#block

The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity. ↗

— Lewis Grizzard

#fears #football #game #get #life

This is certainly not the first case in which a merger approved in one place hasn't gone through in the other. There was a case last year where the merger between two EU companies was approved here and blocked in the U.S. ↗

— Mario Monti

#between #blocked #case #certainly #companies

I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not the kind of work I'm interested in. And frankly, it's not the kind of work I'm ever going to get. ↗

— Randy Harrison

#blockbuster #career #cruise #ever #frankly

Comparing Apple to Netflix is like comparing apples to oranges, especially if the oranges made so many mistakes that people stopped eating oranges and just went back to Blockbuster. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#apples #back #blockbuster #comparing #eating

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

I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, "You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit." As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit. ↗

— Mitch Hedberg

#business #came #casino #exit #fire

And we turned off and 30 miles south they're standing in the middle of our road blocking our way, stopped the car, got out, took us through the path in the woods, where the craft was on the ground. ↗

— Betty Hill

#car #craft #got #ground #middle

The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl. ↗

— Dave Barry

#blocks #building #building blocks #fire #four

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#ahead #blockhead #great #great person #make