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

• 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 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

• Praxagora: I want all to have a share of everything and all property to be in common; there will no longer be either rich or poor; ... I shall begin by making land, money, everything that is private property, common to all. ... Blepyrus: But who will till the soil? Praxagora: The slaves. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Money

• A man must be perfectly crazy who, where there is tolerable security, does not employ all the stock which he commands,...

  

  Adam Smith
  • Crazy
  • Stock

• I liked a lot of alternative and I like punk stuff.

  

  Martie Maguire The Chicks
  • Punk
  • Liked
  • Alternative

• In a world where a lot of people's sense of self is dominated by how many people are following their Twitter feed, what does fame really do, and why is it important?

  

  John Carroll Lynch
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• The state of emotional intoxication allows one to grasp existence in one's self and in the other, as both subjectivity and passivity. The two partners merge in this ambiguous unity; each one is freed of his own presence and achieves immediate communication with the other.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Communication
  • Existence
  • Achieves

• With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.'

  

  David Ives
  • God
  • Thinking

• 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