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I was my mother's favorite, and she'd help me with everything.
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 You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the painting...
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 isnothing 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.
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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.
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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.
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