A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.

- Cullen Hightower

The problem with TV now is that there's so much competition, that you're always on the chopping block.

- Elisha Cuthbert

But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.

- Ed Bradley

My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.

- Damon Wayans

The actual work of recording a record or making a film just requires that you consciously block the time out to do that and nothing else. That's what I do.

- Dwight Yoakam

I've been around the block a couple of times, and the guy I am now is the guy I like to be.

- David Johansen

I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.

- David Guterson

I'm not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.

- Dick Cavett

I've never had writer's block.

- David Byrne

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

- Dan Rather

I promised myself that I'd never actually admit to listening to 'New Kids on the Block.'

- Alicia Keys

Sometimes I have to deal with trolls, and I just block them. But most of the time, Twitter's heaps of fun, actually.

- Chet Faker

There's no writer's block; there's only distraction.

- Carolyn Chute

On 'Sin Nombre,' Adriano Goldman and I improvised a lot of things on-site. We were working with untrained actors, and you can't really block a scene in a traditional way.

- Cary Fukunaga

There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.

- Carl Hiaasen

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

- Bill Russell

Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we're the biggest weirdos on the block.

- Billy Bob Thornton

At the end of the competition, I played the Liszt concerto and I felt my head was on the block. Well, I won.

- Andre Boucourechliev

When you're writing in big block paragraphs, you can afford to have a redundant sentence now and then, but the Twitter format requires concision.

- Anthony Marra

Television? It's a gateway to writer's block, isn't it?

- Alex Turner