#block

I founded Netflix. I've built it steadily over 12 years now, first with DVD becoming profitable in 2002, a head-to-head ferocious battle with Blockbuster and evolving the company toward streaming. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#becoming #blockbuster #built #company #dvd

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#advantage #always #another #best #blockhead

If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you're so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries. ↗

— Bill Hicks

#block #cemeteries #clinics #favour #lock

I had my first kiss when I was 11, but I think I've blocked it out of my mind because it was so bad. I'm not even sure it counts as a kiss. ↗

— Niall Horan

#because #blocked #counts #even #first

Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men. ↗

— King Hussein I

#blocks #burden #civilized #developing #development

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#education #marble #sculpture #soul

My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres. ↗

— Carol Burnett

#away #behind #block #boulevard #followed

I've never had writer's block. ↗

— David Byrne

#had #i #never #writer

Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm. ↗

— Carlo Collodi

#cold #common #cozy #expensive #far

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

#being used #bipartisan #blocks #here #i