Mickey Roker quotes

Mickey Roker quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“A lot of people call Dizzy old fashioned but so is the bible.”
-- Mickey Roker

Source : Interview with Ethan Iverson, ethaniverson.com. April 2011.

#People Quotes #Dizzy Quotes #Old Fashioned Quotes

“Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.”
“People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.”
“The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.”

Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.
“Clothes make me dizzy.”
“one more creature dizzy with love”
“Dizzy used to tell me I'm playing too hard. He'd say to not give everything. Miles told me that too.”
“Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn't understood it.”
“In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.”
“You will be old-fashioned one day. It's more shocking than getting old.”

Source : Enid Bagnold (1970). “Four plays”
“I am one of those old-fashioned ministers who believe the whole Bible and everything that it contains.”

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