Patrick Rothfuss Quotes
Humans are kind of story-propagating creatures. If you think of how we spend our days, think of all the time you spend on entertainment. How much of your entertainment centers around stories? Most pieces of music tell stories. Even hanging out with your friends, you talk, you tell stories to each other. They're all stories. We live in stories.Patrick Rothfuss
Quotes to Explore
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It's been clear for some time that FBI Director Comey has lost the confidence of Republicans, Democrats, and broader institutions, and his removal as FBI Director was probably overdue.
Karen Handel -
With network, shows are pulled half the time after three episodes whether they're good or they're not good. It's a numbers game. With cable, they can take a lot more liberties.
Valerie Cruz -
You need to take care of your time and practice, you need to rest and talk to media. So it's really important to organize those things.
Yani Tseng -
Laughter made you live better and longer.
Gail Parent -
Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.
Vernon Howard -
I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.
Ville Valo HIM
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The characters in 'Ray Donovan' are not very articulate - we're the worst Irish family you could ever live next to in L.A.
Eddie Marsan -
Every time I go out there and compete, my number is, of course, $100 million or better.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.
Bahman Ghobadi -
Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.
Padgett Powell -
Every idea has its time.
Vicente Fox -
I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.
Abigail Washburn
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I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
Mandy Patinkin -
People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.
Jackson Browne -
I think I have a right to live my life the way I like.
Malala Yousafzai -
I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.
Laura Dekker -
The secret to longevity, as I see it, has less to do with diet, or even exercise, and more to do with the environment in which a person lives: social and physical. What do I mean by this? They live rewardingly inconvenient lives.
Dan Buettner -
If you go to a movie and it's a great experience, the experience at the end of it is always like this sadness that it's over, that your time with these characters is finished. There's almost like an achy feeling that I have when I go to a movie that I love and it ends.
Carlton Cuse
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I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out.
Nas -
For language to be generative, children must not be learning by rote. Music is also generative. For every musical phrase I hear, I can always add a note... to generate a new musical phrase.
Daniel Levitin -
I do think I tend to have a darker nature than most.
Fairuza Balk -
To those who oppose war, I ask: If not now, when? How many more corpses are necessary before this country should take action?
Leonard Peikoff -
It would be lovely to think I had become a genius,' he smiles, 'but the fact is that I've forgotten most of it. Occasionally I can be watching University Challenge and a stray fact emerges from the recesses of my subconscious that I didn't know I knew, but for the most part I'm as vague on the details as I ever was.
Bill Bryson -
Humans are kind of story-propagating creatures. If you think of how we spend our days, think of all the time you spend on entertainment. How much of your entertainment centers around stories? Most pieces of music tell stories. Even hanging out with your friends, you talk, you tell stories to each other. They're all stories. We live in stories.
Patrick Rothfuss