Block Quotes

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)
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. View quote
Frank Zappa
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. View quote
Joseph Addison
I want to block some common misunderstandings about "understanding": In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word "understanding." View quote
John Searle
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic. View quote
Dan Rather
Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy. View quote
Liu Xiaobo
He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself. View quote
Edmund Burke
The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude. View quote
Julia Child
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. View quote
Auguste Rodin
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it. (Michelangelo)
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. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation (the Guffey Coal Control Bill) View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Why is it always the world? Why is it never just half a block? Or Jersey? You know, something we could live without? View quote
Rob Thurman
I want to be in fifth grade again. Now, that is a deep dark secret, almost as big as the other one. Fifth grade was easy -- old enough to play outside without Mom, too young to go off the block. The perfect leash length. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
A book that is shut is but a block. View quote
Thomas Fuller
All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today. View quote
Pope Paul VI
Advocates for a single line of progress encounter their greatest stumbling block when they try to find a smooth link between the apparently disparate designs of the invertebrates and vertebrates. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
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. View quote
Lester Bangs
Katniss," Gale says softly. I recognize that voice. It's the same one he uses to approach wounded animals before he delivers a deathblow. I instinctively raise my hand to block his words but he catches it and holds on tightly. "Don't," I whisper. But Gale is not one to keep secrets from me. "Katniss, there is no District Twelve. View quote
Suzanne Collins
I grew up as a tomboy. I was always barefoot, running races with the guys on the block, climbing trees, and beating kids up. (Edie Falco)
Vending machines are a big part of my life. I like when you reach into the vending machine to grab your candy bar and that flap goes up to block you from reaching up. That's a good invention. Before then it was hard times for the vending machine owners, "What candy bar are you getting?", "That one... and every one on the bottom row!" View quote
Mitch Hedberg
Now I wonder who is gonna be president: Tweedle Dumb, or Tweedle Dumber-- And who is gonna have the big block buster box office this summer. View quote
Ani DiFranco
To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock, Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock, From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block! View quote
W. S. Gilbert
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. View quote
Sadao Araki