Baratheon Castle Quotes & Sayings

Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses. — Erica Jong

I've given up on life. Or life's given up on me. Either way I'm done." And then his voice hitches and quiets. "Finish me. — Kim Holden

I just want $1 million next season, that's all I want — Andy Milonakis

The Castle can be rebuilt, in time. It's not the walls that make a lord, it's the man. - Stannis Baratheon — George R R Martin

I learned all about life with a ball at my feet — Ronaldinho

It saddened Cressen to remember that letter. No one had ever taught Stannis how to laugh, least of all the boy Patchface. The storm came up suddenly, howling, and Shipbreaker Bay proved the truth of its name. The lord's two-masted galley Windproud broke up within sight of his castle. From its parapets his two eldest sons had watched as their father's ship was smashed against the rocks and swallowed by the waters. A hundred oarsmen and sailors went down with Lord Steffon Baratheon and his lady wife, and for days thereafter every tide left a fresh crop of swollen corpses on the strand below Storm's End. — George R R Martin

Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful. It is the science of the beautiful through which men seek the correlation of the arts. It is, to speak more exactly, the search after the secret of life. — Oscar Wilde

I used to only write poetry; now I live it. I finally matured enough to starve my hypocrisy to death. — Steve Maraboli

The more I want a book to be done, the faster I type because I just want to get it out. — John Scalzi

Remember that it is not the lawyer who knows the most law, but the one who best prepares his case, who wins. — Napoleon Hill

Contemporary' was in those days [1953] synonymous with 'modern' as it had not been before and is not now [1977]. — A.S. Byatt

I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one. — Rachel Weisz

Tom isn't one of the men whose legs trailed by a hank of sinews, or whose guts cascaded from their casing like slithering eels. Nor were his lungs turned to glue or his brains to stodge by the gas. But he's scarred all the same having to live in the same skin as the man who did the things that needed to be done back then. He carries that other shadow, which is cast inward. — M.L. Stedman

Julian of Norwich's message is as relevant now as it was in the Middle Ages: God loves us completely, exactly as we are. "Then he — Mirabai Starr

But like all things, the business has two sides. Clean white teeth are not always wise, now are they? Par exemplum: when I was in the Congo, the only way I could identify the nigger was by the whiteness of his teeth, if you see what I mean. Horrid business. Dark as buggery, it was. And they died because of it, you see? Poor bastards. Or rather I survived, to look at it in another way, do you see? — Zadie Smith

There is in fact no good reason al-Ghazali and his ilk should have the last word in defining Islam. Muslims around the world cannot go on claiming that "true" Islam has somehow been "hijacked" by a group of extremists. Instead they must acknowledge that inducements to violence lie at the root of their own most sacred texts, and take responsibility for actively redefining their faith. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines. — Anthony Doerr