Mark Billingham famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Life isnâ€™t fair. Fair is somewhere you go to ride the dodgems and win a goldfish. (from Rush of Blood)
-- Mark Billingham

#Winning #Blood #Goldfish
Cormoran Strike is an amazing creation and I can't wait for his next outing. Strike is so instantly compelling that it's hard to believe this is a debut novel. I hope there are plenty more Cormoran Strike adventures to come. A beautifully written debut novel introducing one of the most unique and compelling detectives I've come across in years.
-- Mark Billingham

#Believe #Adventure #Unique
London now has its own John Grisham.
-- Mark Billingham

#London
If you're looking for an author who can deliver high-octane thrills every time and a character who is NOT to be messed with, you've found them. ZoÃ« Sharp and Charlie Fox both kick ass.
-- Mark Billingham

#Character #Foxes #Kick Ass
Life isn’t fair. Fair is somewhere you go to ride the dodgems and win a goldfish. (from Rush of Blood)
-- Mark Billingham

#Winning #Blood #Goldfish

If we can string together some wins this year, maybe I'll be a close second-or third behind Bart Starr-on their favorite quarterback list.
Getting adjusted regularly is part of my goal to win in life and on the field.
There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I've learned that lesson twice now. The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.
I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.
Get up now and go and find Robert Kilroy-Silk. Smile in a warm, friendly sort of way, then punch him on the nose. Now go and find Robert on television, despite my best endeavours, this is still relatively easy to do. Wait for a close-up, same smile, and punch him on the nose. If you followed the instructions carefully, you will have noticed a distinct difference. On the one hand, you were suffused with a sense of public-spirited righteousness; on the other, you're probably dribbling blood. That's the difference between reality in life and reality on television.
The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs
A nation is all the individuals of same blood, forming by their cohesion a natural related collective being with it s own organs and state which are social classes and the State and the same soul, which is nationality.
Starlets were always turning up dead in people's pools. They fished them out like goldfish. Nobody seemed to find it unusual that so many young, beautiful women wanted to die.
I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet.
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup-they all die. So do we.

Mark Billingham famous quotes

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