Dickey Quotes & Sayings

I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome. — James Dickey

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

revenge knows no boundaries! — Eric Jerome Dickey

He (Babe Ruth) hits a ball harder and further than any man I ever saw. — Bill Dickey

Poetry makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world. — James Dickey

The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine. — James Dickey

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

It takes as long as three generations of hard work, three generations of sacrifice to correct the wrong! — Eric Jerome Dickey

It did not take Bunch very long, amid the politicking and the revelry, to discover the darker side of life in Charleston's homes. "The frightful atrocities of slaveholding must be seen to be described," he wrote in a private letter that wound up prominently positioned in the official slave-trade correspondence of the Foreign Office. "My next-door neighbor, a lawyer of the first distinction and a member of the Southern Aristocracy, told me himself that he flogged all his own people - men and women - when they misbehaved. I hear also that he makes them strip, and after telling them that they were to consider it as a great condescension on his part to touch them, gives them a certain number of lashes with a cow-hide. The frightful evil of the system is that it debases the whole tone of society - for the people talk calmly of horrors which would not be mentioned in civilized society. It is literally no more to kill a slave than to shoot a dog. — Christopher Dickey

He reached for the door handle. Fear nestled into his throat, but he did not stop. He pulled the handle, opened the door, and stepped out. It was dark. The streetlights in Soho were nearly worthless, like pen beams in a black hole. Lights drifting out from nearby windows provided more of an eerie kindle than real illumination. There were plastic garbage bags out on the street. Most had been torn open; the odor of spoiled food wafted through the air. The van slowly cruised toward him. A man stepped out from a doorway and approached without hesitation. The man wore a black turtleneck under a black overcoat. He pointed a gun at Myron. The van stopped, and the side door slid open. "Get in, asshole," the man with the gun said. Myron pointed at himself. "You talking to me?" "Now, asshole. Haul ass." "Is that a turtleneck or a dickey?" The man with the gun moved closer. "I said, now. — Harlan Coben

The only perfect people are dead people, because their the only ones who can't make mistakes! — Eric Jerome Dickey

There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person. — James Dickey

with attachment comes pain! — Eric Jerome Dickey

Inside every pause lived a contemplation — Eric Jerome Dickey

I don't recall your name but you sure were a sucker for a high inside curve. — Bill Dickey

you had to have happiness to miss happiness! — Eric Jerome Dickey

As a writer, I challenge myself not to tell the same story - to tackle different characters with different issues. — Eric Jerome Dickey

We shed the skins of who we used to be! — Eric Jerome Dickey

Not a good man. Drinks too much in an uncreative way. — James Dickey

...Dickey Perrott, you Jago whelp, look at them - look hard. Some day if you are clever - cleverer than anyone in the Jago right now - if you're only scoundrel enough, and brazen enough, and lucky enough - one of a thousand - maybe you'll be like them: bursting with high living, drunk when you like, red and pimply. There it is - that's your aim in life - there's your pattern. Learn to read and write, learn all you can, learn cunning, spare nobody and stop at nothing, and perhaps - It's the best the world has for you, for the Jago's got you, and that's the only way out, except gaol and the gallows. So do your devil most, or God help you, Dicky Perrot - though he wont: for the Jago's got you! — Arthur Morrison

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

beauty is the currency of betrayal! — Eric Jerome Dickey

I went to public school but kept to myself. When you live in a brothel, you don't want anyone coming to your home. — Eric Jerome Dickey

When you start a game, you don't think to yourself, "well, OK, I'm going throw a one-hitter today." It just becomes an organism, your outing becomes an organism and it grows. — R.A. Dickey

I believe that the American poet ought to be a tough son of a bitch. He sought to hold his own in this culture on his own terms and not compromise under any circumstances. — James Dickey

I had a lot of fear that would motivate me to try to work hard, because I didn't know what I would do if I wasn't a baseball player. — R.A. Dickey

Wind as old as Rome outside my window, inky fleece clouds against charcoal crushed velvet skies, fall feels soulful, like a LaBelle octave. — Brandi L. Bates

common enemies make enemies become friends! — Eric Jerome Dickey

But that's not the way love goes. You show the good, disguise the bad. — Eric Jerome Dickey

We see what we want to see. We idealize each other with our own fantasies. — Eric Jerome Dickey

A woman of European heritage sporting a preacher's collar had the opposite effect of a Muslim woman wearing a hijab. She used her privilege and the favored religion to look like a golden child. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to temptation! — Eric Jerome Dickey

He looked like a brand-new heartbreak waiting to happen. — Eric Jerome Dickey

If I were catching blindfolded, I'd always know when it was Foxx who connected. He hit the ball harder than anyone else. — Bill Dickey

The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a baseball game. — Glenn Dickey

The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie. — James Dickey

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

We're all living contradictions, trying to survive in a world filled with hypocrites — Eric Jerome Dickey

When you're honest with yourself, often times you betray someone else! — Eric Jerome Dickey

only a fool would argue with a fool! — Eric Jerome Dickey

If you're craving oatmeal cookies, apple sauce won't do.. — Eric Jerome Dickey

we make promises that start with always and end with forever! — Eric Jerome Dickey

I'm just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it's random, they don't see the rewriting, phrasing of characters, choosing the words, bringing the world to light in which the characters live in. That creates an illusion that this is real. — Eric Jerome Dickey

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

The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity. — James Dickey

Honesty is like seeing a crackhead up close: it ain't that fucking attractive. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Sleeping with strangers will have you walking with enemies. — Eric Jerome Dickey

The body is the one thing you can't fake; it's just got to be there. — James Dickey

We all give up part of ourselves to be with anyone. Relationships change our trajectories. — Eric Jerome Dickey

safety and love are both illusions! — Eric Jerome Dickey

One of the supreme paradoxes of baseball, and all sports, is that the harder you try to throw a pitch or hit a ball or accomplish something, the smaller your chances are for success. You get the best results not when you apply superhuman effort but when you let the game flow organically and allow yourself to be fully present. You'll often hear scouts say of a great prospect, "The game comes slow to him." It mean the prospect is skilled and poised enough to let the game unfold in its own time, paying no attention to the angst or urgency or doubt, funnelling all awareness to the athletic task at hand. — R.A. Dickey

Best way to deal with fear is to face the nightmare! — Eric Jerome Dickey

It is silent, an anagram for listen.
That is what I do. Listen while she remains silent. — Eric Jerome Dickey

The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience. — John Dickey

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

restrictions create frustrations! — Eric Jerome Dickey

If I was going to date anybody, I had to see how they were living first. — Eric Jerome Dickey

A great relationship was when someone accepted your past, supported your present, and encouraged your future. — Eric Jerome Dickey

love is an investment! — Eric Jerome Dickey

Love ain't never been a rational beast. — Eric Jerome Dickey

If you write well, you don't have to dress funny. — James Dickey

It's impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Chiquita was dancing with a brother who was so old I'd bet he used to baby-sit God. — Eric Jerome Dickey

What I Wish, this I do not practice, but what I hate is what I do. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Resentment makes anything possible. — Eric Jerome Dickey

I can't tell you how excited I am to be a part of an organization that's committed to winning. — R.A. Dickey

Sleepin with strangers will have you waking with enemies! — Eric Jerome Dickey

Keep a woman broke, keep her under control. Give her just enough to get by. She won't starve to death, but she'll never be able to afford to leave. That's from the handbook on how to be a pimp. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Knowledge enlightens. — Eric Jerome Dickey

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

The # knuckleball can be a metaphor of what it's like to let go. — R.A. Dickey

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

Paranoia, the first cousin of a bastard named fear — Eric Jerome Dickey

If it were thought that anything I wrote was influenced by Robert Frost, I would take that particular piece of mine,
shred it, and flush it down the toilet, hoping not to clog the pipes. — James Dickey

I feel very happy to see the sun come up every day. I feel happy to be around ... I like to take this day- any day-and go to town with it. — James Dickey

you're just a side dish not the main course! — Eric Jerome Dickey

What's one more torpedo in a sinking ship. — Lynn Dickey

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

A full moon is a flashlight so everyone can see your drama! — Eric Jerome Dickey

For some of us love comes into the room, kicks her
shoes off, finds the most comfortable sofa, and lies down, rests, has no intention of going anywhere. For others love walks in smoking a cigarette, checking her watch every two seconds, jittery, with one hand on the doorknob, heart rate up, always in sprinter's position, ready to run. — Eric Jerome Dickey

don't call me stupid without calling me stupid and think I'd bee too stupid to notice! — Eric Jerome Dickey

Desire is a beast that must be fed! — Eric Jerome Dickey

Some crazy man came up to me and started screaming at me about how he hated Allah, and before I could tell him that my family was part of the Catholic Church in India, he knifed me. — Eric Jerome Dickey

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

To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education. — John Dickey

When I was 15 years old, I used to actually dream I was pitching in Yankee Stadium. Bill Dickey was my catcher. — Tommy Lasorda

hate is a virus, revenge its only cure! — Eric Jerome Dickey

Our brains are hardwired to think in terms of place and to associate psychic value or meaning to the places we inhabit. — Colin Dickey

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

She's a smart woman. I love that. Intelligence is a wonderful and powerful aphrodisiac. To me, it enhances beauty, makes an ordinary woman look like a movie star. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Women were excited after sex, wired becasue in their minds the relationship was on beginning. Men went to sleep m the because for the orgasm had arrived and the relationship was done. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Those that are huntedKnow this as their life,Their reward: to walkUnder such trees in full knowledgeOf what is in glory above them,And to feel no fear. — James Dickey

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

What a view, i said again. The river was blank and mindless with beauty. It was the most glorious thing I have ever seen. But it was not seeing, really. For once it was not just seeing. It was beholding. I beheld the river in its icy pit of brightness, in its far-below sound and indifference, in its large coil and tiny points and flashes of the moon, in its long sinuous form, in its uncomprehending consequence. — James Dickey

Most women got this thing called compassion. It doesn't make them foolish, just more forgiving. More capable of trying and hoping things worked out. — Eric Jerome Dickey

She returned to consciousness only to find herself in an unescapable nightmare. — Eric Jerome Dickey

When you start a new job or a particular journey, you really don't know what to expect. I mean, you hear about your name being on the bestsellers list, but it doesn't really mean anything. Like, really, what does that translate to? — Eric Jerome Dickey

I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous. — James Dickey

I deserved to find pleasure that surpassed my imagination, better than any I had experienced. — Eric Jerome Dickey

It was not Death that stood before me but only Vernon Dickey, my father-in-law. — Don DeLillo