Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.

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• I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Why
  • California
  • Living

• Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Law
  • Fashion
  • Influence

• Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Food
  • Weakness
  • Mine

• If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Kids
  • Light

• I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Know
  • Me
  • Travel

• Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' employment, and we'd all like to see better inclusion of low-skilled workers into good-paying jobs.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Good
  • Better
  • Minimum Wage

• I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • World
  • Friends
  • Soul

• I'm a four-down guy. I can rush the passer and stop the run. I know I can be a difference-maker.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Stop

• Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Beautiful
  • Sports
  • Air

• I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Years
  • Fiction
  • Maybe

• The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.

  

  Kate Capshaw
  • Nature
  • Story
  • Lovers

• The game is never over. No matter what the scoreboard reads or what the referee says, it doesn't end when you come off the court.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Game
  • You
  • End

• I have a condition called Aspergers Syndrome, which is like a mild form of autism It means I don't interact properly in certain social situations.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Like
  • Social
  • Autism

• What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • Music
  • She
  • Happy

• Throughout the day, I frequently use my iPhone to check 'Deadline Hollywood' and my Twitter feed, as well as the 'Daily Beast,' the 'New York Times,' 'Metsblog,' and 'Thejetsblog.'

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Day
  • Daily
  • New York

• I had my first concert in front of 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch Finals.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • First
  • Concert

• I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German, and that displaced the Spanish, and when I learned Serbo-Croatian, that displaced the German. So I'm a bit of a muddle.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Learned
  • Irish
  • German

• I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • Story
  • Tell
  • Miss

• I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing.

  

  Derek Bailey

• In addition to reining in spending, taxes, tolls and fees, let's rein in how much the state borrows.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Taxes
  • How
  • Fees

• There's a bizarre insistence on how a story should be. 'The protagonist must be sympathetic!' they say. Whatever that means. I never engage in that discussion. I never use that word, 'sympathetic.' I just know 'interesting.'

  

  Alexander Payne
  • Interesting

• If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Life
  • Interesting
  • Things

• You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Pride
  • Goofy
  • Embarrass

• I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
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  • Religion