After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.


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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
Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits....
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret m...
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE
In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be ...
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE
Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for a...
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of...
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE
We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE
Literature flourishes best when it is half trade and half an art.
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE
There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This i...
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE
Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge o...
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE
There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill...
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE
The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming...
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE
There are no rewards or punishments -- only consequences.
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE
Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way ...
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE
Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE
I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which...
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own...
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE
I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are...
R. KELLY
I have Marvin Gaye's driver's license. His wife sent it to me, because she really loved my &...
R. KELLY
I started to wear the sunglasses all the time at school, hiding behind them... I'd walk down the...
R. KELLY
I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But...
R. KELLY
When you hear romantic music, it makes you want to take your girl out to dinner or buy her something...
R. KELLY
Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.
R. KELLY
If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That...
R. KELLY
You know, I'm no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaz...
R. KELLY
I still feel like I'm alone at times - even if I'm in the midst of a million people. Because...
R. KELLY