« All Anchor Quotes · Roy Blount, Jr.'s Page

Anchor Quotes by Roy Blount, Jr.

2 Anchor quotes by Roy Blount, Jr.

A good book holds you down. It’s an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.
A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

More Quotes by Roy Blount, Jr.

Roy Blount, Jr. has 38 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.
I heard on public radio recently, there's a thing called Weed Dating. Singles get together in a garden and weed and then…
Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been…
Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.
When I was a little kid, of course, I was brown all summer. That's because I was free as a bird- nothing…
It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.
The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor', I replied, 'They used to say…
Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the…
Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.
A good book holds you down. It’s an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.
English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around…
I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.

See all 38 quotes by Roy Blount, Jr. »

More Anchor Quotes

Popular Anchor quotes from across the collection:

We must not lose hope. Hope is an anchor to the souls of men. Satan would have us cast away that anchor. — Ezra Taft Benson
Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty. — David Brinkley
We all have our convictions formed by different things, and mine are informed by my faith, they're informed by the Word of… — Kirk Cameron
For me, my family and my faith have been what's really been my anchor, and grounding me, and helping me navigate through… — Kirk Cameron
To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel you are… — Emile M. Cioran
My mother is everything to me. She's my anchor, she's the person I go to when I need to talk to someone.… — Demi Lovato
Like mighty eagle soaring light. O'er antelopes on Alpine height. The anchor heaves, the ship swings free, The sails swell full. To… — Thomas Lovell Beddoes
What an anchor is to a ship, hope is to the soul. Both ships and souls are kept safe by a firm,… — June Hunt
How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many little imperceptible… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down. — Antonio Machado
Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your… — Ulysses S. Grant
A babe is a mother's anchor. — Henry Ward Beecher

See all Anchor Quotes »

Browse Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes by Category