Bruce Dickinson quote: "I don't have interns. I don't have a manager. I don't have assistants. I don't have a secretary. I can't figure out Outlook Express. I'm the worst person in the world answering e-mails, and my phone is probably the oldest, most battered phone you can find. So I just talk to people."

Engineering stimulates the mind. Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands...
BRUCE DICKINSON

Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.
BRUCE DICKINSON

The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.
BRUCE DICKINSON

I never intended to become a professional pilot. But, as I became more curious about aircraft, and, ...
BRUCE DICKINSON

Best two rock voices I've heard in a last few years both have been from grunge bands: it's E...
BRUCE DICKINSON

My dad always told me, 'I don't care what you do. Just aim to be the best at it. Even if it&...
BRUCE DICKINSON

The celebrity thing, I mean, Lindsay Lohan - what's she for? I look at that and throw my hands u...
BRUCE DICKINSON

A few of these interviews have gone slightly awry, because every now and again there has been the od...
BRUCE DICKINSON

The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m....
BRUCE DICKINSON

If your only arbiter of anything is money, really you should... go and rob banks.
BRUCE DICKINSON

If heavy metal bands ruled the world, we'd be a lot better off.
BRUCE DICKINSON

I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. I...
BRUCE DICKINSON

If you really want to annoy me, ask me when I'm going to retire from rock n' roll.
BRUCE DICKINSON

I'll be arriving at the last possible minute and walking on stage raging and pillaging and then disa...
BRUCE DICKINSON

I only ever had one pair of Spandex trousers!
BRUCE DICKINSON

That gives me tremendous encouragement and optimism for the human race in general, that people choos...
BRUCE DICKINSON

I was asked to sign a bunny, a real one! I am not an aficionado of bunnies.
BRUCE DICKINSON

I'm not going to do any more solo touring.
BRUCE DICKINSON

I don't even think that you can call Iron Maiden 100% real metal. Iron Maiden is beyond that and alw...
BRUCE DICKINSON

I guess that the salary that they get when they are working with me is, like, it beats working at Mc...
BRUCE DICKINSON

Well, if it's the audience is a bit lagging we kick them in the nuts until they wake up!
BRUCE DICKINSON

We could tell there were a lot of disgusted fans who had paid good money to see us.
BRUCE DICKINSON

Apart from death and taxes, the one thing that's certain in this life is that I'll never be ...
BRUCE DICKINSON

I'm very good at daydreaming. Ask any of my schoolteachers.
BRUCE DICKINSON

Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle th...
BRUCE DICKINSON

With the Internet, bands can come and go every five minutes and the music looks disposable.
BRUCE DICKINSON

I find that fencing and training give me more stamina and help me deal with the craziness of being o...
BRUCE DICKINSON

When you cut human beings down to size, we're really quite simple creatures; food, shelter, warm...
BRUCE DICKINSON

I'm trying to be as green as I can. As an airline pilot, I have a carbon footprint that's a ...
BRUCE DICKINSON

Business is just about enabling human beings, nothing more, nothing less. Businesses need to recogni...
BRUCE DICKINSON

I love performing on the stage, but I don't like being famous-I just don't see the point, it just ch...
BRUCE DICKINSON

All the Young Dudes.
BRUCE DICKINSON

Well, it's a nice quiet time for Iron Maiden, and I'll be releasing a new solo album next ye...
BRUCE DICKINSON

Iron Maiden is an institution, and I'm delighted that I'm involved in it, but there was a ti...
BRUCE DICKINSON

Everything you need to know about Iron Maiden is onstage.
BRUCE DICKINSON

South Wales is a hub of aviation.
BRUCE DICKINSON

A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull.
BRUCE DICKINSON

I think the best way to find out about something is to try to do it to the max. A lot of people take...
BRUCE DICKINSON

In my teenage years I was put off the idea of a career in flying, because I'd convinced myself t...
BRUCE DICKINSON

I am taking a break, but not a huge break because the Maiden record is actually happening right now,...
BRUCE DICKINSON

Life is too short to do the things you don't love doing.
BRUCE DICKINSON

The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned.
BRUCE DICKINSON

It is only because of my own powers that I survived the attack at all,
BRUCE DICKINSON

Alice is much a focused rebellion, he's a fantastic cartoon character almost, if you like, and there...
BRUCE DICKINSON

Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative.
BRUCE DICKINSON

If it all just happens like this for the rest of my life, it's going to be one endless Groundhog Day...
BRUCE DICKINSON

I'm a ham. I was immediately attracted to fencing because it seemed like a romantic, melodramatic fo...
BRUCE DICKINSON

Life on the road can get a little one-dimensional. I didn't want to reach 40 and have to say all I'd...
BRUCE DICKINSON

When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside ...
BRUCE DICKINSON

Iron Maiden is an institution, and I'm delighted that I'm involved in it, but there was a time that ...
BRUCE DICKINSON

Well, it's a nice quiet time for Iron Maiden, and I'll be releasing a new solo album next year, so t...
BRUCE DICKINSON

The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.
BRUCE DICKINSON

When I left the band, what the band did is really their own business. And their career-they got on w...
BRUCE DICKINSON

I've always enjoyed reading lyrics, trying to do them more than just lyrics, trying to have some mor...
BRUCE DICKINSON

King in Crimson is actually an alchemical term. King Crimson is a metaphor for Devil or Satan, but a...
BRUCE DICKINSON

I dreamt for years about making albums and doing world tours-I'd fulfilled all my ambitions in one y...
BRUCE DICKINSON

I shall refract myself, yes, I shall no longer be known as the prism.
BRUCE DICKINSON

I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal e...
BRUCE DICKINSON

Life on the road can get a little one-dimensional. I didn't want to reach 40 and have to say all...
BRUCE DICKINSON

Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.
BRUCE DICKINSON

One of my earliest ventures was when I was nine years old. I realized there was a shortage of pencil...
BRUCE DICKINSON

My son is in a band, and he's a singer, and his vocals... they're screaming-growling stuff.....
BRUCE DICKINSON

Engineering stimulates the mind.
BRUCE DICKINSON

The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.'
BRUCE DICKINSON

Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it's also up to engineering to make itself more inte...
BRUCE DICKINSON

I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the wren; and my hair is bold, like the chestnut bur; and...
EMILY DICKINSON

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.
EMILY DICKINSON

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
EMILY DICKINSON

My friends are my estate.
EMILY DICKINSON

The past explains how I got here, but the future is up to me - and I love to live life at full throt...
JANICE DICKINSON

They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as m...
EMILY DICKINSON

But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime...
JANICE DICKINSON

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his brie...
EMILY DICKINSON

Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.
EMILY DICKINSON

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves a...
EMILY DICKINSON

I'm nobody, who are you?
EMILY DICKINSON

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
EMILY DICKINSON

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
EMILY DICKINSON

I dwell in possibility.
EMILY DICKINSON

A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend...
EMILY DICKINSON

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dain...
EMILY DICKINSON

Socrates, you will remember, asked all the important questions - but he never answered any of them
DICKINSON RICHARDS

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all!By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. - "The Liber...
JOHN DICKINSON

What you keep by you, you may change and mend; But words once spoke can never be recall'd.
JOHN DICKINSON

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
EMILY DICKINSON

In Rio Bravo when Duke makes love to Feathers, the scene dissolves to the next morning where we see ...
ANGIE DICKINSON

Hope is a strange invention-- A Patent of the Heart-- In unremitting action Yet never wearing out.
EMILY DICKINSON

Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call...
EMILY DICKINSON

Faith is a fine invention For gentlemen who see; But Microscopes are prudent In an emerg...
EMILY DICKINSON

One need not be a chamber to be haunted.
EMILY DICKINSON

Forever is composed of nows.
EMILY DICKINSON

I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tel...
EMILY DICKINSON

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
EMILY DICKINSON

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the ...
EMILY DICKINSON

This is my letter to the world
That never wrote to me
EMILY DICKINSON

The Brain is wider than the sky-.
EMILY DICKINSON

Nature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem.
EMILY DICKINSON

Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.
EMILY DICKINSON

Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'Tis starving makes it fat.
EMILY DICKINSON

A wounded deer leaps the highest.
EMILY DICKINSON

The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.
EMILY DICKINSON

Beauty is not caused. It is.
EMILY DICKINSON

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
EMILY DICKINSON

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry....
EMILY DICKINSON

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of pe...
EMILY DICKINSON

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
EMILY DICKINSON

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.
EMILY DICKINSON

Dying is a wild night and a new road.
EMILY DICKINSON

Let us go in; the fog is rising.
EMILY DICKINSON

Because I could not stop for Death --
He kindly stopped for me --
The carriage held but just...
EMILY DICKINSON

Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break it,
Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee, EMILY DICKINSON

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul -- and sings the tunes without the words --...
EMILY DICKINSON

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the word...
EMILY DICKINSON

Where thou art, that is home.
EMILY DICKINSON

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
EMILY DICKINSON

His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have n...
EMILY DICKINSON

To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe...
EMILY DICKINSON

How the old mountains drip with sunset,
And the brake of dun!
How the hemlocks are tipped in t...
EMILY DICKINSON

I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true -- men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Thro...
EMILY DICKINSON

This is the Hour of Lead --
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow -...
EMILY DICKINSON

To live is so starling it leaves little time for anything else.
EMILY DICKINSON

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
EMILY DICKINSON

Much Madness is divinest Sense -- to a discerning Eye -- much Sense -- the starkest Madness --
EMILY DICKINSON

His Labor is a Chant -- his Idleness -- a Tune -- oh, for a Bee's experience of Clovers, and of Noon...
EMILY DICKINSON

No free people ever existed, or can ever exist, without keeping the purse strings in their own hands...
JOHN DICKINSON

Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!,
Underneath their fine incisions, stirs ...
EMILY DICKINSON

Assent -- and you are sane -- , demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- , and handled with a Chain ...
EMILY DICKINSON

Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb -- or Dome of Worm -- or Porch of Gnome -- or some Elf's...
EMILY DICKINSON

Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved -- the site of it by architect could not a...
EMILY DICKINSON

A Letter always seemed to me like Immortality, for is it not the Mind alone, without corporeal frien...
EMILY DICKINSON

The fog is rising.
EMILY DICKINSON

Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.
EMILY DICKINSON

'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventu...
EMILY DICKINSON

I am going to learn to make bread tomorrow. So if you may imagine me with my sleeves rolled up, mixi...
EMILY DICKINSON

I hope you love birds, too. It is economical. It saves going to Heaven.
EMILY DICKINSON

Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see -- but microscopes are prudent in an emergency
EMILY DICKINSON

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all!
By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
JOHN DICKINSON

Our cause is just. Our union is perfect.
JOHN DICKINSON

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetr...
EMILY DICKINSON

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor t...
EMILY DICKINSON

If I can stop one heart from breaking
I shall not live in vain
If I can ease on Life the Achin...
EMILY DICKINSON

His labor is a chant, His idleness a tune; Oh, for a bee's experience Of clovers and of ...
EMILY DICKINSON

Then join in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
JOHN DICKINSON

Inebriate of air am I, And debauchee of dew, Reeling, through endless summer days, From ...
EMILY DICKINSON

God preaches, a noted clergyman, And the sermon is never long; So instead of getting to heaven...
EMILY DICKINSON

And so upon this wise I prayed,-- Great Spirit, give to me A heaven not so large as yours ...
EMILY DICKINSON

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of pe...
EMILY DICKINSON

"Hope" is the thing with feathers- That perches in the soul- And sings the tunes without the word...
EMILY DICKINSON

There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of C...
EMILY DICKINSON

If it wasn't for dogs, some people would never go for a walk.
EMILY DICKINSON

The mountain at a given distance In amber lies; Approached, the amber flits a little,-- ...
EMILY DICKINSON

The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes ...
EMILY DICKINSON

Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode, until we drive...
EMILY DICKINSON

Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye; Much sense the starkest madness. 'Ti...
EMILY DICKINSON

The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him Is aristocrac...
EMILY DICKINSON

Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition So clear...
EMILY DICKINSON

Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed.
EMILY DICKINSON

Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.
EMILY DICKINSON

For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.
EMILY DICKINSON

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
EMILY DICKINSON

For Love is Immortality.
EMILY DICKINSON

I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gav...
EMILY DICKINSON

Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and nev...
EMILY DICKINSON

A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the hunter tell; 'Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then th...
EMILY DICKINSON

Fame is a bee. / It has a song / It has a sting / Ah, too, it has a wing.
EMILY DICKINSON

One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors su...
EMILY DICKINSON

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
EMILY DICKINSON

Anger as soon as fed is dead-
'Tis starving makes it fat.
EMILY DICKINSON

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul.
And sings the tune
Without the...
EMILY DICKINSON

People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify...
JANICE DICKINSON

If you watch a fly on, say, a coffee table, you'll see that they're rubbing their little leg...
MICHAEL DICKINSON

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
EMILY DICKINSON

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
EMILY DICKINSON

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
EMILY DICKINSON

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
EMILY DICKINSON

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
EMILY DICKINSON

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
EMILY DICKINSON

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
EMILY DICKINSON

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
EMILY DICKINSON

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone...
EMILY DICKINSON

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
EMILY DICKINSON

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
EMILY DICKINSON

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
EMILY DICKINSON

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
EMILY DICKINSON

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
EMILY DICKINSON

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
EMILY DICKINSON

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - a...
EMILY DICKINSON

Fortune befriends the bold.
EMILY DICKINSON

What I see especially among the Navajos and the Zunis and the Hopis is a culture of people who have ...
RACHEL DICKINSON

Growing older doesn't bother me.
ANGIE DICKINSON

I dress for women and I undress for men.
ANGIE DICKINSON

My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.
ANGIE DICKINSON

I played poker every Saturday night for 35 years with him and Lenore, ... I loved them beyond the mu...
ANGIE DICKINSON

President Kennedy loved the entertainment world, ... We were asking him -- he was newly in office --...
ANGIE DICKINSON

They were larger than life all the time. That was no act.
ANGIE DICKINSON

Without Police Woman I wouldn't have had a career. The show started about the same time the women's ...
ANGIE DICKINSON

You can't stop the aging process. There's only so much oil you can put on your body. I've always jus...
ANGIE DICKINSON

I think it was sexier when you didn't have to take it all off.
ANGIE DICKINSON

God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the he...
EMILY DICKINSON

A fly with a brain the size of a salt grain has the behavioral repertoire nearly as complex as a muc...
MICHAEL DICKINSON

I don't have interns. I don't have a manager. I don't have assistants. I don't have a secretary. I can't figure out Outlook Express. I'm the worst person in the world answering e-mails, and my phone is probably the oldest, most battered phone you can find. So I just talk to people.

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