Quotes of: Stumbling-block Keyword

It’s often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they’re going.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

I know in my life there have been breaches, but I also know that I am very good at blocking out the memories that serve me no purpose.

The Forest of Hands and Teeth

The Good Man Better an enmity from one block than friendship held together by glue.

The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing to remember.

The Boy on Cinnamon Street

No one stopped me from playing when I was alone, but there were times when I wasn't able to, though I wanted to... There were times when nothing played back. Writers call it 'writer's block.' For kids there are other names for that feeling, though ki...

Lynda Barry

Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.

Charles Jencks

All the traditional models for doing things are collapsing; from music to publishing to film, and it's a wide open door for people who are creative to do what they need to do without having institutions block their art.

Ava DuVernay

I know it’s hard for you to allow yourself to feel this. You've gone so long training yourself to block the feelings and emotions out any time someone touches you.

Hopeless

If you don’t want love to sweep into your life, the easiest way to block it is to live a fear-based life.

How to Manifest Your Soulmate with Eft: Relationship as a Spiritual Path

I have yet to face Writer's Block and I don't believe I ever will. It is much more difficult for me to shut my imagination down to get a good nights sleep than it is to prod it to life.

Hell in a Storm

A block of blood should not have the word "cake" after it...they might as well say "shite gateau

An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington

You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things! O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not Pompey?

Julius Caesar

I had the impression that her place was near mine, but even by bus it took about twenty minutes. She lived alone in an apartment house, square and white like a block of tofu, on the edge of town.

N.P.

She steeled her spine. “Like Boleyn to the chopping block.” Anna smirked. “Queen of England, are we?” Mara shrugged. “Something to aspire to.

No Good Duke Goes Unpunished

I knew what Charley would do. He would spend the evening drinking himself into the mindset of a cinder block. If they had given him as much as a hundred bucks, it would be a long night.

Shoot the Moon

Even if we have grown so far apart that we don't recognize each other when we pass, we have this life, this block of time, and what do you think about that?

Songs of the Humpback Whale

And the sun on the wall of her room, the block of sun with all the tiny flying things in it. When she was little she thought they were the souls of dead insects, still buzzing in the light.

The Riders

When you discard arrogance, complexity, and a few other things that get in the way, sooner or later you will discover that simple, childlike, and mysterious secret known to those of the uncared block: life is fun.

The Tao of Pooh

Would you mind a mind blindfold, a block on your imagination? You couldn’t create a fantasy world to live in, but you could create a life for yourself without irrational fears of the future.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

A few Paris blocks away I led a completely normal life with my sister & grandparents. And here I was sword fighting with dead guys.

Until I Die