Edward Langley Quotes

“What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.”

“Fiction with its big question of 'what if?' is one of the most powerful forces in the world. Once upon a time, the ability to light a fire was fictitious.”

“I haven't always been a patient man...but something tells me you'd be worth the wait.”

“If I knew where poems came from, I'd go there.”

“Stories of Fantasy are nothing more than the retelling of our own triumphs and sad, sad tragedies ... Tod LangleyI have that painted on my office wall and love to stare at it.”

“...I got to chase my dream for a while, see what it's like, but this—" He stood and swept his arms wide. "This, and my family, is worth any price.”

“- had a million things to do today; death would have to wait, -(The Tin Star)”

“I found what I was looking for at Langley. This was what a research mathematician did. I went to work every day for 33 years happy. Never did I get up and say I don't want to go to work.”

“Can I have Jake and Coke--uh, Jack and Cock”

“From my bedroom window, I hadn’t noticed his earring and the Motörhead tattoo on his forearm. He looked like the kind of guy who, if a bomb went off in his watering can, would raise one eyebrow and say, ‘Well, that was close.”