Roy Blount Jr. quote: "Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs."

Two young Harvard M.B.A.'s worked up some highly optimistic projections -- with the caveat that thes...
ROY BLOUNT, JR.

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.
ROY BLOUNT, JR.

Okay. You are somewhere, at least in theory, between Butte and Mobile, going faster than sound in a ...
ROY BLOUNT, JR.

Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanks...
ROY BLOUNT, JR.

The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'Th...
ROY BLOUNT, JR.

A dog will make eye contact. A cat will, too, but a cat
ROY BLOUNT, JR.

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

The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'Th...
ROY BLOUNT JR.

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.
ROY BLOUNT JR.

Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanks...
ROY BLOUNT JR.

Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.
ROY BLOUNT JR.

English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, f...
ROY BLOUNT, JR.

According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.
ROY BLOUNT, JR.

The local groceries are all out of broccoli, Loccoli.
ROY BLOUNT JR.

The local groceries are all out of broccoli, Loccoli.
ROY BLOUNT, JR.

Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.
ROY BLOUNT, JR.

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another g...
ROY BLOUNT, JR.

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another g...
ROY BLOUNT JR.

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

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic.
ROY JR. BLOUNT

I heard on public radio recently, there's a thing called Weed Dating. Singles get together in a ...
ROY BLOUNT, JR.

The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I repl...
ROY BLOUNT, JR.

When I weed, I like to get off into my own head. For one thing, my wife plants and I have trouble te...
ROY BLOUNT, JR.

I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that'...
ROY BLOUNT, JR.

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having anoth...
ROY BLOUNT, JR.

Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.
ROY BLOUNT, JR.

Eaters of Wonder Bread
Must be underbred.
So little to eat.
Where's the wheat?
ROY BLOUNT JR.

He just kind of hovers.
CORIE BLOUNT

Pricing should remain intact, ... Times are relatively good for the drive industry and everybody see...
HARRY BLOUNT

I have been striving for this all season. Getting this last one meant a lot to me. Now I can focus o...
VALERIE BLOUNT

One of the most underappreciated aspects of the Dell story is that its recurring revenue stream is g...
HARRY BLOUNT

He'd cuss me out, and then as soon as practice was over, he'd pull me over and told me he needed me ...
CORIE BLOUNT

Everybody's just so much more relaxed whether it's (in the clubhouse) playing ping-pong or just hang...
JODY BLOUNT

I went out there for five minutes and busted him. I talked (trash) for a day. I'm still trying to he...
CORIE BLOUNT

Developmental leases are legal, and are used in particular circumstances where the 16th Section is i...
DAVID BLOUNT

This points out what we consider to be a quirk in the law. While there is a qualifying deadline that...
DAVID BLOUNT

The Senators came to Jackson when we had no professional baseball and when many people thought we'd ...
DAVID BLOUNT

How will you know I am hurting if you cannot see my pain? To wear it on my body tells what words can...
CORIE BLOUNT

The only thing I knew about Cincinnati was WKRP, and that's the honest-to-God truth.
CORIE BLOUNT

I told my wife, when I was done playing ball, I wanted to be affiliated with this university. This i...
CORIE BLOUNT

He'd get that little floater over me. He was getting me at the right time. I couldn't do anything th...
CORIE BLOUNT

Things just happen like that to me, I've been blessed to catch those breaks so far. It seems like th...
CORIE BLOUNT

In times when North Carolina needs more money for education and roads and health care, we certainly ...
FERRELL BLOUNT

Sadly, it appears that the N.C. House of Representatives is for sale. It is an institution where eve...
FERRELL BLOUNT

He calls it helping his team. What he is really doing is selling out the people of North Carolina.
FERRELL BLOUNT

There needs to be some steps before this becomes a home theater system.
HARRY BLOUNT

Investors may fear the move signals management's lack of near-term visibility.
HARRY BLOUNT

We believe the likelihood of the merger going through remains high, but it is possible that the merg...
HARRY BLOUNT

It's legitimate to think we will see a slowdown in PCs and servers in 2005 but what the Street may b...
HARRY BLOUNT

Exodus blew away our revenue expectations. We are very pleased with these numbers, and we believe th...
HARRY BLOUNT

Overall, IBM will paint a picture that demand is solid. It may not be as robust as earlier in the ye...
HARRY BLOUNT

The stocks are still cheap and if the companies can continue to execute we could see further multipl...
HARRY BLOUNT

Everybody was having so much fun and laughing. It's great playing in this atmosphere - at the end ha...
JODY BLOUNT

I'm seeing a lot of good pitches right now, a lot of good fastballs. It's so much easier when you co...
JODY BLOUNT

It was definitely frustrating. (But) we never got too low. The lowest right now is probably in that ...
JODY BLOUNT

I thought for sure the government at some level would have solved my problems for me, but since that...
RICK BLOUNT

Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.
ROY D. CHAPIN JR.

His fierce appreciation of female beauty, the unrelenting desire he felt for their company, the plea...
ROY L. PICKERING JR.

...forever meant different things to people at different times. They could imagine what infinity loo...
ROY L. PICKERING JR.

Most people surrendered fairy tale hopes in exchange for cookie cutter lives
ROY L. PICKERING JR.

Nothing felt better to him than the act of waiting for her. As long as he believed it wasn’t in va...
ROY L. PICKERING JR.

It was almost as if she had willed him into existence, into standing before her at the precise momen...
ROY L. PICKERING JR.

On occasion he would think back to the fiercest passion it had been his pleasure to experience and r...
ROY L. PICKERING JR.

Perhaps all love stories no matter how varied are essentially the same.
ROY L. PICKERING JR.

...the locale did not make him think of her, nor did most things. He felt no negativity about the ti...
ROY L. PICKERING JR.

Life was a swirl of mysteries, each one waiting to be plucked up and explored, but not necessarily s...
ROY L. PICKERING JR.

Once you break someone’s heart, you are forever its master.
ROY L. PICKERING JR.

Was happiness (which was perhaps achieved not by getting what you wanted, but rather, by obtaining w...
ROY L. PICKERING JR.

Was she happy? She thought – yes, reasonably so. Then again, what was happiness but the vast terra...
ROY L. PICKERING JR.

And although he recognized that tenderness was not the same as passion, and certainly not equivalent...
ROY L. PICKERING JR.

C.J. had once believed that he understood who he was, what he was about, what he was capable of. But...
ROY L. PICKERING JR.

Every Dog has a day and every human has a life. It all depends on what you want to be. The strange t...
ROY

It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishm...
WILTON M. BLOUNT

His attentive treatment of her had nothing to do with the presumption that she was weak, and everyth...
ANGELA N. BLOUNT

I already knew our “ever after” wouldn't always be happy or even comfortable―and clearly it co...
ANGELA N. BLOUNT

I didn't just love him…I needed him. Not in some desperate "you complete me" sort of way. No, Vinc...
ANGELA N. BLOUNT

He's starting to become a big team leader for us because he's one of those guys that sets the tempo ...
COACH KERMIT BLOUNT

Romantic love, I think, requires a degree of physical attraction, but devotion is needed to maintain...
ANGELA N. BLOUNT

Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn't mean to take.
ANGELA N. BLOUNT

Monte has the ability to make plays when they aren't there, and that's what I'm looking forward to s...
COACH KERMIT BLOUNT

As far as I could tell, the quickest way to a geeky guy's heart usually involved geometric shapes.
ANGELA N. BLOUNT

It's not a problem for me, if it's meant to be, it's meant to be. We'll do what we have to do.
COACH KERMIT BLOUNT

He will not compete this spring. And that's all I can say about it.
COACH KERMIT BLOUNT

Those two guys will get a lot of reps this spring. So we'll definitely see what they can do at that ...
COACH KERMIT BLOUNT

I guess we'll just have to see what happens.
COACH KERMIT BLOUNT

His light doesn't come on until Saturdays.
COACH KERMIT BLOUNT

He's very intelligent on the field, and he's matured a bunch since last year. He's started to take t...
COACH KERMIT BLOUNT

Willie Jeffries told me that, and Bill Hayes told me that as well. If you worry what others say abou...
COACH KERMIT BLOUNT

I'm looking at it as I'm the best fit for the job. And I don't worry about that. If I start worrying...
COACH KERMIT BLOUNT

We still don't know about him at this point. He was still hobbling around on it. We'll hopefully kno...
COACH KERMIT BLOUNT

I know, I know…there’s something cliché about that. The heroine initially wanting to clobber a ...
ANGELA N. BLOUNT

The United States has practiced nuclear blackmail for many decades.
JR

The more social media we have, the more we think we're connecting, yet we are really disconnecti...
JR

A really important point for me is that I don't use any brand or corporate sponsors. So I have n...
JR

With 'Inside Out,' no matter how good the photo or how big the pasting, people will like it ...
JR

For me, the gallery legitimates the art production and helps build collections. I don't think an...
JR

My parents were born abroad. I was born in France, but I feel comfortable everywhere - I don't s...
JR

The Internet doesn't always play a great role for art, especially art in the street, as people t...
JR

When you're in New York, people don't say, 'We're happy you came to New York.' I...
JR

Art is not meant to change the world.
JR

I am an all-surface wallpaper man that retired to become a printer.
JR

Most of the time, people look at a piece of art online when it is just a few blocks from their house...
JR

The city's the best gallery I could imagine. I would never have to make a book and then present ...
JR

The beauty of an art project is that you cannot always measure the impact, but one day it can become...
JR

I should never impose an image forever. I like how ephemeral it can be.
JR

With humour, there is life.
JR

When I was little, I didn't really travel - from the suburbs to Paris was already a journey. I h...
JR

Can art change the world? Maybe... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives?
JR

If there's one thing I've always taken care of with my work, it's that it's never an...
JR

If you give me Times Square, I want to give it back to the people.
JR

I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people...
JR

What we see changes who we are.
JR

I started when I was 15 years old. And at that time, I was not thinking about changing the world, I ...
JR

Art is not meant to change the world, but when you see people interacting, when you see an impact on...
JR

I want to create the largest-ever participatory art project and highlight the concept of Shadow Phil...
JR

Even when I do really big pieces, I do them strips by strips - so you have to paste, you have to inv...
JR

The fact that I stay anonymous means I can exhibit wherever I want. No one knows my name, so it'...
JR

Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art ...
JR

There were miracles long before Christianity.
JR

There's a woman in China having a baby every 6 minutes. They're trying to find her to stop her.
JR

Capitalism is glorified institutionalized street crime.
JR

At the base of the eyelash is an invisible mite. Ask not what your mite can do for you but what you ...
JR

A bully is a coward turned inside out.
JR

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like th...
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?
ROY ROGERS

Who is a professional? A professional is someone who has a combination of competence, confidence and...
BUNKER ROY

Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds.
ARUNDHATI ROY

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

I think the kind of landscape that you grew up in, it lives with you. I don't think it's tru...
ARUNDHATI ROY

Gentlemen, I find the law very explicit on murdering your fellow man, but there's nothing here a...
ROY BEAN

Hang 'em first, try 'em later.
ROY BEAN

And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growin' brown and golden under a sinkin'...
ROY BEAN

I know the law... I am it's greatest transgressor.
ROY BEAN

Time will pass and seasons will come and go.
ROY BEAN

The first voice they hear is mine, the first touch they feel is mine, the first human face they see ...
ROY HORN

I don't want to play games with anybody, to our fans, to Pierre Lacroix, or any other NHL team t...
PATRICK ROY

A big part of my decision is not made about whether I'm able to coach in the NHL or if I'm r...
PATRICK ROY

I adore this adventure, I adore working with youth. For me it's a daily challenge, working to he...
PATRICK ROY

He punched me. If that's his best punch, he'll be in trouble some day.
PATRICK ROY

My quality of life here in Quebec City is extraordinary.
PATRICK ROY

I am really focused on how I can improve myself and the world around me.
RACHEL ROY

I have always admired the way women put outfits together.
RACHEL ROY

I always keep a woman's body in mind, accentuating her best features.
RACHEL ROY

I care about how you feel when you're wearing something, because I think that if you feel confid...
RACHEL ROY

I dress women the way I see them and the way I envision them from day one, thus my customer knows th...
RACHEL ROY

If you want to play it safe, mix a lot of colors in the same tone and that is such an easy way to fe...
RACHEL ROY

I believe clothing tell a story.
RACHEL ROY

I am inspired by life, past experiences, what's to come, women around me, art, colors, paintings...
RACHEL ROY

You should always feel confident in everything you wear, no matter what trend you fit or don't f...
RACHEL ROY

Not everyone has to be a model and a designer, there are so many other options that are great and lo...
RACHEL ROY

I've always loved fashion so much and I didn't have access to the kind of fashion I really w...
RACHEL ROY

I realize I never stand out in a room unless I'm feeling balanced, centered and happy. It sounds...
RACHEL ROY

As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.
RACHEL ROY

I think that a woman wears so many hats, we have so many aspects to us that we're not just one t...
RACHEL ROY

If I didn't love the hourglass, I wouldn't love myself.
RACHEL ROY

When I look at pictures when I was younger, I do the quintessential cringe.
RACHEL ROY

I would not invest in any shoe that is too trendy.
RACHEL ROY

I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people...
RACHEL ROY

At the end of the day, I want to create collections that, although I am inspired by very creative wo...
RACHEL ROY

Because my business life is so busy, my home is really my sanctuary. That is where I reflect and spe...
RACHEL ROY

There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything ...
RACHEL ROY

I'm inspired by different cultures around the world and love to incorporate these facets into my...
RACHEL ROY

I love to smell like roses, literally all day!
RACHEL ROY

Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.
ROY ORBISON

Every song has a bouquet, which is the music. If you can put words with something that is really apt...
ROY HARPER

At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism.

Buil...
ARUNDHATI ROY

I've really learned a lot, really learned a lot, love is like a stove, burns you when it's h...
ROY ORBISON

One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
GABRIELLE ROY

The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his j...
GABRIELLE ROY

My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay...
GABRIELLE ROY

Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.
ROY ACUFF

Some writers like to boil down headlines of liberal newspapers into fiction, so they say there shoul...
ARUNDHATI ROY

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.
ROY HATTERSLEY

It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact...
ARUNDHATI ROY

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
ROY THOMPSON

You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranqu...
ARUNDHATI ROY

Electricity produced in the name of the poor is consumed by the rich with endless appetites,
ARUNDHATI ROY

I think many people were surprised by the victory of the Congress, because it was really hard to see...
ARUNDHATI ROY

The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we ca...
ARUNDHATI ROY

Why not have your nuclear bombs in your briefcase? All of these policies that America upholds, nucle...
ARUNDHATI ROY

Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse ...
ARUNDHATI ROY

The NBA for the last 20 years approached every single institutional democratic body.
ARUNDHATI ROY

Another religion turned against itself, another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by ...
ARUNDHATI ROY

You would remember in October 2000 the court had given its judgement, it had told the government giv...
ARUNDHATI ROY

Refuse to wave the flag Refuse to move the missiles from the warehouse to the dock.
ARUNDHATI ROY

10 million people marched against the war on 5 continents in the most united opposition to war ever ...
ARUNDHATI ROY

Bring to a boil Add oil Then bomb Ms Roy is author of the God of Small Things.
ARUNDHATI ROY

The world's 'freeest' country has the highest number in prison.
ARUNDHATI ROY

But when they made love he was offended by her eyes. They behaved as though they belonged to someone...
ARUNDHATI ROY

If you're happy in a dream, does that count?
ARUNDHATI ROY

When you encourage others, you boost their self-esteem, enhance their self-confidence, make them wor...
ROY BENNETT

Stay strong, stay positive, and never give up.
ROY BENNETT

Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations bui...
ROY BENNETT

...the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the on...
ARUNDHATI ROY

Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.
ROY BENNETT

Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, knowing something is more important than fear and ...
ROY BENNETT

Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward.
ROY BENNETT

To have what you have never had, you have to do what you have never done.
ROY BENNETT

Do what you love, love what you do, and with all your heart give yourself to it.
ROY BENNETT

Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs.

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Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs.

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