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Learn to use yours ears more and your mouth less, or your reign will be shorter than I am.


George R.R. Martin

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NEIL GAIMAN I love George R.R. Martin's 'Game of Thrones' series.
RAE CARSON Keep your mouth shut and your ears open.
ENGLISH PROVERB Tolkien was quite a religious man, and so is George R.R. Martin. They kind of have this epic quality...
SEAN BEAN From your mouth to God's ears.
BEATRICE ARTHUR I sometimes think that the In campaign appears to be operating to a script written by George R.R. Ma...
MICHAEL GOVE Lose your illusion or use your delusion. The choice is yours.
RAIN BOJANGLES If your relationship with God brings you pleasure, then it will be easy for you to learn how to reig...
SUNDAY ADELAJA When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut
SOURCE UNKNOWN Listen with your ears, look with your eyes, but keep silent with your mouth.
VIKRANT PARSAI am your spaniel; and, Demetrius, The more you beat me, I will fawn on you: Use me but as your spanie...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Your tongue is more foolish than you but your ears are wiser than you.
VIKRANT PARSAI Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love m...
SWEDISH PROVERB Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more,...
SWEDISH PROVERB When you are working and daydreaming your speed will be reduced. But with full concentration, your s...
SUNDAY ADELAJA I just figure if you have a modicum of celebrity, you need to use it, and you need to use it for mor...
PAUL HAGGIS If you didn't see it with your own eyes, or hear it with your own ears, don't invent it with your sm...
ANONYMOUS Coz," he said. "You really must learn to shut your mouth from time to time. You'll taste less shoe l...
JIM BUTCHER More or less, I am always saying, 'Let's do what has not been done.'
JEAN-LUC GODARD Listen with your eyes and not your ears ! your ears will lie to you ,but your eyes will tell you the...
RUBY RACHELLE HARDEE When you go to buy, use your eyes not your ears.
PROVERB When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.
CZECH PROVERB When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears
CZECH PROVERB Your life will become more fulfilling once you realise what you have within yourself and your wardro...
GLYNIS MACKENZIE Unfortunately, mortal life is very fragile, and very short. Yours could be shorter than usual.
RACHEL CAINE Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, love more,...
SWEDISH PROVERB The reason we have two ears and only one mouth, is that we may hear more and speak less.
ZENO revealed Martin Bashir to be deceptive and less than forthcoming.
DAVID LEGRAND I am clearly more popular than Reagan. I am in my third term. Where's Reagan? Gone after two! De...
MARION BARRY Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!
VICTORIA ABRIL The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you t...
KARL MARX ‎"...If you did not see it with your own eyes, or hear it with your own ears, don't invent it with...
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Your idea doesn't have to be big. It just has to be yours alone. The more the idea is yours alone, t...
HUGH MACLEOD I've had to learn when not to tweet. Like, you learn how to keep your mouth shut? Learn to keep ...
DAN STEVENS I cannot heave my heart into my mouth. I love your majesty according to my bond; no more no less.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You're only as good as your body of work, and everybody has issues, whether it's Steven Spie...
TODD PHILLIPS Open your eyes, Train your ears, Use your head; If a mind you have, use it while you can.
OLASOT After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have...
CRISS JAMI We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.
ZENO OF CITIUM Use your body language and posture to project confidence. Shift your physiology into a more powerful...
SUSAN C. YOUNG I thinking of people like Phil Ramone or George Martin,
BILLY JOEL ‎"The less random stuff you hear about, the more room in your ears for music, that's what I always...
LYNN WEINGARTEN Give your ears to your wife and you will have peace
SOTONYE ANGA Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why s...
KENT NERBURN Worry less cos for what is yours will always be yours and what is not yours can never be yours.
EMMANUEL EBUKA NELVIN We have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally.
SUSAN CAIN Your next SMS will probably be around longer, and remain more legible, than your tombstone. For, unl...
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF Follow a well beaten path or carve out your own -either way, the experience will be uniquely yours -...
RICKBISCHOFF I suppose it is one time when you can really use your name to raise money. And if I am going to use ...
PRINCE HARRY I am a worthless sinner, and I am meek, but I am Yours, I seek Your Sanctuary, O Merciful Lord.
GURU NANAK It's more mental than physical. You really gotta have it between your ears.
BEN KROSSCHELL I'm no more or less antisocial than the next person.
DAMIAN LEWIS 12. There will come a day, much quicker than your parents would wish, when you will no longer be com...
JAMES C. DOBSON “If you fear embarrassment, learn to keep your mouth shut”
DR. SHAILESH THAKER 'Game of Thrones' is the broadest of narratives. I don't know if anyone in the U.S. has ...
ALEX GRAVES Tonight I am all yours!"
A message from your dream.
ANTHONY T.HINCKS Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too ...
SIR MATTHEW HALE Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too ...
MATTHEW HALE Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
JAMES A. BALDWIN Highly educated women should challenge social taboos and get married to a man who is less educated, ...
LU JIANMIN Praying is more about listening than talking, that is why God gave you two ears and one mouth.
JIM GENOVESE If you lose your temper, your sound sleep will go, and you will have to use a tranquilizer or sleepi...
TENZIN GYATSO THE 14TH DALAI LAMA The question is, will Paul Martin stand up to George Bush and say no?
JANICE HARVEY Yours

(now I'm even losing my name - it was getting shorter and shorter all the time and ...
FRANZ KAFKA I prefer a kiss that is so much more than just a tongue in your mouth.
KATHERINE HEIGL Don't ask more than someone's best, and don't give less than your best.
JIM GENOVESE The more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to use.
GEORGE A. DORSEY The more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to use.
GEORGE DORSEY What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to t...
HORACE Concentrate more on your achievements than your failures. Learn to take the failures as opportunitie...
STEPHEN RICHARDS To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Thank you to Martin Scorsese - I hope my son will marry your daughter.
CATE BLANCHETT Be on your toes tonight-or I'll be on yours tomorrow.
FRED WARING Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart ...
KENT NERBURN The forties are the time when you begin to take notice of certain aches and pains. Your body and bra...
HAMPTON SIDES Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better ...
H.G. WELLS This business of really knowing people, deep down, including your own self, it is not something you ...
JAMES HOWE Giving out less love and affection will feed your ego to more and more attention.
RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO Satan will always whisper don't care, be silent, you didn't do anything wrong, your better than them...
SHANNON L. ALDER In contrast to your usual minions, I imagine, I’m a bit more awed by your conceit and arrogance th...
CAITLIN CREWS I am assuming my father learned at an early age that there is nothing more dangerous than showing yo...
BRUCE ERIC KAPLAN I am stuffing your mouth with your
promises and watching
you vomit them out upon my face.
ANNE SEXTON Seize every opportunity you have to learn. Keep your eyes and ears wide open and seize life. Don’t...
RICHIE SAMBORA I am your wife if you will marry me.
If not, I'll die your maid. To be your fellow
You m...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is better to choose a wife with your ears than with your eyes.
VIKRANT PARSAI You must learn to control your dreams or your dreams will forever control you.
WAYNE GERARD TROTMAN Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be s...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The alcohol will be less likely to go to your head and weaken your resolve.
KATHERINE TALLMADGE I am kind; I am humane. I open to you my fatherly arms. Come, all of you; I will receive you all - n...
TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do. It aggravates em. You're not gon...
HARPER LEE Servitude is your legacy. It’s in your genes, peasant, or at least it had better be, or Mr. Banker...
BOBBY W. MILLER I never talk back. I listen and always remember your every word, so come pen or mouse, never forget ...
L.M. FIELDS Create your world with God's Word in your mouth just say it and it will be accomplished!
JAACHYNMA N.E. AGU I will erase this world of yours with such magnificence of my presence that your vision will remain ...
SAIM CHEEDA Learn to write by doing it. Read widely and wisely. Increase your word power. Find your own individu...
P.D. JAMES To keep your he-man jaw muscles from smashing your precious teeth, the only set you have, the body e...
MARY ROACH Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
FRANK TYGER Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
FRANK TYGER Sooner or later people will learn to recognize your worth
PAUL GAUGUIN The more you believe in your ability, the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding resul...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA

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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He has hands like two white spiders.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sorcery was a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sorcery is a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You cannot tame a dragon with a history lesson.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Harsh justice is still justice.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Never forget what you are the rest of the world will not. Wear it like armour and it can never be us...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A man can own a woman or a man can own a knife, but no man can own both.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN We Lannisters do have a certain pride," said Tyrion Lannister.

“Pride?” Catelyn snapp...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Do you think it will truly come to battle between them? If they should come to some accord—”
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Yours was the hand that threw him. You meant for him to die.”
His chains chinked softly. “I...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I value my privacy, and if sometimes my actions seem strange or arbitrary or capricious, I do not wa...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I am Thunder and Thunder is me, we are one beast, we are joined, we are one.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The living have no place at the feasts of the dead.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I love the juice but I loathe sticky fingers. Clean hands, Sansa. Whatever you do, make certain your...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A harp can be a dangerous as a sword, in the right hands.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN No man is accursed as the kinslayer.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The kinslayer is accursed in the eyes of gods and men,
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It is too late for ifs, and too late for rescues,” Catelyn said. “All that remains is vengeance.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Wolves never cry.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN They held each other close and turned their backs upon the end.
The hills that split asunder an...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The watcher on the walls. The sword in the darkness.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Why won't they let me be? I just need to rest, that's all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a l...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel,...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sometimes the storm winds blow so strong a man has no choice but to furl his sails.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Jon:'What are you doing up there? Why aren't you at the feast?'
Tyrion: 'Too hot, too noisy, an...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN and take the ironmen in the rear while they are beating off what they think is my main thrust up the...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Bad and worse and worst makes a beggar's choice.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Oh, yes. Choosing... it has always hurt. And always will. I know.
-Maester Aemon Targaryen, A G...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Her name is Brienne," Jaime said. "Brienne, the maid of Tarth. You are still maiden, I hope?"...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Better to live shamed than die proud.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The crow commands, the captive must obey.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I am alive, and drunk on sunlight.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Some allies are more dangerous than enemies.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN My enemies are legion.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN How can you still count yourself a knight, when you have forsaken every vow you ever swore?"
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You are Arya of Winterfell, daughter of the North. You told me you could be strong. You have the wol...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work ag...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN