Syl Quotes

#1. If I toss something upward, it comes back down." "Except when it doesn't." "It's a law." "No," Syl said, looking upward. "It's more like . . . more like an agreement among friends.

Brandon Sanderson

#2. The time he'd cheated on Syl, Syl had seen through him, broken off their engagement, and cheated on him with Charles, which had fried his ass possibly worse than any single other ass frying he'd ever had, in a life that, it recently seemed, was simply a series of escalating ass fries.

George Saunders

#3. Aunt Syl must have conveniently stopped reading the childhood fairy tales when the knight left the damsel in distress to pursue a better damsel out of my bedtime routine.

Rachel Higginson

#4. You're starting to sound a lot like my mother." "Captivating?" Syl said. "Amazing, witty, meaningful?" "Repetitive." "Captivating?" Syl said. "Amazing, witty, meaningful?" "Very funny.

Brandon Sanderson

#5. You've got to be kid - Well, crud, what just happened there? I ran out of syl -

Rick Riordan

#6. You're not enjoying yourself," Syl said. "You're starting to sound a lot like my mother." "Captivating?" Syl said. "Amazing, witty, meaningful?" "Repetitive." "Captivating?" Syl said. "Amazing, witty, meaningful?" "Very funny." "Says the man not laughing," she replied, folding her arms.

Brandon Sanderson

#7. There is a secret society of seven men that controls the finances of the world. This is known to everyone but the details are not known. There are some who believe that it would be better if one of those seven men were a financier.

R.A. Lafferty

#8. To be spontaneous is to escape the cage of the ego by trusting that which is beyond the self.

John O'Donohue

#9. Too many people in Washington care about power institutions, not caring about changing the lives of everyday Americans.

Kevin McCarthy

#10. But it also came at a significant cost for human rights, and today's restricted freedom of expression, self-censorship and stunted multi-party democracy.

Phil Robertson

#11. Good deeds are no less good because their object is unworthy.

Henry David Thoreau

#12. The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model to work from.

Alexander Calder

#13. In the months that follow you bend to the work, because it feels like hope, like grace
and because you know in your lying cheater's heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get.

Junot Diaz

#14. Los Angeles had no culture of its own, just a large collection of misreadings of the artistic histories of other, proper cities.

Warren Ellis

#15. Alcohol is probably one of the greatest things to arrive upon the earth - alongside of me.

Charles Bukowski

#16. Humans don't make sense."
"If you're only now learning that," Kaladin said, "then you haven't been paying attention.

Brandon Sanderson

#17. And this was the end of my first friendship with one of that innumerable company of people who are foreigners in their own country, but who are in reality its finest sons ...

Maxim Gorky

#18. All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.

John Stossel

#19. In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness.

Mahatma Gandhi

#20. I'm not afraid of dying. I'm afraid I haven't been alive enough. It should be written on every school room blackboard: Life is a playground - or nothing.

Jaco Van Dormael