Dickey's Quotes

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

Hate is cancer of the soul! — 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

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

beauty is the currency of betrayal! — Eric Jerome Dickey

The mouth that you love to feel sucking you. The mouth that makes your toes curl, the mouth that makes you ache and moan. — Eric Jerome Dickey

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

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

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

safety and love are both illusions! — Eric Jerome Dickey

I loved to make a great defensive play, I'd rather do that than hit a home run. — Bill Dickey

Livvy and Tony are in bed eating Chinese food. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Find out what you do best, and then don't do it. — James Dickey

Early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable! — Eric Jerome Dickey

the things we crave, our silent desires, out little addictions! — Eric Jerome Dickey

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

So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it. — James Dickey

The man turned away from Bobby, and the finality with which he did it made me glance at Bobby to see if he had disappeared as a result. — James Dickey

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

Manage your energy, not your time — Paul Dickey

There ain't nothin' to dyin', really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away. — James Dickey

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

He (Lou Gehrig) just went out and did his job every day. — Bill Dickey

fear is weakness uncontrolled! — Eric Jerome Dickey

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

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

That's what sex does: it starts relationships and it verifies the end of relationships. — Eric Jerome Dickey

I hope,' said Mr. Pickwick, 'that our volatile friend is committing no absurdities in that dickey behind. — Charles Dickens

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

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

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

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

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

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

I wish I had met you first. Before we met them. — Eric Jerome Dickey

I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called books. — Eric Jerome Dickey

To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished. — James Dickey

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

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

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

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

We're all wounded in some way, im just tryin to heal! — Eric Jerome Dickey

If you've ever wondered what you would have done in 1930s Germany well then my friend here is your fucking chance to find out. — Colin Dickey

Brotha needed to buy a vowel and rent a verb, then get a roll of duct tape slapped on that broken English. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Number two is just the leader for the rest of the leaders — Eric Jerome Dickey

The path to love wasn't a smooth road. Love would show up while you were busy with another love, leaving you to decide. — Eric Jerome Dickey

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

Sex and love are not identical twins. Not fraternal. Not born at the same moment but still of the same womb. — Eric Jerome Dickey

not keeping a promise is the same as lying! — Eric Jerome Dickey

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

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

love is an investment! — Eric Jerome Dickey

Women ignore history. Always think it will be different for them. — 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

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

I was standing in the most absolute aloneness that I had ever been given. — James Dickey

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

Bill Dickey is learning me his experience. — Yogi Berra

Can't kill something that doesn't have a heart. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Tonight I was stealing the time of another woman. — Eric Jerome Dickey

At Dartmouth, we make you into a man by allowing you to remain a boy. — John Dickey

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

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

I do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem. Not a bad question to ask oneself. — James Dickey

SLUT (noun): A woman with the morals of a man — Eric Jerome Dickey

not all thoughts have to become words! — Eric Jerome Dickey

Falling in love is like falling off a building - it doesn't hurt till the end. — Eric Jerome Dickey

This dramatic increase in the speed of information and the precipitous decline in critical thinking have been disastrous. — Bronwen Dickey

The next thing I knew, I was falling. I dreamed I was being thrown into an open grave, but jerked awake and landed on a bed. — Eric Jerome Dickey

A man's ego is a fragile thing; as fragile as a woman's heart — Eric Jerome Dickey

Knowledge enlightens. — Eric Jerome Dickey

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

common sense is the enemy of romance — Eric Jerome Dickey

The more I grew as a human being, the better I became at my craft. — R.A. Dickey

Intelligence is always intimidating to those who aren't! — Eric Jerome Dickey

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

every day a million miracles begin at sunrise! — 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

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

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning. — James Dickey

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

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

you are unimportant to the important! — Eric Jerome 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

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

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

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

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

when a lie is repeated enough it becomes the truth! — Eric Jerome Dickey

with attachment comes pain! — Eric Jerome Dickey

Nothings promised, not the rest of tonight, not all of tomorrow! — Eric Jerome Dickey

jokes are used to hide the truth! — 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

Hate isn't healthy, it damages the hater more than the one who's hated! — Eric Jerome Dickey

It's scary telling someone you care about, someone you love who you really are. — Eric Jerome Dickey

All I wanted was you. I tore down my wall for you. Now it's been rebuilt. — 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

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

Wisdom ain't seeing what's in your face, but recognizing what's about to come! — Eric Jerome Dickey