Billy Lynn Quotes

#1. I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.

Tom Stoppard

#2. Passonate, irreverent, utterly relevant, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk offers an unforgettable portrait of a reluctant hero. Ben Fountain writes like a man inspired and his razor sharp exploration of our contemporary ironies will break your heart.

Margot Livesey

#3. There's nothing that irritates Americans more than the fact that some members of Congress think they are entitled to their own set of rules. And it's true - too many people in Washington live in an alternate reality.

Claire McCaskill

#4. Therefore the sage desires what (other men) do not desire, and does not prize things difficult to get; he learns what (other men) do not learn, and turns back to what the multitude of men have passed by.

Lao-Tzu

#5. Find the evil in the castle ... But the only truly evil thing in this world is the man ruling it.

Sarah J. Maas

#6. The ideas for my books come about in two ways. There can be an intellectual idea that seems to be the reason for writing the book. The other motive is unconscious. There is something deeply psychological and emotional that draws me to the material in the first place.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#7. I have never heard of the Wife Project. But I'm about to. In detail.'
'Of course,' I said. 'But we should time-share it with pizza-consumption and beer-drinking.'
'Of course,' said Rosie

Graeme Simsion

#8. Shae-Lynn, come on. You know I didn't mean for it to happen that way. I was just trying to do right by you."

"Doing right by me would have been respecting my wishes and keeping your promises. Leave me alone, Billy. I don't want to be friends with someone I can't depend on.

D.R. Graham

#9. I dress to kill, but tastefully.

Freddie Mercury

#10. Be grateful, be smart, be clean, be true, be humble, be prayerful.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#11. One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.

Pat Metheny

#12. Sometimes being successful means pissing people off

Philip Loyd

#13. Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings? To me it's the latter, so I sign up

Margaret Atwood

#14. In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.

Winston Churchill

#15. In my opinion, we will always be sinners in need of our Savior, Jesus Christ."

~R. Alan Woods [2007]

R. Alan Woods

#16. The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It's almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.

Keith Richards

#17. I, alone, could never have produced this book. I say this mainly in case there are lawsuits.

Dave Barry