Top 35 Tom Noddy Quotes

Bubbles are incredibly basic. We think of them in that way just because they’re a kid’s toy. But I think it’s more basic than childhood, something primal – the liquid, the flow, the shapes. We were liquid at one point in our development.

I love to make a living from blowing bubbles.

Mathematicians are stiff abstract guys. They’ll tell you they don’t need the physical world. But then when I show them my bubbles they’re like little children.

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’m just a guy entertaining people and telling the truth and teaching them science.

Bubbles are one of the few things in life that we are allowed to break.

I use ordinary soap bubbles, the dime-store stuff, two wands and a plastic straw.

I tried to do a puppet show on the streets, and I wasn’t a very good street performer. But I found that I could stand in one place in Central Park and bounce a soap bubble on my arm, and I didn’t have to gather a crowd for the puppet show. I had a crowd.

I was in my hippie stage. It was tough for my father. First it was the long hair, then the bubbles.

I was really inspired by keeping alive these things of my childhood.

I ended up living on Crete for eight months. I picked olives and did house painting and got broke.

When I blow the head off a glass of Guinness or eat a slice of white bread, there are so many bubbles!

I’d do the Mount St. Helen’s trick, where the smoke comes out of the top. I wouldn’t even have to look at people. I’d hear that ‘Ahhhh!’

The reason bubbles are spherical is that a sphere is the smallest, most economical form possible to contain a given volume.

I needed to entertain myself at home nights… I got a jar of bubbles.

I had no plans to become a responsible person.

Bubbles are just a little liquid soap and a breath of air.

My initial attraction was just the beauty. The colors were so beautiful, the spheres were so nearly perfect.

We thought we completely understood bubbles when we were kids. But we didn’t. Bubbles are these amazing things. It’s just that people aren’t paying enough attention.

When I do the dodecahedron with the science audiences, I’ll point out that I can only do three of the five forms with bubbles, since bubbles only join at three-way corners. The two I can’t do are the ones that represent water and air. That always gets a big laugh from the mathematicians. They see the irony in it.

There’s a brand, Mr. Bubble, that is sometimes called other things, like Mickey Mouse or other names. That’s the stuff I use.

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.

I love hands-on science and teaching the kids. I love to see kids experiment with things that they can make happen. Not just something you read the directions to and put it together that way. Things that can be constructed, something they can touch. What a great day when you can touch a child’s mind with these ideas.

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 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.

I had to find a way to get off the streets because it was too windy. So I started organizing variety shows of street performers. I would rent a hall, cafe or bar so I could put on a show. I did that for years before the ‘Tonight Show With Johnny Carson’ heard about this odd thing I did with bubbles.

I am not too interested in leaving the street people and joining the Establishment. I prefer street folks.

If you blow enough bubbles, after a while you sort of get into it.

If you look at the soap bubbles in the sink when you’re doing dishes, you’ll see the incredible diversity of shapes in there. There are cubes in there; there are decahedrons and tetrahedrons; there are odd, irregular shapes without names, you know.

I’ve never blown an ugly bubble. Never. They’re all beautiful. They’re like jewels, transient jewels.

Bubble cubes are central to what I do.

I was never very good at stopping crowds. I started blowing bubbles to attract people.

I receive food stamps but I have never been on welfare.

I was one of the poorest people in America.

I had dropped out of Memphis State University after two years because I felt the real world was too exciting.