#lock

The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks. ↗

— Mahalia Jackson

#devil #gets #god #good #mad

The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking. ↗

— Peter Jackson

#blockbuster #dependable #filmmaking #forms #most

If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#during #go #his #jail #locked

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#air #beauty #been #between #blocks

I'm finally locked into the now, and it's great. ↗

— Rick James

#great #i #into #locked #now

I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#being #blocking #character #cliche #complicated

Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green. ↗

— Torquato Tasso

#grave #green #grey #his #locks

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#ever #except #man #money #wrote

We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#america #biggest #black #black and white #block

The current administration has made the decision to cut dollars going for community development block grants, for various incentives to bring cities back. ↗

— Stephanie Tubbs Jones

#back #block #bring #cities #community