Dickey V Quotes & Sayings

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

...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

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

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

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

Bill Dickey learned me all his experience. — Yogi Berra

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

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

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

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

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