Block Quotes - Page 33

• That's what makes best friends. It's not whether or not you live on the same block or go to the same school, but how you feel about each other in your hearts.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Heart, School, How You Feel

  Jacqueline Woodson (2002). “Maizon at Blue Hill”, p.9, Penguin

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• Chicken,' Josie said. 'Have you ever been in love?' Peter looked at Josie, and thought of how they had once tied a note with their addresses to a helium balloon and let it go in her backyard, certain it would reach Mars. Instead, they had received a letter from a widow who lived two blocks away. 'Yeah,' he said. 'I think so.

  Jodi Picoult

  Thinking, Two, Let It Go

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Reader's Companion: A Collection of Excerpts”, p.420, Simon and Schuster

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• I remembered Owen telling me how music had saved him in Phoenix, that it drowned everything out, and it was the same for me now. As long as I had something to listen to, I could blur the things I didn't want to think about, if not block them out completely.

  Sarah Dessen

  Thinking, Phoenix, Long

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.310, Penguin

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• Life always holds in store surprises that are more complex and unforeseeable than any dream, and the secret is to let them come and not block them with castles in the air.

  Álvaro Mutis

  Dream, Air, Secret

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• There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

  William Stafford

  Enough, Lows, Standards

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• Cure for writer's block: blow something up(in the story)

  Scott Westerfeld

  Blow, Stories, Cures

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• Will you look at us by the river! The whole restless mob of us on spread blankets in the dreamy briny sunshine skylarking and chiacking about for one day, one clear, clean, sweet day in a good world in the midst of our living. Yachts run before an unfelt gust with bagnecked pelicans riding above them, the city their twitching backdrop, all blocks and points of mirror light down to the water's edge.

  Tim Winton

  Running, Sweet, Sunshine

  Tim Winton (2014). “Cloudstreet: Picador Classic”, p.9, Pan Macmillan

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• I don't want any funny business, and above all I don't want to be dragged into other people's funny business. If it's to be my head on the block, I want to know that it's doing there, and not that it's some stupid things that other people have done.

  Hans Fallada

  Stupid, People, Done

  Hans Fallada (2009). “Every Man Dies Alone”, p.65, Melville House

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• 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

  Anger, Healing, Frustration

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• When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to build an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a design for the engine. The design was placed on paper, but the engineers agreed, to a man, that it was simply impossible to cast an eight-cylinder engine-block in one piece. Ford replied,''Produce it anyway.

  Henry Ford

  Men, Eight, Design

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• We're in the Chicago suburbs, ruling our 'hood and the streets that lead here. It's a street war, where other suburban gangs fight us for territory. Three blocks away are mansions and million-dollar houses. Right here, in the real world, the street war rages on. The people in the million-dollar houses don't even realize a battle is about to begin less than a half mile from their backyards.

  Simone Elkeles

  Real, War, Fighting

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Make up your mind to this. If you are different, you are isolated, not only from people of your own age but from those of your parents' generation and from your children's generation too. They'll never understand you and they'll be shocked no matter what you do. But your grandparents would probably be proud of you and say: 'Theres a chip off the old block,' and your grandchildren will sigh enviously and say: 'What an old rip Grandma must have been!' and they'll try to be like you.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Children, Rip, Grandma

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.439, Hamilton Books

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• But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable, walking through this life half-sleeping, everything at arm's length or farther away. I understood those mermaids. I didn't care if they sang to me. All I wanted was to block out all the human voices as they called me name again and again, pulling me upward into light, to drown.

  Sarah Dessen

  Sleep, Light, Names

  "Dreamland". Book by Sarah Dessen, September 1, 2000.

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• Come senators, congressmen, Please heed the call, Don't stand in the doorway, Don't block up the hall, For he that gets hurt, Will be he who has stalled, The battle outside ragin', Will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls, For the times they are a-changin'...

  Bob Dylan

  Hurt, Wall, Battle

  "Song: The Times They Are a-Changin'". March 8, 1965.

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• Anyone who realises what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just in the noblest natures so strong, cannot fail to see how difficult, how tragic even, must often be the fate of those whose deepest feelings are destined from the earliest days to be a riddle and a stumbling-block, unexplained to themselves, passed over in silence by others.

  Edward Carpenter

  Strong, Heart, Fate

  Edward Carpenter “The Intermediate Sex”, Routledge

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• I share a warning. Satan is extremely good at blocking spiritual communication by inducing individuals, through temptation, to violate the laws upon which spiritual communication is founded. With some, he is able to convince them that they are not able to receive such guidance from the Lord.

  Richard G. Scott

  Spiritual, Communication, Law

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• One the next corner stood a cinder block restaurant with a hand-painted sign that read CHICKEN & WAFFLES. There was a queue of twenty people outside. “You Americans have the strangest taste. What planet is this?

  Rick Riordan

  Hands, People, Twenties

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Rocks, Words Of Wisdom, Use

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• And what are you doing here, Nicholas? Decided to watch me sleep?" "Yes," said Nick, and bowed is head over his sword again. He had tissues, oil, and sandpaper laid out on the windowsill in front of him, and a little stone block he was passing his sword up and down, very carefully. "I came to gaze upon your sleeping face. Only you had the blanket over your head, so I just had to gaze at a lump I thought was your sleeping face, and that turned out to be your shoulder. Which just wasn't as special." ~Nick and Mae

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Sleep, Oil, Special

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• I seriously think I could have sat in the middle of the kitchen floor rubbing two sticks together over a pile of dynamite blocks and gasoline cans, and my parents would be oblivious, as long as I was keeping myself occupied.

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Thinking, Two, Long

  Jordan Sonnenblick (2010). “Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie”, p.77, Scholastic Inc.

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• Amazing. You were so attached to it, and it still disappeared for you." “Attached! I was whocking that cloud with everything I had! Fireballs, laser beams, vacuum cleaner a block high...” “Negative attachments, Richard. If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production out of it, you just relax and remove it from your thinking. That’s all there is to it.

  Richard Bach

  Thinking, Clouds, Attachment

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.90, Delta

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• a man doesn't prove he's a man by getting an erection. He's only a real man if he can pleasure a woman. And if he can pleasure a prostitute, he'll think he's the best lover on the block" -Nyah

  Paulo Coelho

  Real, Men, Thinking

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• The white-haired wonder leading what had to, by now, be a blocks-long parade must've finally turned on her hearing aid. Because she finally pulled into the United Methodist Church parking lot, praise God, leaving the rest of us free to party until some other octogenarian found it necessary to take to the streets after dark. In Ohio, old folks know better than to drive at night. Yet another reason Cleveland rocks.

  Jennifer Rardin

  Party, Dark, Night

  Jennifer Rardin (2012). “An Evening for Vayl and Jaz”, p.27, Hachette UK

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• Ranger picked up and there was a moment of silence as if he was sensing me at the other end, taking my body temperature and heart rate long distance. “Babe,” he finally said. “Do you know the slum apartment building Bobby Sunflower owns on Stark?” “Yes. It’s on the same block as his funeral home.” “That’s the one. I’m going in to look for someone. If you don’t hear from me in a half hour maybe you could send someone to check.” “Is this a smart thing to do?” “Probably not.” “As long as you know,” Ranger said. And he disconnected.

  Janet Evanovich

  Smart, Distance, Home

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Sizzling Sixteen”, p.20, Macmillan

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• Often the deep valleys of our PRESENT will be UNDERSTOOD only by LOOKING BACK on them from the mountains of our FUTURE experience. Often we can’t see the LORD’S HAND in our lives until long after the trials have passed. Often the most difficult times of our lives are ESSENTIAL building blocks that form the FOUNDATION of our CHARACTER and pave the way to FUTURE opportunity, understanding, and happiness.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Character, Opportunity, Hands

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