Patrick Rothfuss Quotes
You don't want the world destroyed, because, you know, that's where your shoes are.
Quotes to Explore
-
I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
-
My work was entirely nonfiction.
-
I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
-
I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
-
Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
-
It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.
-
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
-
The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
-
When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.
-
I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
-
Language does not make one an elite.
-
But eventually it is a game of cricket.
-
A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
-
In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.
-
Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.
-
I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
-
'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
-
America is huge.
-
I'm not an outliner. I come up with a premise and then take it from there.
-
In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
-
If I got hit by a truck, I would want to go to hospital, but if something is bothering me I will see my naturopath.
-
Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
-
When I'm writing obviously I have all the nostalgia in the world, I have all the emotion in the world, but then when I actually perform, I need to just perform it, and that's it. I do retain like a little bit of it because I have to, I sing and perform the songs so I have to - it's a performance of the songs - but I just have to get the right balance.
-
You don't want the world destroyed, because, you know, that's where your shoes are.
