"I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha!"

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Brandon Sanderson

#Eccentric Quotes #Ridiculous Quotes #Unexpected Quotes

“I'm uncomfortable when I'm comfortable. I have to start something new-in the agency or in my personal life-every two years or so. Taking risks gives me energy. I can't help it, it's my personality. I'd like to think it's not really a compulsion toward high risks, but the spirit of an entrepreneur.”
“But those words were only the middle of the story. There was a beginning here, too.”
“Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 22, 2010
“When Diogenes came to Olympia and perceived some Rhodian youths dressed with great splendor and magnificence, he said with a smile of contempt, "This is all arrogance." Afterwards some Lacedemonians came in his way, as mean and as sordid in their attire as the dress of the others was rich. "This," said he, "is also arrogance.”
“No one in Washington realizes you can't borrow money endlessly.”
“The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same one at the same moment!”
“Silence is a great peacemaker.”
“The ballpark is the star. In the age of Tris Speaker and Babe Ruth, the era of Jimmie Foxx and Ted Williams, through the empty-seats epoch of Don Buddin and Willie Tasby and unto the decades of Carl Yastrzemski and Jim Rice, the ballpark is the star. A crazy-quilt violation of city planning principles, an irregular pile of architecture, a menace to marketing consultants, Fenway Park works. It works as a symbol of New England's pride, as a repository of evergreen hopes, as a tabernacle of lost innocence. It works as a place to watch baseball.”

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