Vince Flynn Quotes

I have such bad memories, sitting in the back of a classroom, being told, you know, everybody is going to read a paragraph, and skipping ahead to my paragraph and being mortified and trying to read it enough times so that I wouldn't stutter and stammer, getting called on, even in high school. ~ Vince Flynn

Greta's car was three blocks away, and up ahead there looked to be a crowd of people gathering. They had probably come outside to see what the commotion was. Rapp stopped running. There was no quicker way to attract attention than running in street clothes at night when gunshots had been fired. The sirens were much closer now. At the next intersection a police car came skidding around the corner. Rapp's training kicked in. He stopped and stared directly at the two policemen in the front seat. That's what innocent people did. Guilty people looked away, hid their faces, and even ran. ~ Vince Flynn

Don't lie to me, though I know lying is like breathing to you guys! ~ Vince Flynn

or the trunk, taken somewhere and stripped naked, ~ Vince Flynn

If you're not busy living, you're dying. ~ Vince Flynn

He continued along the route that he had reconnoitered the morning before. And the morning before that. He needed to change his route some to see if he was actually being followed. His instincts said he was clear, but his training ordered him to make sure. ~ J.T. Patten

I am a huge fan of Alan Furst. Furst is the best in the business
the most talented espionage novelist of our generation. ~ Vince Flynn

We're all dying, just some of us sooner than others. ~ Vince Flynn

That's the problem with this whole country. Fucking vast prosperity. No one has any real problems anymore. Ninety percent of the damn politicians in this town either think there's no war on terror, or if we'd just be nice to these zealots they'll leave us alone. Well, that ain't going to fucking happen. The Huns are circling, and we're sitting around arguing about gay rights and prayer and guns and global warming and all kinds of bullshit. These idiots will eventually wake up to the threat, but by then it might be too late. (Stan Hurley) ~ Vince Flynn

And when I go around and talk to schools, what I tell the kids are, first of all, you have to accept each other's differences. Some of you are going to be a crappy football player, some of you are going to be a great mathematician. Whatever it is, accept each other's differences and help prop each other up. ~ Vince Flynn

It's what every writer needs: a daybed. ~ Vince Flynn

Underestimating one's enemy was a classic tactical mistake
one that was usually born out of stupidity or arrogance or both. (Harry Smith) ~ Vince Flynn

just let Mitch be Mitch ~ Vince Flynn

It was not possible to reason with unreasonable people ~ Vince Flynn

I think the more avenues that open up when people want to publish, the better. Some of the authors that want to jump ship from the traditional houses and go on their own, you know what? Good luck. It's going to be a lot tougher than you think. ~ Vince Flynn

Have you ever heard the phrase, it is better to keep your mouth closed and have people wonder if you are stupid than open it and remove all doubt? (Hakim al Harbi) ~ Vince Flynn

I have been blessed to have the same editor and work for a great publishing house. ~ Vince Flynn

He hesitated for a split second, then told himself not to think.

"I'd rather go down swinging," he muttered as he shut the door. If he survived this little ordeal he'd have to ask Lewis if talking to yourself was a symptom of losing your mind. ~ Vince Flynn

I have a history of disregarding orders. - Mitch Rapp ~ Vince Flynn

People who think God is on their side are capable of the most inhumane acts. (Petrov) ~ Vince Flynn

No offence Mitch, but you look like s*****."
"I feel like s**** ~ Vince Flynn

I don't need men like Ross on my side. I just need them to get out of my way. (Mitch Rapp) ~ Vince Flynn

I don't want to hear another word about my attitude. i don't want anyone looking over my shoulder, and I sure as hell don't want anyone second-guessing what I do. (Mitch Rapp) ~ Vince Flynn

Revenge is more wild, less calculated ... deeply personal. Retribution is a punishment that is morally right and fully deserved. (Mitch Rapp) ~ Vince Flynn

I'm a big believer in free enterprise. If people want to try it, then go for it. ~ Vince Flynn

A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt. ~ Vince Flynn

There, he was a lion. Here, he could end up being someone's lunch. ~ Vince Flynn

No one writes better historical fiction than Steven Pressfield. The Afghan War that was waged by Alexander the Great 2000 years ago is eerily similar to the one that's being fought today. This book should be required reading for anyone who wants to better understand what American and Coalition forces are up against in one of history's most tribal and troubled regions. ~ Vince Flynn

I just look at what's going on in the world. ~ Vince Flynn

It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet. ~ Vince Flynn

Killing Lincoln is a must-read historical thriller. Bill O'Reilly recounts the dramatic events of the spring of 1865 with such exhilarating immediacy that you will feel like you are walking the streets of Washington DC on the night that John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln. This is a hugely entertaining, heart-stopping read. ~ Vince Flynn

In a sense, the business arrangement was a bit like a man leaving his wife for the woman he's been having an affair with. The fact that the same man decides to then cheat on the woman he originally cheated with should surprise no one, least of all the woman herself. ~ Vince Flynn

Any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people. ~ Vince Flynn

I've never had any summer lovin'. And I've never had any school year lovin', either. I've never had a boyfriend. I've never hooked up with a guy. And this morning, on my Internet browser, an article popped up about women marrying themselves. Even my wireless connection knows I'm alone. ~ Flynn Meaney

...Life does not follow the continuous flow of logical argument and that one often has to risk moving beyond the limits of the rational in order to live life to the fullest. ~ Thomas R. Flynn

The casino seemed like a good idea at first - right off the highway, filled with drunks and elderly, neither of whom are known for eyesight. But I am feeling crowded and fidgety, aware of the cameras in every corner, the doors that could snap shut. ~ Gillian Flynn

And she'd feel sorry for the kids, but not in a way that made her want to help, just in a way that made her not want to look at them anymore. ~ Gillian Flynn

Keisha said... I'm going to ride you so hard you might regret seeking shelter here.

Gabe replied... IF you don't, I'm gonna need to go back out and throw myself into a snowbank just to cool off ~ Avery Flynn

Years ago at music camp Harry once said to me, "He's not just a musical prodigy, you know. He's a musical genius." It comes back to me now. And I laugh when I kiss my 'musical genius' because really he's just Flynn. ~ Tabitha Suzuma

You almost feel dirty for reading [Gillian Flynn's] books, like you've been forced to join your conscience with those of her morally murky protagonists. ~ Tarryn Fisher

Fundamental renegotiation is very, very unlikely to produce any significant change ~ Vince Cable

VINCE: We'd never make it. We'd drive and we'd drive and we'd drive and we'd never make it. We'd think we were getting farther and farther away. That's what we'd think. ~ Sam Shepard

We could make a meal
of what's left in this box:
potato, onion, rind of cheese,
elderly egg. We could make
another baby without much
fear, at our age. Name her
Rosa and set her in the yard
with us, pulling weeds,
listening to the birds dusting
their wings in the drive. We
could instead just hold each other
here in the cold house,
and say enough, enough. ~ Rachel Contreni Flynn

Everything I've done feels like I'm just as much a part of it as if I was the producer. It's still the same job: all of us together figuring out the common good for a song. That's the only thing that matters. It's not like, "I'm the boss, and I'm gonna tell you what to play." ~ Vince Gill

Item 33: Get the fuck out of Dodge. Check, check, check. ~ Gillian Flynn

I never did anything for free. Other than dancing in clubs. I give that away for nothing. ~ Vince Vaughn

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while ... you don't do things right once in a while ... you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. ~ Vince Lombardi

I know cigarettes can kill & wonder why she wants to die. ~ Nick Flynn

I feel like the world just moves too fast for me to keep up. ~ Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me. ~ Gillian Flynn

What never fails inside the mind of an intellectual never works outside the confines of his head. The world's stubborn refusal to vindicate the intellectual's theories serves as proof of humanity's irrationality, not his own. Thus, the true believer retrenches rather than rethinks; he launches a war on the world, denying reality because it fails to conform to his theories. If intellectuals are not prepared to reconcile theory and practice, then why do they bother to venture outside the ivory tower or the coffeehouse? Why not stay in the world of abstractions and fantasy? ~ Daniel J. Flynn

Success is like anything worthwhile. It has a price. You have to pay the price to get to the point where success is possible. ~ Vince Lombardi

And in the future, you know, maybe there's kids in the future for me, I don't really know. The interesting thing with me is that there has never been a woman doing what I'm doing at this level for this long. So, it's like, would Vince give me maternity leave? ~ Trish Stratus

I figured that I'm going to bring my own version of Billy Flynn and do my very best with it and let it go. ~ Eddie George

If you can't get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you're in the wrong business. ~ Vince Lombardi

People told me I'd have to deal more with losing at this level. I understood that, but I didn't want to start accepting losses. ~ Vince Young

I would rather be a librarian, but I worry about the job security. Books may be temporary; dicks are forever. The ~ Gillian Flynn

I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life. ~ Lara Flynn Boyle

You're sexist. I'm so sick of liberal lefty men practicing sexual discrimination under the guise of protecting women against sexual discrimination. ~ Gillian Flynn

I spent a long time playing that game," she said. "Pretending there were other versions of this world, where other versions of me got to live, and be happy, even if I didn't, and you know what? It's lonely as hell. Maybe there are other versions, other lives, but this one's ours. It's all we've got. ~ Victoria Schwab

I would say that the quality of each man's life is the full measure of that man's commitment of excellence and victory - whether it be football, whether it be business, whether it be politics or government or what have you. ~ Vince Lombardi

I was not that man: I didn't hate and fear all women. I was a one-woman misogynist. If I despised only Amy, focused all my fury and rage and venom on the one woman who deserved it, that didn't make me my father. That made me sane. ~ Gillian Flynn

I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together. ~ Vince Gill