George R. R. Martin Quotes

I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of these days, but I'll probably never get to them.

George R. R. Martin

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• I'm interested in doing everything and anything that I can to squeeze that creativity out of my brain. I guess I'm sort of a performance rat.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Brain
  • Doing
  • Creativity

• Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Life
  • Death
  • You

• Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.

  

  E. Franklin Frazier
  • Life
  • Church
  • Failure

• Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to visualise the story in my head, and I start humming a melody, and before you know it, a song is born.

  

  Nadia Ali
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Best

• I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Writing
  • Interest
  • Directing

• Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • American
  • Harmony
  • Israeli

• I'm part wood nymph. I require mountains and warm, dense patches of moss to thrive.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Mountains
  • Warm
  • Wood

• The power to shape Oregon's future remains where it has always been - in our collective hands.

  

  Ted Kulongoski
  • Power
  • Future
  • Hands

• The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • History
  • Think
  • Matter

• Poetry is the deification of reality.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Reality
  • Poetry

• The moment of the print button for biology is nearing. Effectively, this could also mean that in a not-too-distant future, smart pharmacology will permit us to receive a continuous supply of antidepressants or neuroenhancers every time our dopamine level drops.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Time
  • Future
  • Smart

• We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.

  

  Xenophon
  • Done
  • Understanding
  • Beauty

• My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Thinking
  • Study
  • End

• There is no such thing as a German, French, or Anglo-American Expressionism! There are only young people trying to find their bearings in the world.

  

  Oskar Kokoschka
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Feel
  • Sympathy
  • Intolerance

• I really don’t see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Romantic
  • For Him

• Note the men’s fear that if they reported this to the authorities, not only would they not be believed, they would be ridiculed.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Fear

• Yeah. I wouldn't do it if it wasn't fun... We're showing people how, in a pretty crazy and whacked-out, dangerous world, you can still have fun.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • People
  • World
  • Fun

• I've been on 'Criminal Minds' twice! On the first show, a boy brought kids out to the woods and was beating them with a baseball bat, but I got away. Then they brought Tracy, my character, back - as a kidnapped girl. They saved me two times! Tracy lived!

  

  Elle Fanning
  • Character
  • Kids
  • Girl

• For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The greatest privilege is to live well in flourishing lands; the greatest privation is to live in the midst of war, especially civil war.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Live
  • War
  • Service

• The sleep of reason produces monsters.

  

  Francisco Goya
  • Sleep

• I have amazing parents. They had worked hard all their lives for me, and when I started to make money, I wanted to be able to take care of them.

  

  Noemie Lenoir
  • Care
  • Parent
  • Worked

• I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of these days, but I'll probably never get to them.

  

  George R. R. Martin