Brandon Sanderson Quotes - Page 5

I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.

Spook smiled. "Elend is a forgetful scholar - twice as bad as Sazed ever was. He gets lost in his books and forgets about meeting he himself called. He only dresses with any sense of fashion because a Terriswoman bought him a new wardrobe. War has change him some, but on the inside, I think he's still just a dreamer caught in a world with too much violence.

Authority doesn't come from a rank.," Kaladin said, fingering the spheres in his pocket. "Where does it come from?" "From the men who give it to you. That's the only way to get it.

imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people's lives.

Faith means that it doesn't matter what happens. You can trust that somebody is watching. Trust that somebody will make it all right.

He smiled despite the grief he felt at the deaths of his men; he smiled because that was what he did. That was how he proved to the Lord Ruler-and to himself-that he wasn't beaten.

You're wonderful. So full of life and excitement. The priests and servants of the palace, they wear colors, but there's no color inside of them. They just go about their duties, eyes down, solemn. You've got color on the inside, so much of it that it bursts out and colors everything around you.

The ways of Wayne are mysterious and incomprehensible.

People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.

Every man is a hero of his own story.

The motivations of men. They never make sense. And they always make sense.

I like words. And I always learn a few new ones when Father gets angry. I shouldn't neglect my education, now should I?

They tried boiling books, but that didn't work very well." "I'm surprised they haven't tried boiling one another." "Oh, it's been tried," Galladon said. "Fortunately. something happens to us during the Shaod—apparently the flesh of a dead man doesn't taste too good. Kolo? In fact, it's so violently bitter that no one can keep it down." "It's nice to see that cannibalism has been so logically ruled out as an option," Raoden said dryly

Can you feel it? Something just changed. I believe that’s the sound the world makes when it pisses itself.

Be warned - Hammond does tend to be a bit optimistic about these kind of things. If the army were made up of one-legged mutes, he would praise their balance and their listening skills.

Using a fetching face to make men do as you wish is no different from a man using muscle to force a woman to his will. Both are base, and both will fail a person as they age.

War is far worse. At least where politics is going on, there are usually nice hors d’oeuvres.

You said their prayer - is this the religion you believe in, then?" "I believe in them all." Vin frowned. "None of them contradict each other?" Sazed smiled. "Oh, often and frequently they do. But, I respect the truths behind them all.

Well, then," he said. "Let's do it." "What?" Vin asked. "Save the world." Elend said. "Stop the ash.

Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.

If you were the wall, what would you rather be? Dreary and dull, or alive with paint?" "Walls can't think!" "That doesn't stop them from caring.

One can have a wit, but not a witless

The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.

To age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one's body against oneself.

Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?