George R. R. Martin Quotes
With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the special effects guy and the lighting technician: I'm all of that. So if it's good or bad, it's all up to me.
George R. R. Martin
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
Barry Hannah
'Vanity' means worthlessness.
Vanity
I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
Irvine Welsh
In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
T. C. Boyle
When you're looking through a magazine, you'd think every single person's a different person, but every third girl is actually the same girl in a different outfit and makeup.
Cameron Russell
If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
Haile Gebrselassie
Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.
Larry Dixon
I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.
Lady Gaga
We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.
Young Thug
Where liberty dies, evil grows.
Hamid Karzai
Sometimes I just get over-excited. I see the pitch and I think, 'I have to get this wicket.' When I am just looking to bowl, I am calm and composed, and most of the time I get it right. The ball lands where I want it to.
Harbhajan Singh
We're very lucky, men, that there are these fabulous parts. Women - once you've done all the parts in Shakespeare, they start running out. So you can pick and choose and find something to energise you.
Ian Mckellen
The quarterback gets plenty of protection in the pocket, and he picks up protection out of the pocket; he's got protection down the field on his slides.
Jeff Fisher
Lawyers, judges, doctors, shrinks, accountants, investigators and, not least, journalists could not do the most basic tasks without a veil of secrecy. Why shouldn't the same be true of those professionals who happen to be government officials?
George Packer
Jason: I'm all for hobbies, but you think this is the time for origami? Whatcha making, a crane?
Rachel Caine
People can lie in letters, but they tend not to. They certainly lie in memoirs.
Lois Lowry
I'd rather know a square guy than own a square mile.
Wilson Mizner
With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the special effects guy and the lighting technician: I'm all of that. So if it's good or bad, it's all up to me.
George R. R. Martin
