Earl Sanderson Quotes

Let them say what they will. I can still fly.
- Earl Sanderson, Jr. ~ George R R Martin

I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing. ~ James Earl Jones

Clubs spoke so bluntly ... so callously. But that was Clubs. He wasn't even really a pessimist; he just said the things that he didn't think others wanted to acknowledge. ~ Brandon Sanderson

The nice thing about life," said Miss Etta, "is you never know when there's going to be a party. ~ Earl Hamner, Jr.

So eventually I instantly backed down and apologised for NOTHING. She was instantly fine - surprise, surprise. ~ Rae Earl

Since we parted yester eve, I do love thee, love, believe, Twelve times dearer, twelve hours longer,- One dream deeper, one night stronger, One sun surer,-thus much more Than I loved thee, love, before. ~ Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater. ~ Earl Butz

I am the one thing you can never kill. I am Hope. ~ Brandon Sanderson

He was The Demon Highlander, elder brother to the Blackheart of Ben More. These monikers, they were not granted by the happenstance of birth or marriage, like a Marquess or an Earl, they were earned by means of ruthless violence and bloodshed. It was easy to forget that fact beneath the grand chandelier of this lofty keep. That was, until the fire in the hearth ignited the amber in his eyes, lending him a ferocity that even his expensive attire couldn't tame. ~ Kerrigan Byrne

Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you. ~ Brandon Sanderson

I have a wife and two boys. One is 18 and the other is 14. The 18-year old is getting ready for college next year and he made a decision to run track. He runs a lot like Michael Johnson. ~ Earl Campbell

So... wait. You're saying that on the other side―where I obviously believed in the other side―I realized that if I Returned I wouldn't believe in the other side, so I came back with the purpose of discovering faith in the other side, which I only lost because I Returned in the first place?"
Llarimar paused. Then he smiled. "That last one breaks down a little bit in the face of logic, doesn't it? ~ Brandon Sanderson

Sometimes, son," my father said, prying my fingers free, "you have to help the heroes along. ~ Brandon Sanderson

How can she believe?" Vivenna said. Denth shrugged. "Seems like a good enough religion to me. I mean, you can go and see her gods. Talk to them, watch them shine. It isn't all that tough to understand. ~ Brandon Sanderson

Traitors."
"People," Marsh said. "People who were just trying to do the best with what life gave them."
"Well, I'm just doing the same thing," Kelsier said. "And, fortunately, life gave me the ability to push men like them off the tops of buildings. ~ Brandon Sanderson

You'll never learn how to do your endings until you FINISH your endings. ~ Brandon Sanderson

That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other. ~ Earl Scruggs

No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March. ~ Earl Weaver

I have a great contraceptive device with 100% success rate - it's called being really fat. ~ Rae Earl

Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet. ~ Zig Ziglar

As Earl Lautenslager writes, "A minister without theology is like an engineer without physics or a doctor without anatomy. He'll kill you."[ ~ Michael S. Horton

It stung this new rejection, but it was also a relief to put an end to the ambiguity and incertitude. I had been deceiving myself the day I decided I could master the art of detachment, or maybe the mistake was to allow things to go on in that vein for as long as they had. ~ Catherine Sanderson

But learn to take a little pride in yourself, kid! If there's anything I can teach you, it's how to be self-confident. ~ Brandon Sanderson

Memories of my youth carried a lot of baggage. ~ Brandon Sanderson

Because if I accept that Elend bears no guilt for what his people did to mine, then I must admit to being a monster for the things that I did to them. ~ Brandon Sanderson

I like drums, really, if they're under control. ~ Earl Scruggs

we come to a rather strange fact. We tend to minimize the things we can do, the goals we can achieve, and yet, for an equally strange reason, we think others can do things that we cannot. I want you to know that that is not true. You do have deep reservoirs of talent and ability within you and you can have the things you want. ~ Earl Nightingale

Szeth-son-son-Vallano, Truthless of Shinovar, sat atop the highest tower in the world and contemplated the End of All Things. ~ Brandon Sanderson

Books have great value, actions have greater value. ~ Brandon Sanderson

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
[Address to National Press Club in Washington DC, as quoted in Freedom and Union (April 1952)] ~ Earl Warren

To acheive happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal. ~ Earl Nightingale

I kind of lost track of time ... "
"For two hours?"
Elend nodded sheepishly. "There were books involved. ~ Brandon Sanderson