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History Quotes by George R. R. Martin
- An artist has an obligation to tell the truth. [...] that the true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but…
- The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves.
- I was a journalism major, and I would take creative writing classes as part of that, but I would also look for opportunities to write…
- I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.
- History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.
- And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history? If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons.
- You don't just have people who wake up in the morning and say, "What evil things can I do today, because I'm Mr. Evil?" People…
More History Quotes
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong
- In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic. — Julian Assange
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- Natural history is not about producing fables. — David Attenborough
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough