I.B. George Quotes

a man who hates music can’t be trusted, I always say.

I never finished any of my early stories. They were all beginnings, an endless number of beginnings.

I have climbed these steps so often I know each one by name.

Valar Morghulis - All men must die.

Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't start with a nine-book series.

A man agrees with god as a raindrop agrees with the storm

And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history? If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons.

In my dreams, I kill him every night,' Robert admitted. 'A thousand deaths will still be less than he deserves'.

All dwarfs may be bastards yet not all bastards are dwarfs.

The intelligent and efficient politician is a species virtually unknown in the galaxy. Perhaps I might secure a scraping [for my] cell library.

The trouble you're expecting never happens; it's always something that sneaks up the other way.

More games are won during practice than during the game itself.

Everybody in the world is talking about Canada…outside of the US, there is probably no country in the world that is producing more blue-chip young basketball talent than Canada.

I know the Virginia players are smart because you need a 1500 SAT to get in. I have to drop bread crumbs to get our players to and from class

I'm tired. I'm going back to bed.

I'm convinced that, in the end, art is not for the artist but for their fellow man.

Perhaps it's art; but if it isn't, at least it's something else equally interesting to me!

You've got to be able to act when it's necessary to act. And you've got to be able to act where the threat is.

Never was a person more mortified than I was at this time, to see so fair an opportunity to push a victory; Detroit lost for want of a few men.

I'm going to sleep well tonight knowing that I made the right decision.

Was I involved in selling drivers licenses to people illegally? Hell no I wasn't. Would I have tolerated it? Hell no.

After about 25 medals, you run out of shoulder to put them on.

I am convinced that much more emphasis should be placed on history. The purpose of history is to learn how human beings react when exposed to the danger of wounds or death.

Do as I have taught you, and you will stay alive.

You must do your damdest and win.

Success in war depends upon the golden rule of war.

There is only one sort of discipline - PERFECT DISCIPLINE. Men cannot have good battle discipline and poor administrative discipline.

Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.

So let us do real fighting, boring in and gouging, biting.

Style is the feather in the arrow, not the feather in the cap.

Jane Austen is the feminine Peter Pan of letters. She never grew up.

The lessons of experience are always learned too late.

You don't have to write to me if you don't feel like it. There's no real friendship without absolute freedom.

we do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop.

The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.

Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves.

Humanity is outraged in me and with me.

Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth.

I am a reformed Catholic. I'm a Buddhist in other words.

Art is dedicated echo.

He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.

What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.

Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.

The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard.

Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.

There is nothing impossible in the existence of the supernatural: its existence seems to me decidedly probable.