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

• Few of us can accurately gauge how we will feel tomorrow or next week. That's why when you go to the supermarket on an empty stomach, you'll buy too much, and if you shop after a big meal, you'll buy too little.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • Why
  • Week
  • Tomorrow

• 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

• For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices like that.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • People
  • Health
  • Choices

• 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

• The king himself has followed herWhen she has walk'd before.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • She
  • King

• 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

• I believe a good memoir should have all of the narrative elements of a novel: character development, dialogue, descriptive language, and metaphor.

  

  Danielle Trussoni
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Character

• Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face.

  

  Bill Condon
  • Together

• 'The Machinist' changed me. I learned that I really enjoy, literally, not saying a damned word for days at a time, except for what was in the scene. Whole days of... nothing. Just... standing still. I know a lot of people found it bizarre, because they'd be standing right next to me thinking, 'Why aren't we talking? What's going on?'

  

  Christian Bale
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• The hardest part has been maintaining a small head and remaining down to earth. So many people try to make you more than you are.

  

  Brandy
  • People
  • Remaining
  • Maintaining

• 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