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

Michelangelo

If you're in America or Europe, walk for three blocks, and you'll pass about 14 Vikings. Their reach was immense.

Michael Hirst

Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!

John Piper

Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.

Tony Jaa

I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.

Mamie Gummer

The Westwood Cemetery is just a few blocks from my home, and a number of my very dear friends are buried there.

Hugh Hefner

It isn't unusual to see children climb into a car every morning to be ferried to the front door of a school that's just a few blocks away.

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

Orville Wright

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

Paul Valery

When I walk through that gate to the court, that's my escape. I block out everything, good and bad.

Maria Sharapova

My God is a God who wants me to have things. He wants me to bling. He wants me to be the hottest thing on the block.

Mary J. Blige

When somebody follows you 20 blocks to the pharmacy, where they watch you buy toilet paper, you know your life has changed.

Jennifer Aniston

You get spoiled on 'Captain America,' where your trailer's two blocks long and it's got three bedrooms.

Frank Grillo

Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.

J. J. Abrams

Look at kids playing with blocks. I think it's in everyone's DNA to want to be a builder.

Dan Phillips

Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we're the biggest weirdos on the block.

Billy Bob Thornton

Writer's block isn't always a problem. It can be a process of writing that helps us write better.

Jennifer Hudson Taylor