Matter Quote by Roy Blount, Jr Download Open image “Usage ain't always a matter of ought.” — Roy Blount, Jr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Matter Ought Usage
It is not the ought-ness of the problem that we have to consider, but the is-ness! — William Pickens Copy Share Image
I hate the word 'ought' - it always implies something dull, cold, and commonplace. The 'ought nots' of life are its pleasantest things. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Sometimes you can't be what you ought to be, you can't have what you ought to have. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
I am giving an account of what was, not of what ought or ought not to be. — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
It is not enough to understand what we ought to be, unless we know what we are; and we do not understand what we… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
One can aim at honor both as one ought, and more than one ought, and less than one ought. He whose craving for honor… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must all learn to live together as brothers. Or we will all perish together as foolsFor some strange reason I can never be… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Today I am determined to go through the day with ought hurting myself, or another, with my thoughts or my actions. — Gerald Jampolsky Copy Share Image
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… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
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… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
New York walking isn't exercise: it's a continually showing make-your-own movie. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Going to Vanderbilt did a lot of things for me, and one of the things it cured me of was the need to follow… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
I've never thought it was necessary to make fun of people - you can find fun in people without necessarily mocking them. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
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… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence. — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
My only close-to-game-plan is to follow good writing. If the writing is in TV or if it's in theater or in film, that's it.… — Adam Driver Copy Share Image
I've always been of the idea that is doesn't really matter where you are geographically - with 'Lonerism,' we made half the album in… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong.… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
You need to remind people that you vote, you matter, and that they can't succeed without your help. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I happen to think it's the politics that makes you electable, but the reason for that is politicians sometimes talk about electability as if… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
I think everyone will agree that it doesn't matter how we get to an international tournament. We are going to do whatever it takes. — John McGinn Copy Share Image
“Which people take the time to care for their souls, these days? I reckon not many. But...hear this: I think that maybe in our… — Susan Fletcher Copy Share Image
