Dwionne Dickerson Quotes & Sayings

My view of Sarah Palin is she is the most dynamic figure maybe in politics, even more in some ways than President Obama, who is a little more scripted than she is. He is great with the teleprompter. — Rudy Giuliani

You understand, we just don't fuck with truth. — Charles Bukowski

The thrill of theft, of violence, the urge to live easy - is it worth it when we have undeniable proof, yes, yes, incontrovertible evidence that hell exists? — Anthony Burgess

I believe the greatness of a country is directly proportionate to what it pays attention to and the intrinsic value of that thing. — Daniel J. Muhlestein

All nature is the temple; earth the altar. — Alphonse De Lamartine

When an old shepherdess in Greece can do it, why do you think I cant? (About knitting a sweater). — C. Hampton Jones

Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion. — Fay Weldon

Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation. — Theodore Roosevelt

Memory implies that there is some static time and place you can go back to, whereas if you relive it by trying to put yourself back in that context, its more nuanced, less black and white. More traumatic, but also more exciting. When I knew I had to write about things that would be painful, I put off doing it for ages. But then eventually the fear of not doing it becomes greater than the fear of doing it. — Damian Barr

I don't want to know who he's been with or how many (women). I do want to know that my man is not a virgin, because I want to know that he knows what he's doing. But I don't need to know how he's learned it. — Dania Ramirez

He's feeling a pull, like gravity, of the approaching TV news. It's a condition of the times, this compulsion to hear how it stands with the world, and be joined to the generality, to a community of anxiety. The habit's grown stronger these past two years; a different scale of news value has been set by monstrous and spectacular scenes. [ ... ] Everyone fears it, but there's also a darker longing in the collective mind, a sickening for self-punishment and a blasphemous curiosity. Just as the hospitals have their crisis plans, so the television networks stand ready to deliver, and their audiences wait. Bigger, grosser next time. Please don't let it happen. But let me see it all the same, as it's happening and from every angle, and let me be among the first to know. — Ian McEwan

Every song I write, including 'Too Close,' always starts on the guitar. — Alex Clare