If you watch a fly on, say, a coffee table, you'll see that they're rubbing their little legs together to groom themselves; they're actually quite clean creatures.
Michael Dickinson
Related There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civi... GARY OLDMAN If you don't take no chances, then you're not a performer. Performers always take chances. Y... EVANDER HOLYFIELD I love working with an audience. I love working with actual people who, you know, if they're mov... JANE PAULEY All I'll say is if you look at countries where it is - where they are rapidly growing, they'... AUSTAN GOOLSBEE And if you're singing to someone, or if they're singing along, and suddenly you're in ha... JASON MRAZ I think, in general, when you're doing comedy, you're having a good time regardless of the c... LAKE BELL I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - peo... KARIN SLAUGHTER I think that if you take somebody out of their comfort zone, they're going to dislike people bec... TAMSIN GREIG Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and f... MARK ZUCKERBERG People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves. LARRY WILMORE You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don't see where they get the pigeons fro... ALAN ALDA If you're not at the table, you're on the menu. MICHAEL ENZI You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you... FELICITY JONES If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to b... ZIG ZIGLAR Every label thinks, when they sign someone, 'This is the perfect pedigree to sign. They're c... RANDY JACKSON A personal belief is that if you're not personally invested in what you're working on, you... BIZ STONE Occasionally I'll watch Fox News for as long as I can tolerate it, or CNN. I'll watch until ... DAVID CROSS But of course when people watch morning television, Terry, it's a very different animal. You kno... KATIE COURIC Americans are cool; if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They'll pat... BEAR GRYLLS Let me put it this way: If you're sitting in a movie and you're watching me, and you say, ... MICHAEL CAINE You're a hero one day, you're a villain another day. They say that's football. When a ma... VINCENT TAN I am quite fortunate, because I can still be quite incognito. If you go out looking for attention, t... FELICITY JONES If you're sitting across the table from someone, the geometry of the situation says 'confron... SCOTT KIM A ghost is someone who hasn't made it - in other words, who died, and they don't know they... SYLVIA BROWNE Whenever you see shrinks on television, they're so clearly written by patients. They're eith... AMY BLOOM If you spend any time with a man, you'll realize that we're all still little boys. PAUL WALKER When I hear that I realize how quickly time passes and how everybody goes on their journeys and they... ROB LOWE Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgot... AGNES DE MILLE The thing about cooking is it's so interesting to watch. I don't know why, but if you go to ... CHRISTOPHER WALKEN If you talk to most businessmen, they'll say that what they do is for the public good, but you k... P. J. O'ROURKE Oftentimes, if you're talking to a seasoned interviewer who asks you a question, they may do a f... BRIAN GREENE What I know from my friends who are cops is they keep their houses very clean, because they say you ... EMILY PROCTER Either you're this, or you're that: either you're - if you're a Pakistani, you'r... MIRA NAIR If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you. BILLY WILDER So, when I say 'match the hatch', if the fish are taking the nymph, and you're actually ... REX HUNT I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX The people that you work with, the organizations that are committed to the same objectives. If they ... RISA LAVIZZO-MOUREY As you get older, you're doing different parts, but the young people, like yourself, they keep y... EVA MARIE SAINT The Vikings themselves are fascinating creatures. They're human beings, of course, but their eth... LINUS ROACHE I believe very much that the most damning thing you can say about Muslims is that you're afraid ... PENN JILLETTE If I'm a conservative, I'll generally watch Fox. If someone's liberal, they'll gener... JEB BUSH You know, you have a lot of people - I've met a lot of people in the past, I've gone to priv... ISSA RAE Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON You see a lot of people out there that say they're country, and they do their little things that... LUKE BRYAN I think that in itself, if you're a true golfer, you'll see specific things you need to work... TIGER WOODS Sometimes you'll see people give performances in comedy with an ironic detachment where they'... ZACH WOODS If you compromise what you're trying to do just a little bit, you'll end up compromising a l... SPIKE JONZE If you're never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you'll never get bette... ANGELA DUCKWORTH If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that... JOHN STEINBECK Most TV shows are writing the next episode while you're directing the one you're doing, and ... ALEX GRAVES When you're walking down the street, or you're at a restaurant, someone catches your eye bec... MARY-KATE OLSEN Some people look like they're lost causes, but they're not. Even if they're in a messed ... KEITH STANFIELD I was introverted, shy. But if you win a lot you need to be extroverted, or they'll think you... ALBERTO TOMBA I think probably - I think, you know, when you're first dating somebody, if they're just not... GREG BEHRENDT Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears all the rappers, they're doing my dances and they're makin... CHUBBY CHECKER My view on Democrats is that they're fascists disguised as liberals, or liberal moderates. You... GLENN DANZIG If you're doing this because you feel like you have a burning desire to do it, then you'll f... TRISHA YEARWOOD I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, ... KANYE WEST If you're a lead actor, people are just waiting to say 'you're too old' or 'you&... GILBERT GOTTFRIED Here is how you meet women: You tell the girls you are friends with - the ones in relationships - th... JULIE KLAUSNER Chucks are cooler when they're dirty. I actually stepped on somebody's the other day because... AJ LEE I found early on in teaching, if you're too blunt an instrument, the students discredit you and ... TIM GUNN Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you. DANIEL GILLIES It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building comp... STEVE JOBS Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, there's the oppo... PETER GUBER If you see in sports at a super high level, people get hurt or have injuries when there isn't th... DAVID BELLE In Israel, if a person doesn't agree with you, she just says no. In Alabama, someone would say, ... ODEYA RUSH It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you... EDDIE VAN HALEN If you say you are the Safe Food Foundation, that means you're implying that your food is safer ... BARRY MARSHALL Swords appear strong, but they're actually quite weak. Jesus appears weak, but he's actually... ROB BELL Pigs are not that dirty. And they're smart, strange little creatures. They just need love. SHELLEY DUVALL When you think about basketball, and you watch someone like Michael Jordan play basketball - even if... KIMBAL MUSK As a comedian, I don't know if they're laughing because it's funny or if they're lau... LARRY THE CABLE GUY If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you s... LAURA SCHLESSINGER When people start thinking of you more as a persona, they are less inclined to allow you to move int... ROBERT REDFORD It's a marathon, not a sprint. I actually feel like I come to work stronger when I've had a ... MARY BARRA I'll see you at the theater tonight. I'll hold your seat til you get there. After that you... BERT KALMAR If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they... JON STEWART Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you'... CHARLES BUKOWSKI You have to make the effort with children. You can't have them thinking that I reckon I'm sp... NOEL GALLAGHER With the stand-up comic on TV, whether it's Seinfeld or Cosby or Roseanne, more important than t... BOB NEWHART I like everything that people say. No matter what they say. You gay, you a punk. You got a nice girl... YOUNG THUG If people are worried, if they're fearful, if they feel a sense of grievance or that they're... DAN PINK It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON If you're a photographer, they give you a camera. If you're a writer, they give you a typewr... DOUG HARVEY It's very dangerous to wave to people you don't know because what if they don't have han... MITCH HEDBERG When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoug... DAVID R. BROWER You're being cast for your acting ability. It's not based on the way your body functions. If... NEVE CAMPBELL Michael Jordan and Michael Phelps are the greatest to ever do what they did, and I'm not. But if... JORDAN SPIETH I always felt that if somebody picks on you it's because they're not happy doing what they... BENJAMIN WALKER A teenager has to decide what they're going to do with their life, and that's one of the mos... AMY HECKERLING If you're a person struggling to eat and stay healthy, you might have heard about Michael Jordan... BILL GATES If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very ... D. A. PENNEBAKER If you need me to tell you that if you serve God, you'll get a Mercedes, you're lost. PAUL WASHER I'll tell you this about the Oscars - they're real. WILLIAM H. MACY Sometimes you're watching a great film actor, and if you stand 10 feet away from them, you'r... FINN WITTROCK If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are descr... JAMES BALDWIN When I say they're lunatics, that's what I'm talking about. People that think you should... SHERROD BROWN It's kind of hard in politics to forget that you're a Democrat or a Republican and remember ... RALPH HALL Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they're trying to pull one over on you they... PATRICIA HEATON
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A fly with a brain the size of a salt grain has the behavioral repertoire nearly as complex as a muc... MICHAEL DICKINSON When you see a fly flitting around your hair or your potato salad, you might see an annoyance. But i... MICHAEL DICKINSON I'm obsessed with insects, particularly insect flight. I think the evolution of insect flight is... MICHAEL DICKINSON The genus Drosophila is one of the great success stories. There's hundreds of species within the... MICHAEL DICKINSON The robotic fly that we actually make the most use of in our laboratory is actually not a small thin... MICHAEL DICKINSON Like many insects, flies are most sensitive to green light. This means that they would see their wor... MICHAEL DICKINSON Fly flight is just a great phenomenon to study. It has everything - from the most sophisticated sens... MICHAEL DICKINSON Although finding fruit flies in your wine or beer can be a bit annoying, I hope people will pause to... MICHAEL 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;
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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 Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers. BRUCE 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 The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover. BRUCE DICKINSON People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify... JANICE DICKINSON I never intended to become a professional pilot. But, as I became more curious about aircraft, and, ... BRUCE 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 Best two rock voices I've heard in a last few years both have been from grunge bands: it's E... BRUCE DICKINSON What I see especially among the Navajos and the Zunis and the Hopis is a culture of people who have ... RACHEL 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 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 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 I don't have interns. I don't have a manager. I don't have assistants. I don't have ... BRUCE DICKINSON If heavy metal bands ruled the world, we'd be a lot better off. BRUCE DICKINSON If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the... EMILY DICKINSON Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes. EMILY DICKINSON Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell. EMILY DICKINSON I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17t... EMILY 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 The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. JOHN DICKINSON Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand,
by dividing we fall. JOHN DICKINSON The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination. EMILY DICKINSON I dwell in possibility… EMILY DICKINSON They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. Golf is more complicated than that. GARDNER DICKINSON A power of Butterfly must be - The Aptitude to fly Meadows of Majesty concedes And ea... EMILY DICKINSON I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, And Mourners to and fro Kept treading – treading – till... EMILY DICKINSON If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life th... EMILY DICKINSON Belshazzar had a letter,--
He never had but one;
Belshazzar's correspondence
Concluded a... EMILY DICKINSON It is better to be the hammer than the anvil. EMILY DICKINSON Photo shoots for underage girls are like letting an ant walk around with honey. JANICE 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 I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at i... EMILY 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 Carnival took the myth out of cruising. We took what some considered elitist and made it an everyman... BOB DICKINSON There are a few things you never do ? you don't serve red wine with a soft cheese ? but I've drunk r... BOB DICKINSON Within a minute's time, the fire doors in that area of the ship totally isolated that part of the ve... BOB DICKINSON That's our theory. We've asked the Coast Guard to verify it, BOB DICKINSON We normally sell those rooms for a lot of money. It was frustrating that no one wanted to come. BOB DICKINSON Vacationers today want choice, BOB DICKINSON Those who want to leave will be assisted with hotel and air arrangements, BOB DICKINSON We sincerely apologize to those guests whose vacations have been impacted by these voyage cancellati... BOB DICKINSON This inconvenience to our guests will provide desperately needed housing for thousands of individual... BOB DICKINSON I think the future of cruising is outstanding. Today, cruising captures only 2% of the vacation mark... BOB 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 There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tun... EMILY DICKINSON If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the ac... EMILY DICKINSON Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed. EMILY DICKINSON We turn not older with years, but newer every day. EMILY DICKINSON My life closed twice before its' close- It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A th... EMILY DICKINSON I dwell in possibility... EMILY DICKINSON