#bloc

I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence. ↗

— James Laughlin

#ancient #bit #blocks #break #break up

I found the emotion that as an athlete you block out, and it really helped me to understand myself as a person. I'm a really emotional person and it helped make me a better person. ↗

— Carl Lewis

#better #better person #block #emotion #emotional

I'm supposed to say, Bill O'Reilly, that's immoral - click - and then walk back in and book his A block the next day and have a fine day and everything be kosher? I don't think so. ↗

— Andrea Mackris

#bill #block #book #click #day

In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong. ↗

— John Major

#blocks #britain #built #communities #destroyed

What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks of matter everywhere in the universe, such as quarks, all the way to complex entities, and in particular complex adaptive system like jaguars. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#blocks #book #building #building blocks #chain

Nowadays you really have to pump out that blockbuster in order to have the luxury of getting a body of work, and that's sad because the work suffers. Today everything is based on money. The older actors, they inspire me. ↗

— Dylan McDermott

#because #blockbuster #body #everything #getting

I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters. ↗

— Elizabeth McGovern

#down #films #i #opportunity #some

I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#anything #block #else #having #i

Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure. ↗

— George H. Mead

#before #blocked #cautious #delicacy #entrance

I rarely see one of the 'summer blockbuster' movies. I'd like to see a stronger focus on smaller, smarter movies. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#focus #i #like #movies #rarely