Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes

If a cat spoke, it would say things like, 'Hey, I don't see the problem here.'

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• My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Women
  • Children
  • Father

• Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Bad
  • Friend
  • Lonely

• Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Mind
  • Control
  • Thoughts

• I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Never
  • Two
  • Journal

• Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • World
  • Never
  • Better

• Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Cotton Mather's publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Life
  • Book
  • Bible

• I like listening to Beyonce, and I like Jason Derulo. I love his new song 'Don't Wanna Go Home.'

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Home
  • Song
  • Like

• I'm just going to go live life. I'm going to go enjoy life. I have nothing left to hide. I am kind of a free person, a free soul.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Live
  • Soul

• If one person is spending all of their income on clothes, travel, hobbies, and entertaining, and one person is saving it, that may not be quite fair if and when you guys split up, depending on what the law is and what you decided to do.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Up
  • May
  • Law

• When I read a script, if I feel it's written with the idea of just bashing other people, then I shy away from it. Sometimes it's some guy coming out with his own hatred, and I don't need to be a part of it.

  

  Faran Tahir
  • People
  • Guy
  • Sometimes

• But let me do I will show the world what gymnastics looks like. Well may be this is a future gymnastics.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • World
  • Future
  • Like

• In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Nations
  • Many
  • Belonging

• The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.

  

  Orlando Aloysius Battista
  • Time
  • Children
  • Day

• The problem with listening to music today is that there's so much of it everywhere. We've got used to hearing music without actually listening to it.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Today
  • Problem

• Maybe the bike is more dangerous, but the passion for the car for me is second to the bike.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Passion
  • Car
  • Bike

• I'm a big believer that your life is basically a sum of all the choices you make. The better your choices, the better opportunity to lead a happy life.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Opportunity

• Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Good
  • English
  • Educated

• We have to come together, worldwide, and 'think.' We have a tool - the internet - to let us do that. Let's use it wisely.

  

  Jimmy Wales
  • Together

• It may sound cliché, but when you feel beautiful and strong on the inside, it shows on the outside.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • May
  • Beautiful
  • Strong

• What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Person
  • Say
  • Conscience

• The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Men
  • Real
  • Technology

• We believe, and so suggested a few years ago, that the action of alcohol on these chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an allergy; that the phenomenon of craving is limited to this class and never occurs in the average temperate drinker. These allergic types can never safely use alcohol in any form at all; and once having formed the habit and found they cannot break it, once having lost their self confidence, their reliance upon things human, their problems pile up on them and become astonishingly difficult to solve.

  

  William Duncan Silkworth
  • Problem
  • Difficult
  • Alcohol

• If a cat spoke, it would say things like, 'Hey, I don't see the problem here.'

  

  Roy Blount, Jr.
  • Problem
  • Cat
  • Hey