Lyn Cassady Quotes in The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)

Lyn Cassady: Once you understand the linkage between observation and reality then you begin to dance with invisibility.

Bob Wilton: Like camouflage.

Lyn Cassady: No, it's not like camouflage.

Lyn Cassady: There's a story that Wong Wifu, the great Chinese martial artist... had a fight with a guy and beat him. Then the guy gave him this light tap. Wong looked at him and the guy just nodded. That was it. He had given him the death touch. Wong died.

Bob Wilton: Then and there?

Lyn Cassady: No. About eighteen years later. That's the thing about Dim Mak... you never know when it's gonna take effect.

Bob Wilton: So what do you use to remote view?

Lyn Cassady: I drink. And I find classic rock helps.

Bob Wilton: Any music in particular?

Lyn Cassady: Boston. Boston usually works.

Brigadier General Dean Hopgood: Did you crash those computers?

Lyn Cassady: Yes, sir.

Brigadier General Dean Hopgood: Far fuckin' out.

Lyn Cassady: It's ok, you can "attack" me...

Bob Wilton: What's with the quotation fingers? It's like saying I'm only capable of ironic attacking or something.

Lyn Cassady: While recovering in the hospital, Bill wrote to the Vice Chief of Staff for the Army, explaining that he wanted to go on a fact-finding mission... to explore alternative combat tactics. The Pentagon agreed to pay his salary and expenses. What Bill hadn't told the Pentagon was that he was really looking for the answer to his vision. How could his men's gentleness, their general lack of interest in killing people, be turned into a strength? How could love and peace help win wars? Bill knew where to go to find out. Bill disappeared into the New Age Movement for six years.

Lyn Cassady: [Continues talking while various images of Bill's experiences with New Age Movement are shown] Like all Shaman before him, he had traversed the wilderness. Now he was returning to his people, a changed man. He brought with him his confidential report, which he called: "The New Earth Army manual." The New Earth Army is a banner under which the forces of good can gather. The courage and nobility of the Warrior, blended with the spirituality of the Monk. The Jedi Warrior will follow in the footsteps of the great imagineers of the past: Jesus Christ, Lao Tse Tung, Walt Disney. The role of The New Earth Army is to resolve conflict world-wide. Jedis will parachute into war zones, utilizing sparkly eyes technique, carrying symbolic flowers and animals, playing indigenous music and words of peace...

Bob Wilton: What's... What's the sparkly eyes technique?

Lyn Cassady: [driving up behind a running prisoner yelling out the window] It's ok we're Americans, we're here to help you!

Bob Wilton: [Truck shakes and rattles a little bit] What happened?

Lyn Cassady: I think I just ran him over. Oh crap.

Lyn Cassady: Dear Mother Earth... I will drink your blue waters... and eat your green skin.

Bob Wilton: Don't eat the eggs.

Lyn Cassady: What?

Bob Wilton: Don't eat the eggs. We put LSD in the eggs.

Bill Django: And the water. I put LSD in the main water tank.

Bob Wilton: What? But, we drank the water!

Bill Django: Yeah!

Lyn Cassady: I'm very sorry for running you over, sir.

Mahmud Daash: It was an accident.

Lyn Cassady: And I apologize for that security detachment. I don't want you to think that all Americans are like that.

Mahmud Daash: I apologize for the kidnappers.

Lyn Cassady: Not your fault, sir. I mean, we've kidnappers in America and... There's always... bad apples.

Bob Wilton: Would you stop saying that? I've been... I've been blown up! I'm in the middle of a desert! I'm not gonna be okay.

Lyn Cassady: Bob, you're in shock. If you panic, your heart's gonna stop.

Bob Wilton: Is that supposed to calm me down?

Lyn Cassady: I can't dance, sir.

Bill Django: Now that's not true, is it? What happened was someone told you you can't dance. Well, I'm your commanding officer, and I'm ordering you to dance!