Bast Kingkiller Quotes

#1. Your life is infinite. You are as old as these mountains and you will remain for ever.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#2. One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.

Franz Kafka

#3. He realised how much he hated tyrants, the strong who stood on the weak.

Jonathan Renshaw

#4. The deeds of the children are a testament to the upbringing they received from their parents.

Christopher Paolini

#5. There are some of us who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese or wild flowers is a right as inalienable as free speech.

Aldo Leopold

#6. Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.

Imogen Cunningham

#7. She'd never been taken before, he realized. Not like this, where her surrender was complete, not when she couldn't separate some small part of herself to reach for control. And God, he wanted to take her, to destroy that fascinating and innate control.

Nora Roberts

#8. You better hope you're not alone.

Jack Johnson

#9. I am proudest of that first novel, 'Trust,' of anything I have written. I don't think I've had such intense energy since.

Cynthia Ozick

#10. She'd heard people talk about electricity and butterflies; being with Royce was like a lightning storm and hummingbirds.

Cindi Madsen

#11. I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do.

Christina Romer

#12. Maple. Maypole
Catch and carry.
Ash and Ember.
Elderberry.
Woolen. Woman.
Moon at night.
Willow. Window.
Candlelight.
Fallow farrow.
Ash and oak.
Bide and borrow.
Chimney smoke.
Barrel. Barley.
Stone and stave.
Wind and water.
Misbehave.

Patrick Rothfuss

#13. Writing is rewriting; rewriting is writing - from the first crossed-out word in the first sentence to the last word inserted above a caret, that most helpful handwritten stroke.

John Casey

#14. The economy is too weak right now. We need to jump-start it. The American Jobs Act will provide that jump-start, to help us into next year and the year after that.

David Plouffe

#15. Most people are squeamish about saying how much they earn, but in medicine the situation seems especially fraught. Doctors aren't supposed to be in it for the money, and the more concerned a doctor seems to be about making money the more suspicious people become about the care being provided.

Atul Gawande