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Names Quotes by George R. R. Martin
- I had these cheap alien toys and I made up stories for them. They were space pirates. They didn’t have names so I made up…
- Names are hard. I have a library of What to Name Your Baby books, and I’m always picking up new books, and books of baby…
- A lot of fantasy names are too much. They’re too difficult to pronounce. I wanted the flavour of medieval England. I took actual names we…
- I do know what’s been useless to me is the online fantasy name generators. I’ve tried those a few times, and they say, ‘Just hit…
- There’s an old writing rule that says ‘Don’t have two character names start with the same letter’, but I knew at the beginning that I…
- Another name? Oh, certainly. And when the Faceless Men come to kill me, I'll say, 'No, you have the wrong man, I'm a different dwarf…
- There is only one god and his name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death: “Not today.
- Don’t call me Lord Snow.” The dwarf lifted an eyebrow. “Would you rather be called the Imp? Let them see that their words can cut…
- Bear Island knows no king but the King in the North, whose name is STARK.
- Give a thing a name and it will somehow come to be.
- And the mystery knight should defeat all challengers and name the wolf maid the queen of love and beauty.
- If you die before you say her name, ser, I will hunt you through all seven hells." --Prince Oberyn of Dorne.
- I have climbed these steps so often I know each one by name.
- Speak the name, and death will come. On the morrow, at the turn of the moon, a year from this day, it will come. A…
- In a room sit three great men, a king, a priest, and a rich man with his gold. Between them stands a sellsword, a little…
- The Red God takes what is his, lovely girl. And only death may pay for life. You saved me and the two I was with.…
- Free folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic," the King-Beyond-the-Wall had told him. "They won't dance for coins, they don't…
- Once a man has seen a dragon in flight, let him stay home and tend his garden in content, someone had written once, for this…
- She had killed him with a whisper, and she would kill two more before she was through. I’m the ghost in Harrenhal, she thought. And…
- He raised his eyes. "Sister. See. This time I knew you." Asha's heart skipped a beat. "Theon?" His lips skinned back in what might have…
- Go Ahead, call me all the names you want," Sansa said airily. "You won't dare when I'm married to Joffrey. You'll have to bow and…
More Names Quotes
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These big-package releases. There should be a cute name for them. — Julian Assange
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi
- The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. — Margaret Atwood
- '1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names. — Margaret Atwood
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the… — Paul Auster
- Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because… — Teresa of Avila
- Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on… — Jensen Ackles
- If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects… — Gaston Bachelard
- For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. — Francis Bacon
- It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name or the… — Nicholson Baker