George R. R. Martin Quotes

I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth.

George R. R. Martin

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• My wrestling and family go together. It's always been that way, from day one with my mom and dad, my sister, my wife, four daughters, grandsons, son-in-laws.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Family
  • Together
  • Dad

• My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• 'But,' say the puling, pusillanimous cowards, 'we shall be subject to a long and bloody war if we declare independence.' On the contrary, I affirm it the only step that can bring the contest to a speedy and happy issue.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Long
  • War
  • Happy

• Infidelity has always existed, but I feel like it was brushed under the carpet, behind the scenes. Now everyone is at it - and they've stopped pretending they're not.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Now

• Saturdays are set for antique shops. Williamsburg in Brooklyn has some good ones. I get in there and start meddling around with dusty boxes and rickety, worn-in stuff. I like it when I find something with someone else's name on it.

  

  Valerie June
  • Good
  • Start
  • Name

• I have a lot of passion for a lot of different things.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Different
  • Passion
  • Things

• If it weren't for singing, I don't know what else I would do with myself.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Singing

• Hey, if we didn't overcharge for our product - guess what - people wouldn't have to buy used games.

  

  Warren Spector
  • People
  • Games
  • Product

• I love nature. I'm not going to do anything to detract from it.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • Nature
  • Going
  • Detract

• I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Life
  • Women
  • Remember

• Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.

  

  Earl Long
  • Smile
  • Talk
  • Phone

• No one knows restaurants like a New Yorker - they're incredibly discerning and restaurant savvy.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Like
  • New
  • Restaurant

• With such enormous bucks devoted to trading in oil and other commodities, the distortions that they cause have been exacerbated.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Oil
  • Other
  • Trading

• I have a flood of ideas in my mind. I just follow my vision.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Mind
  • Ideas
  • Vision

• The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. It's in the blood.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Up
  • Always
  • Blood

• I think any good actor is an anarchist. They have to be.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Good
  • Think
  • Actor

• At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

  

  Imran Khan
  • People
  • Law
  • Moment

• When making the first album, I think I wrote a song about every six months. The first album was so much about the vocals carrying it.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Think
  • Song
  • First

• There's a lot of pressure, and it's a long battle, to coach at the elite level. My wife and I didn't take a vacation for 10 years.

  

  Liang Chow
  • Long
  • Wife
  • Vacation

• That a god like Jehovah should have created this world of misery and woe, out of pure caprice, and because he enjoyed doing it, and should then have clapped his hands in praise of his own work, and declared everything to be very good-that will not do at all!

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • God
  • Praise
  • Enjoying

• I see things in the middle of the night. I draw them on paper and I don't even think about it. I'm like a machine in a way - just made of some electronic stuff. Vaguely digital.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Thinking
  • Night
  • Machines

• I was one of the first early Twitter users from the film fraternity. And back then in 2009, I thought I was going to enter a world where people liked me, knew me, knew my work - it was going to be fine! All about the love, not the hate. And it was. At first.

  

  Karan Johar
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth.

  

  George R. R. Martin