Plots within plots, but all roads lead down the dragon’s gullet.
George R.R. Martin
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NEIL GAIMAN I love George R.R. Martin's 'Game of Thrones' series.
RAE CARSON All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots. Political plots, terrorist plots, lov...
DON DELILLO All the characters and plots were predetermined. Games make bad plots.
MARGARET WEIS All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots.
DON DELILLO There are only so many plots in the world. It's how they unfold that makes them interesting.
LAUREN BEUKES Tolkien was quite a religious man, and so is George R.R. Martin. They kind of have this epic quality...
SEAN BEAN To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It's hard for me to look beyond that....
BILLY WEST Maniac plots world war three.
DAILY EXPRESS Power needs plots because plots are secret until they unfold and the most gratifying kind of power i...
GLENN HAYBITTLE Spy plots are hard, really hard.
RASHIDA JONES A good plot should have a strong middle and a spectacular end. But under no circumstances should it ...
A.M. DEAN I (could) see these plots a mile away. And I was 7.
CHRIS ROCK Logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.
CHARLES FRANCIS RICHTER Real life seems to have no plots.
IVY COMPTON BURNETT Real life seems to have no plots.
IVY COMPTON-BURNETT Real life seems to have no plots
IVY COMPTON-BURNETT A bad friend secretly plots your downfall
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
STANISLAW LEM He plots, he plans, he works in secret,
ROBERT CHAPMAN Statesman all over, in plots famous grown,/ He mouths a sentence, as curs mouth a bone.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.
CHELSEA QUINN YARBRO The movies remind me of the Triangle Club at Princeton. I used to belong to it, and we always starte...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD My parents bought four plots right away when they went up for sale about 30 years ago. They wanted t...
GREG PETERSON The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God.
EDGAR ALLAN POE I sometimes think that the In campaign appears to be operating to a script written by George R.R. Ma...
MICHAEL GOVE I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me.
CAROLINE B. COONEY The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes.
ZHANG YIMOU I love all of it, thinking up the plots, getting to know the kids in the story, their parents, backy...
CAROLINE B. COONEY I believe that all roads lead to the same place - and that is wherever all roads lead to.
WILLIE NELSON The alumni buried me every week. The plots have a view of the dome. It's a better view if you're sta...
LOU HOLTZ Plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings.
JOHN DRYDEN plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
JOE POYER Shelly knew I was well-versed in pulp magazines, with their strong plots, and that's the type of sto...
JULIUS SCHWARTZ As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins.
BARBARA CARTLAND Ladies and gentlemen, How am I going to sleep with so many conspiracies and plots?
WILLIAM BROWNFIELD The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!
FRANCINE PASCAL I would actually write books totally full of nothing BUT kissing scenes, but apparently people like ...
RACHEL HAWKINS When God is on your side, He uses the plots of your enemies to advance your cause.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO All roads lead to rum.
W. C. FIELDS All roads lead to Rome
PROVERB All Roads Lead to Rove.
MICHAEL WOLFF Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we're the biggest weirdos on...
BILLY BOB THORNTON There is no vengeance as terrible as the vengeance a coward plots in the dark of his heart.
GLEN COOK There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's...
TERRI WINDLING We contacted the office again to get all the paperwork set up, to let them know we would needing the...
TERESA MOWER We make our own compost at each garden and are very generous with this on the plots. This provides r...
PAM MARTIN 'Game of Thrones' is the broadest of narratives. I don't know if anyone in the U.S. has ...
ALEX GRAVES In silent films, quite complex plots are built around action, setting, and the actors' gestures ...
LAURIE R. KING The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against polit...
ALI KHAMENEI We need to teach our nation to detest any form of plots, insinuations, evil intrigues and violence.
SUNDAY ADELAJA I get fed up with plots that are driven by someone constantly getting information on a computer.
LIAM NEESON If all roads lead to Rome, we can only wish for thousands of roads to lead to Revolutionary Rome!
FIDEL CASTRO 9/11 was a sort of hinge event in American history, and all jihadi terrorist plots or attacks are ki...
PETER BERGEN The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic sag...
GILBERT MURRAY There is no law more just, than that he, who plots death, should
perish by his own craft.
UNKNOWN All roads out of hell lead home.
SHANNON L. ALDER All roads do not lead to Rome.
SLOVENIAN PROVERB Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop…...
AGATHA CHRISTIE People have really long attention spans, and they love complicated plots. TV series are giving the a...
KEVIN SPACEY I don't give plots to Harold Robbins or Graham Greene, because they don't need them, but a l...
MICHAEL KORDA There are those who maintain that in this world women have no right to interfere in the affairs of s...
BELLE BOYD Had these four defendants succeeded in their alleged plots, their attacks would have taken an untold...
ALBERTO GONZALES All roads taken lead us only to ourselves.
KILROY J. OLDSTER Don is our George Martin,
DARIUS RUCKER The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in ...
P. J. O'ROURKE American mass media culture, with its celebrities, shopping hysteria, sound bites, formulaic plots, ...
SIRI HUSTVEDT But remember that good intentions pave many roads. Not all of them lead to hell.
NEAL SHUSTERMAN We're waiting on the surveyor to complete his work and as soon as he does, we can begin to sell thes...
BECKY RICHARDSON Folly plots a fool's death from the moment they become friends. Wisdom bestows blessings upon a wise...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO In the last week, we have learned that since the 7th of July two further terrorist plots have been p...
TONY BLAIR Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's ...
MARCEL MARCEAU Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you...
HENRY MILLER He sits at the table and reads novels, old favorites of his, the words and plots and characters comf...
HANYA YANAGIHARA All roads lead to Trantor, and that is where all stars end.
ISAAC ASIMOV All roads lead to something you were predestined to do.
FREDRIK BACKMAN I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else.
KARIN FOSSUM I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one ...
ALEX TABARROK Oh! think what anxious moments pass between
The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods,
...
JOSEPH ADDISON Bigotry's birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for ...
BAYARD RUSKIN [Bigotry's] birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for...
BAYARD RUSTIN [Bigotry's] birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched fo...
BAYARD RUSKIN He is responsible because of the conspiracy and the plots for all that happened to the Jewish people...
GIDEON HAUSNER Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it...
MARCEL MARCEAU Comprehensive meta-analysis is the world's most extensively used program for meta-analysis. It inclu...
PERFECT STATISTICS All roads lead to expiration, perhaps then, we should start at the beginning!
CHARLIE C DRAKOBICH I've paid the price; I definitely have a reputation that precedes me, and there is a camp that p...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Plots are artificial. Does your life have a plot? It has characters. There is a narrative. There'...
RICHARD LINKLATER The rhododendrons, plots of wild strawberries, flame azaleas, Solomon's seal, sweet shrub, mountain ...
WILLIAM BARTRAM Juno: "All roads lead there child. You should know that."
Percy: "Detention?
RICK RIORDAN Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of pl...
KERRY GREENWOOD This is a classic Donald Ross-designed course adjacent to a classic resort on Lake George. Routed th...
CHRIS SANTELLA He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the publ...
FRANCIS BACON I thinking of people like Phil Ramone or George Martin,
BILLY JOEL The rule for finding plots for character-centered novels, which is to ask: 'So what's the worst poss...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD We've gone from being able to observe and analyze 100 square kilometer plots in the past down to 10 ...
DEV NIYOGI I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.
STEVE BUSCEMI The roughest roads often lead to the top.
CHRISTINA AGUILERA Me and George and Billy are two of a kind.
(on his relationship with George Steinbrenner and Billy M...
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His chains chinked softly. “I...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I value my privacy, and if sometimes my actions seem strange or arbitrary or capricious, I do not wa...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I am Thunder and Thunder is me, we are one beast, we are joined, we are one.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The living have no place at the feasts of the dead.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I love the juice but I loathe sticky fingers. Clean hands, Sansa. Whatever you do, make certain your...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A harp can be a dangerous as a sword, in the right hands.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN No man is accursed as the kinslayer.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The kinslayer is accursed in the eyes of gods and men,
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It is too late for ifs, and too late for rescues,” Catelyn said. “All that remains is vengeance.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Wolves never cry.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN They held each other close and turned their backs upon the end.
The hills that split asunder an...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The watcher on the walls. The sword in the darkness.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Why won't they let me be? I just need to rest, that's all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a l...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel,...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sometimes the storm winds blow so strong a man has no choice but to furl his sails.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Jon:'What are you doing up there? Why aren't you at the feast?'
Tyrion: 'Too hot, too noisy, an...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN and take the ironmen in the rear while they are beating off what they think is my main thrust up the...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Bad and worse and worst makes a beggar's choice.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Oh, yes. Choosing... it has always hurt. And always will. I know.
-Maester Aemon Targaryen, A G...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Her name is Brienne," Jaime said. "Brienne, the maid of Tarth. You are still maiden, I hope?"...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Better to live shamed than die proud.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The crow commands, the captive must obey.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I am alive, and drunk on sunlight.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Some allies are more dangerous than enemies.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN My enemies are legion.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN How can you still count yourself a knight, when you have forsaken every vow you ever swore?"
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You are Arya of Winterfell, daughter of the North. You told me you could be strong. You have the wol...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work ag...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Fat men take a cushion with them wherever they go.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN