FastSaying

You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that.


H. R. Giger

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Aye, well, I've got my garden.
LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing.
LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds,
LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument.
LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ...
LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w...
LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t...
LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I Married to the Mob.
LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge.
LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
LIKE I I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll fro...
LIBERTY HYDE BAILEY When I turned the key on, I was so nervous. I didn't know whether I turned it on or not. Then I didn...
CHARLIE FEHRENBACH So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
CAIO FONSECA When I was a little kid, I wanted to be, like, you know, a movie star, you know? Or, I always have i...
TOMMY WISEAU Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the fr...
FRIDA KAHLO I've always wanted to see what Egypt was like when they were building the pyramids or Rome at th...
ALBERT HAMMOND, JR. I like the paintings. I'm not saying I like all the individuals. But Clinton, Reagan, and George H. ...
LEONARD JOHNSON I literally cannot remember a time when I was not asking myself what events in 'Star Wars' w...
CLAUDIA GRAY Do you know people who insist they like 'all kinds of music'? That actually means they like no ki...
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN They're petrified like you and I would be, due to the volume of the wind that we had. I can understa...
MARGARET TABONE I wish I was a man. I have since I was like 10 years old. And not because I'm trans-gendered or sexu...
CHARLEEN L. SCOTT Shutting off [Twitter] without warning was jarring and isolating, like having a friend you rely on j...
SCAACHI KOUL I was a fool. I should have grabbed him when I could have had him all to myself, snatched him up lik...
JEAN KWOK It's a struggle to get out of bed in the morning. Looking at myself and seeing I was not happy with ...
ERIC MOULTON I wasn't known as a neighborhood tough or anything like that. But yeah, I was, like, a scrappy k...
BARRY JENKINS When I started my own practice, I was criticized, not because I was doing product design but because...
MICHAEL GRAVES Did you know that seventy-five to eighty percent of juvenile offenders can’t read at grade level?�...
CAROLEE DEAN I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the ...
JESSICA LANGE In all those stories about people who sold their souls to the devil, I never quite understood why th...
JAMES ANDERSON I was very young when we got married and I don't know why it worked out like it did or how I was...
KYRA SEDGWICK Telling people that I wanted to make dance music, or be on the radio, they looked at me like I was c...
AL WALSER You see, I thought of myself as making minimalist art like the music of Lamonte Young, or the painti...
RICHARD FOREMAN I couldn't tell anyone how I felt because I knew they wouldn't understand. Oh, poor little Christina...
NENIA CAMPBELL I'm not a fan of giving a website a simple number like an IQ rating because like people they can...
TIM BERNERS-LEE I was hesitant, because I didn't know why a professor would be interested in one of his students.
JUDY ROSS I was often turned down. Most of Hollywood turned me down, and I spent a lot of time trying to figur...
CATHLEEN FALSANI I've heard people say that they lose themselves in a kiss. But in that moment, it was the opposite f...
JON SKOVRON I'm not on Twitter or Facebook. I've never been interested in being on any of them. I don...
HANNAH WARE If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have s...
BILL DIXON I just have a sense that, you know, I'm curious about what is religion about, you know? Why do s...
ELAINE PAGELS I asked skaters, 'Why does the costume always have all this stuff? They said, 'Because it makes it l...
JEF BILLINGS I liked Jackie Robinson because he was cool to watch, not because he was black. Every time you turne...
CHEECH MARIN So the kind of boy I was, or that I was told to be, you were kind of this like half-gladiator, half-...
JUNOT DIAZ I have to tell you that I was kind of in a dream state that whole morning, ... I couldn't quite gras...
SALLY ADAMS I definitely like the mystery of not knowing how things will turn out, you know.
IAN WILLIAMS (There are so many If's like Why's, why there, if there... but why?? Look again I say this word!) DEYTH BANGER I was adopted without the benefit of papers. They used to hide adoption in the forties; I don't ...
BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of off...
ZHANG ZIYI I was in college that first semester, and I was like, 'Wow, this isn't who I am. This isn...
CHANNING TATUM From the time I was a kid, I was always interested in any and all kinds of new business ideas.
RED MCCOMBS A lot of my poems either have historical sequences or other kinds of chronological grids where I'...
BILLY COLLINS Because I am interested in the growth and development of early hominids, I play with my kids, you kn...
ZERESENAY ALEMSEGED But regardless of whether I was injured or wasn't good enough or what have you, why - and I'm just p...
MARK ROMAN I wasn't here...I was working, if I was sleeping... I don't know...I would have probably gotten hurt...
FABIOLA RIO I'm turned on by guys who are cultured. That'll keep me intrigued. They don't have to ha...
RIHANNA I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the sp...
ALBERT EINSTEIN His friends said, "Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there?" and Bull said, "I like it because...
JACK KEROUAC It's disappointing to lose any qualified individual that was interested in this job, and that we wer...
BRIAN GIBSON I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or ju...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY By the time I got to him, I felt like I was following an international man of mystery. He was on a b...
EUGENE JARECKI I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
WALT WHITMAN My mother told me when I was a toddler and in the crib that they would have music playing, and the t...
ROBBIE ROBERTSON I never wanted to be a brand director. I didn't want that kind of stamp. I wanted to be more lik...
RON HOWARD I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically i...
BEN SHAHN When I was younger, I thought that straight hair was, like, the only thing. So I was trying to be li...
JILLIAN HERVEY Why do I put myself in a position to be cast aside or not considered as I would like to? Because I a...
GIORGIO ARMANI I always wondered if I was supposed to be excellent at something or not. I think, because of that, I...
CHRISTOPHER ATKINS In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen cont...
MINORU YAMASAKI I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out...
MARK ZUCKERBERG Believe it or not, I was once just like you, ... I was sitting in a school just like this. I had dre...
MAGIC JOHNSON Because what if I got to know you and you turned out to be just like they said? What if you weren’...
JAY ASHER I am interested in physical medicine because my father was. I am interested in medical research beca...
BERNARD BARUCH I am interested in physical medicine because my father was. I am interested in medical research beca...
BERNARD M. BARUCH It was different than I have been led to believe. I felt like I was in Arizona. The bus rides weren'...
JOE MADDON I was thinking that I was gonna have, like, Jason Kidd or Chris Thomas star in the movie to play me.
BILLY CAMPBELL I used to say to myself, 'Well, in the old days everybody danced because they loved to dance, an...
TWYLA THARP I was reading about animals a while back and there was this motherfucking scientist in France back i...
CHERYL STRAYED What we like to do is educate. A lot of people don't know about refinancing. So many people who have...
KATRINA MITCHELL None of it was your fault, the whispers in my head argue. You didn't kill him, after all -...
MARIE LU I started feeling this little lump in my throat, like you would feel if you have swollen glands or s...
ADAM YAUCH I was like 'Why am I saying not guilty?' ... I thought I had to or something. It was the wrong decis...
MICHAEL WOLFE I'm constantly being pilloried by certain members of this community every time something comes up ab...
GORDON JACKSON It seems that this young man was interested in hurting people, possibly the U.S. or enemies of Islam...
ANDREA CLABAUGH As I started working out and getting in shape just in case I was coming back I was like, you know wh...
TOM NUTTEN If there was a God and if I was your God, I would forgive all of you. You know why? I wouldn't play ...
EPHDAN I spent most of my life believing l
was crazy because all the crazy things I experienced in chi...
SARAH E. OLSON I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at al...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE All of my life, i have been looking not to hurt anybody but i found out that some people don't want ...
OLASOT I was still disappointed in myself I didn't get the bunt down because I feel I can do it, but I gues...
BEN JOHNSON (BASEBALL PLAYER) I have learned through time that not everyone is interested in the kinds of things that fascinate me...
ANTHONY BRAXTON But as we shall see, Roosevelt, through a combination of events and influences, fell deeper and deep...
JOHN T. FLYNN Yes! you are the ruin--the ruin--the ruin--of me. I have no resources in myself, I have no confidenc...
CHARLES DICKENS I never thought I would work in mainstream superhero comics or Valiant or Marvel. I just set out to ...
JEFF LEMIRE I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the...
ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG

More H. R. Giger

I was my mother's favorite, and she'd help me with everything.
H. R. GIGER I don't know, if somebody doesn't tell me how would I know?
H. R. GIGER I'm a painter, really. To be successful, you have to go to Hollywood, and I didn't like to t...
H. R. GIGER You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite ...
H. R. GIGER No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
H. R. GIGER You know, I said I have this problem that I need to more carefully read Akron's text because it&...
H. R. GIGER Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings.
H. R. GIGER I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the fo...
H. R. GIGER Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. ...
H. R. GIGER You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.
H. R. GIGER There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.
H. R. GIGER Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, over...
H. R. GIGER Like it or not, we are all insectoid aliens burrowing within our urbaniod bodies. -- Timothy Leary
H.R. GIGER In the years leading up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, thinking about defense was driven by id...
H. R. MCMASTER Muslims who commit terrorist acts are perverting their religion.
H. R. MCMASTER Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitabl...
H. R. MCMASTER The professed war-weariness among populations who have sent only a small percentage of their sons an...
H. R. MCMASTER What is certain about the future is that even the best efforts to predict the conditions of future w...
H. R. MCMASTER You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivel...
H. R. MCMASTER We're so enamored of technological advancements that we fail to think about how to best apply th...
H. R. MCMASTER The key thing about force protection is... if you focus too much on force protection, and you diseng...
H. R. MCMASTER It is in their inherent moral components that recent Western strategies may be deficient. What perce...
H. R. MCMASTER Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.
H. R. MCMASTER We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
H. R. MCMASTER It's important to study and understand your responsibilities within any profession, but it's...
H. R. MCMASTER War is, in fact, an extension of politics, and in any war, military operations have to be conducted ...
H. R. MCMASTER The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the 'New Yor...
H. R. MCMASTER Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise...
H. R. MCMASTER There are two ways to fight the United States military: asymmetrically and stupid. Asymmetrically me...
H. R. MCMASTER Lyndon Johnson was a profoundly insecure man who feared dissent and craved reassurance. In 1964 and ...
H. R. MCMASTER When we came to Iraq, we didn't understand the complexity - what it meant for a society to live ...
H. R. MCMASTER We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misi...
H. R. HALDERMAN Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they su...
H. R. HAWEIS Nothing would improve newspaper criticism so much as the knowledge that it was to be read by men too...
R. H. HUTTON In an age of unscrupulous and shameless book-making, it is a duty to give notice of the rubbish that...
R. H. HUTTON All good government must begin at home.
H. R. HAWEIS Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.
H. R. HAWEIS Precious beyond price are good resolutions. Valuable beyond price are good feelings.
H. R. HAWEIS Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, li...
R. H. BLYTH There is…nothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people.
H. R. SCHAFFER Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces...
H. R. MCMASTER Although combat operations unseated the Taliban and the Saddam Hussein regime, a poor understanding ...
H. R. MCMASTER We often operate effectively on the physical battleground but not on the psychological battleground....
H. R. MCMASTER You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.
H. R. HALDEMAN When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.
R. H. GRANT When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.
R. H. GRANT Love builds bridges where there are none.
R. H. DELANEY In the Army, because the stakes are so high - right? - you can't just be a yes-man and say, '...
H. R. MCMASTER Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in!
H. R. HALDEMAN It is clear that while our Army was engaged in Afghanistan and Iraq, Russia studied U.S. capabilitie...
H. R. MCMASTER Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, li...
R. H. BLYTH It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Onl...
R. H. COASE Every president needs an SOB-and I'm Nixon's.
H. R. HALDEMAN Because war is a competition involving life and death, and in which national security and vital inte...
H. R. MCMASTER It is important to understand how leaders have adapted and thought about war and warfare across thei...
H. R. MCMASTER What we can afford least is to define the problem of future war as we would like it to be and, by do...
H. R. MCMASTER It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of...
H. R. MCMASTER My personal experience in Ninawa Province has been that, at the most fundamental level, people don&#...
H. R. MCMASTER The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocri...
H. R. TREVOR-ROPER It was inevitable that Jesus Christ should be crucified. It was also inevitable that He should rise ...
H. R. L. SHEPPARD He had no little handkerchief to wipe his little nose.
REV. R. H. BARHAM The Lady Jane was tall and slim, / The Lady Jane was fair.
REV. R. H. BARHAM And six little singing-boys, - dear little souls! / In nice clean faces, and nice white stoles.
REV. R. H. BARHAM She drank prussic acid without any water,/ And died like a Duke-and-a-Duchess's daughter!
REV. R. H. BARHAM Why, Captain! - my Lord! - Here's the devil to pay! / The fellow's been cut down and taken away! / W...
REV. R. H. BARHAM And a nice little boy had a nice cake of soap, / Worthy of washing the hands of the Pope.
REV. R. H. BARHAM Never was heard such a terrible curse ! ! / But what gave rise / To no little surprise, / Nobody see...
REV. R. H. BARHAM He would pore by the hour, o'er a weed or a flower, / Or the slugs that come crawling out after a sh...
REV. R. H. BARHAM Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
H. Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
H. Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have.
H. Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
H. People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road...
H. Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H H WILLIAMS There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an ...
H. H. MUNRO A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
H. H. MUNRO He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
H. H. MUNRO Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H. H. WILLIAMS Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.
H. H. MUNRO The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went
H. H. MUNRO A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
H. H. MUNRO All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's...
H. H. MUNRO Women and elephants never forget an injury
H. H. MUNRO The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happene...
H. H. MUNRO I always say beauty is only sin deep.
H. H. MUNRO I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to...
H. H. MUNRO A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mo...
H. H. MUNRO Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for ...
H. H. MUNRO Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're stillborn
H. H. MUNRO I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong th...
H. H. MUNRO We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometim...
H. H. MUNRO The young have aspirations that will never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never ha...
H. H. MUNRO His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect
H. H. MUNRO The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally
H. H. MUNRO People yield more consideration to a mutilated mealtime or a broken night's rest than ever they woul...
H. H. MUNRO In baiting a mouse-trap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse
H. H. MUNRO Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.
H. H. MUNRO A choice architect has the responsibility for organizing the context in which people make decisions....
RICHARD H. THALER, CASS R. SUNSTEIN Not all those who wander are lost.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I don't like allegories.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write un...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religio...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the eart...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who ...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabi...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not b...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Courage is found in unlikely places.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or conte...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of wri...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Not all who wander are lost.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wis...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one w...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Still round the corner there may wait,
A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step ont...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has go...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Then the enchantment became more dreamlike, until he felt that an endless river of swelling gold and...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Whether you're a history buff or a fantasy fan, Druon's epic will keep you turning pages. Th...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!
J. R. R. TOLKIEN All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does no...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire&...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one tur...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to ...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN He had a feeling that the answer was quite different and that he ought to know it, but he could no...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Short cuts make long delays.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN When I am writing best, I really am lost in my world. I lose track of the outside world. I have a di...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Still round the corner there may wait,
A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN 'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things on...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not t...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or j...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all
and in the ...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as wel...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more p...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally sma...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Little by little, one travels far.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wa...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy t...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have files, I have computer files and, you know, files on paper. But most of it is really in my he...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN In my 10 years that I spent out in TV and film, I had my shares of frustrations and annoyances and d...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a fri...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villa...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It's really irritating when you open a book, and 10 pages into it you know that the hero you met...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I do get invitations all of the time to play actual fantasy football, by the way, but I get the feel...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could wri...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, an...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separate...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for ...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giant...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start wit...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote th...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Don't write outlines; I hate outlines.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share t...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and T...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're no...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I never liked Gandalf the White as much as Gandalf the Grey, and I never liked him coming back. I th...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If you go all the way back, I've always written science-fiction, I've always written fantasy...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scar...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If your heart is full, you don't feel that hungry.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA