Billy Eichner Quotes
I learned early on that 'Billy on the Street' is a great lesson in 'Don't judge a book by its cover.'
Quotes to Explore
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.
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For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service of mental conceptions that resulted, almost as a by-product, sometimes in its pleasuring and sometimes in its abuse.
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But nothing beats a Woody Allen film on a Sunday night, with a glass of wine and some leftovers.
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Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion.
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The simple things in life make me very happy.
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Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend.
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We must understand that what Pascal said is true of every human being in the whole of space-time, ourselves included-'The last act is tragic, however pleasant all the comedy of the other acts. A little earth on our heads, and all is done with forever.'-understand it in our bones, so that we can live with it calmly if not serenely.
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We treat the Bible, not as if it's a magic book that has to be handled like a piece of abracadabra, make sure it's dusted, never put it on the floor, and things like that.
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If Heaven exists, to know that there's laughter, that would be a great thing.
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I learned early on that 'Billy on the Street' is a great lesson in 'Don't judge a book by its cover.'
