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

• 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

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

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Sun

• 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 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

• Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

  

  Chief Joseph
  • Heart
  • Forever
  • Sun

• I was a big shiny, glittery-type person. Now I'm a jeans and T-shirt girl, or I'll wear sun dresses and cowboy boots in the summer. But at first I had to have stylists tell me, 'That's ugly.'

  

  Miranda Lambert
  • Girl
  • Sun
  • Summer

• Winning the Super Bowl was obviously a great one, but the joy I felt of going to the Super Bowl, it was what I felt about the Pittsburgh Steelers and where we came from, the history of us to that point.

  

  Joe Greene
  • Great
  • History
  • Joy

• Gambling is part of the human condition. I love it. I have the best time gambling. I've been winning fortunes, and I've been losing them.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Time
  • Winning

• But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong.

  

  James Wolfensohn
  • Winning
  • Horse

• I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.

  

  Bill Veeck
  • Important
  • Winning

• To win Best Director at Sundance was beyond anything I could have imagined for myself. It's still an incredible feeling to know I won. But as happy as I am about winning, I also know many other women of color have directed amazing films over the years that were equally deserving and didn't win.

  

  Ava DuVernay
  • Women
  • Happy
  • Feeling

• You can't win a marathon without putting some bandaids on your nipples!

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Winning
  • Marathon
  • Nipples

• We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Life
  • Real
  • Know

• Everybody makes money for a living, but most of us actually do something that has a point, in addition to just making money. We examine and treat patients, we teach students, we draw up contracts and wills, we write for newspapers, magazines, and web sites, we clean floors, or we serve meals.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • Up
  • Money
  • Treat

• 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