I grew up as a tomboy. I was always barefoot, running races with the guys on the block, climbing trees, and beating kids up.

The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block...

If emotional issues remain unaddressed over long periods of time, sometimes they can manifest as physical blocks or disease.

I lived a block and a half away from four cousins, and I had three siblings. The Jaeger home was a big, messy, happy family.

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

There's a general feeling if you take the cut block out of the game, then you're going to significantly impact the run game.

It may be that learning to do creative work of any kind - not just direct imagery exercises - may help combat writer's block.

The media is the great middleman. Trump doesn't need a middleman to get his message out. Trump's crowds are five blocks long.

To choose and be so adamant about this exact location just a block or two away from 9/11, again is that knife, it feels like.

I don't hate anyone. I simply block them out using hellish visions in a blind white rage. But if I see them out I'm pleasant.

When I was 15, they changed the playground rules because I was dominating everything and blocking everything that came my way.

I have a lot of Twitter rules. I never swear on Twitter, and if anybody's inappropriate, I block them. I have young followers.

Health-wise, I couldn't have said what my life expectancy would've been if I'd just carried on doing solid blocks of stand-up.

For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled; Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build.

We play a different style than other teams. It's effective, but different. We run the floor, block shots and create turnovers.

I park two blocks away from Nickelodeon studios and I hop on my skateboard and I skateboard the rest of the way to the studio.

I live on the same block where I grew up. We belong to the same parish where I was baptized. Janesville is that kind of place.

Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.

Happiness is more about removing the blocks to Love and remembering who you are than changing your situation or another person.

The establishment will do all they can to block him, so grassroots America's going to have to turn out in droves for Mr. Trump.

Stress is actually the number one thing that blocks people from their happiness and well-being and from getting what they want.

The things that block a writer are not the lack of words, but the same things that block all people - the difficulties of life.

Old unhealthy thoughts can block off inspiration and motivation. Dropping them releases a strong flow of power through the mind.

I get writer's block all the time. The only way I can write what I consider to be good lyrics is to put myself through the mill.

I feel as if I became a documentary film-maker only because I had writer's block for four decades. There's no other good reason.

Failure does not exist. Once you hit the construction zone road blocks, follow the detour signs to get back to ur original path.

You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.

I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation

Everyone faces defeat. It may be a stepping-stone or a stumbling block, depending on the mental attitude with which it is faced.

What do little kids do? They crawl on the floor and they build with blocks. I just continued to do that for the rest of my life.

Utopians...consider individual freedom as the stumbling block on which the grandiose idea of mankind's totalization may flounder.

It is a tremendous waste of energy to try to block anyone else. That same energy could be applied to furthering your own success.

Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite.

In science, as in business, there must be structures that ensure the well endowed do not use their position to block competition.

The only reason any person does not have enough money is because they are blocking money from coming to them with their thoughts.

One of the rather unedifying truths about grief is it does block out more or less everything. It has a solipsistic quality to it.

Emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood.

A hero is a goddam stupid thing to have in the first place and a general block to anything you might wanta accomplish on your own.

When we are depressed, our thinking blocks us from being aware of our needs, and then being able to take action to meet our needs.

We bury our seeds and wait, Winter blocks the road, Flowers are taken prisoner underground, But then green justice tenders a spear

Poetry cannot block a bullet or still a sjambok, but it can bear witness to brutality-thereby cultivating a flower in a graveyard.

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

I want to be sitting in front of my computer, where you can press a button to block out your junk mail. These two are my junk mail.

Now [Sue Grafton] loves writer's block, seeing it as a message from the psyche that the narrative is headed in the wrong direction.

A war minister is able to force the adoption of any measure desired by the Camp or to block any measure that meets his disapproval.

By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties.

I have had no real gratification or enjoyment of any sort more than my neighbour on the next block who is worth only half a million.

Greatness finds us by obstacles in front of us. I don’t look at hurdles as obstacles blocking my path but opportunities to overcome.

I loved being on stage with heroes of mine, like Gregg Edelman and Jimmy Walton, and the lovely Chita Rivera and Stephanie J. Block.

I'm not the type that's going to sit and preach to people if they don't need it just because I've been around the block a few times.

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