George R. R. Martin Quotes

I'm one of those writers who say, 'I've enjoy having written.'

George R. R. Martin

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• We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Information
  • Flow

• What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.

  

  J. August Richards
  • People
  • Country
  • Love

• Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Grandparents

• To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

  

  Tacitus
  • Peace
  • Wilderness
  • Empire

• I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Done
  • Wonder
  • Tough

• It seems astonishing to be paid for indulging in pure pleasure. For me to go to Coburg is rather as if a trainspotter was sent for a few weeks to Swindon or a chocoholic asked on holiday by Green and Black.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Black
  • Green
  • Holiday

• 'Blue Plate Special' is the autobiography of my first half-century of life, with food as the subject.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Life
  • Food
  • Blue

• Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Up
  • Father
  • Growing

• Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Important
  • True
  • Self

• The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Great
  • Rather
  • Renaissance

• I read so many things because a colleague or a friend will post something, and I'll be able to learn a tremendous amount only because they drew attention to it. So I try to do that for others, and that's the great thing about social media. It's not always a narcissistic cesspool or waste of time.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Time
  • Great
  • Attention

• Kids feel like they have to puff up or shrink. These reclusive qualities begin to develop because you feel that who you are is going to either be accepted or rejected by your family and friends.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Family
  • Kids

• 'The Three Stooges' is great. And I was worried, just because there's so many things that have to go right. All three of those guys have to be amazing - everything has to be amazing. And everything went right.

  

  Carly Craig
  • Great
  • Amazing
  • Three

• Steaming maintains some of the aubergine flesh's texture, which doesn't happen if you cook it in any other way.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • You
  • Way
  • Happen

• History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, ... The generator of historical events is different from the events themselves, much as the minds of the gods cannot be read just by witnessing their deeds.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Different
  • History

• She can only believe I am serious in her own fashion of being serious: as an antic sort of seriousness, which is not seriousness at all but despair masquerading as seriousness.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Believe
  • She
  • Fashion

• The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!

  

  Vanity
  • Pain

• What I don't like today is, to put it coarsely, the phony Hasidism, the phony mysticism. Many students say, 'Teach me mysticism.' It's a joke.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Today

• Man is by nature a pragmatic materialist, a mechanic, a lover of gadgets and gadgetry; and these are the qualities that characterize the "establishment" which regulates modern society: pragmatism, materialism, mechanization, and gadgetry. Woman, on the other hand, is a practical idealist, a humanitarian with a strong sense of noblesse oblige, an altruist rather than a capitalist.

  

  Elizabeth Gould Davis
  • Humanitarian
  • Characterize
  • Modern Society

• The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Person
  • Moment
  • Everything

• At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Things tend to come when they are meant to come. I know that sounds kind of like spiritual and cheesy, but I think things come when they're meant to come.

  

  Martha Plimpton
  • Spiritual
  • Cheesy

• There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion.

  

  Hal Abelson
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Science

• I'm one of those writers who say, 'I've enjoy having written.'

  

  George R. R. Martin