Block Quotes - Page 15

• I often tell people to stop being afraid of writing bad poetry, or bad anything. I think that a lot of times, when people claim that they have writer's block, or that they get stuck, it's just because they're scared of writing bad things.

  Sarah Kay

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: saseye.com

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• No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Morning, Ice, Savages

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• ideas are never scarce; it is only one's panic sense of limitation that blocks the way.

  Joyce Grenfell

  Ideas, Panic, Way

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• God gave a law ... called justice. But they have made a law for themselves that is terrible and intricate, and they cannot escape it, for the evil will and the good will are caught alike in its meshes, and it is darkness to the eyes that see and a stumbling block to the feet that run. This law is called necessity.

  Jessie Sampter

  Running, Eye, Law

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• When I had a few francs, I spent them at a café on the Place de Longchamps, a block or so from my pension, where I could order a glass of Beaujolais and a plate of string beans in vinaigrette for the equivalent of fifteen cents.

  Paula Fox

  Paris, Glasses, Order

  Paula Fox (2006). “The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe”, p.35, Macmillan

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• I only get writer's block about once a day.

  Sue Grafton

  Writer's Block

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• Sandy was particularly destructive because it was prevented from moving back out to sea by a "blocking pattern" associated with the jet stream. There's debate about this, but one recent study suggested that melting sea ice in the Arctic may lead to such blocking.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Moving, Ice, Sea

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• Remember the importance of small actions. They're the building blocks in the architecture of your life, the quiet victories you win for yourself each day.

  Diane Dreher

  Winning, Victory, Each Day

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• I work on multiple projects at a time because it keeps me from getting writer's block.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Projects, Multiple, Writer's Block

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• We're still as confident, as optimistic as we ever were. You know we hit a little stumbling block here, but I think it's going to be good for us because we can learn from it.

  Joey Harrington

  Optimistic, Thinking, Littles

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• Characters on stage should be flat, like clothes in a fashion show: what you get should be no more than what you see. Psychological realism is repulsive, because it allows us to escape unpalatable reality by taking shelter in the “luxuriousness” of personality, losing ourselves in the depth of individual character. The writer's task is to block this manoeuvre, to chase us off to a point from which we can view the horror with a dispassionate eye.

  Elfriede Jelinek

  Fashion, Character, Eye

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• I haven't had writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly.

  Jennifer Egan

  Writing, Thinking, Process

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• Near that a dusty paint-box, some odd hooks, A half-burnt match, an ivory block, three books, Where conic sections, spherics, logarithms, To great Laplace, from Saunderson and Sims, Lie heaped in their harmonious disarray Of figures,-disentangle them who may.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Lying, Book, Ivory

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.435, Wordsworth Editions

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• My parents offered me my first camera for my birthday and I developed an exclusive passion for it over the years. Since I was not the most social kid on the block, the camera helped me to express myself, invent my own language - something like a secret garden. I decided early on I would not write in a diary but take silent photographs instead.

  Hedi Slimane

  Passion, Writing, Kids

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• So much can be learned by any filmmaker by studying his work, in terms of blocking, staging, editing and sound.

  Ramin Bahrani

  Editing, Sound, Study

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I remember the first Mortal Kombat, when that came out, that was the hardest game of all time. There would be lines at the arcade around the block, and I still love all of the Mortal Kombat games.

  Diego Corrales

  Games, Would Be, Lines

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• Cryptography is the essential building block of independence for organisations on the internet, just like armies are the essential building blocks of states, because otherwise one state just takes over another.

  Julian Assange

  Army, Independence, Essentials

  "Julian Assange: the fugitive". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2012.

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• In my day, in my era, Ralph McDaniels, just being five and being at his block party, you could just got onstage.

  Lil' Mama

  Party, Eras, Just Being

  "Lil Mama Defends Nicki Minaj Comments, Breaks Down Crying On Air", www.mtv.com. July 20, 2011.

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• I grew up in Harlem. My grandmother was one of the best cooks around, but the first thing she did on Sunday mornings when she started cooking a daylong meal was to take a big block of lard from the back of the refrigerator and throw it into the pan. I know how Hispanics buy their food, and it is not always nutritious.

  Richard Carmona

  Morning, Sunday, Grandmother

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• From the Berlin tenement reform law of 1897 to H. P. Berlage's plan for Amsterdam South of 1917, designers and theorists in Germany and Holland moved toward the development of a perimeter residential block that would preserve the plastic continuity of the street while opening up the resultant courtyard for use as an enclosed semi-public space.

  Kenneth Frampton

  Opening Up, Space, Law

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• Moreover, nature's blocks had to be eternal-because nothing can come from nothing.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Eternal

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• Some heat, some spice and plenty of citrus are the building blocks of many north African fish dishes.

  Yotam Ottolenghi

  Spices, Heat, Building

  "Yotam Ottolenghi's recipes for roasted rhubarb with sweet labneh, plus halibut and harissa stew with lemon ricotta" by Yotam Ottolenghi, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2012.

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• My narrative is that I've never known what's coming next-I still don't. I fell down the right set of stairs and have been surrounded by people who have picked me up and said, “Let's try this again.” It's been one anxious block of uncertainty after another.

  Merlin Mann

  People, Trying, Narrative

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• A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Elephants, Looks, Fool Proof

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• The alleycats manipulate the blocks with gutter magic

  Aesop Rock

  Magic, Gutters, Manipulate

  Song: Nickel Plated Pockets, Album: Daylight, 2002

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