Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes

Obama's the most thoughtful-sounding president I can remember. He seems to be saying what he wants to say, and that is a great relief. He always sounds like he's thinking about what he's saying while he's saying it, and that's a rare thing in politicians.

Roy Blount, Jr.

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• I was not so interested in night-after-night coverage of Michael Jackson's death or Britney Spears' latest breakdown - topics that were 'breaking news' at the time.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Time
  • Death
  • Night

• There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Marriage
  • Hidden
  • Sword

• Reverence is fatal to literature.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Literature
  • Reverence
  • Fatal

• It's interesting, because I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her. All the survival stuff, too. And then the next album is 'Maya,' which is not my real name. It's fake.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Real
  • Interesting
  • Dad

• I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Writing
  • Process
  • Interested

• He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Strong
  • Strength
  • Others

• The American consumer, even today, the weight of the American consumer in the global economy is China plus India doubled. So, it's tough to replace that.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • American
  • Today
  • Tough

• Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the formulation of the two Judiciary Committees, all of whom are lawyers, and the Congress is predominately a lawyers' body.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Law

• I grew up in Brentwood, but I live now in Los Feliz. I grew up on the beach, now I live under the Hollywood sign.

  

  Adam Shankman
  • Up
  • Live
  • Beach

• There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.

  

  James Cameron
  • People
  • Faith

• In the 20 years before Greece end up with the Euro, efforts to improve competitiveness through exchange rate and adjustments resulted only in temporary gains of competitiveness.

  

  Lucas Papademos
  • Up

• When they have their hands on their knees, that's when they're tired.

  

  Eric Dickerson
  • Tired

• I think my wife would take objection to any characterization of me as perfect.

  

  Peter Blair Henry
  • Perfect
  • Wife

• My being bought as a politically outspoken artist is a more potent advertising tool for Apple than a 100 more explicit ads.

  

  Anohni

• Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning.

  

  Joan D. Vinge
  • Time

• I never conceived of not writing a novel. I believed - oh, God, I believed, it was an article of faith! - I was born to write a novel.

  

  Cynthia Ozick
  • God
  • Writing
  • Faith

• People will always try to change you. They will always want you to be who they want you to be. That's fine because I'll always be exactly who I want to be.

  

  Draymond Green
  • People
  • Change
  • To Be

• I think the value in books like mine, and a great number by other talented writers, is in the ability to bring dark subjects into the open where they are not so dark, where they can be talked about and considered by teens and adults alike.

  

  Chris Crutcher
  • Great
  • Value
  • Dark

• I tend to write my beginnings and endings first - as a cartoonist and storyteller, I couldn't sit down every day if I didn't know where the story was headed.

  

  Jeff Lemire

• International trade theory has, in my opinion, given far too much attention to the effects of certain variations, for example, in duties, on the national incomes, and too little to the effects on individual incomes. In many cases, changes in the sums count for very little, while changes in the individual incomes are distinctly relevant.

  

  Bertil Ohlin
  • Attention
  • Opinion

• I have no artistic sensibilities. I wish I did. It is probably really cool. I have work habits and work ethic. For me, all the things I do are jobs.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Wish
  • Habit
  • Ethics

• Obama's the most thoughtful-sounding president I can remember. He seems to be saying what he wants to say, and that is a great relief. He always sounds like he's thinking about what he's saying while he's saying it, and that's a rare thing in politicians.

  

  Roy Blount, Jr.
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • President