James Dickey Quotes

You are bound, my hunch is, to make it just fine.

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• When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Up
  • Running
  • Military

• For future politics, I don't know what it holds, but if there's a possibility that the people want me to do another political office, again, maybe I'll do it.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • People
  • Future
  • Political

• Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and flexibility and that we should not cast away in a minute what has taken generations to build.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Taken
  • System
  • Traditions

• As with the subjects in all of my films, the incentive is left to the subject to determine on their own. I never ask someone why they say yes to me. After all, if you invited someone to join you for dinner, and they accepted your invitation, your next question wouldn't be, 'Why are you saying yes?'

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Why
  • Me
  • Question

• I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Experience
  • Genius
  • Brainy

• When you're rehearsing, you get really inspired in the beginning, but then it becomes repetitious and you lose the magic. How do you get the magic again? The magic happens when you're not pushing it.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Beginning
  • Magic
  • Inspired

• I have a great ability to improvise verbally, and I am very funny on a dime.

  

  Kate Braverman
  • Ability
  • Improvise
  • Verbally

• Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show his face at an antiwar rally.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Real
  • Serious
  • Face

• One of the wonderful things about wrestling, to me, is that you can protect people who have had head injuries.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Me
  • Wrestling

• For me, a good holiday is about value for money rather than things to see.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Good
  • Money
  • Value

• I write slowly.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Write
  • I Write
  • Slowly

• I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • History
  • Reputation

• I used to get very angry as I was getting older, because my voice was breaking. So I've trained my voice so religiously through my teenage years, because I wanted to be able to hit the notes that those females hit. And I can, which is great.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Great
  • Voice
  • Angry

• For it is extremely absurd to expect to be enlightened by reason, and yet to prescribe to her beforehand on which side she must incline.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Reason
  • Incline

• The people of the world can live together in peace. We know that is God's vision. Now, that must be our work here on Earth.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• There is no denying the fact, that in all sudden emergencies a woman has ten times the presence of mind, or, to use the common expression, her wits more about her than a man.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Mind

• It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Value
  • Survival

• Slang is a foul pool at which every dunce fills his bucket, and then sets up as a fountain.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Up
  • Pool

• The iPod is a proprietary integrated product, although that is becoming quite modular. You can download your music from Amazon as easily as you can from iTunes. You also see modularity organized around the Android operating system that is growing much faster than the iPhone. So I worry that modularity will do its work on Apple.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Work
  • Music
  • Growing

• Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?

  

  Rumi
  • You
  • Thought
  • Possess

• All day long they work so hard till the sun is goin' down. Working on the highways and byways and wearing, wearing a frown. You hear them moanin' their lives away. Then you hear somebody say: 'That's the sound of the men working on the chain gang. That's the sound of the men working on the chain gang.'

  

  Sam Cooke
  • Work
  • Men
  • Hear

• We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of friends, and one enemy we've always had was the NME. They've always basically slated us and they've basically never ever written about the music.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Insanity
  • Drunkenness

• You are bound, my hunch is, to make it just fine.

  

  James Dickey