R.A. Dickey Quotes
Those that are huntedKnow this as their life,Their reward: to walkUnder such trees in full knowledgeOf what is in glory above them,And to feel no fear.
I do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem. Not a bad question to ask oneself.
A poet trains himself to stand out in a storm and be struck by lightning. If he is lucky enough to be struck six times, he becomes immortal. Randall Jarrell said it and he's right.
I had a lot of fear that would motivate me to try to work hard, because I didn't know what I would do if I wasn't a baseball player.
I think what motivated me was just hope. Something inside of me, deep down in my guts, always felt like there was something in there.
When you start a game, you don't think to yourself, "well, OK, I'm going throw a one-hitter today." It just becomes an organism, your outing becomes an organism and it grows.
Who doesn’t want a Cy Young Award? What kid didn’t grow up wanting to be the best? I’m no different. I want to be the best. I’ve always wanted to be the best.
There's been this steady metamorphosis from just surviving to being a craftsman and, ultimately, the hope is to be an artist in what you do.?
All I wanted was you. I tore down my wall for you. Now it's been rebuilt.
In his mind he was always leaving, always going somewhere, always doing something else.
And a woman needs a man to protect her from other men. Well, women used to. . . . Things have changed. Women are in the middle East, fighting and protecting men now.
DNA predisposes a certain behavior, but if your environment doesn't support it, then that behavior won't manifest. When people don't have opportunity, they have to create their own opportunities
Some crazy man came up to me and started screaming at me about how he hated Allah, and before I could tell him that my family was part of the Catholic Church in India, he knifed me.
It is silent, an anagram for listen. That is what I do. Listen while she remains silent.
Surely ghosts will follow wherever there is bad record keeping
Our brains are hardwired to think in terms of place and to associate psychic value or meaning to the places we inhabit.
A woman of European heritage sporting a preacher's collar had the opposite effect of a Muslim woman wearing a hijab. She used her privilege and the favored religion to look like a golden child.
I went to public school but kept to myself. When you live in a brothel, you don't want anyone coming to your home.
