George R. R. Martin Quotes

One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.

George R. R. Martin

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• I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Know
  • Me
  • Travel

• I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • World
  • Friends
  • Soul

• I am a crazy Maverick fan. I would go there if Dallas was a great entertainment center.

  

  Flula Borg
  • Fan
  • Entertainment
  • Dallas

• I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • God
  • Health

• It's pretty much run by everybody. We're very involved in everything that goes on. We always have been.

  

  Zac Hanson Hanson
  • Pretty
  • Everything
  • Very

• Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Small
  • Always
  • Snake

• You have to realize I like doing big movies that appear on a big screen. So the visuals and the audio have to be of a certain quality before I start to get excited about the thing.

  

  Hans Zimmer
  • Quality
  • Movies
  • Start

• Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Writing
  • You
  • Tired

• Pakistan has accepted some security training from the CIA, but U.S. export restrictions and Pakistani suspicions have prevented the two countries from sharing the most sophisticated technology for safeguarding nuclear components.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Technology
  • Training

• I wanted passionately to be a priest.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Wanted
  • Priest
  • Passionately

• Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Want
  • Clothes
  • Minds

• Today the people from my State of Tennessee would listen to this debate, or even talk about a reference to God on our money or in the Halls of Congress or in our Pledge and say, please, let common sense and logic win the day and prevail versus legal mumbo jumbo.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • People
  • God
  • Money

• For good or bad, there is a certain level of generalisation when it comes to my work. I want to break that perception. My decision to direct 'Bombay Talkies' or to present 'The Lunchbox' is an attempt to do that. These are the films that gel well with my sensibility, and it's unfortunate, it's not the perception out there.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Good
  • Work
  • Bad

• The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Brain

• I have heard of that idea i.e., of Haile Selassie being the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. I also met certain Rastafarians. I told them clearly that I am a man, that I am mortal, and that I would be replaced by the oncoming generation, and that they should never make a mistake in assuming or pretending that the human being is emanated from a deity.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Jesus
  • Mistake

• Emily pounded on the door, assuming it would do no good, but finding the act of pounding very satisfying indeed.

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • Good
  • Door

• The poet who writes 'free' verse is like Robinson Crusoe on his desert island: he must do all his cooking, laundry and darning for himself. In a few exceptional cases, this manly independence produces something original and impressive, but more often the result is squalor - dirty sheets on the unmade bed and empty bottles on the unswept floor.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Free
  • Cooking
  • Dirty

• O sweet clean earth, from whom the green blade cometh!When we are dead, my best belovèd and I,Close well above us, that we may rest forever,Sending up grass and blossoms to the sky.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Up
  • May
  • Earth

• I look on most religions as fear-based rather than love-based. I've drifted away from all that. Yes, I think I'm more spiritual. I just don't go and pretend every Saturday or Sunday that I'm in this wonderful club. I'm exploring.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Think
  • Fear
  • Spiritual

• At 86, I can easily look back to the last eight decades. Though memory often fails me now, so many images of the past are still clearly polished, and I can yet recall not just an abiding sense of place, but the keen smells, the sensory responses to the events of that past.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Place
  • Sense
  • Memory

• I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Love
  • Think
  • Choices

• Even if I never registered my YouTube channel with the intention of being a role model, if I am that for somebody, I can't help it. So I need to be conscious of it and realize that influence can be used for good or bad, and just try to do my best.

  

  Tyler Oakley
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Help

• As a scientist, the starting point is always the facts of the matter, whereas often, in politics, the starting point is how does this play in the next election.

  

  Bill Foster

• One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.

  

  George R. R. Martin