Quotes from Brandon Sanderson

I've seen rocks that fly almost as well as you do - I could drop one in your seat, paint the head blue, and at least I'd stop getting lip!

I can both talk to her and bother you!" M-Bot called. "Multitasking is an essential means by which an artificial intelligence achieves more efficiency than fleshy human brains.

Revenge wouldn't drive her. But questions . Yes, questions would.

Poems don't deserve numbers

I believe that human beings need humor during times of depression," M-Bot said.

If men read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.

Well done, Spin," Cobb said over a private line. "You have the passion. Now you're showing restraint.

Laugh when good things happen. Laugh when bad things happen. Laugh when life is so plain boring that you can't find anything amusing about it beyond the fact that it's so utterly unamusing.

Remembering the fallen was important, but working to protect the living was more so.

The continued reading led to her second conclusion: The Lord Ruler was far more whiny than any god had a right to be.

He'd always found it odd that so many died when they were old, as logic said that was the point in their lives when they'd had the most practice not dying. He

The truth is not a downer," Abraham said in his lightly accented voice. "The lies that you pretend to accept are the true downer.

The interesting thing about people is that while they might seem unique, they actually play into broad patterns. Historically, the working class has often been more resistant to change than the class oppressing them.

I've always been very confident in my immaturity.

Summarizing is when you take a story that is complicated and interesting, then stick it in a microwave until it shrivels up into a tiny piece of black crunchy tarlike stuff. A wise man once said, "Any story, no matter how good, will sound really, really dumb when you shorten it to a few sentences.

Great success often depends upon being able to distinguish between the impossible and the improbable.

Because every path we walk changes us, Spensa

You're my pet Voidbringer, and no lies are going to change that. I got you captured. No stealing souls, now. We ain't here for souls. Just a little thievery, the type what never hurt nobody.

It's better if I have a hat...You wanna know a guy? Put on his hat." -Wayne.

On an individual basis, in most interactions, this thing we call power—authority—exists only as it is perceived.

The most important truths can always withstand a little examination.

If we stop helping people because we're afraid, or ambivalent or whatever, then we lose. Let them do evil. I'll stop them.

Si siempre llegas a tiempo, eso significa que nunca tienes nada mejor que hacer.

Wit smiled. "All stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And all men who ever will be. The only things new are the names.