Top 100 Quotes About Dickey
#1. I hope,' said Mr. Pickwick, 'that our volatile friend is committing no absurdities in that dickey behind.
Charles Dickens
#2. As I have said many times - my father was a great fan of Bill Dickey's and he certainly loved the Yankees. I hope that he would be pleased.
George Steinbrenner
#3. Bill Dickey learned me all his experience.
Yogi Berra
#4. But let me begin with a statement of my own passionate and indignant belief
I do not care one goddamned thing about how James Dickey conducted his personal life. I care everything about what this man wrote on blank sheets of paper when he sat alone probing the extremities of imagination.
Pat Conroy
#5. Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.
Elbert Hubbard
#6. It was not Death that stood before me but only Vernon Dickey, my father-in-law.
Don DeLillo
#7. When I was 15 years old, I used to actually dream I was pitching in Yankee Stadium. Bill Dickey was my catcher.
Tommy Lasorda
#8. Let me now praise the American writer James Dickey. In 1970, his novel 'Deliverance' was published. I found it to be 278 pages that approached perfection. Its tightness of construction and assuredness of style reminded me of 'The Great Gatsby.'
Pat Conroy
#9. Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.
Yogi Berra
#10. Physical attraction was about aesthetics, not sexual performance, not mental stimulation. Without a mental connection, a remarkable sexual performance yielded no lifelong guarantees. It was only lust. And lust was not love.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#11. He was old enough to know you can't make people love you. But I suppose when you're wounded, logic ain't logical.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#12. Every man kills the things that he loves. Some with a look, some with flattery, the coward with a kiss.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#13. Like she said, love wasn't a switch that could be turned off. It was more like a battery, had to run until there was no more energy left.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#14. I told Chiquita if a man hadn't made a date with her for a Saturday night before Saturday night, he didn't want to be bothered with her on a Saturday night.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#15. I can't tell you how excited I am to be a part of an organization that's committed to winning.
R.A. Dickey
#16. I like to have my hand on every single plate that goes out. It's really a good feeling when someone compliments your meal, and you had everything to do with making it. It's very rewarding.
Bill Dickey
#17. A woman can plan. A woman thinks she needs a man for nothing in this world but soon realizes she is wrong. The same way every black- owned business has to acquire goods from a white distributor, women have to do business with men, be it professional or personal, to achieve too many of our goals.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#19. The death of a real deer at my hands was just a vaporous, remote presence that hovered over the figure of the paper deer forty-five yards away at target six of our archery range, as I tried to hit the heart-lung section marked out in heavy black.
James Dickey
#20. Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle.
James Dickey
#22. What I want is to be willing to fail rather than stagnate.
James Dickey
#24. At Dartmouth, we make you into a man by allowing you to remain a boy.
John Dickey
#26. I read this book, it said a woman should think of her virginity like it's a window. And every time you sleep with a guy, it's like letting him put his fingerprints on your window. Staining your glass.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#29. A man won't buy the cow when he can get the milk for free phrase my momma used to say has popped into my head one, maybe two million times
Eric Jerome Dickey
#30. What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe
James Dickey
#31. don't call me stupid without calling me stupid and think I'd bee too stupid to notice!
Eric Jerome Dickey
#32. The gun was in Mrs. Jones's left hand. She put her right hand behind her, between my legs, then held on to my cock like it was a leash.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#33. You must have a goal in life. We all should have goals. Or we are lost.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#34. He says, "Your husband fucked my wife."
We look at each other and this time it's different. Now I know him.
"My husband didn't fuck your wife." My voice is soft. Not amorous, but the tone of a bewildered child. "They had a relationship, then came home and fucked us.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#35. I always thought that 'wilderness' was somewhere where God wasn't. It took me a long time to learn that 'wilderness' is a mighty sacred place.
Sylvia Dickey Smith
#39. Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.
James Dickey
#41. In his mind he was always leaving, always going somewhere, always doing something else.
James Dickey
#43. There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.
James Dickey
#45. A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.
James Dickey
#46. Soon-Bok Kim closed her eyes, said rapid prayers in castellano, beat the steering wheel, begged God to save her and her stupid husband, said they would become better Christians.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#47. There is no whole truth, but this is what we have,
And it goes on
Beyond impact, beyond reach, beyond recall ...
James Dickey
#48. It's impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#50. Some people are just so happy to get published to, they sign anything. Next thing you know, they've signed over the rights to their book.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#51. We tried it again and it didn't work out. Sour milk is always sour milk. When something goes bad it stays bad.You don't put sour milk in the refrigerator one day,and take it out the next and expect it to taste sweet.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#54. When you're honest with yourself, often times you betray someone else!
Eric Jerome Dickey
#56. What I Wish, this I do not practice, but what I hate is what I do.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#58. Sometimes I want the friendship of a man but other times I only want his passion. Friendship can be false; passion never lies.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#60. I can become a new woman every day until i like the woman i become, then i can become her for a while, if not forever!
Eric Jerome Dickey
#61. I was standing in the most absolute aloneness that I had ever been given.
James Dickey
#63. Marriage is when a man stops disappointing many women and focuses on disappointing one!
Eric Jerome Dickey
#64. She returned to consciousness only to find herself in an unescapable nightmare.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#65. She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.
James Dickey
#66. A lot of people don't trust the pitch. There's this kind of reputation it has for being untrustworthy and fickle and capricious and everything else, and those are words that big league managers and general managers and organizations aren't too fond of.
R.A. Dickey
#68. To live a very long time ... is supposed to be the desired object of all human life. But it is not. The main thing is to ride the flood tide ... How glorious it is to create! For those few moments of a lifetime when the stream is running full and deep: those are the justification for everything.
James Dickey
#71. To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.
James Dickey
#73. He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it.
James Dickey
#76. DNA predisposes a certain behavior, but if your environment doesn't support it, then that behavior won't manifest. When people don't have opportunity, they have to create their own opportunities
Eric Jerome Dickey
#77. He (Babe Ruth) hits a ball harder and further than any man I ever saw.
Bill Dickey
#79. The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.
James Dickey
#80. The heart define whom we are were attracted to. I was attracted to him, sexually, mentally and maybe even spiritually. And the heart decided for how long that inner madness would last.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#81. It's scary telling someone you care about, someone you love who you really are.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#82. Opinionated frameworks are also easier to learn because there is usually a "right" way to do something. The downside is that you're limited to building applications that the framework was made for, and moving outside of the use cases the framework was made for can be difficult
Jeff D. Dickey
#84. You never go into a season thinking you're going to strike out 200 guys or that you would have the most double-digit strikeout games in the big leagues, or anything like that. You just try to win, and the outing becomes what the outing becomes.
R.A. Dickey
#85. I've worked for everything I've ever got and it's worked out. Even if I was the Cy Young Award winner I still would not want to feel that sense of entitlement. I would still treat every game like it's my very first game and my very last game.
R.A. Dickey
#86. I don't really feel much more confident than I did the last couple years. I've always felt like I have a pretty good knuckleball. I worked hard to do that.?
R.A. Dickey
#87. I think what motivated me was just hope. Something inside of me, deep down in my guts, always felt like there was something in there.
R.A. Dickey
#90. People pray for rain, then complain about the flood. They pray for it to stop raining, then bitch about the drought.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#91. Losing your job is like having your identity stolen, like having what defined you run through a paper shredder. After a while the despair gets you, and it gets you good.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#92. Not a good man. Drinks too much in an uncreative way.
James Dickey
#93. Sex and love are not identical twins. Not fraternal. Not born at the same moment but still of the same womb.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#96. But this, too, you could say, is part of the American story, as we have always been people who move on, leaving behind wreckage and fragments in our wake.
Colin Dickey
#98. There's been this steady metamorphosis from just surviving to being a craftsman and, ultimately, the hope is to be an artist in what you do.?
R.A. Dickey
#99. We all give up part of ourselves to be with anyone. Relationships change our trajectories.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#100. Hate isn't healthy, it damages the hater more than the one who's hated!
Eric Jerome Dickey
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