Bob Quotes - Page 10

• If you wanted to, it would be easy to find some crappy lyrics [of Bob Dylan] from the Eighties to undermine the Nobel Prize.

  Bob Dylan

  Would Be, Easy, Nobel

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• Just in time for Bob Dylan to recoil from the attention, leave the city for Woodstock, and turn his back on fame.

  Bob Dylan

  Cities, Attention, Fame

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• "Tangled Up in Blue," shifts perspective several times during the song to tell a "tangled" version of [Bob] Dylan's marriage and dissolution.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Blue, Perspective

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• The confessional singer-songwriter movement of the 1970s was in full swing, and Bob Dylan's emotional album [ Blood on the Tracks] resonated with the times. There would be other hits, but never the same alchemy of emotion and time.

  Bob Dylan

  Emotional, Swings, Blood

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• Bob Dylan wrote in his elliptical memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, he was washed up in the 1980s, no longer a commercial success, and no longer putting out good work.

  Bob Dylan

  Good Work, Volume, Dylan

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• Everybody breaks sooner or later, Bob. Anyone can drown. Sometimes you see it. Most often, you don’t because the body protects and the skin hides, so drowning doesn’t look like drowning and some people scar so nicely. Take it from an expert.

  Ilsa J. Bick

  People, Skins, Looks

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• I climbed into Misery and called Uncle Bob. “We hooking up?” “Why does everything out of your mouth make me sound incestuous?” “Um, I wasn’t aware that it did. Perhaps you have a guilty conscience.” “Charley.” “Is there something you need to get off your chest? Besides that skank I saw you with the other day?

  Darynda Jones

  Uncles, Skanks, Mouths

  Darynda Jones (2013). “Fifth Grave Past the Light”, p.100, Macmillan

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• We got an expression ride back to the palace of Hades. Nico sent word ahead, thanks to some ghost he summoned out of the ground, and within a few minutes the Three Furies themselves arrived to ferry us back. They weren't thrilled about lugging Bob the Titan, too, but I didn't have the heart to leave him behind, especially after he noticed my shoulder wound, said, "Owie", and healed it with a touch.

  Rick Riordan

  Heart, Expression, Three

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• Any factual errors that remain are entirely the fault of Bob, who snuck into the offices at DAW to try to sabotage my book. I hate that guy.

  Jim C. Hines

  Hate, Book, Errors

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• He's a wallflower." And Bob nodded his head. And the whole room nodded their head. And i started to feel nervous in the Bob way, but Patrick didn't let me get too nervous. He sat down next to me. "You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Way, Rooms, Next

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• Where have you been?" I stepped into my apartment and met Uncle Bob's glare with one of my own. "Out trying to pass myself off as a movie producer to get hot guys to sleep with me. Where have you been?

  Darynda Jones

  Uncles, Sleep, Guy

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet”, p.114, Macmillan

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• Here there be monster." Bob whispered, half hysterically. "Run! Run already!

  Jim Butcher

  Running, Monsters, Half

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• Her phone rang again. “What?” she snapped as she answered it. Myrnin, of course. “Are you on your way?” “No!” “Claire, there are things to do.” “Here, too,” she said. “And I’m staying here, believe me.” Myrnin was silent for a beat, and then he said, “Bob would be very disappointed in you.” “Bob the spider?” “He looks at you like a mother, you know. I’m surprised at your lack of work ethic. Think of the example you set for—” She hung up on him and turned the phone on vibrate and relaxed in Shane’s arms.

  Rachel Caine

  Mother, Believe, Thinking

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• Myrnin was silent for a beat, and then he said, "Bob would be very disappointed in you.

  Rachel Caine

  Would Be, Silent, Beats

  Rachel Caine (2012). “Black Dawn”, p.223, Allison & Busby

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• In the dime stores and bus stations
 People talk of situations
 Read books, repeat quotations
 Draw conclusions on the wall
 Some speak of the future
 My love she speaks softly
 She knows there’s no success like failure
 And that failure’s no success at all -Bob Dylan, “Love Minus Zero / No Limit” (1965)

  Bob Dylan

  Zero, Wall, Book

  Love Minus Zero/ No Limit (1965 song)

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• With your silhouette when the sunlight dims Into your eyes where the moonlight swims, And your match-book songs and your gypsy hymns, Who among them would try to impress you? -Bob Dylan, "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” (1966)

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Book, Eye

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• It's quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star. I'd rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it.

  Bono

  Stars, Rocks, Culture

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• I am your friend Bob!

  Rick Riordan

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• Myrnin: "I shall name him Bob, Bob the spider" Claire: "You're insane." Myrnin: "Why Claire, I thought that was part of my charm." (something like that)

  Rachel Caine

  Names, Insane, Spiders

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• You have family", Bob said. "You have a wife who hates you. Kids who are furious with you. A brother and sister who make you insane. And a nephew who used to be kind of a drip but apparently is not so much of a drip now. That's called family".

  Elizabeth Strout

  Brother, Hate, Kids

  Elizabeth Strout (2013). “The Burgess Boys: A Novel”, p.303, Random House

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• Does Uncle Bob have anything?" "I heard he has an STD." "I mean on the women." "Oh, I have no idea if they have any STDs.

  Darynda Jones

  Uncles, Mean, Ideas

  Darynda Jones (2013). “Fifth Grave Past the Light”, p.159, Macmillan

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• A brilliant 1989 album, Oh Mercy; some career retrospectives; and two albums of American folk songs, with just Bob Dylan and his guitar and harmonica. All that culminated in the Grammy-winning comeback album, Time Out of Mind (1997). Once again, just as Dylan seemed to be out of it, he was back at the top of his game.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Winning, Games

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• My laboratory,' I said, experimentally, drawing out each syllable. 'Why is it that saying it like that always makes me want to follow it with 'mwoo-hah-hah-hahhhhh'? ' 'You were overexposed to Hammer Films as a child?' - Harry Dresden & Bob the Skull, Changes, Jim Butcher

  Jim Butcher

  Children, Skulls, Drawing

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• Unlike many Sixties rockers,[Bob] Dylan sang about getting old, about broken dreams. His return to roots music pointed the way for many of his contemporaries to forsake trying to sound 'current' and to instead make music that would stand the test of time.

  Jay Michaelson

  Dream, Roots, Broken

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• Bob had a dog buscuit stuck to his head. "How does he always get food stuck to him?" I asked Morelli. "I don't know," Morelli said. "It's a Bob mystery. I think stuff falls out of his mouth and he rolls in it. I'm not sure." -Morelli And Stephanie

  Janet Evanovich

  Dog, Fall, Thinking

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