Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.
-
Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
-
If you say you want to automate cars and save people's lives, the skills you need for that aren't taught in any particular discipline. I know - I was interested in working on automating cars when I was a Ph.D. student in 1995.
-
Does one ever know oneself why one laughs?
-
I had a conversation here today with someone asked, ‘Well, what about Pence? If you are able to impeach, Pence will be worse. Well, I said, ‘Look, one at a time. You knock one down, and we’ll be ready for Pence. We’ll get him, too.'
-
I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
-
It is one of the truly unique venues in America.
-
Once when I was lost I asked a policeman to help me find my parents. I said to him, 'Do you think we'll ever find them?' He answered, 'I don't know, kid. There are so many places they can hide.
-
Perhaps there were a few million dollars that might have been stolen in the process. But how many millions of dollars have we saved because we have re-established the stability of Canada by keeping it a united country?
-
When we ask God to 'bring an end to our enemies,' we should be thinking about Iran, those evil ones who threaten Israel.
-
Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?
-
When I was younger, I never wanted to rehearse because I thought that someone would figure out I don't know what I'm doing.
-
I think I have been much of my life an irritant. But some people say that something good came out of my research, something valuable that could be regarded as a pearl, and I can assure those who worked with me it was you who made the pearls and I was merely the grain of sand, the irritant to produce the pearls.
-
We need someone who is a strong representative of our value system.
-
I aint know the police was from Babylon And I aint know Im cold just like an avalanche
-
My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.
-
I like weeding, but I tend to think of it as a solitary activity.
