Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

So you went looking for a myth and found a man.

Patrick Rothfuss

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• I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • World
  • Happy

• Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting the oppressive British. It was kind of good versus evil, liberty versus tyranny. When you get into it, you find that it was much more complicated.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Evil

• For me, music was a cathartic way to free me from the nut of Ghost. After working on set for 'Power' for 14 hours, it allowed me to pour my sanity and insanity into the music.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Music
  • Power
  • Free

• If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • God
  • Believe
  • Faith

• Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that's ok.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • People
  • Different
  • Same

• I always did plays. When I was in kindergarten, I got chosen to be Alvin in 'The Chipmunks.' We did a Chipmunks song. I was always a natural performer. It was easy for me. I danced and I sang, and all that stuff. I felt like I'd be something in the arts, but it vacillated between being a dancer and a singer, or whatever.

  

  Kari Matchett
  • Song
  • Me
  • Singer

• Harvard is the home of American ideas.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Home
  • American
  • Ideas

• Every city has a Donald Trump; ours is just the Trumpiest.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • City
  • Trump
  • Just

• I'm an activist. I'm a proud activist. So I want to be someone who is pro-black and pro-Africa and still be somebody that has positive influence.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Black
  • Proud
  • Positive

• When I told my parents that I was starting my transition, my Dad said, 'Well that makes so much more sense 'cause I never saw you any other way and now it totally works.'

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Parents
  • Way
  • Dad

• If a writer is always trying to keep a narrator emitting a tone of complete knowingness, it can become false.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Trying
  • Always
  • Tone

• I embrace everything about Ally... I don't particularly see her as a whiner. One week she's tough, the next she's really weak. I love that. She's human.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Human
  • Really
  • Tough

• Now, I have a kid, I have businesses to take care of, I have to travel. I have to sit down... and find a little time for me.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Time
  • Care
  • Travel

• I tend to mean what I say: in life, generally; in recipes, certainly.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Life
  • Mean
  • Recipes

• Come! let the burial rite be read - the funeral song be sung! - An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young - A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • She
  • Song
  • Funeral

• Always remember that if a man knows where he can make a dollar, he will not tell you about it; he will go after it himself.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Remember

• As to what I would like to be. It is difficult to say. An Artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts. People have always frightened and bored me, consequently I have been within my own shell and have not accomplished anything materially.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • People
  • Study
  • Bored

• Growing up, I always thought of Detroit as a basketball town because of the Pistons, but everyone says it's really, at its core, a football town.

  

  Ndamukong Suh
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Football

• If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly.

  

  Andrew Harvey
  • World
  • Listening
  • Beauty

• The voice of the Holy Father was like a light.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Father
  • Light
  • Voice

• Saddam Hussein was a bad guy. Right? He was a bad guy, really bad guy. But you know what he did well? He killed terrorists. He did that so good. They didn't read them the rights - they didn't talk, they were a terrorist, it was over. Today, Iraq is Harvard for terrorism. You want to be a terrorist, you go to Iraq. It's like Harvard. Okay?

  

  Donald Trump
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Guy

• Never say that your life is to be a singer. You want to sing because it's a part of your life. But if you don't succeed as a singer, it doesn't mean you don't have a life and it's over.

  

  Celine Dion
  • Never
  • Say
  • Life is

• So you went looking for a myth and found a man.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss