quotes about Eragon

“I have been called a great many things in my time - that's politics.”

“Its a very wonderful yet difficult thing to be given a lot of really good opportunities and the world is at your fingertips.”

Source : "Troian's Emotional Struggle". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. August 13, 2012.

“Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.”

Source : "Conductors on Record". Book by John L. Holmes, pp. 256-261, 1988.

“I think we're at risk with our democracy. I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame.”

“There is no cramming for a test of character. It always comes as a pop quiz.”

Source : Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.162, Multnomah

“I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to me, and still is. I felt like an old pro, but it was still so unexpected.”

“Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ.”

“At some point, every science fiction and fantasy story must challenge the reader's experience and learning. That's much of the reason why the genre is so open to experimentation and innovation that other genres reject--strangeness is our bread and butter. Spread it thick or slice it thin, it's still our staff of life.”

“Those who give the orders are not the ones to die The people who are doing the work and the fighting and the dying, and those who are doing the talking, are not all the same people.”

“And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that course. Not my fault. They taught it at 8 o'clock in the morning. And there is absolutely nothing you can learn out of one bloodshot eye.”