115 Blocks Quotes for You to Enjoy

Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down. J. J. Abrams

Down Sees He Pile Blocks Whenever Wants Toddler Tear

Most of the time, people look at a piece of art online when it is just a few blocks from their house. Changing the way you walk home everyday fills life with surprises. JR

Human settlements are like living organisms. They must grow, and they will change. But we can decide on the nature of that growth - on the quality and the character of it - and where it ought to go. We don't have to scatter the building blocks of our civic life all over the countryside, destroying our towns and ruining farmland. James Howard Kunstler

Life Nature Character Change Quality Will Building Living Ought Settlements Our Ruining Destroying Must Civic Scatter Over Like Countryside Towns Building Blocks Go Blocks Human Where Decide Organisms Farmland Grow Growth Living Organisms

They had the music being piped right out on the street. I'd be three or four blocks from there and I couldn't get there fast enough because I'd hear old Joe holler them words. Jay McShann

Music Words Old Three Enough Out Joe Had Because Blocks Hear Get Being Them Fast Street Right Four

For centuries, native Eskimos cut blocks of oil-soaked tundra from natural seeps to use as fuel. In the 1920s, explorers arrived and began poking holes. In 1968, they discovered Prudhoe Bay State No. 1, the largest oil field in North America and one of the largest in the world, and a year later the adjacent Kuparuk field, the second-largest. Jeanne Marie Laskas

Natural World Year Field State Later Bay Poking Year Later Arrived Blocks Discovered Began North North America America Native Oil Holes Fuel Centuries Cut Use Explorers Largest

New York being what it is, our museums are vertical, not horizontal. That means the stumbling blocks to architectural clarity are unavoidable - but certainly surmountable. Jerry Saltz

Our Clarity Unavoidable Horizontal Architectural New Stumbling Blocks Vertical York New York Being Means Certainly Museums

From the time I left the Marine Corps after serving as an infantry platoon and company commander in Vietnam, I decided that I would focus on immediate goals that inspired me to devote all of my energy to them, rather than putting together the more cautious and traditional building blocks of a predictable career. Jim Webb

Time Me Together Goals Marine Corps Focus Building Energy Corps Immediate Would Rather More Inspired Putting Devote Building Blocks Traditional Blocks Commander Cautious Left Infantry Than After Decided Predictable Them Vietnam Company Platoon Serving Career Marine

If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan majority from voting on the President's judicial nominees. John Cornyn

Voting Minority Submit President Willful Tactic Obstruction Majority Judicial Blocks Being Where Use Used Being Used Nuclear Here Bipartisan

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

Down Destroyed Wrong Tower Became Housing Opinion Built Blocks Replaced Sixties Them Fifties Communities Whole Fashionable Britain Pulled

That distinctive presidential conduct is now gone forever, banished to the snows of yesteryear by Barack Obama. From the beginning of his presidency to the present, he has spoken specifically and in unprecedented fashion of Republicans as his rivals, his stumbling blocks, the primary cause of his troubles. John Podhoretz

Fashion Cause Beginning Gone Presidency Presidential Distinctive Obama Unprecedented Troubles Rivals He Primary Spoken Stumbling Blocks His Conduct Forever Banished Barack Barack Obama Republicans Now Specifically Present

You have to say - and I do - that anything that blocks that cheapest possible point-of-care delivery of health is wrong. John Sulston

Health You Say Possible Delivery Cheapest Wrong Blocks Anything

We need to focus much more on the bottom 40 per cent. They are losing ground, and the fact that they are losing ground blocks social mobility and brings down economic growth. Jose Angel Gurria

Losing Focus Down Per More Economic Fact Economic Growth Bottom Blocks Mobility Cent Social Much Ground Growth Brings Need

Cryptography is the essential building block of independence for organisations on the Internet, just like armies are the essential building blocks of states, because otherwise one state just takes over another. Julian Assange

One day, I'd like to get a quadruple double, points, assists, rebounds and blocks. Kristaps Porzingis

Day One Day Points Like Blocks Get Double

Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on the blocks. Lawrence Halprin

Me People Walk Reading Beginning Nice Way Say Hoped Would Would-Be Able Examining Something True Also Blocks Very Just Forgot In The Beginning Quotations Place Use Nice Way Fountain

Writing a film is like building a brick wall. You have a plan, and you have the blocks. Then, somebody says, 'I think we'll take this stone out of here and put it over there. And while we're at it, let's make this stone red and that stone green.' Leigh Brackett

You Writing Somebody Building Think Says Out Take Put Red Over Like Make Blocks Wall Green Stone While Plan Then Brick Brick Wall Film Here

The building blocks of discrimination tend to be similar wherever you find them. Mary Beard

You Building Find Similar Tend Building Blocks Blocks Discrimination Wherever Them

Peter was 2 years and 10 months old when we began to study him. He was afraid of a white rat, and this fear extended to a rabbit, a fur coat, a feather, cotton wool, etc., but not to wooden blocks and similar toys. Mary C. Jones

Fear Old Rat White Fur Months Similar Feather Cotton He Study Toys Him Blocks Years Began Afraid Wooden Wool Etc Rabbit Coat Peter Extended

There are roles that are terrifying because they're large or you may feel that they're out of your line, but I'm never terrified once the actual work begins. Once you begin rehearsal, then it's small building blocks. It's solving little problems one at a time. Michael Emerson

Work Time You Problems Building Once Out Solving Small Never Feel Terrified Because Terrifying Building Blocks Line Blocks Begin Begins Roles May Little Then Your Rehearsal Large Actual

The relentless invisible storm of radio signals and electronic particles, the hustle and bustle, and the billions of petrol explosions in the engine blocks of trucks and cars seem to churn up the molecules of life and heaven so violently that the beautiful fogs are unable to hold together like they once did. Michael Leunig

Life Beautiful Together Car Once Relentless Signals Unable Hustle Seem Trucks Invisible Particles Like Blocks Up Did Heaven Hold Storm Engine Explosions Molecules Radio Billions Electronic Bustle Petrol Violently

And, you know, being able to wear the stars and stripes, when you step up on one of the blocks or, you know, when you step off of an airplane or when you hear the national anthem play, you know, it's one of the greatest feelings in the world because you know that there are people at home who are supporting you and watching you. Michael Phelps

Home You People World Feelings National Stars Airplane Stripes Wear Able Step Supporting Know Because Greatest Anthem Blocks Hear National Anthem Off Up Being Who Play Watching

Until the Nineteen-Eighties, when Deng Xiaoping designated the area as China's first special economic zone, Shenzhen had been a tiny fishing village. Suddenly, eleven million people appeared, seemingly out of nowhere; factories sprang up, often housed in hastily constructed tower blocks. Michael Specter

People First Out Seemingly Constructed Economic Area Factories Had Tower Until Blocks Been Fishing Up Often Tiny China Special Village Appeared Suddenly Nowhere Eleven Million Million People Zone

Then there was a kid in the neighborhood about three blocks away, his name was Bobby Beavis. Mike Judge

Three Kid Neighborhood About Name Blocks His Then Bobby Away

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