Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes
Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too late.Roy Blount, Jr.
Quotes to Explore
-
The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
Karl Philipp Moritz -
Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
Ovid -
If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.
Feng Zhang -
My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
Ada Yonath -
Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
Yakov Smirnoff -
When the phonies are expelled from their leadership roles and the Republican Party backs a moderate gubernatorial candidate acceptable to the rank and file with proper financing and the intestinal fortitude to fight the good fight, the rank and file will rejoin the fold.
Carl Paladino
-
I did go through a phase where I played videogames quite often, but I haven't in a few years.
Zuleikha Robinson -
I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason - to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.
Dalai Lama -
In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.
Victor Kiam -
I never had high expectations going into Hollywood. I went there just to work.
Dana Ashbrook -
We are the storytelling animal.
Salman Rushdie
-
A freewheeling mind can conceive a virtually infinite number of sequences, but just how that mind picks out and stores those that may perhaps be used later to deal with a given tension, a given situation, is far beyond my understanding.
Patrick O'Brian -
I know that a ridiculous number of classic serials have been commissioned, and that reviews show a reaction against them. The critics seem fed up.
Andrew Davies -
I just wear jeans, big motorcycle boots and T-shirts that are way too big for me. I like anything that has lived a little bit, that has traces of life on it. Knitwear that's a tiny bit too long because you've pulled it with your hands, or jeans that are starting to get holes.
Clemence Poesy -
A lot of these things will fly in later forms on the space station themselves, or a later form of that research will, once they kind of find out some of the basics from flying it on shuttle.
Linda M. Godwin -
Everyone has issues, and I'm not someone who likes to burden people.
Khloe Kardashian -
The most interesting thing was looking out the window and taking photographs of different places on Earth.
Leroy Chiao
-
A thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech.
William Butler Yeats -
It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I have a mindset that says bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view.
Richard Mourdock -
The bottom line is, the more we have a cadre of women moving up the scale, and it doesn't seem threatening, and people realize that women actually work much harder than men, and realize that they need more women in these jobs, I think that goes away.
Madeleine Albright -
Our borrowing capacity has been completely exhausted. We have no more assets to pledge.
Ed Bastian -
Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too late.
Roy Blount, Jr.