Eric Dickerson Quotes

I don't give players a chance to hit me.

Eric Dickerson

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• I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Trying
  • Poetry
  • Difficult

• A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Just
  • News
  • Entertainment

• I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Time
  • God
  • Heart

• TV is still the place to grab the most eyeballs.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Place
  • Most
  • Still

• Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.

  

  Finn Jones
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I invented animals and birds – I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Fun
  • Friend
  • Working

• When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • World
  • Find
  • New

• I think one of my first jokes - in the black community, there's people who have jokes about skin tone. People like, 'You so black, you purple.' 'You so black, you gotta smile so we can see you at night.'

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • People
  • Night
  • Black

• I try to treat people the way I would like to be treated, but I can't worry about what everyone's going to think.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • People
  • Worry
  • Treat

• Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Reality
  • Vision
  • Leadership

• I have done my time living on the run. I'm British and I want to come home.

  

  Gary Glitter
  • Time
  • Done
  • Home

• I have this horrific thing where I'm really bad with names and faces. I have an appalling memory. Someone will come up to me in the street and go, 'Eddie!', and I'll try and give myself time by going into overdrive, 'Hey, hi! Nice to see you!' and start a whole conversation because I can't distinguish between who I know and who I don't.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Up
  • Time
  • Bad

• Most of our songs are about relationships.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Songs
  • Relationships
  • Most

• Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Art
  • Value
  • Friendship

• It's nice to have boundaries, because as long as we have them, we can cross them a bit, and that's what perks interest. If you have full freedom, what do you do?

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Long
  • Freedom
  • Nice

• I don't vote. I voted Labour once, in that moment of euphoria. I know that if people only made a voice for change, then change will happen, but I'm not that person. I'm painting pictures.

  

  Gary Hume
  • People
  • Change
  • Painting

• Life is a thread that someone entangled.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life

• Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community, and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilisation.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Community
  • State
  • Civilisation

• The Prodigal Son at least walked home on his own feet. But who can duly adore that Love which will open the high gates to a prodigal who is brought in kicking, struggling, resentful, and darting his eyes in every direction for a chance of escape?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Home
  • High
  • Eyes

• My definition of a scientist is that you can complete the following sentence: ‘he or she has shown that…’,'

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • She

• I realized that I had screwed up my life living different parts of my life in different places. I wasn't whole. I wasn't integrated. I wasn't a complete person. And after that, came out, spent some time at a psychiatric hospital.

  

  James McGreevey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I think Amy Poehler and Tina Fey have done so much for women in comedy in the sense that they've normalized it. You don't think, 'I'm going to watch that comedy starring a woman,' you think, 'I'm going to watch that funny show.' They refuse to play the foils for men, or be reduced to the butt of every joke, and I love that about both of them.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Women
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• I don't give players a chance to hit me.

  

  Eric Dickerson