Quotes About Mistborn

#1. In mockery I have set
A powerful emblem up,
And sing it rhyme upon rhyme
In mockery of a time
Half dead at the top.

William Butler Yeats

#2. Besides, just because they wore frills and makeup didn't mean they weren't dangerous[ ... ]

Brandon Sanderson

#3. The retirement age needs to be raised. A portion of Social Security ought to be privatized, if not all. And there probably needs to be some means testing. It's a Ponzi scheme that's not sustainable.

Gary Johnson

#4. We don't want you along," Vin said. "We don't trust you - and we don't like you.

Brandon Sanderson

#5. I can't decide if you're a fool, Vin thought toward it, or if you simply exist in a way that makes you incapable of considering some things.

Brandon Sanderson

#6. Can you beat them on your own? Marasi half whispered, half mouthed at Wayne.
He grinned and mouthed back, Does a guy wif no hands got itchy balls?

Brandon Sanderson

#7. But I'd like you however you were, Vin. I love you. The question is, how do you like yourself?

Brandon Sanderson

#8. Passonate, irreverent, utterly relevant, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk offers an unforgettable portrait of a reluctant hero. Ben Fountain writes like a man inspired and his razor sharp exploration of our contemporary ironies will break your heart.

Margot Livesey

#9. It is not at all polite to point out a crusty old pessimist's dark inner secret.

Brandon Sanderson

#10. Not that he was a fool. No, the book was full of insight. Disturbing insight. The Lord Mistborn advocated gathering the Metalborn who were elderly or terminally ill, then asking them to sacrifice themselves to make these ... spikes, which could in turn be used to create individuals of great power.

Brandon Sanderson

#11. You can't just let nature run wild.

Walt Disney

#12. I've always gone to see all kinds of shows and stole what I could, as we all do. We see an artist and hear a song and think, 'I bet I could sing that song. I'll put that in my show.'

Brenda Lee

#13. You know, I'm just grateful to be in this business and to be able to stay in it.

Lindsey Shaw

#14. I kind of lost track of time ... "
"For two hours?"
Elend nodded sheepishly. "There were books involved.

Brandon Sanderson

#15. I think I would feel more comfortable in this city," she said, "if I didn't know that our Mistborn had the volatile emotions of a teenage girl.

Brandon Sanderson

#16. How do you 'accidentally' kill a noble man in his own mansion?"
"With a knife in the chest. Or, rather, a pair of knives in the chest ...

Brandon Sanderson

#17. There's always another secret.' -Kelsier

Brandon Sanderson

#18. It was not easy with a newborn, asking your wife to give up the family home and your security.

Heston Blumenthal

#19. All of the best motives boiled down to a single, driving emotion.

Brandon Sanderson

#20. Even though momentarily I thought about being a doctor, I was always involved in theatre and did a drama degree. I just didn't have the guts to go, 'Yes, I'm going to be an actor,' until I was probably 21.

Elliot Cowan

#21. Sometimes Vin imagined she was like the ash, or the wind, or the mist itself. A thing without thought, capable of simply being, not thinking, caring, or hurting. Then she could be ... free.

Brandon Sanderson

#22. Yoga teachers must be willing to step down from this imagined pedestal and utter the words "I don't know" on a regular basis.

Gudjon Bergmann

#23. What a pair they were - a Mistborn who felt guilty wasting coins to jump and a nobleman who thought balls were too expensive.

Brandon Sanderson

#24. Cleaning the wound is often more painful
than the cut itself.

Brandon Sanderson

#25. I'm just an instinctive actress, I've never had a lesson in my life.

Elizabeth Taylor

#26. At Ellis Island, I mean, you didn't go there if you arrived in first class. It was only the poorest, the people in the worst shape.

James Gray

#27. The mists seemed to draw back. Waxillium stood there, wearing a large, dusterlike coat, cut into strips below the waist. A pair of revolvers gleamed in holsters at his hips, and he rested a shotgun on each shoulder. His face was bloodied, but he was smiling.

Brandon Sanderson

#28. When I was a little girl... a movie made me realize what I wanted to be in life.

Sonja De Lange

#29. It's a mystery," Vin said, narrowing her eyes and smiling. "We Mistborn are incredibly mysterious."
Elend paused." Um ... I'm Mistborn too, Vin. That doesn't make any sense."
"We Mistborn need not make sense," Vin said." It's beneath us. Come on-the sun's already down. We need to get moving.

Brandon Sanderson