Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes

English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.

Roy Blount, Jr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 4, 1941

Topics

BlueAncestorsEnemiesUpEnglish

There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.

John Bolton

New YorkBuildingLostNewUnited

When the market goes to hell, it's more of an opportunity than a problem.

John Fredriksen

OpportunityHellProblemMoreMarket

No writer must be measured by a word or paragraph. He is to be measured by his work - by the tendency, not of one line, but by the tendency of all.

Robert Green Ingersoll

WorkLineMustParagraphMeasured

The stuff that made me mad 20 years ago doesn't really make me mad any more.

Jeff Foxworthy

MeMadMoreYearsStuffMade

The Prime Minister in the UK thinks spending and borrowing more is the right thing to do in the circumstances, and is busily trying to bail out chunks of the private sector which would otherwise have to adjust more quickly to the painful reality that we have been living beyond our means.

John Redwood

RealityTryingLivingCircumstances

I grew up going to bakeries in Tel Aviv; that's where we got our birthday cakes, they were always European baking and butter creams. We have such good baking in Israel, and we have the Diaspora of Jews from all over, and we learned early on to adapt and absorb flavors from all over.

Ron Ben-Israel

BirthdayGoodBakingEarlyAdaptUp

I think anybody who really knows me knows I'm not a media hound and knows that I'm really sort of trying to do the best I can with the situation that I found myself in.

Monica Lewinsky

MyselfBestMeThinkMediaTrying

I think it's great now that we seem to be in an era where it's OK to be gay and I think that the society in North America has had more of a problem with it than any other society.

Jason Priestley

GreatSocietyThinkAmericaProblem

I'm not convinced that stealing an iPhone is a felony or stealing a bike is a felony.

DeRay Mckesson

BikeiPhoneStealingConvinced

Maybe I have to be more aggressive.

Chen Long

AggressiveMoreMaybe

There is too much disagreement for disagreement's sake. In a time of persistent challenges that still call into question our most sacred aspirations as a country, we cannot afford shallow callous divisiveness in our public debate.

Cory Booker

TimeChallengesCountryToo Much

In the harshness of the world of technology - in which feelings do not count anymore - the hope for a saving love grows, a love which would be given freely and generously.

Pope Benedict XVI

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