Block Quotes

• I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

  Sophia Loren

  Inspiring, Memories, Past

  "Valentines & Vitriol". Book by Rex Reed, 1977.

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• It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Ignorance, Eye

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

  Frank Zappa

  Stupid, Humor, Ignorance

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

  John Calvin

  Confidence, Christian Inspirational, Spirit

  Jean Calvin, John Calvin, David Wishart Torrance, A. W. Morrison (1996). “A Harmony of the Gospels, Matthew, Mark and Luke”, p.245, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Beautiful, Art, Inspirational Life

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1902). “The Philistine”

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• When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing.

  Wyclef Jean

  Mind, Cotton, Rhyming

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• Stupidity is the basic building block of the universe.

  Frank Zappa

  Stupidity And Ignorance, Hydrogen, Building

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Couple, Plot, Sides

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• My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Fire, Doors

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• If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.

  Paul Cezanne

  Strong, Artist, Isolation

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

  Michelangelo

  Art, Inspiration, Practice

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• Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

  Dan Rather

  Funny, Memorial Day, Inspiration

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• I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

  Auguste Rodin

  Witty, Art, Humorous

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• I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.

  R. L. Stine

  Cheating, Writing, Character

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.

  Damon Wayans

  Dad, Father, Guy

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• When you play guard, you're not going to block a lot of shots. Inside, you're going to block shots.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Play, Shots

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• In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.

  Tim Bishop

  Cutting, Innovation, Growth

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• I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.

  David Guterson

  Artist, Literature, Paralyzed

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• I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.

  Walter Jon Williams

  Writer's Block

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• Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.

  Annie Dillard

  Past, Woods, Chopping

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• If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you're so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries.

  Bill Hicks

  Funny, Humor, Pro Life

  "Post-Sachsgate, standups should channel Bill Hicks" by Bruce Dessau, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2010.

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• I promised myself that I'd never actually admit to listening to 'New Kids on the Block.'

  Alicia Keys

  Kids, Listening

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• Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Order, Law, Justice

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.62, Beacon Press

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• You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness.

  Susan Lucci

  Shy, Stumbling, Knows

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• Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block.

  Joni Mitchell

  Chips, Songwriting, Songwriters

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