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Quotes About Block

I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.
~ Steve Martin
I tried to think but nothing happened!
~ Curly Howard
Having writers block sucks more than my actual writing. And my writing would be astonishing if I could write how I feel.
~ Ally Spina
I have the whole team just around the block! One call and they'll ride in here like cavalry! Riding on... robots! Giant robots! Well, not giant robots, like in Egan, but... but... big enough robots!
~ Dennis Liggio, Burning Monday
Writing something new is an effective way to get rid of writer's block. Or you can observe the people around you and fantasize like I do.
~ B.A. Gabrielle
I've never suffered from writer's block. I have plenty of ideas, sometimes too many. I've always had a strong imagination. If it dries up I'll stop and look for another career.
~ J. G. Ballard
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.
~ Tim Winton, The Riders
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.
~ Don Roff
Unprocessed intense emotion goes underground and creates a subconscious block that can be released as soon as the original event is integrated in the mind, heart, and body.
~ Deborah Sandella
Transformation is my favorite game and in my experience, anger and frustration are the result of you not being authentic somewhere in your life or with someone in your life. Being fake about anything creates a block inside of you. Life can't work for you if you don't show up as you.
~ Jason Mraz
The one place where I do think our culture today has to be extremely careful is this whole thing about illegal aliens. Because any time you start defining a significant block of the population as 'others,' or as less than you, you start getting into dangerous waters.
~ Erik Larson
Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.
~ Marsha Sinetar
We're strongly in favor of the U.N. plan for a solution to the Cyprus conflict. Hopefully a solution can be found before the end of this summit, but we cannot and will not let it block our decisions on enlargement.
~ Anders Fogh Rasmussen
If you do enough planning before you start to write, there's no way you can have writer's block. I do a complete chapter by chapter outline.
~ R. L. Stine
I write in public libraries and sometimes coffee shops. I can't write at home and gave up trying long ago. I need activity around me that I'm forced to block out. It helps me focus.
~ Stephen McCauley
Over the course of your career you learn to focus and concentrate on what you have to do and block everything else out.
~ Mike Webster
I don't make good connections with people and I don't know if that's an emotional block on my part. I don't know.
~ Eli Drake
I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't been a problem.
~ Fred Saberhagen
The Green Climate Fund is very much a strategic building block in the architecture for financing sustainable development.
~ Isabella Lovin
I'm the greatest game-spitter of all time. I talk about the swell, the block, the 'hood. I'm a street commentator. I narrate how people live. That's E-40.
~ E-40
I believe that writer's block is a symptom. It's not a disease, it's the symptom of a disease. So what I try to do is kind of do it like 'House'; write down the symptom and write down the other symptoms. Try to work backwards to figure out what the problem is.
~ Cassandra Clare
You fat mountebank," he croaked. He wheeled and started for the door, found me in the way, blocking him, and stopped.
~ Rex Stout