Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

I had rather be a Kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same Meeter Ballad-mongers: I had rather heare a Brazen Candlestick turn'd, Or a dry Wheele grate on the Axle-tree, And that would set my teeth nothing an edge, Nothing so much, as mincing Poetrie.

Of all the affected, sapless, soulless, beginningless, endless, topless, bottomless, topsiturviest, scrannel- pipiest, tongs and boniest doggerel of sounds I ever endured the deadliest of, that eternityof nothing wasthe deadliest.

Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets.

If my children will live a better life than I did by my getting brain damage, by my being brain dead, then let it be.

Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.

There's no liquor in the land that can stop your brain from bleedin

The problem is, of course, that not only is economics bankrupt but it has always been nothing more than politics in disguise ... economics is a form of brain damage.

Brain damage is never a good idea, no matter what your friends say.

Our brains will destroy ourselves if we don't put it outward.

So what rhyming poems do is they take all these nearby sound curves and remind you that they first existed that way in your brain. Before they meant something specific, they had a shape and a way of being said. And now, yes, gloom and broom are floating fifty miles away from each other in you mind because they refer to different notions, but they're cheek-by-jowl as far as your tongue is concerned. And that's what a poem does. Poems match sounds up the way you matched them when you were a tiny kid, using that detachable front phoneme.

I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol.

Even while writing his book, he had become painfully aware how little he knew his own planet while attempting to piece together another one from jagged bits filched from deranged brains.

Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.

"Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students.

I've inherited the bad poetry genes, but not the inventor genes.

With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.

Almost everyone today is brain-damaged by our education which is designed to produce docile automatons.

Nicotine has been proven addictive harmful to teenagers, threatening normal brain development.

I was told I had brain damage. I always knew it was an unfair label. Now I have a clearer understanding of what's wrong and I feel relieved and a bit more relaxed about myself.

The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? There is nothing saddening here. Perhaps it is liquefied brain.

I know what you wanted to say, Do you think that electrocution rewired your brain to make you the retard that you are? You can say it, lady.

You can see the walls roar See your brains on the floor Become God Become cripple Become funky

Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.

Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.

That, lad," he said proudly, "was some of the worst poetry I have heard for a long time. It was offensive to the ear and a torrrture to the soul....We'll make a gonnagle out of ye yet!