Quotes About Dilly

#1. Sometimes writing has to be forced. In starting out, the shape and timbre and texture of what is to come is an uncertain chimera shimmering from behind a veil. You must not wait, loiter, dilly-dally. You must force your way painfully through.

Cynthia Ozick

#2. The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#3. So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three INSIDES.

George Canning

#4. We only have one dog now. Calamity Jane had to be put down. She was very old, and her medicine no longer controlled her seizures. Dilly is five now, I think. He's a neutered American Pit Bull Terrier, very gentle, about the color of buckskin.

Gene Wolfe

#5. Dilly reckons it would be difficult to thread those needles, the eyes so small, especially with her cataracts.

Edna O'Brien

#6. Dilly clapped her hands as she bounced on her feet, her excitement bubbling over even more. "They come ta help you, Mr. T. See? I tole ya there'd be someone. There's always someone that comes when you need them. Always, always, always.

Jackie Castle

#7. Dilly closed his eyes and tried to find some way to drown out all the emotions that sliced at his soul. "No. I am so not okay that I don't even have words for how not okay I am.

Lyn Gala

#8. From the beginning, when something was wrong I've been saying: 'Dilly-ding, dilly-dong, wake up, wake up!' So on Christmas Day I bought for all the players and all the staff a little bell. It was just a joke.

Claudio Ranieri

#9. ...if you don't tell people you're hurt, they're not going to stop hurting you."
Dilly snorted. "Yeah, or they're going to hurt you twice as much.

Lyn Gala

#10. Now that this torch is lit, we do not have time to dilly dally around ...

Joe Teti

#11. You decide you're going to do horror, then gosh darn it, do horror. Do what's expected. Don't kind of do it. Don't dilly-dally around, because people really enjoy the genre, and they expect certain things.

Roberta Williams

#12. When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.

James Dyson

#13. Daffy-down-dilly came up in the cold, Through the brown mould Although the March breeze blew keen on her face, Although the white snow lay in many a place.

Anna Bartlett Warner

#14. But have we Holy Ghost power-power that restricts the devil's power, pulls down strongholds and obtains promises? Daring delinquents will be damned if they are not delivered from the devil's dominion. What has hell to fear other than a God-anointed, prayer-powered church?

Leonard Ravenhill

#15. With the world's fate resting on your shoulder - you're gonna need someone on your side.
You can't do it by yourself any longer - you're gonna need someone on your side.

Morrissey

#16. That is the very best time of life, he thought again: when you are very young, when living is a simple, perfect succession of golden days.

John Edward Williams

#17. I'm a survivor. But I'm also victim, too. Surviving has the connotation that you've been through it, you lived through it and that's wonderful - but a victim is what I was. "Survivor" is the more healing way to look at it.

Margaret Cho

#18. The problem with procrastination is it's been around since the beginning of time it seems.

Stephen Richards

#19. Once you make something you think it's awesome, but it's only after you listen to it for a few weeks then you actually get a proper perspective on it.

Flume

#20. One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people.

Deborah Eisenberg

#21. Paranormal events are just edges of the infinite we "happen" to encounter.

Doug Dillon

#22. Habitual procrastinators will readily testify to all the lost opportunities, missed deadlines, failed relationships and even monetary losses incurred just because of one nasty habit of putting things off until it is often too late.

Stephen Richards

#23. In academia, left-liberalism is so entrenched its advocates' debating skills have gone rusty. When you've been talking to yourself for decades and imposing speech codes on everyone else, your ability to argue coherently - let alone entertainingly - inevitably wanes.

Andrew Sullivan

#24. Both positive and negative thinking are contagious.

Stephen Richards

#25. I think in your home, you should only use colors that you look good in. It's a little self-serving but think if it as you're on a stage. Not with any pressure, but you want to showcase yourself.

Bryan Batt