[ Link to tweet https://twitter.com/dril/status/473706394009759744] <br class="br">Tweets by year, 2014
“Not merely a chip of the old 'block', but the old block itself.”
William Pitt the Younger (1759–1806) British politician
Nathaniel Wraxall, "Historical Memoirs of My Own Time", part 2.
Edmund Burke's reaction to Pitt's maiden speech in Parliament. The 'old block' was William Pitt the Elder.
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“Write your way out of a thinking block—because you'll never think your way out of a writing block.”
Merlin Mann (1966) American blogger
Wired Magazine https://archive.is/20130630162633/www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/17-08/pl_brown <br class="br">Tweeting as @hotdogsladies
“He was not merely a chip of the old Block, but the old Block itself.”
Edmund Burke (1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman
On Pitt's First Speech (26 February 1781), from Wraxall's Memoirs, First Series, vol. i. p. 342
1780s
“Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun.”
Mikhail Baryshnikov (1948) Soviet-American dancer, choreographer, and actor born in Letonia, Soviet Union
“Do not block the way of inquiry.”
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist
Vol. I, par. 135
Collected Papers (1931-1958)
David Gubbins (1947) British university teacher
Explosions generate elastic waves by an impulsive change in volume in the material. Small explosive charges are used in controlled-source seismic experiments in which the waves penetrate only a few kilometres into the earth.
[Seismology and plate tectonics, 1990, http://books.google.com/books?id=tZRxPzwoChIC&pg=PA12] (p. 12)
Seismology and Plate Tectonics (1990)
“Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.”
Norman Mailer (1923–2007) American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate
“writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: The Last Night of the Earth Poems
