Eric Jerome Dickey Quotes

Marriage is when a man stops disappointing many women and focuses on disappointing one!

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• Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Hate
  • Him
  • Communist

• The ironic thing is I took Kole from a family name - we had a vote and they had a few names, but Kole won - and getting it spelled with a 'K' is a constant correction, too. I'll never not be Warren Blosjo; it's just my stage name.

  

  Warren Kole
  • Family
  • Name
  • Vote

• History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • People
  • Why
  • History

• It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Value
  • Logic
  • Evidence

• It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • May
  • Speak
  • Act

• Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spending time with my family, friends and dog are what I'm usually doing when I'm not working on something.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Time
  • Work
  • Family

• Everybody loves vampire stories, and if there's one show in particular that's done really well, it just opens the door and the opportunity for more of those kind of stories to get through.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Done
  • Opportunity
  • Kind

• Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

  

  M. Esther Harding
  • Beginning
  • Conflict

• A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • People
  • Good
  • Writing

• I never had an ambition to go into modeling, originally. I still can't believe how quickly it all took off.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • Believe
  • Ambition
  • Modeling

• Everyone puts all of the advances that we've made on Dr. King, but there's a lot of people who were part of the civil rights movement.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • People
  • King
  • Civil Rights

• I'm intrigued by the dark. Out of darkness comes creation.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Dark
  • Creation
  • Darkness

• When I was pregnant, I was like, 'I'm pregnant, so I'm allowed to eat everything: bagels with cream cheese for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and I can have pizza for dessert.'

  

  Lake Bell
  • Breakfast
  • Dinner
  • Pizza

• When I was younger, I used to find stories about divas charming. Not much anymore.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Find
  • Used
  • Charming

• The funny thing was, you see, that Mike Fink didn't think of himself as a murderer. He thought of life as a contest, and dying was what happened to those who came out second best, but it wasn't the same as murder, it was a fair fight.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life
  • Funny
  • Dying

• New Directions is a reviewer’s nightmare; it’s enough punishment to read it all, without writing about it too.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Writing

• September eleven was not a simple operation. Could it be planned and executed without coordination with intelligence and security services—or their extensive infiltration?

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Simple
  • September

• A proud man is always looking down on things and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Long
  • Proud

• We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy.

  

  Chief Joseph
  • Men
  • Growing

• I would say to women, always question what you're empowering yourself for and what are you claiming power for.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Women
  • Empowering
  • Claiming

• True democracy consists not in lowering the standard but in giving everybody, so far as possible, a chance of measuring up to the standard.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Up
  • True
  • Giving

• The best solution would be for the federal government to say, 'Yes, we do provide coverage and it's from day one.'

  

  Andrew P. Harris

• Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good any more... I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • World
  • Good
  • Children

• Marriage is when a man stops disappointing many women and focuses on disappointing one!

  

  Eric Jerome Dickey
  • Women
  • Marriage
  • Disappointing