Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes
A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.
Roy Blount, Jr.
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Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.
Irving Thalberg
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Victor Koo
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Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
Harold S. Geneen
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This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.
Zane Grey
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On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on my collection of poems 'Native Guard.' I was there over a summer doing research in the archives and then writing in the reading room at the Jefferson building.
Natasha Trethewey
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We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, 'dream on'. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories.
Hannah Kent
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I'm sure that everything you do contributes to the sort of novel that you write. A lot of actors have an understanding of drama and a good ear for dialogue and also the rhythm of speech. Similarly, my 16 years in radio drama has influenced me. You only have 45 minutes, or 7,000 words, to tell a story, so every scene has to have a point.
Rachel Joyce
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I have an intense dislike of doctrines, because you will always end up eating your words.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman
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Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
Samuel Johnson
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Bachelors know all about parties. In fact, a good bachelor is a living, breathing party all by himself. At least that is what my girlfriend said when she found the gin bottles under the couch. I believe her exact words were, 'You're a disgusting, drunken mess.' And that's a good description of a party, if it's done right.
P. J. O'Rourke
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All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I struggled to resolve this dilemma by writing plays and novels. The more I wrote, the more I realized mere words were not enough. So I found another form of expression.
Yukio Mishima
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The symbol is the tool which gives man his power, and it is the same tool whether the symbols are images or words, mathematical signs or mesons.
Jacob Bronowski
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No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
Lord Byron
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At best Americans give but limited attention to history. Too much happens too rapidly, and before we can evaluate it, or exhaust its meaning or pleasure, there is something new to concern us. Ours is the tempo of the motion picture, not that of the still camera, and we waste experience as we wasted the forest.
Ralph Ellison
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Ideally, I'd like to go right back to getting $7 million a picture and being the headliner. That's probably not going to happen.
Chevy Chase
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My family was always playing with words. It is little wonder that even after I got serious about writing, I've had a hard time getting serious about words.
James Howe