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There are no men like me. There's only me


George R.R. Martin

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NEIL GAIMAN I love George R.R. Martin's 'Game of Thrones' series.
RAE CARSON Tolkien was quite a religious man, and so is George R.R. Martin. They kind of have this epic quality...
SEAN BEAN Me and George and Billy are two of a kind. (on his relationship with George Steinbrenner and Billy M...
MICKEY RIVERS Life is like farting in front of someone and then trying to convince him, you didn't fart. It's hard...
ME Just look at what is spelled:
Hal Jordan
BrUce Wayne
Victor Stone
Clark KenT...
ME Realizing you have something in common with another person makes you more human than you were yester...
ME :) If a fangirl tells you she likes you, you better be happy. Her standards are very high.
ME I sometimes think that the In campaign appears to be operating to a script written by George R.R. Ma...
MICHAEL GOVE I thinking of people like Phil Ramone or George Martin,
BILLY JOEL I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?
MAE WEST There was no way I could let Mark Martin get outside of me on that restart.
TODD BODINE Theres no electricity, stuff like that down there. Its a little different. Its going to be crazy.
AARON KATZ 'Game of Thrones' is the broadest of narratives. I don't know if anyone in the U.S. has ...
ALEX GRAVES The question is, will Paul Martin stand up to George Bush and say no?
JANICE HARVEY Don is our George Martin,
DARIUS RUCKER There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are fo...
ADMIRAL FREDERICK There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are fo...
WILLIAM F. HALSEY There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are fo...
ADMIRAL WILLIAM FREDERICK HALSEY JR. (BULL) There are countries in Africa who also need our help, but were not there because theres no oil there...
JEFF WHITE I believe that people with a sense of humor are the reason that there are emo kids, its kinda like t...
NICHOLAS RYAN LAYMON My friends, remember this, that there are no weeds, and no worthless men, there are only bad farmers...
VICTOR HUGO There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.
WILLIAM F. HALSEY There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
CLARE BOOTH LUCE There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE The only characters I ever don't like are ones that leave no impression on me. And I don't write cha...
LAUREN DESTEFANO There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH People recognise me and come up to me sometimes, but I'm not like George Clooney.
SETH ROGEN [So what was it like meeting him?] I didn't meet Chris Martin, ... He met me.
IAN MCCULLOCH i am among meny men but few are like me.
BRIAN KEITH STEPHENS I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.
STEVE BUSCEMI Me and George and Billy are two of a kind.
MICKEY RIVERS It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, j...
DAN O'BRIEN Because there are no guarantees.
No promises on time.
There is only this moment.
And ...
J. SAMAN Wise men and fools cannot exist without the other. If there are no wise men, there are no fools, and...
SIDDHARTH KONKIMALLA Getting to play for the home folks, there on Lake Martin, with guys like Jeff Cook, man it dont get ...
BRAD COTTER I really don't act. I just live what George and I are doing. It has to make some sort of sense t...
GRACIE ALLEN theres actualy more cells in our brains than there are brains in our entire body
KEN M I'm pitching like [ineffectively]. There's no explanation. They've been hitting my best stuff. No ex...
JOSE MESA Getting to play for the home folks, there on Lake Martin, with guys like Jeff Cook, man it don’t ge...
BRAD COTTER My good fellow,” said Mesnil, stopping, “ever since the creation of the world there have been me...
JULES BARBEY D'AUREVILLY Alone, there is only the person inside. I've grown to like her better than the stuck-up husk of me. ...
ELLEN HOPKINS There are a lot more people less fortunate than me, but it's been tough. No one told me something li...
JAMMAL BROWN Maybe Plum was right. There are no good men. Only different degrees of bad ones.
GEMMA BURGESS Women need to have Men as their Best friend, Because theres a Built-in competition between Women...
NASIR KHAN There are no hidden depths to me.
CHARLES SAATCHI Martin didn't want me to buy these window curtains.
CORETTA SCOTT KING For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be domi...
HENRI NOUWEN Don't strive to be beautiful from the outside, instead, strive to be beautiful from the inside, Surf...
EMILY EATON (ME) [Stares at dead knight, killed by the Direwolves]

Ersen: If he had sounded his horn... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Theres only one thing i admire about emo children, they are the only people that can wear all black,...
NICHOLAS RYAN LAYMON George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.
PAUL MCCARTNEY Because you're only thinking they-might-not-like-me-they-might-not-like-me, and guess what? When you...
JOHN GREEN All the women want to be with me, all the men want to be like me.
RIC FLAIR No matter where you go - there you are
CONFUCIUS I don't like films giving me answers. I like films that are provoking me, that are making me fee...
JULIETTE BINOCHE I don't like to watch myself on screen because in my mind there is a touch of George Clooney abo...
STEPHEN MANGAN There may be a lot of people out there who don't like me who don't even know me. But there a...
RICHARD SHERMAN Theres no way to be successful
in music and be debauched.
GREG KOCH For me, there are no my people and strangers, no bad people and good people. All people are equal fo...
VIKTOR YANUKOVYCH I'm me, I like being me, And being me is what makes me, me. There is no one who can relate more to m...
ELLIOTT MORREAU I very much admired Lancaster. George Clooney reminds me of him today. Not all the macho, swinging a...
NORMAN LLOYD My pseudonym is 'George R. R. Martin.' That guy's just an actor.
GWENDOLINE CHRISTIE No, no, no, no. The only way she's going to play me is to get in there and do it.
JACKIE KALLEN I only compete with 3 men : Me, Myself and I
RAMIT SINGH BHOGAL In the Vietnam War some counted on Jesus, others John Wayne, I went with the only one who would have...
BOBBY W. MILLER There's only one Elizabeth like me and that's the Queen.
ELIZABETH ARDEN Assuming theres insurance, there would be no reason not to carry on, ... This just pushes us back on...
BOB GOODMAN One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. Ther...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Let me fill you in on the other results so far... there are no other results so far, only matches in...
HAZEL IRVINE Theres no competition in DESTINY. Run your own RACE and wish others WELL!!!
ABHYSHEQ SHUKLA Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me c...
LEO TOLSTOY Tolstoy to Gandhi to Martin Luther King to Me and You
BROOKE BIDA There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, ...
ALISTAIR MACLEAN I chose the school that I though would be best for me. There were a lot of different things between ...
JANAY YANCEY There are men who wants only the woman; such are tagged, 'real men', and there are ones who want onl...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON There's no way for me to know, but my best guess, as it must be for everyone, is that other peop...
DANIEL KEYS MORAN There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.
CARL SANDBURG All my life, men have told me I wasn't pretty enough - even the men I was dating. And I'd be...
LIL' KIM There is no perfect marriage, for there are no perfect men
FRENCH PROVERB For me you're only a little boy just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need o...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY George had called me and asked me if I'd do it. I said sure.
BARRY FEINSTEIN To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all
KARL KRAUS I loved George Carlin and Dean Martin. I was one of those kids who had every comedy album.
STEPHEN COLBERT Martin Landau in 'Crimes and Misdemeanors' - he gave me chills.
FRED WILLARD The best thing about me is there are no skeletons.
DAVID CROSS People are still asking me if I knew it was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The onl...
CARRIE FISHER In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you li...
MAYA ANGELOU Invertebrates like Nancy Pelosi and Neville Chamberlain are the fools who men like Adolf Hitler and ...
BOBBY W. MILLER I've always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn't. I felt like ...
CONOR MCGREGOR My misfortune is doubly painful to me because it will result in my being misunderstood. For me there...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne.
PHILIPPA GREGORY These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you re...
CHARLES BARKLEY These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you re...
CHARLES BARKLEY Were there no women, men might live like gods.
THOMAS DEKKER Were there no women, men might live like gods
THOMAS DEKKER Let's put it like this; men like Berkley, like me, we don't get a no for an answer, a girl who says ...
C.S. JAMES What comes from oneself, is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link.
EDUARDO CHILLIDA What comes from oneself, is nearly from no one... There is only me as a link.
EDUARDO CHILLIDA

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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN ...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword."
"...a ruler who hides behind paid e...
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN They hate you because you act like you're better than they are...." "[they are] Four that you humili...
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- Daenerys Targaryen
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'Not today.
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Fear is for the wi...
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Valar Morghulis.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arm...
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Laughter is poison to fear.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Nothing burns like the cold.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN If I look back I am lost.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Winter is coming.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The things I do for love.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You are your mother's trueborn son of Lannister."

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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The rat squealed as he bit into it, squirming wildly in his hands, frantic to escape.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN No Queen has clean hands.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN And any man who must say 'I am king' is no true king at all.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Keep walking. If I look back I am lost.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You know nothing, Jon Snow.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A sword needs a sheath, heh, and a wedding needs a bedding.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN My sister has mistaken me for a mushroom. She keeps me in the dark and feeds me shit.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A man can make do with seven fingers. Seven is a sacred number.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN What sort of gods make rats and plagues and dwarfs?
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Some woman, no doubt. Most of them are." He favored Jon with a rueful grin. "Remember this, boy. All...
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A lord must learn that sometimes words can accomplish what swords cannot.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of sheep.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He has hands like two white spiders.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He has an old man's caution and a young man's ambition, and has never lacked for cunning.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A son for a son, heh. But that's a grandson...and he never was much use." --Walder Frey
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. I...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Plots within plots, but all roads lead down the dragon’s gullet.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sorcery was a sword without a hilt. There is no sfe way to grasp it.
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.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Is that gallantry I smell, or just stupidity? The two scents are much alike, as I recall.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN In King's Landing there are two sorts of people; the players and the pieces.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth...
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It takes courage to admit fear.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.
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'Girls don't shav...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Some men think because they're afraid to do.
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