Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes

I always wanted to win the Super Bowl so I could take it and hold it and see what lies beyond it. I think it may be the sun.

Roy Blount, Jr.

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• I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • School
  • Me
  • Wanted

• I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Good
  • Sun
  • Lying

• Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Sun
  • Winter
  • Laughter

• After winning the European Championship with Spain, I know exactly how it feels to win a major trophy, and I know that, if we can win at Liverpool, it will feel the same or even better than it did with Spain.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Winning
  • Win
  • Same

• I'm still in the Dixie Chicks; we haven't broken up... I love the Dixie Chicks; it's the most fun I've ever had in my life. It was like winning the lottery.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Like

• When you're in a fighter jet and there's a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going through it, you shoot for that hole. You go vertical into the light, and suddenly, instead of gray and dark, it's light and blue. You are totally connected with the elements. You are in another world.

  

  Yves Rossy
  • World
  • Light
  • Dark

• The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Advice
  • Wanted
  • Welcome

• I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • Up
  • Time
  • God

• Yeah, they let me do whatever I wanted to.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Me
  • Wanted
  • Whatever

• Musically, I always wanted to experiment.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Always
  • Wanted
  • Experiment

• As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Language
  • Philosophy
  • Lying

• In our sun-down perambulations, of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngsters playing 'base', a certain game of ball ... Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our close rooms ... the game of ball is glorious.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Game
  • Air
  • Sun

• The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Sun

• He weeps! the falling drop puts out the sun; He sighs! the sigh earth's deep foundation shakes. If in His love so terrible, what then His wrath inflamed?

  

  Edward Young
  • Earth
  • Deep
  • Sun

• The days, the nights, flow one by one above us,The hours go silently over our lifted faces,We are like dreamers who walk beneath a sea.Beneath high walls we flow in the sun together.We sleep, we wake, we laugh, we pursue, we flee.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Together
  • High
  • Sleep

• He's definitely the best player in the NBA - to me. I don't know if winning the (MVP) award is important to him or not. But he has three (championship) rings and that's what it's all about.

  

  Kobe Bryant
  • Important
  • Player
  • Winning

• I have seen the mystics play there Once or twice but I knew they had a reason Enchantment plays it's cards all right Hand in hand with the working of the seasons Legends can be now and forever Teaching us to love for goodness sake Legends can be now and forever Loved by the sun, loved by the sun

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Hand
  • Forever
  • Sun

• 'The Practice' is one of my favorite shows of all time, and the first few seasons of that show were amazing, and then when they started winning the big case, it just got less interesting.

  

  Alec Berg
  • Time
  • Interesting
  • Amazing

• I said it's a cold universe and I don't mean that metaphorically. If you go out into space, it's cold. It's really cold and we don't know what's up there. We happen to be in this little pocket where there's a sun. What have we got except love and each other to guard against all that isolation and loneliness?

  

  David Chase
  • Up
  • Space
  • Universe

• Thoughts are like stars in the firmament; some are fixed, others like the wandering planets, others again are only like meteors. Understanding is like the Sun, which gives light to all the thoughts. Memory is like the Moon, it hath its new, its full and its wane.

  

  Margaret Cavendish
  • Light
  • Understanding
  • Thoughts

• The future never just happened. It was created.

  

  Will Durant
  • Future
  • Created

• I always wanted to win the Super Bowl so I could take it and hold it and see what lies beyond it. I think it may be the sun.

  

  Roy Blount, Jr.
  • Winning
  • Sun
  • Lying