Qarth Quotes & Sayings

Every game we play activates our brain, and it's the same brain we have in real life as we have in the game. — Jane McGonigal

God cheats men into living on by hiding how blessed it is to die. — Marcus Annaeus Lucanus

You can get anywhere in Pakistan if you know people, even into jail. — Salman Rushdie

Who would attack Astapor?" Ser Jorah asked. "Meereen and Yunkai are rivals but not enemies, the Doom destroyed Valyria, the folk of the eastern hinterlands are all Ghiscari, and beyond the hills lies Lhazar. The Lamb Men, as your Dothraki call them, a notably unwarlike people." "Yes," she agreed, "but north of the slave cities is the Dothraki sea, and two dozen mighty khals who like nothing more than sacking cities and carrying off their people into slavery." "Carrying them off where? What good are slaves once you've killed the slavers? Valyria is no more, Qarth lies beyond the red waste, and the Nine Free Cities are thousands of leagues to the west. And you may be sure the sons of the harpy give lavishly — George R R Martin

I will tell you something about stories ... They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death. — Leslie Marmon Silko

I was inspired to become a writer by horror movies and science fiction. — Colson Whitehead

Ideology is the science of idiots. — John Adams

I've gradually risen from lower-class background to lower-class foreground. — Marvin L. Cohen

I am sunlight slicing the dark. — Rumi

When I was a waiter, I wanted to be the best waiter I could be and worked to be better at it every day. — Robert Herjavec

With 'Inside Out,' no matter how good the photo or how big the pasting, people will like it or they won't. But what you see through any of these actions is that there's going to be discussion and it's going to bring people together. — JR