Dizzy Dean Quotes

I ain't what I used to be, but who the hell is?

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• I have learned to be patient.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • I Have Learned
  • Be Patient

• I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Great
  • Career

• I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Pretty
  • Like
  • Coffee

• As long as I was well fed, I was a very, very nice child. I just used my imagination and played with Barbies. I was pretty easy.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Long
  • Pretty
  • Nice

• Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Real
  • Done
  • Why

• I think my characters with my fingers, I think my characters with my guts. But when I say I think them, that is what I do, I feel them with the sympathetic neurons and I work out with my brain what it is that I am trying to write about, or I can't do it.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Write
  • Characters
  • Fingers

• In becoming a citizen, one undertakes certain duties and responsibilities. One of the more intangible of those duties and responsibilities is no matter what one's birth and background, to accept the historical past of the new country as one's own.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Country
  • Past
  • Birth

• Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.

  

  Florence King
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• I even done a doo-wop version of the Mickey Mouse march.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Done
  • March
  • Mickey Mouse

• Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Country
  • Man
  • Politics

• I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Humble
  • Earnest

• I'm gonna tell you something right now, Indian people in the United States are the hardest working people I've ever seen, and that's coming from a Mexican, okay?

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Mexican

• Women’s vulnerability confessing their desire to see men as a success object is matched by men’s confession of compulsiveness of sexual desire for women.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Success

• I prefer Buddhism because it gives three principles in combination, which no other religion does. Buddhism teaches prajna (understanding as against superstition and supernaturalism), karuna (love), and samara (equality). This is what man wants for a good and happy life. Neither god nor soul can save society.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• 'I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.' 'Are you prepared to be ridiculed, ignored and starving till you are forty-five?' 'I am. But tell me: What will happen after I am forty-five?' 'You will have grown accustomed to it.'

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Truth
  • Wish
  • Teacher

• Observe, in politics, that the term extremism has become a synonym of 'evil,' regardless of the content of the issue (the evil is not what you are extreme about, but that you are 'extreme'-i.e., consistent).

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Evil

• Perception requires imagination because the data people encounter in their lives are never complete and always equivocal.

  

  Leonard Mlodinow
  • People
  • Imagination
  • Perception

• If Oak Flat were a Christian holy site or, for that matter, Jewish or Muslim, no senator who wished to remain in office would dare to sneak a backdoor deal for its destruction into a spending bill - no matter what mining-company profits or jobs might result. But this is Indian religion.

  

  Lydia Millet
  • Christian

• I will go peaceably and firmly to the Catholic Church: for if Faith is so important to our salvation, I will seek it where true Faith first began, seek it among those who received it from God Himself.

  

  Elizabeth Ann Seton
  • God
  • Faith
  • Salvation

• I love the Mexican muralists - like Rivera, Orozco - and the music of Walter Benton. They gave you a sense that reality was much more than life.

  

  Billy Dee Williams
  • Life
  • Music
  • Reality

• I ain't what I used to be, but who the hell is?

  

  Dizzy Dean