Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
She just dropped it and ran!!
If you would rise, do so alone.
A quaint conceit, don't you think?
Magic, like technology, is a tool.
Change or stagnate. Keep moving or die.
The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.
There's more than enough seriousness in the world.
Some must be warriors, that others may live in peace.
How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.
If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.
...Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying.
If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across
If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)
Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism.
It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.
The fastest I've ever done a book is a 112,000-word book in about a month.
Assume the attitude of prayer, and in time, the attitude will become prayer.
You are human and mortal; we are the sum of our weak moments and our strong.
It's hard being a rock; they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities.
Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.
I have no place in my life for someone who is sure he can do everything. --Steelmind
Pretend long enough that you belong, and eventually even you will believe it." - Gallen
Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.
Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar.
Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.
... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.
There will always be bad times... It's the getting back up again that counts." - Gallen in "Intrigues
He isn't stupid, but his interests are so narrow I doubt I could slip a sheet of paper in between them
You don't spend most of your life in other people's heads without losing every prejudice you ever had.
Of three things be wary- of a feather on a cat, The shepherd eating mutton, And a guardsman that is fat.
Writing with other people is absolutely delightful. It's social, which a writer doesn't usually get to do.
Zen Hugs - the hugs that you would get, if we were there, if we could hug you, but we aren't, and we can't.
Three things never trust in- The maiden sworn as pure, The vows a king has given, And an ambush that is sure.
Parents always know what strings control your heart and soul. After all, they are the ones who tied them there.
The hatched chick cannot go back to the shell, the falcon who has found the sky does not willingly sit the nest.
Other people can have all the children they want. Some people ask for no-smoking sections. I ask for no children.
It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing.
Three things see no end- A flower blighted ere it bloomed, A message that was wasted, And a journey that was doomed.
Three things know a secret- First; the lady in a dream, The dog that barks no warning, And a maid that does not scream.
Three things never anger or you'll not live for long; A wolf with cubs, A man with power, And a woman's sense of wrong.
Nevertheless, now that I have met you, I know that all that I am, and all that I have, could not match what you are worth.
Certainly no one has ever died of an unrequited passion—it's usually the ones that are requited that get people in trouble.
If he didn't get out of here - right now - Harrier was either going to break into hysterical laughter or strangle somebody.
I think canceling a game that is making a profit, along with destroying jobs and an online community, is entirely unethical.
Caught between glass and wood, that which breaks and that which bends, that which sings and that which survive. So our lives go.
A book's alright when the weather's foul and there's nothing else to do, but why sit and read when the wind is calling your name?
To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to be walked on. --Shin'a'in saying
I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.
When warriors feel afraid they lack something, it is only because they are forgetful. They have forgotten how capable they truly are.
... sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good people... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones.