Nicknames are baseball, names
Nicknames are baseball, names like Zeke and Pie and Kiki and Home Run and Cracker and Dizzy and Dazzy. Ernie Harwell
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Nicknames are baseball, names like Zeke and Pie and Kiki and Home Run and Cracker and Dizzy and Dazzy. Ernie Harwell
I think about Old Nick carrying me into the truck, I’m dizzy like I’m going to fall down. Scared is what you’re feeling, says Ma, but brave is what you’re doing. Huh? Scaredybrave. Scave. Word sandwiches always make her laugh but I wasn’t being funny. Emma Donoghue
I once saw Dizzy Gillespie at a live show, and it made me want to go home immediately and start writing. Elmore Leonard
Light That’s how I feel- like the winter-fringed breeze might scoop me up into its wings, fly away with me trapped in its feathered embrace. I am a snowflake. A wisp of eiderdown, liberated from gravity. My body is light. Ephemeral. My head is light. I want to sway beneath the weight of air, dizzy … Read more
All the dreamers in all the world are dizzy in the noodle! Edie Adams
Dizzy used to tell me I’m playing too hard. He’d say to not give everything. Miles told me that too. Freddie Hubbard
When I got started in New York, if you were different from Miles & Dizzy it was very difficult. Freddie Hubbard
The circus tent was flowing pale in the rain like a fleshy flower lit from within. It seemed to bloom in the downpour. Drops of rain caught on Rafe’s eyelashes, blinding him as the circus light struck them. He groped for the flap, that slit in the fabric that would reveal her to him. She … Read more
The years between thirty-five and sixty-five revolve before the passive mind as one unexplained, confusing merry-go-round. True, they are a merry-go-round of ill-gaited and wind-broken horses, painted first in pastel colors, then in dull grays and browns, but perplexing and intolerably dizzy the thing is, as never were the merry-go-rounds of childhood or adolescence; as … Read more
I love you more than anybody in the world… I love you for millions and millions of things, clocks and vampires and dirty nails and squiggly paintings and lovely hair and being dizzy and falling dreams. Dylan Thomas