George R. R. Martin Quotes

Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.

We cannot see but a small depth into the heart of man, and can only discover the work of his tongue.

The bottom line in both cases is that people don't change; that no matter how charming you are and how fiercely you love, you cannot turn a person into something she's not.

Eighty percent of our life is emotion, and only 20 percent is intellect. I am much more interested in how you feel than how you think. I can change how you think, but how you feel is something deeper and stronger, and it's something that's inside you.

People will always show their true selves in the end.

You can change the circumstances but you can never change man's inner nature.

Your image isn't your character. Character is what you are as a person.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

You know there is a person inside every baby, right? And anybody who has ever met a baby knows there is already a person in there.

People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.

A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.

A face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there's a great deal that's communicated about who this person is and what their life experiences have been.

I think there's a character one has if you're a chief executive officer. Movies would suggest you're a bad person - if you're wealthy, if you've done well, oh, you must be bad. And frankly, winning the lottery doesn't change who you are; you're the same person inside. And I'm the same person I was as an 18-year-old who fell in love with Ann.

Our deep desires define us, really.

There is more than just words to define a person.

I think that our personalities and our souls have so much - we're so much more than just blood vessels and bone and muscle.

There are parts of us we stylize and present to the world. And there are parts of us that we don't stylize and are just natural. And they don't just hang in a jarring way, hopefully, but there's an interrelationship between them.

We tire differently if we love or love not.

Love is the force that leaves you colorless

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.