Johnny Flynn

I think the truest things come from silence, but everything's always so clogged up with noise. If everything falls away, and you can truly listen to someone, giving them yourself and generosity, you can truly lose yourself in what they're saying. Like, not impose your ideas on what they're saying, but really tune into them.

South African Musician

Alberto Salazar

I'm doing great heart-wise. I get a complete stress test once a year, and those have gone well. I have stents in two arteries, and they are holding up. My other arteries haven't shown any additional clogging.

Cuban Athlete

Learned Hand

The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action.

American Judge

Katie Hafner

Unlike most divorced parents, whose interactions are confined to the topic of the kids, people still sharing a house have to talk about clogged sinks and moth infestations.

American Journalist

Joan Smalls

I try not to go to sleep with makeup, because I think it clogs your pores. I always wash my face with something that contains salicylic acid.

Puerto Rican Model

Sean Booth

The Internet's kinda in danger of getting heart disease pretty soon, I think. Arteries are getting clogged.

English Musician

John Dryden

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

English Poet

Horace

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

Roman Poet

Christian Louboutin

Something I really hate more than anything else is clogs.

French Designer

Elbert Hubbard

American Writer

Imagine something physically blocking movement, like a cork in a bottle.

Visual Imagery

Used metaphorically to describe barriers in processes or progress.

Figurative Use

Saying 'clog up' is usually redundant, just 'clog' is enough.

Avoid Redundancy

Can signify non-physical obstacles, like 'clogs in communication'.

Abstract Obstacles

Often used to describe delays in procedures or systems.

Procedural Delays

Indicates a problem needing attention to restore function.

Problem Indicator

Traditionally associated with Dutch culture.

Cultural Icon

Can be seen as a quirky or vintage style choice.

Fashion Statement

Use 'clogs' exclusively for the type of shoe described.

Specific Footwear

 organizations today we're drowning in process we process for everything we process for planning and process for budgeting process for performance reviews process for approvals we have process to change process and process to communicate and train on the now change process it's too much and it's like this plaque that's clogging organizational

Upgrading management...

 we're getting incredible yield rates. Natural polymers, well ... I think that's what's most important, because these polymers have been tried and tested in our ecosystem for the last billion years, in everything from mushrooms to crustaceans. They're not going to clog up Earth's ecosystems. They work great. And while, today,

Eben Bayer: Are...

 Clogs you up every time. Here, take this one instead." He gives us a prescription. We're looking at each other, and I looked at the doctor, and I said, "Why is it that it seems like you were able to accurately diagnose his condition, but this previous doctor wanted to order

Talithia Williams: Own...

 And that's actually kind of an important point in my presentation, because they hadn't invented the off switch. That was to come much later -- the off switch on appliances -- because it didn't make any sense. I mean, you didn't want this thing clogging up a light socket.

Jeff Bezos: The...

 and all owls that have the same curled and feather structure get really, really wet. when it rains and get really water clogged. So they love buildings where they get complete and total protection from the rain. So places like this, these old abandoned buildings

Finding Little Owls in...

 formed in the Pacific and plastic clogs the shores of even remote Pacific Islands the construction of coastal cities has brought about the loss of coral reefs mangrove forests and vast wetlands and the birds and marine life that once thrived there

Overview PIPE Exploring...

 gear that continues to kill. We're clogging the ocean, poisoning the planet's circulatory system, and we're taking out hundreds of millions of tons of wildlife, all carbon-based units.

Sylvia Earle: How to...

 discarded fishing nets gear that continues to kill were clogging the ocean poisoning the planet circulatory system and were taking out hundreds of millions of tons of wildlife all

TED Prize wish: Protect...

 and clean out clogged arteries along the way. Tiny chemical machines of the future can one day, perhaps, repair DNA. We are on the threshold of extraordinary advances,

Hidden miracles of the...

 they clogged the inlets and crowd the local residents the baboons who live here all year round can't help but take notice of the sheer numbers of new arrivals