Words matter. These are the best Tom Noddy Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If you blow enough bubbles, after a while you sort of get into it.
Bubbles are just a little liquid soap and a breath of air.
Bubbles are very simplified versions of some of the basic laws of the universe.
Bubbles are weird things. They’re not fragile. They’re infinitely flexible. They’re not what we think they are.
I’ve never blown an ugly bubble. Never. They’re all beautiful. They’re like jewels, transient jewels.
I had no plans to become a responsible person.
It’s an electrical network, isn’t it? It’s molecules in space… and they’re linked to each other electrically. Which is to say, one end of a soap molecule is attracted to a nearby water molecule electrically. The bubble is this network. The whole thing is inter-dependent.
If you look at the Karamazov Brothers on TV, they’re really small and the heart is taken out of their act. That’s true for most variety acts. I’m an exception. When the camera comes in close and looks at those soap bubbles, you can really see what bubbles do.
Bubble cubes are central to what I do.
I had dropped out of Memphis State University after two years because I felt the real world was too exciting.
The reason bubbles are spherical is that a sphere is the smallest, most economical form possible to contain a given volume.
Bubbles have more colors than a rainbow.
I’ve never had much and I’ve never needed much. If I had only two bucks in my pocket, I knew I could spend it because I could always do another show of some kind, even on a sidewalk.
I’ve never been jailed for a crime of violence.
I am not too interested in leaving the street people and joining the Establishment. I prefer street folks.
Bubbles are always new; you just can’t find an old bubble.
I love to make a living from blowing bubbles.
I had this memory of being with my aunt, who I loved, you know, and watching her blow some bubbles in sunlight, and my heart fluttered when I watched her.
There is a dream on the street. I hear it constantly – finding a piece of land, raising food, building a house. I hear talk of hopelessness. The price of land, you know. Housing is impossible. They are trapped in a cycle. How can you ask for a job after you’ve been sleeping in the bushes all night?
There is a lot of science in bubbles. They are just like our weather system. The earth is, in effect, trapped inside a liquid sphere, the troposphere, where our weather forms. The bright colors on the outside of a bubble are just varying thicknesses of bubble, just like the varying thicknesses of clouds.
On good days, I’ve done bubbles with as many as 38 faces – a row of pentagons, a row of hexagons, and another row of pentagons on bottom.
When I blow the head off a glass of Guinness or eat a slice of white bread, there are so many bubbles!
I didn’t want to go out at night and spend my money in bars and stuff like that, so when I came home at night, I just wanted to entertain myself.
I walked the rainbow trail for a good number of years.
I ended up living on Crete for eight months. I picked olives and did house painting and got broke.
I think the best thing about a bubble is that it pops and is gone. That is what makes it so precious.
My initial attraction was just the beauty. The colors were so beautiful, the spheres were so nearly perfect.
I enjoy the beauty of the bubble, they’re fluid and yet they have these geometric shapes so they do surprising things – two spheres become a single sphere – it’s what bubbles do.
I was never very good at stopping crowds. I started blowing bubbles to attract people.
I took a job at a factory in New Jersey to try to save money to go to Europe. When I took the job, I set a date for quitting. I was going to hitchhike around, be a hippie, see the world. I just wanted to be responsible long enough to get up the money to get there and trip around.