--- title: "1 Dog Eyes Quotes By Roy Blount, Jr" description: "1 Dog Eyes quotes by Roy Blount, Jr. Plus more from Roy Blount, Jr and more Dog Eyes sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dde/roy-blount-jr-10266_cat_a-dog-will-make-eye-contact-a-cat-will-t_2636441.png" --- > [A dog will make eye contact. A cat will, too, but a cat's eyes don't even look entirely warm-blooded to me, whereas a dog's eyes look human except less guarded. A dog will look at you as if to say,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-blount-jr/a-dog-will-make-eye-contact-a-cat-will-too-but-a-cat-s-eyes-don-t/) [Roy Blount, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-blount-jr/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dde/roy-blount-jr-10266_cat_a-dog-will-make-eye-contact-a-cat-will-t_2636441.png) ## More by Roy Blount, Jr > [I think writer's block is simply the dread that you are going to write something horrible. But as a writer, I believe that if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-blount-jr/i-think-writer-s-block-is-simply-the-dread-that-you-are-going-to/) [Roy Blount, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-blount-jr/) > [Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-blount-jr/doctors-and-lawyers-must-go-to-school-for-years-and-years-often-with/) [Roy Blount, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-blount-jr/) > [Lots of people have expressed consternation that I haven't gotten rid of Southern accent, but I just never saw any reason to lose the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-blount-jr/lots-of-people-have-expressed-consternation-that-i-haven-t-gotten-rid/) [Roy Blount, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-blount-jr/) > [New York walking isn't exercise: it's a continually showing make-your-own movie.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-blount-jr/new-york-walking-isn-t-exercise-it-s-a-continually-showing-make-your/) [Roy Blount, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-blount-jr/) > [Going to Vanderbilt did a lot of things for me, and one of the things it cured me of was the need to follow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-blount-jr/going-to-vanderbilt-did-a-lot-of-things-for-me-and-one-of-the-things/) [Roy Blount, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-blount-jr/) > [I've never thought it was necessary to make fun of people - you can find fun in people without necessarily mocking them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-blount-jr/i-ve-never-thought-it-was-necessary-to-make-fun-of-people-you-can/) [Roy Blount, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-blount-jr/) > [Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-blount-jr/many-a-person-has-been-saved-from-summer-alcoholism-not-to-mention/) [Roy Blount, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-blount-jr/) > [Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-blount-jr/studying-literature-at-harvard-is-like-learning-about-women-at-the/) [Roy Blount, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-blount-jr/) > [Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-blount-jr/being-president-of-too-many-well-meaning-organizations-put-my-father/) [Roy Blount, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-blount-jr/) > [Twiddle-twiddle away at my softly clicky keyboard for a while, making twiddly adjustments all along- and then print what I have twiddled. Glare at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-blount-jr/twiddle-twiddle-away-at-my-softly-clicky-keyboard-for-a-while-making/) [Roy Blount, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-blount-jr/) > [That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-blount-jr/that-s-american-english-for-you-more-roots-than-a-mangrove-swamp/) [Roy Blount, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-blount-jr/) > [I do some eccentric dancing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-blount-jr/i-do-some-eccentric-dancing/) [Roy Blount, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-blount-jr/) > [“When mannequins have nipples, it's a cold-hearted world.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-blount-jr/when-mannequins-have-nipples-it-s-a-cold-hearted-world/) [Roy Blount, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-blount-jr/) > [I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word 'wince,' you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-blount-jr/i-just-think-lots-of-words-have-physicality-how-about-the-word-wobble/) [Roy Blount, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-blount-jr/) > [English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-blount-jr/english-is-an-outrageous-tangle-of-those-derivations-and-other/) [Roy Blount, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-blount-jr/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dog-eyes/roy-blount-jr/#itemlist", "name": "1 Dog Eyes Quotes By Roy Blount, Jr", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A dog will make eye contact. 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