#bloc

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it. ↗

— Michelangelo

#discover #every #inside #over it #sculptor

The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks. ↗

— Mahalia Jackson

#devil #gets #god #good #mad

The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking. ↗

— Peter Jackson

#blockbuster #dependable #filmmaking #forms #most

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#air #beauty #been #between #blocks

I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#being #blocking #character #cliche #complicated

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#ever #except #man #money #wrote

I heard the Bloc Party record Japan before it came out in the UK as they are on the V2 record label. I think it has a great vibe and has great songs. I also think the Kings of Leon are right up my street. ↗

— Kelly Jones

#before #bloc #came #great #heard

We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#america #biggest #black #black and white #block

The current administration has made the decision to cut dollars going for community development block grants, for various incentives to bring cities back. ↗

— Stephanie Tubbs Jones

#back #block #bring #cities #community

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#achieve #around #climb #everybody #figure