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She is not truly beautiful but something about her draws the eye.


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SEAN BEAN She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she tho...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I sometimes think that the In campaign appears to be operating to a script written by George R.R. Ma...
MICHAEL GOVE 'Game of Thrones' is the broadest of narratives. I don't know if anyone in the U.S. has ...
ALEX GRAVES The men in the room suddenly realized that they did not want to know her better. She was beautiful, ...
TERRY PRATCHETT Don is our George Martin,
DARIUS RUCKER She wins who calls herself beautiful and challenges the world to change to truly see her.
NAOMI WOLF You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.
ANON. You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.
ANONYMOUS You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her
IVAN PANIN Myra wasn't simple or complicated. She was different. She was not perfect, not even close but her fl...
PARUL WADHWA No, listen. I've got it now. You meet a girl: shy, unassuming. If you tell her she's beautiful, she'...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be adm...
TERRY PRATCHETT Don't die on me," she ordered. "You are not dying on me."
"Yes, ma'am." He felt light-headed, b...
RICK RIORDAN Her complexity is a glorious fire that consumes, while her simplicity goes unapproachable. But if on...
ANTHONY LICCIONE She may resent Playboy because she resents feeling ugly in sex--or, if "beautiful," her body ...
NAOMI WOLF Away she hurried, not beautiful, not supremely brilliant, but filled with something that took the pl...
E. M. FORSTER Away she hurried, not beautiful, not supremely brilliant, but filled with something that took the pl...
E.M. FORSTER She has a wisdom beyond her years. But what I love about her most is that she is a girl. Her playful...
ELISABETH SHUE Aleana wasn’t sure she was dreaming but she had some inkling that it might not be fully real. She ...
CAILEE FRANCIS He loved her. ... she can be talking to me about regular things but when she mentions Martin, her vo...
MAYA ANGELOU Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY I learned from her that every woman is worried
about her looks, no matter how beautiful she is.
RICHARD FEYNMAN calls her beautiful, but she cannot hear...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Elizabeth Taylor is gorgeous, beautiful, and she still is today, I'm crazy about her.
MICHAEL JACKSON Disney Hall is truly astonishingly beautiful. There is something about those silver petals that just...
EMANUEL AX She didn't talk a lot about herself. But little by little, she would let something out about her pas...
HELEN SONNER I have not seen anyone with her combination of athleticism, skill and size. That's why she draws all...
ELLEN MAGER If beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder, then surely I would have to had been blind to not see...
ROSS TURNER The question is, will Paul Martin stand up to George Bush and say no?
JANICE HARVEY In her inestimable audacity, Julia was the catalyst in my life for something beautiful. I hadn't ant...
CATHLEEN FALSANI Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not bea...
GERMAINE GREER - It doesn't do anything obvious. But it might be able to do something in here. - Then she touched h...
VERONICA ROTH But even though she was attractive, there was something else about her that caught his eye. She was ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Cheryl's artistically inclined. She draws and sketches, but I don't know about acting.
LANA TURNER She appeals to the German brain, if not the German heart. She doesn't inspire strong emotions. But s...
GERD LANGGUTH When she gets to college, she'll be more of a perimeter player, but right now, we need her inside. S...
JEFF STABILE Early in last season, George was very worried about other people's emotions, especially how they...
ELLEN MUTH I'm terrified of heights, but I think there's something really beautiful about birds and soa...
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JULIA ROBERTS Don't tell a girl with fire in her veins and hurricane bones what she should and shouldn't do. In th...
MELODY LEE She was a spiritual leader, not a celebrity, who I feel gave her life, as Martin gave, to service ma...
EDYTHE SCOTT BAGLEY Starling knew what the malicious Dr. Lecter would say, and it was true: she was afraid there was som...
THOMAS HARRIS I'm very proud of my love for Whitney Houston. She really changed my life. She made my life a be...
NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN I thinking of people like Phil Ramone or George Martin,
BILLY JOEL At the core of her senseless actions, she vaguely perceived that she yearned for something. A someth...
SHūSAKU ENDō In addition to the two vacation days she dedicates to this project each year, she is often in her wo...
LINDY CREWS It was definitely a right hand and not a head butt that opened her eye. She was slightly crouched ov...
CARINA MORENO This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beau...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE This is her whole thing, ... cancer is something she has. It is not who she is.
ANDREA HALL I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is go...
TERESA HEINZ A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between her work and her play; her labor an...
FRANçOIS-RENé DE CHATEAUBRIAND It’s not her shape,
her face, or her hair
that makes her beautiful.
Neither is it t...
PIERRE ALEX JEANTY My eyes hurt... but there is something more... I can't stop listening to horror.... now I am going t...
DEYTH BANGER I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.
STEVE BUSCEMI And she was not beautiful asleep. Her expression slack and not angelic. The very ordinariness of it ...
STEVEN R. BOYETT I need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms.
VIVIEN LEIGH She was a beautiful girl, but the lack of any spark dampened her prettiness.
CHELSEA CAIN She screamed. Her screaming was beautiful. But, truth be told he missed the crying.
BARRY LYGA Prior to my mother's stroke, Martin and I had a conversation with her. She felt at some point, [the ...
BERNICE KING If a novelist tells you something she knows or thinks, and you believe her, that is not because eith...
A. S. BYATT Me and George and Billy are two of a kind. (on his relationship with George Steinbrenner and Billy M...
MICKEY RIVERS You don't love a woman because she's beautiful, She is beautiful because you love her.
OLASOT My pseudonym is 'George R. R. Martin.' That guy's just an actor.
GWENDOLINE CHRISTIE She bought a poster of the Beatles and tacked it on the wall above her bed. On days when she was fee...
KEVIN BROCKMEIER There was something factitious and brittle and thereby utterly feminine about her charm which made m...
IRIS MURDOCH She had no idea how George delighted in her funny ways, or watched her through the window as she sto...
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BEBE REXHA If you truly believe in something, that is, if you care enough about it to not just dream about it, ...
CORY GROSHEK Unless Robbie and Chris wanted to her to be a surrogate mother, this would be her first and last pre...
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RACHEL MCADAMS Is this a negative perspective? The stance of a victim? No, It is a statement of truth. The way it i...
MERYN G. CALLANDER What historians will do is not focus on her role as the wife of Martin ... or that she carried on hi...
MARY FRANCES BERRY Her honey-coloured hair fell in heavy wavesbelow her shoulders and as she stared up at him her eyes,...
KATHLEEN WINSOR She won’t love again in the same unbridled way; she’ll never feel the sharp brightness of her ow...
KATIE KHAN not only a great star but truly a force of nature. I'm 65 and when my body hurts or I'm about to com...
GRACIELA DANIELE The scars on her face said something different about her, too-that she, like Cyra, knew what she was...
VERONICS ROTH It is not necessarily lips, but the heart that smiles always on doing the things that are truly beau...
ANUJ SOMANY They have a saying, the French, that no woman, can be truly beautiful who is not also sometimes trul...
ALEXANDRA RIPLEY Wanderer: You don't really feel that way about me you know. It's this body... she's pretty isn't she...
STEPHENIE MEYER As soon as she gets her divorce one of us is going to marry her. We don't know which. She is abo...
RICHARD H. DAVIS We talked about it and I told her she is here to get through school. I told her I would take her any...
BILL HANDER Sadie wore a bulls-eye on her back. She saw a lot of double-teams, but she started to understand how...
LACEY DEWEERT We're glad we know where she is - but not about the outcome. I'm just happy I can bury her.
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MARGARET ATWOOD But that wasn´t the first time I ever saw her. I saw her in the hallways at school, and at my mothe...
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JOHN HUSTON She truly is a jumper. I am really impressed with her distance without the practice. I know she is j...
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He has hands like two white spiders.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sorcery was a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sorcery is a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The ground was so far below him, he could barely make it out through the grey mists that whirled aro...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It takes courage to admit fear.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Be careful you don't cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with.'
'Girls don't shav...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Some men think because they're afraid to do.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You cannot tame a dragon with a history lesson.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Harsh justice is still justice.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Never forget what you are the rest of the world will not. Wear it like armour and it can never be us...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A man can own a woman or a man can own a knife, but no man can own both.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN We Lannisters do have a certain pride," said Tyrion Lannister.

“Pride?” Catelyn snapp...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Do you think it will truly come to battle between them? If they should come to some accord—”
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Yours was the hand that threw him. You meant for him to die.”
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