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“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.”

Humor Universe Stupid Ignorance Building Scientist Claims Stupidity Block Disputes Hydrogen Building Blocks Plentiful Stupidity And Ignorance

Book:Real Frank Zappa Book

Source: Real Frank Zappa Book

“A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination.”

Ifs Beautiful Lying Path Snow Block Destination Beautiful Things Shovels

Author:Hal Borland

“Writer's block! It doesn't exist. You just long for ideas to go away so you have an idea of peace.”

Long Ideas Block Going Away Writer's Block

Author:Colm Toibin

“I've been through my highs, I've been through my lows; I've been through the gamut of all things in this business. Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale. It's noise I block out automatically. I love my body.”

Body Sides Lows All Things Bigger Scales Noise Block Both Sides

Author:Christina Aguilera

“Then a miracle occurred in the form of a plate of sandwiches. Geryon took three and buried his mouth in a delicious block of white bread filled with tomatoes and butter and salt. He thought about how delicious it was, how he liked slippery foods, how slipperiness can be of different kinds. I am a philosopher of sandwiches, he decided. Things good on the inside.”

Source: Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

“Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.”

Writing Block Cures Ice Cream Ice Cream Writer's Block

Author:Don Roff

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

Ego Block Writer's Block

Author:Norman Mailer

“To sit in solemn silence on 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.”

Long Bigs Black Dark Silence Prison Block Dull Shock Sensations Locks Long Life Solemn Docks Choppers

Author:W. S. Gilbert

“Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so desiring not be satisfied with what you already incline to think, there follows one corollary which itself deserves to be inscribed upon every wall of the city of philosophy: Do not block the way of inquiry.”

Thinking Way Firsts Reason Philosophy Desire Order Cities Wall Deserve Satisfied Block Sole Inquiry Incline Desire To Learn

Book:The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings

Source: The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings

“Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.”

“We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture. We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it to gravel, we can shape it into glory. Examples from every other life are left for us to see, lifeworks finished and unfinished, guiding and warning. Near the end our sculpture is nearly finished, and we can smooth and polish what we started years before. We can make our progress then, but to do it we must see past the appearances of age.”

Years Ends Age Past Left Given Behinds Progress Example Shapes Glory Tools Lifetime Appearance Finished Block Pounds Warning Drag Smooth Sculpture Polish Marble Unfinished Gravel

Author:Richard Bach

“...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears.”

Made Life Is Black Destiny Our Lives Block Mysterious Veins Chisels

Book:Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity will have to address this question, no matter how devastating the consequences may be.”

Source: The Wretched of the Earth

“I walk outside and scream at the top of my lungs, and it maybe travels two blocks. A whale unleashes his cry, and it travels hundreds or even thousands of miles. Every whale in the ocean will at one time or another run into that song. And I figure whales probably don't edit. If they think it, they say it...Whale talk is the truth, and in a very short period of time, if you're a whale, you know exactly what it is to be you.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Two Running Song Walks Cry Figures Periods Ocean Miles Block One Time Scream Be You Lungs Edits Whales

Author:Chris Crutcher

“You know, it's kind of a shame in a way but the more seasoned directors a lot of times have more difficult getting a job than first time guys. New kid on the block kind of thing.”

Knows Way Firsts Kind Kids Jobs Guy Difficult Directors First Time Shame Block

Author:Jeff Bridges

“Writer's block is real. It happens. Some days you sit down at the old typewriter, put your fingers on the keys, and nothing pops into your head. Blanko. Nada. El nothingissimo. What you do when this happens is what separates you from the one-of-thesedays- I'm-gonna-write-a-book crowd.”

Writing Book Real Happens Keys Fingers Crowds Pops Block Typewriters Writer's Block

Book:How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling

Source: How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling

“Because music, like color, or a cloud, is neither intelligent nor unintelligent - it just is. The chord, the simplest building block for even the tritest, silliest chart song, is a beautiful, perfect, mysterious thing, and when an ill-read, uneducated, uncultured, emotionally illiterate boor puts a couple of them together, he has every chance of creating something wonderful and powerful. All I ask of music is that is sounds good.”

Source: 31 songs

“Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry up, we block it. If we want to allow it its freedom, we have to allow our ideational lives to be let loose, to stream, letting anything come, initially censoring nothing. That is creative life. It is made up of divine paradox. To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one’s mouth. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down.”

Ifs Want Doe Art Made Creative Clear Stupid Divine Willing Mouths Rain Flow Rivers Stones Block Manage Streams Dry Paradox Thrones Spills Rubies Creative Life Censoring Jackasses Dry Up

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“MS. THOMPSON, it said in heavy block letters, PLEASE KEEP YOUR FELINE OFF MY PROPERTY. IF I SEE IT AGAIN, I WILL EAT IT.”

Ifs Said Please Letters Property Heavy Block Feline

Book:The Mercy Thompson Collection

Source: The Mercy Thompson Collection

“Quantum theory thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest units. As we penetrate into matter, nature does not show us any isolated "building blocks," but rather appears as a complicated web of relations between the various parts of the whole. These relations always include the observer in an essential way. The human observer constitute the final link in the chain of observational processes, and the properties of any atomic object can be understood only in terms of the object's interaction with the observer.”

“Education spending will be most effective if it relies on parental choice & private initiative -- the building blocks of success throughout our society.”

Ifs Choices Building Spending Block Rely Our Society Initiative Parental Building Blocks Education Spending

Author:Milton Friedman

“There are a million things one might do with a block of wood. But what do you think might happen if someone, just once, believed in it?”

Ifs Thinking Believe Might Happens Millions Woods Block

Author:Suzanne Weyn

“One question:do you want to hang ten or BE a ten?"-Massie Block”

Want Ten Block

Author:Lisi Harrison

“Music is storming, driving, relentless, devotional, slinky, subtle, heartbreakingly-beautiful sounds that, lyrically, switch from the cynical to the sanguine, the defeated to the defiant, dealing in love, war, beauty, children, romance, rejection, Pethedine, poetry, panties, God, Auden, Johnny Cash, cold potatoes, too-much-money, not enough money, writer’s block, flowers, animals and more flowers. But maybe I’m projecting here.”

“Sometimes I would make left turns all the way around a block, and when I returned to the original intersection, I would feel disappointed to find all the drivers were new. It wasn't like a square dance, where you miraculously end up with your original partner, laughing and feeling giddily relieved to find him after dancing with everyone else in the world. Instead, they swung around and kept on going, some people were at work by now, or halfway to the airport. In fact, driving might be the thing most opposite of dancing.”

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories

“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.”

Want Enough Play Bigs Young Easy Dark Perfect Secret Mom Block Grades Length Fifth Leashes Fifth Grade Deep Dark Dark Secrets

Book:Speak

Source: Speak

“Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.”

People Should Reality Found Subjects Should Have Horrible Christmas Block Surprising Easter Friday Stumbling Crucifixion Auschwitz Good Friday Stumbling Blocks Funny Easter Short Easter

Author:W. H. Auden

“...wrote Lawrence Block. "Someone once told me that fear and courage are like lightning and thunder; they both start out at the same time, but the fear travels faster and arrives sooner. If we just wait a moment, the requisite courage will be along shortly." (quoted from Write for Your Live by Lawrence Block)”

Ifs Writing Moments Waiting Block Faster Live By Lightning Thunder Fear And Courage

Author:Ralph Keyes

“The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.”

Reason Dream Hope Trust Block Inability Blocked Trust Issues Trust Others Trust Honesty Trust And Honesty

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“As Rilke observed, love requires a progressive shortening of the senses: I can see you for miles; I can hear you for blocks, I can smell you, maybe, for a few feet, but I can only touch on contact, taste as I devour”

I Can Feet Taste Smell Miles Senses Contact Block Progressive

Book:On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry

Source: On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry

“Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals; censorship blocks transmission.”

Reality Process Ability Information Capacity Stupidity Block Ideology Etc Bigotry Censorship Signals Tunnels Integrating Robotics Transmit Transmission Blockage

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president. And we know the government can't solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years -- block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.”

Knows Way Years Done Problem Hands Government America Faces Asks Nations President Challenges Decision Honest Policy Agree Solve Block Being Honest Disagree Bricks Setback Challenges We Face

Author:Barack Obama

“I don't want water!" Sarah cries, her face buried against my chest. I can't see what's going on in the rest of the lobby beacuse Sarah's hair is flying up in my face, blocking my view. I want justice!" she wails. Well, we'll get you some of that too." Magda has appeared from out of nowhere. "Maybe there's some in the freezer.”

Want Wells I Can Faces Water Justice Views Cry Hair Flying Block Chests Buried Freezer

Author:Meg Cabot

“Bucky Katt: A bad writer is just a good writer with writer's block.”

Block Good Writers Writer's Block

Author:Darby Conley

“A little kid asks my dad why that man is chopping down the tree. Dad: He's not chopping it down. He's saving it. Those branches were long dead from disease. All plants are like that. By cutting off the damage you make it possible for the tree to grow again. You watch - by the end of summer, this tree will be the strongest on the block.”

Men Littles Long Ends Kids Asks Speak Grows Watches Cutting Tree Dad Disease Summer Plant My Dad Block Saving Damage Branches Strongest Little Kid Chopping End Of Summer Cutting Off

Author:Laurie Halse Anderson

“Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.”

People Strange Block Abstraction Stumbling Stumbling Blocks

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“There is a difficulty with only one person changing. People call that person a great saint or a great mystic or a great leader, and they say, 'Well, he's different from me - I could never do it.' What's wrong with most people is that they have this block - they feel they could never make a difference, and therefore, they never face the possibility, because it is too disturbing, too frightening.”

People Feels Wells Persons Different Faces Differences Leader Possibility Difficulty Saint Block Making A Difference Frightening Disturbing Great Leader Mystic

Author:David Bohm

“A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.”

Inspirational Motivational Attitude Stones Optimism Block Optimistic Optimist Pessimist Stumbling Stepping Stones Stumbling Blocks

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“Good cheer is a state of mind or mood that promotes happiness or joy... With God’s help, good cheer permits us to rise above the depressing present or difficult circumstances. It is a process of positive reassurance and reinforcement. It is sunshine when clouds block the light.”

“Love could never bloom in a concrete block room.”

Rooms Block Concrete

Author:Janet Fitch

“I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real, to see day lilies and swimming pools, loyalty and devotion, even though my eyes were closed, and all that surrounded me was a darkened room. I wrote because that was who I was at the core, and if I was too damaged to walk around the block, I was lucky all the same. Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible.”

Ifs Knows Writing Stills Real Eye Purpose Walks Love Is Rooms Lucky Loyalty Core Devotion Block Lasting Swimming Pool Desks Lilies Swimming Pool

Author:Alice Hoffman

“And yet every so often, the heart of America, shuddering with indignation, sends a nervous spasm through the gentle back of the Andes, and tumultuous shock waves assault the surface of the land. Three times the cuppola of proud Santo Domingo has collapsed from on high to the rhythm of broken bones and its worn walls have opened and fallen too. But the foundations they rest on are unmoved, the great blocks of the Temple of the Sun exhibit their gray stone indifferently; however colossal the disaster befalling its oppressor, not one of its huge rocks shifts from its place.”

“Well, anyway, her death changed our lives for the better, because it brought a kind of awareness, a specific sense of purpose and appreciation we hadn't had before. Would I trade that in order to have her back? In a fraction of a millisecond. But I won't ever have her back. So I have taken this, as her great gift to us. But. Do I block her out? Never. Do I think of her? Always. In some part of my brain, I think of her every single moment of every single day.”

Thinking Wells Kind Moments Purpose Order Brain Taken Our Lives Awareness Changed Trade Appreciation Block Fractions Great Gifts

Author:Elizabeth Berg

“I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.”

People Men Hands Fate Protect Vote Intention Block Don't Trust Qualifications

Book:The Godfather

Source: The Godfather

“Home. Home was BAMA, the Sprawl, the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis. Program a map to display frequency of data exchange, every thousand megabytes a single pixel on a very large screen. Manhattan and Atlanta burn solid white. Then they start to pulse, the rate of traffic threatening to overload your simulation. Your map is about to go nova. Cool it down. Up your scale. Each pixel a million megabytes. At a hundred million megabytes per second, you begin to make out certain blocks in midtown Manhattan, outlines of hundred-year-old industrial parks ringing the old core of Atlanta.”

Source: Neuromancer

“Are you ready? I'm three blocks past ready. Pardon? Skip it.”

Past Three Ready Block Pardon Skip

Author:Timothy Zahn

“He felt full of a dense and sour substance that was blocking his chest, and it wasn't grief. After all those years, life now seemed like no more than a trap, a maze, not even a maze, just a room that was all walls, no door.”

Years Felt Rooms Grief Doors Wall Block Substance Chests Traps Sour Dense Mazes

Author:Etgar Keret

“I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away.”

Want Reality Night Air Tears Summer Empty Clouds Legs Block Burning Hills Throat Concrete Floating Lungs Floats Summer Nights Floating Away

Book:The Kite Runner: Rejacketed

Source: The Kite Runner: Rejacketed

“Through my blue fingers, pink grains are falling, haphazard, random, a disorganized stream of silicone that seems pregnant with the possibility of every conceivable shape… But this is illusion. Things have their shape in time, not space alone. Some marble blocks have statues within them, embedded in their future.”

Seems Fall Space Possibility Shapes Illusion Blue Fingers Block Streams Grain Pregnant Statues Marble Embedded Disorganized Haphazard

Author:Alan Moore

“We are walking down the street holding hands. There is a playground at the end of the block, and I run to the swings and I climb on and Henry takes the one next to me facing the opposite direction. And we swing higher and higher passing each other, sometimes in synch and sometimes streaming past each other so fast that it seems we are going to collide. And we laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost or dead or far away. Right now we are here and nothing can mar our perfection or steal the joy of this perfect moment.”

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