Billy Hoyle Quotes & Sayings

Casey wanted us to stay loose. That didn't mean clowning around. He just meant we should be confident and relaxed. We shouldn't feel that one strikeout was going to end the season for us. — Mickey Mantle

Every man needs his Siren
To check his courage and strength
When he hears her song
In his travels through the unknown. — Dejan Stojanovic

I don't think you ever silence critics. They'll be critics in the morning. That's part of the deal. — Mack Brown

June has never looked more beautiful than she does now, unadorned and honest, vulnerable yet invincible. — Marie Lu

The last time I was in New York was in a cold January, and everyone was ill and tired. Many of the people I used to know there had moved to Dallas or had gone on Antabuse or had bought a farm in New Hampshire. We stayed ten days, and then we took an afternoon flight back to Los Angeles, and on the way home from the airport that night I could see the moon on the Pacific and smell jasmine all around and we both knew that there was no longer any point in keeping the apartment we still kept in New York. There were years when I called Los Angeles "the Coast," but they seem a long time ago. — Joan Didion

Once illness strikes, you realize there's not a lot of time for you to do what you really need to do. And there's no time like the present. — Rufus Wainwright

But the thing about Literature is, well, basically it encapsulates all the disciplines - it's history, philosophy, politics, sexual politics, sociology, psychology, linguistics, science. Literature is mankind's organised response to the world around him, or her. — David Nicholls

When I'm in the middle of fucking you with my mouth, you don't interrupt. You can have my cock, but it'll be when I decide it's time. Do you understand? — Nina Levine