“Never throw the first punch. If you have to throw the second, try to make sure they don't get up for a third.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Steelheart
“Sometimes, son," my father said, prying my fingers free, "you have to help the heroes along.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Steelheart
“I know, better than anyone else, that there are no heroes coming to save us. There are no good Epics. None of them protect us. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Steelheart
“You can't be so frightened of what might happen that you are unwilling to act.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Steelheart
“Where there are villains, there will be heroes. Just wait. They will come.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Steelheart
“We were like deaf people trying to dance to a beat we couldn't hear, long after the music actually stopped.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Steelheart
“They looked so dangerous, like alligators. Really fast alligators wearing black. Ninja alligators. I decided not to use that one on Megan.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Steelheart
“I have a smoke grenade in my room," I said.
"What?" Megan asked. "How?"
"I grew up working at a munitions plant," I said. "We mostly made rifles and handguns, but we worked with other factories. I got to pick up the occasional goody from the QC reject pile."
"A smoke grenade is a goody?" Cody asked.
I frowned. What did he mean? Of course it was. Who wouldn't want a smoke grenade when offered one?”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Steelheart
“You've got passion to kill but you need to find passion to live.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Steelheart
“Incredible cosmic powers do not equate with high IQ.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Steelheart
“It's like a banana farm for guns!”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Steelheart
“Whoa. Not too stiff," Cody said. "Secure, strong, but calm. Like you're caressing a beautiful woman, remember?"
That made me think of Megan.
I lost control, and a green wave of smoky energy burst from my hand and flew out in front of me. It missed the pipe completely, but vaporized the metal leg of the chair it sat on. Dust showered down and the chair went lopsided, dumping the pipe to the floor with a clang.
"Sparks," Cody said. "Remind me to never let you caress me, lad.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Steelheart
“I've seen Steelheart bleed.
And I will see him bleed again.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Steelheart
“She can shoot like a dream and she carries tiny grenades in her top, a bit of my addled mind thought. I think I might be in love.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Steelheart
“He was right. I was letting myself get distracted, like a rabbit doing math problems instead of looking for foxes.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Steelheart
“I was ten,” I said. “Give me a little credit.”
“To a boy with aspirations like that, I would extend my respect—but not credit. Or life insurance.” Abraham sounded amused. “You are an interesting man, David Charleston, but you sound like you were an even more interesting child.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Steelheart
“But even a ninety-year-old blind priest would stop and stare at this woman. If he weren’t blind, that is. Dumb metaphor, I thought. I’ll have to work on that one. I have trouble with metaphors.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Steelheart
“Don't just act because you can; act because it's the right thing to do. If you keep that in mind, you'll be all right.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Steelheart
“I hadn’t been fighting because of my father’s death. I fought because of his dreams.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Steelheart
“What do you trust when your own thoughts and emotions seem to hate you?”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Steelheart
“It’s good for you to think of this, son. Ponder. Worry. Stay up nights, frightened for the casualties of your ideology. It will do you good to realize the price of fighting.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Steelheart
“The buzzing was like the eager purr of a muscle car that had just been started, but left in neutral. That was another of Cody’s metaphors for it; I’d said the sensation felt like an unbalanced washing machine filled with a hundred epileptic chimpanzees. Pretty proud of that one.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Steelheart
“I trust you with their lives,' Prof said, still writing, 'and them with yours. Don't betray that trust, son. Keep your impulses in check. Don't just act because you can; act because it's the right thing to do. If you keep that in mind, you'll be all right.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Steelheart
“I have keen eyes. I once caught a leprechaun you know."
I looked at him skeptically. "Aren't those Irish?"
"Sure. He was over in the homeland on an exchange basis. We sent the Irish three turnips and a sheep's bladder in trade."
"Doesn't seem like much of a trade."
"Oh, I think it was a sparking good one, seeing as to leprechauns are imaginary and all. Hello, Prof. How's your kilt?"
"As imaginary as your leprechaun”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Steelheart
“Prof's ability makes mine look like a piece of rice. And not even a cooked one.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Steelheart
“Live, David," he said softly. "Live your life."
"I'm doing that," I grumbled.
"No. You are letting Steelheart live your life for you. He controls it, each step of the way. Live your own life.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Steelheart
“Megan's eyes could have drilled holes through butter”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Steelheart
“But since then you've acted like I was a gorilla at your buffet."
"A...what?"
"Gorilla at your buffet. You know... eating all your food? Making you annoyed? That kind of thing?”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Steelheart
“Can I borrow David?” “Please, Prof,” Cody said, “we’re friends. You should know by now that you needn’t ask something like that … you should be well aware of my standard charge for renting one of my minions. Three pounds and a bottle of whiskey.” I wasn’t sure if I should be more insulted at being called a minion, or at the low price to rent me.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Steelheart
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“He's not the hero and he's not the enemy and he's not a god. He's just a boy. And I'm just a girl, a girl who needs to pick up her own pieces and put them back together herself.”
― Amber Smith, quote from The Way I Used to Be
“And now, she knew her husband had lied to her. So many years, following him to so many places, and he had repaid her with such staggering deceit.”
― Roxane Gay, quote from An Untamed State
“You don't need to talk to someone to know them. All you need to do is watch. See how they carry themselves. See how they treat others.”
― Jennifer Jaynes, quote from Never Smile at Strangers
“But their roots went deep, bound them together in a collective memory. With each new arrival, they pieced together more of their past, built more of their future.”
― Ryan Graudin, quote from Blood for Blood
“Well, Mr. Frankel, who started this program, began to suffer from the computer disease that anybody who works with computers now knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is you *play* with them. They are so wonderful. You have these switches - if it's an even number you do this, if it's an odd number you do that - and pretty soon you can do more and more elaborate things if you are clever enough, on one machine.
After a while the whole system broke down. Frankel wasn't paying any attention; he wasn't supervising anybody. The system was going very, very slowly - while he was sitting in a room figuring out how to make one tabulator automatically print arc-tangent X, and then it would start and it would print columns and then bitsi, bitsi, bitsi, and calculate the arc-tangent automatically by integrating as it went along and make a whole table in one operation.
Absolutely useless. We *had* tables of arc-tangents. But if you've ever worked with computers, you understand the disease - the *delight* in being able to see how much you can do. But he got the disease for the first time, the poor fellow who invented the thing.”
― Richard Feynman, quote from Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character
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