James Dickey Quotes

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

James Dickey

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• I didn't start working out until college. But in college I could feel my body changing, and I knew that if I didn't make some changes, I was going to go in the wrong direction.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • College
  • Start
  • Changes

• There's so much pressure, but I think if you really love it, if you truly love it, and it's your passion to sing, then that's what will get through. I think if you don't have that, you'll realise quickly.

  

  Fleur East
  • Love
  • Passion
  • Pressure

• My wife will tell you it's the little things, like driving my boys to school on my days off so she can rest. We're not into PDA, but every time we end a phone conversation, we say 'sarang,' which means love in Korean.

  

  Daniel Dae Kim
  • Time
  • School
  • Love

• It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Good
  • Try
  • One Word

• I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Day
  • Like
  • Tomorrow

• I think it's always very important to be comfortable and just kind of expressive; if you take fashion too seriously, then you lose the fun of it. I think you should always take the risk.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Important
  • Fun
  • Fashion

• Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual's contribution far more than the individual himself.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Organization
  • Research

• I will not say the fact that there are no European Union observers at an election means that it will not be fair and free.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Free
  • Election
  • Union

• True economy means the wisest expenditure of what we have, everything considered, looking at it from the broadest standpoint. It is not a good thing to save a nickel at the expenditure of twenty-five cents' worth of time.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Time
  • Good
  • True

• I would have been miserable in college. I always hated school.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • School
  • College
  • Miserable

• I am not one to turn down macaroni and cheese, even late at night. I love Italian food. I love pasta... A refrigerator full of water and Gatorade? Honey, that's just not gonna happen.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Night
  • Food
  • Turn

• How is clean, painless nonexistence any worse than clean, painless death?

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Death

• On being shown a relic said to be a bone of St. Elizabeth, he (Sigismund) turned it over and remarked that it could just as well be that of a dead cobbler.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman

• I'm beyond lucky to have fallen in love with my best friend.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Friend

• The Outsider may be an artist, but the artist is not necessarily an Outsider.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • May

• People ask me if I have some kind of death wish, to keep saying the things I do. The answer is no: I would like to keep living. However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.

  

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  • People
  • Death
  • Wish

• I'm not interested in the past or in talking about myself.

  

  Bernard Sumner Joy Division
  • Past

• I have made really some significant deals because I play golf.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Golf

• I was often looked at as a leper by kids at school because I was a Jehovah's Witness. They didn't like it - you were 'weird'. And on Saturday mornings, you'd be knocking at their doors. I remember standing there with my mum and dad, thinking, 'Oh my God, I know whose door this is, and I'll have to see them on Monday.' It was terrible.

  

  Luke Evans
  • God
  • Thinking
  • School

• I have a theory, now - that the whole of the Renaissance was peopled with girls dressed as boys so they could make art.

  

  Ali Smith
  • Art

• One of my favorite ways to write paranormal, as in the 'Wake' trilogy, is to write very normal characters with just a hint of something other-worldly. Like somewhere, maybe, someone really can get sucked into other people's dreams.

  

  Lisa McMann
  • People

• In providing this $5,000 tax credit for those purchasing rural homes, we're offering an important incentive to encourage people to live in smaller communities - and perhaps even stay in a community they might be considering leaving.

  

  John M. McHugh
  • People
  • Important
  • Live

• Unless your kid is Pele Jr., they're not going to be able to feed themselves from soccer. If your kid knows how to play soccer, but not make dinner, you have done them a disservice.

  

  Alton Brown
  • Done
  • Soccer

• To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.

  

  James Dickey