Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes

When I was a little kid, of course, I was brown all summer. That's because I was free as a bird- nothing to do but catch bugs all day.

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• When caught in the clutches of a predator, the jelly produces a light display that is a pinwheel of light that is basically a call for help. It serves to attract the attention of a larger predator that may attack their attacker, thereby affording them an opportunity for escape.

  

  Edith Widder
  • May
  • Help
  • Opportunity

• It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • World
  • Live
  • Example

• A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Changed
  • Lot
  • Survivor

• My parents live in the part of the United States that is Canada. It is so far north that Minnesota lies in the same direction as Miami. They have four distinct seasons: Winter, More Winter, Still More Winter, and That One Day Of Summer.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Live
  • Parents
  • Day

• I'm not interested in being Franchise Boy.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Boy
  • Being
  • Franchise

• Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.

  

  Haim Ginott
  • Goals
  • Impossible
  • Miracle

• Due process gives teachers the latitude to use their professional judgment in their classrooms, to advocate for their students, and to not fear retribution for speaking the truth or teaching controversial subjects like evolution. As political winds shift in school districts, due process also wards off patronage or nepotism.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • School
  • Truth
  • Political

• We are here today because of grass-roots conservatives all over the place. That's the way the democratic process is supposed to work. It's not supposed to be a bunch of guys in a smoky room in Austin picking the next Senator.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Work
  • Today
  • Process

• My children are grown now, they are more independent.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Children
  • Independent
  • Now

• The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • Issues
  • Vote
  • Only

• There's a fun, nostalgic aspect to Legos - people connect to the art on a different level. But it's also a medium that lets me design anything I can imagine. I especially enjoy creating curvy forms using rectangular pieces. Up close, you notice the sharp angles, but when you back away, the corners blend into curves.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Work
  • Music
  • Together

• The name ‘London Banker’ had especially a charmed value. He was supposed to represent, and often did represent, a certain union of pecuniary sagacity and educated refinement which was scarcely to be found in any other part of society.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Society
  • Value

• Sometimes it’s important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it

  

  Larry Page
  • Up
  • Great
  • Important

• Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ, by commanding his followers to lay down their own lives.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Death
  • Jesus

• The longest journey begins with a single step, not with the turn of an ignition key. That’s the best thing about walking, the journey itself. It doesn’t much matter whether you get where you’re going or not. You’ll get there anyway. Every good hike brings you eventually back home. Right where you started.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Good
  • Home
  • Single

• Advice to a Young Tradesman, Written by an Old One (1748), as quoted by Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Chapter II: The Spirit of Capitalism, 1905. 12, 3

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • Advice

• The Chippendale's dancers are gay. They're gay. Because there is no such thing as a straight man with visible abdominal muscles. You have to suck cock to get that kind of muscle definition. It doesn't work for women. You know, I tried, OK?

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Work
  • Women
  • Gay

• It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Men
  • Money
  • Desire

• My character on 'Orange is the New Black' is not one that requires being absolutely shredded with 5% body fat. But I wouldn't be opposed to doing that for a role one day.

  

  Matt McGorry
  • Character
  • Black

• Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Men
  • Women
  • Day

• This administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations.

  

  Ralph Nader

• So much emotion can be brought in an animated film that's very hard to get in a live-action film. I haven't quite put my finger on why, but it might be because the characters can make facial expression that, if you made them in a movie, they'd call them corny.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Character
  • Film
  • Emotion

• When I was a little kid, of course, I was brown all summer. That's because I was free as a bird- nothing to do but catch bugs all day.

  

  Roy Blount, Jr.
  • Summer
  • Bird
  • Courses