Flint Ory > Flint's Quotes

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Nothing burns like the cold.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“The common people pray for rain, healthy children, and a summer that never ends," Ser Jorah told her. "It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace." He gave a shrug. "They never are.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.”
― J.K. Rowling

“Stupid people are dangerous.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

“You have to die a few times before you can really
live.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“I sell mayhem, scandal, murder and doom.”
― Colin Harrison

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Sacred Wood

“Writing is like going underwater - thank you for being there when I come back up.”
― Ali Shaw, The Girl With Glass Feet

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking about myself.”
― Edith Sitwell

“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You

“If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”
― George S. Patton

“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
― Alan Moore

“It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.”
― Paul Simon

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers

“A bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones