I.B. George Quotes

Cersei Lannister: I shall wear this as a badge of honor. Robert Barathon: Wear it in silence or I'll honor you again.

That little touch is not in the books, but I wish it had been in the books because it was a great addition.

If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it’s a superficial experience isn’t it?

Start trying to work out who deserves what, and before long you'll spend the rest of your days weeping for each and every person in the world.

Bear Island knows no king but the King in the North, whose name is STARK.

Only lies offend me, never honest counsel.

Power resides where men believe it to reside.

...Ned always said that the man who passes the sentence should swing the blade, though he never took any joy in the duty. But I would, oh, yes.

It was a story called ‘The Hero’ which I sold to Galaxy magazine in 1970, for $94.

When you have known the kiss of a flaying knife, a laugh loses all its power to hurt you.

A bear! A bear! All black and brown and covered in hair!

The women are the strong ones, truly.

I thought my song was beginning that day, but it was almost done.

I know nothing and perhaps I never will.

I think my very earliest stories were all intellectual exercises and I was writing from experiences I had never had about characters who were about an inch deep.

You can't just pick people for their hair color or the shape of their face. You have to go with the best actors.

One of the hardest parts of writing is writing from the gut or the heart or something like that rather than intellectually.

I'm fond of all my characters so every time one doesn't make the cut I'm a little disappointed although I understand it.

I know who's going to be on the throne [in the Gameof Thrones], at the end, so I better not say. But, there will be a few people sitting on it, before the end.

Most people were startled to find out there were books that preceded Game Of Thrones. I'm a case of working forty years to be an overnight success.

There could be great thrillers or great dramas or great comedies made in that world but everyone's afraid of it. So you have to do them as these crazy little independent movies.

The danger comes in, in my opinion, when you believe someone because they're the leader of your church and supposedly they have an ear to God without examining what they're doing.

I just thought, given the practicalities of financing an independent movie, you have to have some names. That's just the way it works. You have to have a name that can get you foreign pre-sales.

I'm a fan of the European style, naturalistic thriller.

I've always intended to eventually make films. I've always been very aware of tone and shots. But documentaries are a great proving ground for me.

The best decision-makers are always armed with the best information and data!

The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss.

Under communism (socialism), there is no incentive to supply people with anything they need or want, including safety.

Computers are not accountable. People are.

[Opera] does not call so much for an imaginative ear as for an imaginative eye, an eye which can see beyond little absurdities toward great truths.

I feel a feeling which I feel you all feel.

The body is the substance of the stone.

The whole international community will be united in condemning what they have done.

When we let others control us by the threat of disapproval and rejection, we give up far too much of ourselves and make it impossible for us to engage in authentic relationships.

Say to yourself: 'Living essentially to please others is a monumental mistake.'

Rather than being taught to accept ourselves, we were trained to make ourselves socially acceptable. And whenever we fail, we suffer inside.

Whenever I heard a musician do something that I could not explain, I went back to the theory in order to figure it out.

I believe that most of what was said of God was in reality said of that Spirit whose body is Earth.

Education has a larger function than the mere communication of knowledge.

If America has a future, Jazz has a future. The two are inseparable.

On the other side of every mountain was another mountain.

We are more apt to change our minds when right than wrong.

Preceding accomplishment must be desire. Thy desires must be strong and definite.

Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans love to fight, traditionally.

Sometimes I think your life and mine are under the protection of some supreme being or fate , because, after many years of parallel thought, we find ourselves in the positions we now occupy.

Never in history has the navy landed an army at the planned time and place. But if you land us anywhere within 50 miles of Fedela and within 1 week of D-Day. I'll go ahead and win.

The soldier is the army.

Now in war we are confronted with conditions which are strange. If we accept them we will never win. Since being realistic, as in mundane combats fistic, We will get a bloody nose and that's a sin.

Tanks are new and special weapon-newer than, as special, and certainly as valuable as the airplane.

We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, what they ought to have thought, but with what they did think, write, admire.