George R. R. Martin Quotes
If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scary thing. And I want my readers to feel that fear as they turn the page.
George R. R. Martin
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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
Salvatore Quasimodo
Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
Nadia Comaneci
Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.
P. J. O'Rourke
In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
Zhu Zhu
If you really want something, it's nerve-racking, but at the same time, I try not to stress myself out about it too much because there are also so many arbitrary things that go into being cast for something - you know, like the color of your eyes, all these things that are kind of out of my control.
Laura Harrier
You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
So, I'm on 'Sesame Street,' walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. 'Sesame Street' is just a crazy great place to be.
Feist
I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
Nancy Lublin
Words are but the signs of ideas.
Samuel Johnson
Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.
D. H. Lawrence
The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
Karl Abraham
Men think a woman should not have an opinion.
Zaha Hadid
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
W. C. Fields
The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
Walter Kirn
One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
K. A. Applegate
The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
Ogden Nash
Despite the demands of this job, one of the things my wife and I try to do is to spend time together alone. And one of the things we really enjoy doing together is seeing a good movie.
Warren Christopher
As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.
Queen Latifah
My eventual goal is to win a championship. And before I retire, I just want to win a championship. That's it.
Kyrie Irving
I minored in creative writing in college, and I've played with the idea of doing something more hybrid, but comics are my first love.
Gene Luen Yang
A lot of young women ask me, 'Can you go into politics and maintain your ideals?' Well, I think you can. You might not, in any one interview, tell the whole truth, but to deliberately deceive the public who've elected you is totally unacceptable.
Joan Kirner
I've had so many interviews where the last question is, Are you gay? I had to find very creative ways to say that I was gay, but that I wasn't going to talk about it.
Portia de Rossi
Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.
Kate Winslet
If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scary thing. And I want my readers to feel that fear as they turn the page.
George R. R. Martin
