George R. R. Martin Quotes

As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.

George R. R. Martin

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• I tend not to look back. It's confusing.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Look
  • Back
  • Confusing

• The art of boxing is seeing spaces and being able to take shots. The hitting and being hit have to become one. Your reactions have to be so in the moment. There's no time to think.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Time
  • Art
  • Moment

• When I find someone who is worth it, I'll be nice and respect that person and put some time in.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Time
  • Respect
  • Nice

• Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Age
  • Study
  • Childhood

• Even as a child, I found a way to survive.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Way
  • Child
  • Survive

• If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Today
  • Free
  • Creative

• A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Man
  • Facts
  • Thinks

• It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself.

  

  J. Milton Hayes
  • House
  • Will
  • Fix

• The thing about metaphors is that, if you give them away, you give away the mystery.

  

  OMI
  • You
  • Mystery
  • Give

• Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Death

• When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.

  

  Joe Strummer The Clash

• Growth and progress are related, for there is no resting place for an enterprise in a competitive economy.

  

  Alfred P. Sloan
  • Growth
  • Progress

• A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified, From the Marxist point of view, which expresses the historical interests of the proletariat, the end is justified if it leads to increasing the power of man over nature and to the abolition of the power of man over man.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Power
  • Nature

• I have to say I'm all for public flogging. One type of criminal that a public humiliation might work particularly well with are the juvenile delinquents, a lot of whom consider it a badge of honor to be sent to juvenile detention. And it might not be such a cool thing in the 'hood' to be flogged publicly.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Work
  • Cool
  • Honor

• I'd Like to beUnder the seaIn an octopus's garden with you.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • Garden

• '90s fashion is awesome. Best of both worlds - you had power pop, like the Spice Girls and Shampoo. But then you had Nirvana and Hole. And you also had '90s dance music like N-Trance, who kind of blended both.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Music
  • Power
  • Fashion

• My way is to look forward, not back.

  

  David Hunt

• Commuting in a wheelchair is not easy. I live in a very old part of Rome. These cobbles everywhere... terrible! In London, it is the same. Every pavement is uneven.

  

  Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Live

• The U.S. and Europe may have more breakthroughs in neuroscience, but you have to put that in perspective. The U.S. has 350 million people, and there are 28 countries in the European Union. Israel is third behind these countries in its neuroscience developments, but per capita, it is way ahead of everyone.

  Chaka Fattah
  • People
  • May
  • Perspective

• I'd been on 'Buffy' - that is an amazing community, the Joss Whedon fans.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Community
  • Amazing
  • Fans

• The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Long

• Everybody says they want to have private providers and we're saying fine. Let the states negotiate on behalf of a population in your state to drive down your costs. Don't just give subsidies to insurance companies for expensive insurance.

  

  Maria Cantwell
  • Insurance

• Henotheism is the view that there are other gods, but there is only one God who is to be worshipped. The Ten Commandments express a henotheistic view, as does the majority of the Hebrew Bible. The book of Isaiah, with its insistence that “I alone am God, there is no other,” is monotheistic. It represents the minority view in the Hebrew Bible.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • God
  • Bible
  • Commandments

• As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.

  

  George R. R. Martin