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.


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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