Quotes by Television Producers - Page 2

Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. […] If we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, to take a positive delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this planet, then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity that is almost certainly out there.
Gene Roddenberry
I want to know how the hell you managed to locate that hideout using the damn public library.
Richard Castle
It's not," Mormont told him. "Gods save us, boy, you're not blind and you're not stupid. When dead men come hunting in the night, do you think it matters who sits the Iron Throne?
George R.R. Martin
Winter is coming, warned the Stark words, and truly it had come to them with a vengeance. But it is high summer for House Lannister. So why am I so bloody cold?
George R.R. Martin
Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up, and after a while you don't have the strength to fight it.
George R.R. Martin
Winter is coming.
George R.R. Martin
Nothing burns like the cold.
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
An aching vacuum inside her sucking the air from her lungs. She hung her head and wept fiercely, the emptiness inside her growing larger not smaller; she felt as though it would grow so large it would suffocate her just as surely as the sea would have
Alan Brennert
She loved the sea. She liked the sharp salty smell of the air, and the vastness of the horizons bounded only by a vault of azure sky above. It made her feel small, but free as well.
George R.R. Martin
Under the sea the old fish eat the young fish.
George R.R. Martin
A small spoon of victory is just the thing to settle the stomach before battle, " Ser Imry had declared happily.
George R.R. Martin
Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish: The realm. Do you know what the realm is? It's the thousand blades of Aegon's enemies, a story we agree to tell each other over and over, until we forget that it's a lie.Lord Varys: But what do we have left, once we abandon the lie? Chaos? A gaping pit waiting to swallow us all.Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish: Chaos isn't a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. And some, are given a chance to climb. They refuse, they cling to the realm or the gods or love. Illusions. Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is.
George R.R. Martin
What man wants does not matter.
George R.R. Martin
Anyone who has ever watched children amuse themselves will recognize that the scientific and technological face of civilization is precisely the result of play in its purest form. Just as children are constantly exploring, experimenting, testing and trying things out, for no conscious purpose except the sheer enjoyment of the game itself, so pure science and applied technology play with ideas and toy with the principles and substance of the world; all the time wondering ‘just suppose…’ and asking ‘what happens if…?
Paul Kriwaczek
It is hard to look a hero when mounted on a pig.
George R.R. Martin
She liked the sharp salty smell of the air, and the vastness of horizons bounded only by a vault of azure sky above.
George R.R. Martin
...his voice was like the cracking of ice on a winter lake, and the words were mocking
George R.R. Martin
I am alive, and drunk on sunlight.
George R.R. Martin
For the right woman? I'd like to think I'd do just about anything.
Richard Castle
There is sitting and there is sitting. (...) Each one waits for the other to move, but the lion is poised, his tail twitching, while the fawn is frozen by fear, bowels turned to belly. No matter which way he bounds, the lion will have him, and he knows it.
George R.R. Martin
One man on the wall is worth ten beneath it.
George R.R. Martin
Not that I'm complaining. It was better than my old dream, where Harma Dogshead was feeding me to her pigs.""Harma's dead." Jon said."But not the pigs. They look at me the way Slayer used to look at ham. Not to say that the wildlings mean us harm. Aye, we hacked their gods apart and made them burn the pieces, but we gave them onion soup. What's a god compared to a nice bowl of onion soup? I could do with mine myself.
George R.R. Martin
Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?
George R.R. Martin
What sort of gods make rats and plagues and dwarfs?
George R.R. Martin
Arya did not dare [take a bath], even though she smelled as bad as Yoren by now, all sour and stinky. Some of the creatures living in her clothes had come all the way from Flea Bottom with her; it didn’t seem right to drown them.
George R.R. Martin
Jaime gave her [Brienne] a hard smile. "See, wench? We know each other too well.
George R.R. Martin
My lord father used to say a man should never draw his sword unless he means to use it.
George R.R. Martin
May the Father judge him justly.
George R.R. Martin
Newsflash she already has body image issues. It's an intrinsic part of being a woman. Every woman in the world has some part of herself that she absolutely hates. Her hands are too small, her feet are too big, her hair is too straight, too curly, her ears stick out, her bums too flat, her nose is too big and, you know, nothing you can say will change how we feel. What men don't understand is, the right clothes, the right shoes, the right makeup it just... It, it hides the flaws we think we have. They make us look beautiful to ourselves. That's what makes us look beautiful to others.Used to be all she needed to feel beautiful was a pink tutu and a plastic tiara.And we spend our whole lives trying to feel that way again.
Richard Castle
My first rule of war, Cat-never give the enemy his wish
George R.R. Martin
The moon was a crescent, thin and sharp as the blade of a knife.
George R.R. Martin
Never drink with Dornishmen when the moon is full.
George R.R. Martin
Is that gallantry I smell, or just stupidity? The two scents are much alike, as I recall.
George R.R. Martin
When your womb quickens again, and you bear a living child, then he will return, and not before.
George R.R. Martin
In the deep sands a man must hoard his water.
George R.R. Martin
…I am certain of this one truth: men can achieve closeness without intimacy, while women can achieve intimacy without closeness.For example, Bobbie knows every intimate detail of her dental hygienist’s private life. She doesn’t have a close relationship with her, but she knows more about the woman who cleans her teeth twice a year than I do about most of the guys I play basketball with every week. And still I feel a closeness with every one of them. Maybe it’s because I don’t know too much.
Alan Eisenstock
The silence lingers and we soak it up like a good steam. Men like silence. We believe in it. We crave it. To us, silence is equal to peace and synonymous with quiet. Thus the common gender-specific phrase uttered by men in homes throughout the world, usually in the evening and on weekends: “Can I please get some peace and quiet, please?
Alan Eisenstock
...And Brick and I say in unison, “As long as I’m here.”This is a guy thing.You never want to acknowledge that you and another guy had exactly the same thought in exactly the same words and that you spoke them aloud . . .at exactly the same time. If you’re out on a date and this happens, this is a good thing. It’s evidence that you and your date think alike, you’re in sync, possibly even soul mates, and with some luck, you might get laid. When this occurs with two guys, it’s simply freaky and should go by as if it never happened.
Alan Eisenstock
He has a sellsword's conscience, she realized then. That is to say none at all.
George R.R. Martin
I have never forgotten, and I can't imagine you have, and I've thought of it over the years. It was so good, when it was good, I kept thinking. How could it go wrong?
George R.R. Martin
I actually do have a motto,” said Heat. “It’s ‘Never forget who you work for.'" And as she voiced the words, Nikki felt a creeping unease. It wasn’t exactly shame, but it was close. For the first time it sounded hollow. Fake. Why? She examined herself, trying to see what was different. The stress, that was new. And when she looked at that, she recognized that the hardest part of her day lately was working to avoid confrontation with Captain Montrose. That’s when it came to her. In that moment, sitting nearly naked in Rook’s living room, playing some silly nineteenth-century parlor game, she came to an unexpected insight. In that moment Nikki woke up and saw with great clarity who she had become - and who she had stopped being. Without noticing it, Heat had begun seeing herself as working for her captain and had lost sight of her guiding principle, that she worked for the victim.
Richard Castle
It’s you and me that matters to me and you.
George R.R. Martin
The literature has only these words of comfort for a patient and her family at this stage. Remember, there is still a living spirit inside this diminished person, the spirit of someone you love.
Dan Gasby
As Daenerys Targaryen rose to her feet, her black hissed, pale smoke venting from its mouth and nostrils. The other two pulled away from her breasts and added their voices to the call, translucent wings unfolding and stirring the air, and for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons.
George R.R. Martin
Slowly the shapes around her took on form. Huge empty eyes stared at her hungrily through the gloom, and dimly she saw the jagged shadows of long teeth. She had lost the count. She closed her eyes and bit her lip and sent the fear away. When she looked again, the monsters would be gone. Would never have been. She pretended that Syrio was beside her in the dark, whispering in her ear. Calm as still water, she told herself. Strong as a bear. Fierce as a wolverine. She opened her eyes again. The monsters were still there, but the fear was gone.
George R.R. Martin
The dog barked and wagged his tail. He was a huge, shaggy creature, ten stone of dog at least, but friendly. 'Who does he belong to?' asked Podrick. 'Why, to himself, and to the Seven. As to his name, he has not told me what it is. I call him Dog.
George R.R. Martin
The enemy of my enemy is my friend, men said, but the enemy of my friend is my enemy.
George R.R. Martin
These are the winter's people, he reminded himself. Tears froze upon your cheeks where they come from.
George R.R. Martin
I never understood what Jaime saw in you, apart from his own reflection.
George R.R. Martin
The sword was not the kingdom, he says.
George R.R. Martin
Three good men dead, to save a hedge knight's foot.
George R.R. Martin
We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.
George R.R. Martin
You sounded like Dolly parton on helium."(After kristy lee cook of season 7 on american idol,sang her country rendition of the Beatles'"Eight Days A Week.)
Simon Cowell
It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns"(After Brooke White of season 7 on american idol sang the song 'Hero'by Mariah Carey)
Simon Cowell
Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.
George R.R. Martin
Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.
George R.R. Martin
Without honor, a knight is no more than a common killer. It is better to die with honor than to live without it.
George R.R. Martin
Even a hedge knight has his honor.
George R.R. Martin
Would you rather die with honor intact or live with it besmirched?
George R.R. Martin