Brandon Sanderson Quotes

'That could be solved,' Siri said, 'Perhaps it would help if you refrained from speaking when others are present. I think I should find you quite amiable in those circumstances.'

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• I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • Up
  • Morning

• I always struggle auditioning, actually, because I'm so obsessed with era-appropriate clothing.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Always
  • Struggle
  • Clothing

• Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Work
  • Fall
  • Three

• We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Know
  • Deep
  • Scars

• I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Guy
  • Control
  • Responsibility

• We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Realize
  • How
  • Anymore

• I don't look at myself as suffering.

  

  A. J. Langer
  • Myself
  • Suffering
  • Look

• I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Wife
  • Safe
  • Germany

• If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Me
  • Friend
  • Cute

• With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.

  

  Ma Jun
  • People
  • World
  • Imagination

• I think I'm lucky having parents that have been in show business for a while, and they don't care about the shiny stuff so much. They raised me in that way - to stay grounded, not to chase the shiny, pretty things.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Business
  • Pretty
  • Parents

• When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Know
  • Become
  • Let Go

• I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happy
  • You
  • Childhood

• Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what was happening - these better-made foreign car companies were encroaching on the U.S., and the U.S. car makers had less than half of their own country's market.

  

  Ira Glass
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  • American
  • Car

• I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any more than we understand our own minds and what they're capable of.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • World
  • Believe
  • Understand

• I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Up
  • Work
  • Writing

• It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the CO2 concentration, the humidity, the temperature, all the various factors that plants depend on to grow rapidly.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Control
  • Grow
  • Plants

• Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Great
  • Small
  • Single

• I still carry with me the same themes as always - I'm still compelled to present mystic ideas...

  

  Donovan
  • Present

• If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.

  

  Jacques Chirac
  • Country
  • Present

• Madonna did amazing songs. She had an amazing sense of style, without a stylist. And she was flawed, and sometimes she admitted it. I'll fight the fight for Madonna. I think she should send me some chocolates or something to thank me.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Amazing
  • Style
  • Fight

• I'm all about taking chances. You have to ask yourself, if you're not taking any chances, are you actually even living? Every time you walk out of your door and you're out in the world, you take a chance on not coming back. That is the danger and the dynamic of being alive.

  

  CeeLo Green
  • Time
  • World
  • Door

• I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • White House
  • Third World

• 'That could be solved,' Siri said, 'Perhaps it would help if you refrained from speaking when others are present. I think I should find you quite amiable in those circumstances.'

  

  Brandon Sanderson
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