Smedry Quotes & Sayings

If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not. — James Baldwin

You'll tell me what it feels, right? When you find Paris? — Con Template

I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha! — Brandon Sanderson

If you talk about it, it's a dream, if you envision it, it's possible, but if you schedule it, it's real. — Anthony Robbins

Before he could even introduce himself I asked about the cocktail menu. If I was going to sit through this lunch, I was going to need some help. — Adriane Leigh

Or you could be a serial killer who specializes in reading books, then seeking out the authors and murdering them in horrible ways. (If you happen to fall into that last category, you should know that my name isn't really Alcatraz Smedry, nor is it Brandon Sanderson. My name is in fact Garth Nix, and you can find me in Australia. Oh, and I insulted your mother once. What're you going to do about it, huh?) — Brandon Sanderson

But you said I had to spend some time with them!"
"A few hours, lad," Grandpa Smedry said, "to apologize for the trouble you'd given them. What did you expect? That I'd leave you here all summer, in the exact place where your enemies know where to look? With people that aren't even your family? In a place you don't really like, and that is depressingly normal compared to the world you've grown to love? Doesn't that sound a little stupid and contrived to you? — Brandon Sanderson

It is true intelligence for a man to take a subject that is mysterious and great in itself and to unfold and simplify it so that a child can understand it. — John Taylor

I'm not a stereotypical professor type. I don't smoke a pipe and wear a tweedy jacket. I'm more like a student who stayed at the university for so long that they gave him a job to keep him out of trouble. — Patrick Rothfuss

I'm going to continue to talk about what is important to the people of Connecticut which is jobs, getting people back to work, the economy. — Linda McMahon

Sometimes, I feel that if you're a strong, independent woman it scares people away, but actually it does the opposite. — Gemma Arterton

While in some cases the damage already done may well be irreversible, in many other cases it can still be halted. It is necessary, however, that the entire human community - individuals, States and international bodies - take seriously the responsibility that is theirs. — Pope John Paul II

A silent street always welcome a good music! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Sing!" Grandpa Smedry yelled, his voice echoing down a hallway to the right."Sing!" If he breaks into song I think I might have to strangle myself ... I thought, cringing. — Brandon Sanderson

What does she look like?"
"Glasses," I said. "Snobbish face. Usually has her hair in a bun."
"The glasses," Grandpa Smedry said slowly. "Did they have ... horn rims?" "Usually." "Hyperventilating Hobbs!" he exclaimed. "A Librarian! Quickly, lad, we have to go! Get dressed; I'll go steal some food from your foster parents! — Brandon Sanderson

Somebody tell me that I should just go speak to the kings again."
"uh," Sing said, "didn't I just do that?"
"I need to her it again, Sing," Grandpa Smedry said. "I'm old and stubborn! — Brandon Sanderson

Not all librarians are evil cultists. Some librarians are instead vengeful undead who want to suck your soul. — Brandon Sanderson

I like the idea of a dream being hoarded for future generations. — Bill Gibb

My mom was a big Elvis fan and a general pop culture buff, and so I grew up in a house filled with what were then called "movie magazines,"Before Elvis when Rhona Barrett wrote her column about the stars. And so it seeped in. — Laurie Foos

The only people in this world I really trust are my fans - even if they do forget you so fast. — Yukio Mishima