Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes

I think what's really hard is making sense and making what you write clear and smooth-flowing.

Roy Blount, Jr.

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• I've got a couple of Harleys and a couple of Ducatis.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Couple
  • Got

• Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Children
  • Think

• Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Children
  • Learn
  • Compromise

• I'm going to always bleed the red, white, and blue. I represented the U.S. in the Olympics; I love my country. But the U.S. fans will love you on Monday; if you lose, they'll hate you on Tuesday. If you win, it will be back to loving you on Wednesday.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Country
  • Hate
  • Win

• The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.

  

  Earl Long
  • Good
  • Know
  • Kind

• I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.

  

  Iman
  • Up
  • Size
  • Jeans

• Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • You
  • Education
  • Confidence

• I always like to have flowers on the table. I think they make it look special.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Think
  • Look
  • Flowers

• The truth is, I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists, I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• Every time Wimbledon is on, I am thinking, 'Yes, I could do the same and get out the racket.' Sadly, not the same results.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Same

• I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Tired
  • Year
  • Sickness

• I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Want
  • Baby
  • Italian

• At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Actress
  • Vengeance
  • Phased

• When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.'

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Man
  • Human
  • Beast

• When the first album came out and I heard 'Do It Again' on the radio, that was the greatest thing that had ever happened. After that, it was all downhill.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • First
  • Greatest
  • Radio

• I get a lot of credit for comb-overs. But it's not really a comb-over. It's sort of a little bit forward and back. I've combed it the same way for years. Same thing, every time.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Time

• The increasing diversification of media ecosystems after decades of state control, along with new digital tools that allow for greater citizen engagement, have led to a dramatic reshaping of the dynamics between citizens, media, and government.

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • Control
  • Engagement

• The great thing about 'Skins' is that it's not '90210.' We don't have to look stick-thin and ripped. Those shows send out the wrong messages by showing body-perfect people but not mentioning that they spend four hours a day in the gym to look that way.

  

  Kathryn Prescott
  • People
  • Great
  • Perfect

• The amount of nuclear material and by nuclear material, I don't mean nuclear weapons, I mean uranium, enriched uranium or even material that is in health facilities around the world is growing, which is good.

  

  Rafael Grossi
  • Growing
  • Health
  • Uranium

• 'Friends', even though it was the longest single job I've had, still to me at the end of the day, when it was over it was a job.

  

  David Schwimmer
  • Job
  • Friends
  • Single

• I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.

  

  Elliott Smith
  • People
  • Writing

• Anyway, the way political history is passed down is influenced and spoiled by the closeness of the writers to the political figures that they're writing about. It's a sad state of affairs, but there's probably more veracity of reporting in my work than there is in the newspapers.

  

  Raymond Pettibon Black Flag
  • Writing
  • Political
  • Affair

• I think what's really hard is making sense and making what you write clear and smooth-flowing.

  

  Roy Blount, Jr.
  • Writing
  • Hard
  • Clear