#blocks

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

#being #blocks #enough #fast #four

Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view. ↗

— Fridtjof Nansen

#always #another #beyond #blocks #disappointments

When you look more generally at life on Earth, you find that it is all the same kind of life. There are not many different kinds; there's only one kind. It uses about fifty fundamental biological building blocks, organic molecules. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#building-blocks #earth #existence #life #molecules

When somebody follows you 20 blocks to the pharmacy, where they watch you buy toilet paper, you know your life has changed. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#buy #changed #follows #know #life

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

— J. J. Abrams

#down #pile #sees #tear #toddler

It's easy to be lazy when there's food lying around backstage or there's a fast-food joint a couple blocks away. But if you walk a little further, ask around a bit, of course there are exciting things to discover. ↗

— Alex Kapranos

#ask #away #backstage #bit #blocks

In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#building #building blocks #evolutionary #fact #fill

At the end of the day, it is about the album and book and also about setting the record straight, because 'American Idol' has done a great job of defaming my name and throwing a lot of mud at me for the past two years. So that set up a lot of roadblocks for me. ↗

— Corey Clark

#album #also #american #american idol #because

My style is about making things last forever. When you're on a budget, it can be daunting to spend $300 on a pair of boots or a coat. But such basics are the building blocks from which your look is crafted. ↗

— Nina Garcia

#basics #blocks #boots #budget #building

I have been running since I was 7. I was trying to restructure the way my body was made instead of trying to master the way I ran. I would get so frustrated with my starts in practices that I would just cry. When I ran, I wouldn't even try to get out of the blocks, I would just run. ↗

— Florence Griffith Joyner

#blocks #body #cry #even #frustrated