George R. R. Martin Quotes

The cable makers are the ones who are willing to take risks and do something original and push the envelope some.

George R. R. Martin

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• I think knowing where you can generally fit is important, but the fun thing about being an actor is sometimes stretching beyond that stereotype and stretching beyond the box that people put you in.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • People
  • Important
  • Fun

• Most of the time, those who use animals in experiments justify that use by pointing to alleged benefits to human and animal health and the supposed necessity of using animals to obtain those benefits.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Time
  • Health
  • Animal

• I had to let my ego go a long time ago.

  

  Sally Field
  • Time
  • Long
  • Ego

• We have nothing to fear but fear itself... and, of course, the boogieman.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Fear
  • Nothing
  • Course

• I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Two
  • Doctors
  • Leg

• I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Alcohol

• I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • Up
  • Never
  • Just

• I never hated my father. I would have named my child Usher regardless. I never hated myself because I carried his name, because I made it mean what I wanted it to mean.

  

  Usher
  • Father
  • Myself
  • Child

• I'm an internet junkie. There, I said it. That's the first step, right? I also have a thing for making lists. Oh man, nothing beats turning to a fresh, clean page in a notebook, taking out a nice pen, and starting a list. There's so much potential there. So much to do, so little time! So hey, why not spend some of that time making a list.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • Time
  • Why
  • Man

• I have invested in four social networks. More than any other. But that's in Russia and Poland.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • More
  • Social
  • Russia

• Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Deep
  • Summer
  • Laziness

• After three years in Chicago, I decided to call it a career.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Career
  • Years
  • Chicago

• Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • People
  • Truth
  • Desire

• It behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through their pockets the effects of their blind folly.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • May
  • Home
  • American

• I feel that, as an actor, you're constantly working to become better, which I love, but with painting, I can fail on my own terms. There's a freedom in that, so that's why I love to paint.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Freedom
  • Feel
  • Better

• When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've got.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• It's definitely longer than the buzz cut you see most of the time in the federal government. I would pale in comparison to rock and rollers with my haircut. I would be a lightweight.

  

  Bart Chilton
  • Time
  • Government
  • Rock

• I love things that are old and glittery, that come with layers of glamour and past lives.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Love
  • Old
  • Lives

• Even if I hadn't been cast as Doctor Who, my acting would probably have been influenced by William Hartnell or Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, and all of the other guys. Because those were the actors that I really watched every moment of, as opposed to Laurence Olivier.

  

  Peter Capaldi

• Time doesn't heal all wounds; God heals wounds.

  

  Pete Wilson
  • God
  • Heal
  • Wounds

• The sun has a right to 'set' where it wants to, and so, I may add, has a hen.

  

  Charles Farrar Browne
  • May
  • Sun

• I do need to explore my faith, because it has got lost over the years and it has been kind of tainted through experience. But I also know it's enriched my life, my dad being a Catholic.

  

  Johnny Vegas
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Faith

• We try to equalize before the others have scored.

  

  Danny Denzongpa
  • Before
  • Scored
  • Equalize

• The cable makers are the ones who are willing to take risks and do something original and push the envelope some.

  

  George R. R. Martin