Quotes About Hoid

#1. Imperialism is da woist thing I ever hoid!

Karl Marx

#2. (And no, for those searching, Hoid does not make an appearance. Unfortunately, he needed to be somewhere else in the timeline at this point.)

Brandon Sanderson

#3. What does the story mean, then?" "It means what you want it to mean," Hoid said. "The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon. Too often, we forget that." Kaladin

Brandon Sanderson

#4. It may be worth considering whether middle-class American life - for all its material good fortune - has lost some essential sense of unity that might otherwise discourage alienated men from turning apocalyptically violent.

Sebastian Junger

#5. For glory lit, and life alive, for goals unreached and aims to strive. All men must try, the wind did see. It is the test, it is the dream.

Brandon Sanderson

#6. What you did tonight was clever," Wit said. "You turned an attack into a promise. The wisest of men know that to render an insult powerless, you often need only to embrace it.

Brandon Sanderson

#7. For most artists, you take what you have and who you are, and then you expand on it to make it more entertaining. Everyone knows actors aren't the same people that they play in movies, but people somehow expect musicians to be a certain way all the time!

Tinashe

#8. Two blind men waited at the end of an era, contemplating beauty.

Brandon Sanderson

#9. What is it we value? Innovation. Originality. Novelty. But most importantly ... timeliness. I fear you may be too late, my confused, unfortunate, friend.

Brandon Sanderson

#10. What do you know?"
"Almost everything. That almost part can be a real kick in the teeth sometimes."
"What do you want, then?"
"What I can't have." Wit turned to him, eyes solemn. "Same as everyone else, Kaladin Stormblessed.

Brandon Sanderson

#11. Even the wind had died.

Cynthia Hand

#12. Nothing makes you happier than when you really reach out in mercy to someone who is badly hurt.

Mother Teresa

#13. I like visiting people in prison. I can say whatever I want to them, and they can't do anything about it.

Brandon Sanderson

#14. Why hasn't anyone killed him yet?"
"Dumb luck," Wit said. "In that I'm lucky you're all so dumb.

Brandon Sanderson

#15. Expectation. That is the true soul of art. If you can give a man more than he expects, then he will laud you his entire life. If you can create an air of anticipation and feed it properly, you will succeed.

Brandon Sanderson

#16. All stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And all men who ever will be. The only things new are the names.

Brandon Sanderson

#17. Can you feel it? Something just changed. I believe that's the sound the world makes when it pisses itself.

Brandon Sanderson

#18. Small price to pay for beauty.

Butch Cassidy