Top 1200 Stumbling Block Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

The platform is either an enabler of creativity or it's a block.

Jewish voters are not one homogenous block.

Oh look at how she listens She says nothing of what she thinks She just goes stumbling through her memories Staring out on to Grey Street

We're like the Three Musketeers, searching for truth and justice and the American way.: Glitch snorted. "More like the Three Blind Mice, stumbling around trying to find a hunk of cheese in the dark.

Television? It's a gateway to writer's block, isn't it?

Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be able to hit with everybody yelling at him. He had to block all that out, block out everything but this ball that is coming in at a hundred miles an hour and he's got a split second to make up his mind if it's in or out or down or coming at his head, a split second to swing. To do what he did has got to be the most tremendous thing I've ever seen in sports.

There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be resolved. In a Universe tens of billions of light-years across and some ten or fifteen billion years old, this may be the case forever. We are constantly stumbling on new surprises

I've been around the block.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

I had writer's block for almost a year.

The building block of every community is family.

Writer's block is a fiction.

Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.

Opportunity is all around us, but we have beliefs and habits that block it.

Stupidity is the basic building block of the universe.

I'm always trying to block shots.

I block shots and stay out the way.

Where I come from, the block become your daddy.

For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.

Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.

I'm too busy to block everyone on Twitter.

There is always a testing of the new kid on the block in politics.

I don't believe in writer's block.

Look, I need to tell you something,' I continued. The words came stumbling out of me. 'I couldnt stand it if...I dont want you to---' Percy?' she said. 'You look like you're going to be sick.' And that's how I felt.

The abuse of cabmen in a block.

I was walking across King's Cross station when a drunken Irishman came stumbling up and flung his arms around me. He wanted to thank me for the peace process in Northern Ireland.

Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.

I've never had writer's block.

The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous observations, misleading generalizations, inadequate formulation, and unconscious prejudice is rarely appreciated by those who obtain their scientific knowledge from textbooks.

Apparently I ain't the only cat on the block digs cheetos.

Attachment is the strongest block to realization.

There's no writer's block; there's only distraction.

I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.

In Germany, you have a huge official memorial to the murdered Jews and then you have this artist who's been putting these stumbling blocks, these brass cobblestones, outside the houses Jews were taken away from. It's somewhat controversial and has met some resistance.

I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people when they're sorry for themselves. Self-pity is one of the biggest stumbling blocks in the world today.

With two books a year, I don't have time for writer's block.

I'm not really worried about writer's block.

Prescription for writer’s block: fear of poverty.

Writer's block is for people who have the luxury of time.

Obviously, I can't break my mental block in the Octagon.

I've been around the block. I travel a lot to gyms.

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

Writer's block is a luxury most people with deadlines don't have.

I know that meeting a black woman with a love for hockey is a bit like stumbling upon a unicorn in the woods... or a unicorn anywhere. I'm sure it'd be just as surreal finding a unicorn in downtown Chicago. But here I am.

I don't think I'll ever get that tour ennui. Just getting to visit New York and all these different places - I'm always so excited to look at the window. I look like a crazy tourist stumbling around... 'This is beautiful.'

A book that is shut is but a block.

I was always a writer - working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV - that was always my goal.

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

Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.

What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.

I'm not a parenting expert. In fact, I'm not sure that I even believe in the idea of 'parenting experts.' I'm an engaged, imperfect parent and a passionate researcher. I'm an experienced mapmaker and a stumbling traveler. Like many of you, parenting is by far my boldest and most daring adventure.

If we make an important block, it can be like a goal.

How can people in other countries who are trying to grasp our plan of democracy avoid stumbling over our logic when we deny the first steps in democracy to our women?

It was a strange feeling, filming a night scene in Selly Oak High Street with a television crew and famous actors in tow, when twenty years ago, at that time of night, I would've been stumbling around in search of a kebab.

Lots of times I have to leave the goal to block a ball.

The O is where I'm from. It's short for O Block.

The truth is that I think that most people, and most people in this book, 'Goodbye, Stranger', are really doing their best but they're stumbling all over the place and they're hurting each other deliberately and by accident.

If the artist starts evaluating himself, it’s an enormous block, isn’t it?

I'm learning not to try to block everything.

An unread book is just a block of paper.