(1036 quotes found)
“My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: "Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus."”
Carl Lewis
“Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it”
Michelangelo
“O, she misused me past the endurance of a block.”
William Shakespeare
“San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a poem, every dweller within immortal. That is the whole truth.”
William Saroyan
“You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too.”
Jennifer Capriati
“A book that is shut is but a block”
Thomas Fuller
“Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.”
Louis Binstock
“Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.”
Dan Rather
“I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.”
Auguste Rodin
“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”
Hal Borland
