Robert Baratheon Quotes

I sit on the damn iron seat when I must. Does that mean I don't have the same hungers as other men? A bit of wine now and again, a girl squealing in bed, the feel of a horse between my legs? Seven hells, Ned, I want to hit someone. ~ George R R Martin

By then Ser Gregor Clegane was in position at the head of the lists. He was huge, the biggest man that Eddard Stark had ever seen. Robert Baratheon and his brothers were all big men, as was the Hound, and back at Winterfell there was a simpleminded stableboy named Hodor who dwarfed them all, but the knight they called the Mountain That Rides would have towered over Hodor. He was well over seven feet tall, closer to eight, with massive shoulders and arms thick as the trunks of small trees. His destrier seemed a pony in between his armored legs, and the lance he carried looked as small as a broom handl ~ George R R Martin

I am sorry for your girl, Ned. Truly. About the wolf, I mean. My son was lying, I'd stake my soul on it. My son … you love your children, don't you?"

"With all my heart," Ned said.

"Let me tell you a secret, Ned. More than once, I have dreamed of giving up the crown. Take ship for the Free Cities with my horse and my hammer, spend my time warring and whoring, that's what I was made for. The sellsword king, how the singers would love me. You know what stops me? The thought of Joffrey on the throne, with Cersei standing behind him whispering in his ear. My son. How could I have made a son like that, Ned?"

"He's only a boy," Ned said awkwardly. He had small liking for Prince Joffrey, but he could hear the pain in Robert's voice. "Have you forgotten how wild you were at his age?"

"It would not trouble me if the boy was wild, Ned. You don't know him as I do." He sighed and shook his head. "Ah, perhaps you are right. Jon despaired of me often enough, yet I grew into a good king." Robert looked at Ned and scowled at his silence. "You might speak up and agree now, you know."

"Your Grace …" Ned began, carefully.

Robert slapped Ned on the back. "Ah, say that I'm a better king than Aerys and be done with it. You never could lie for love nor honor, Ned Stark. I'm still young, and now that you're here with me, things will be different. We'll make this a reign to sing of, and damn the Lannisters to seven hells. ~ George R.R. Martin

Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm. ~ Robert Breault

I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. ~ Robert Wyatt

Plants don't have a brain because they are not going anywhere. ~ Robert Sylwester

But the biggest clue seemed to be their expressions. They were hard to explain. Good-natured, friendly, easygoing ... and uninvolved. They were like spectators. You had the feeling they had just wandered in there themselves and somebody had handed them a wrench. There was no identification with the job. No saying, "I am a mechanic." At 5 P.M. or whenever their eight hours were in, you knew they would cut it off and not have another thought about their work. They were already trying not to have any thoughts about their work on the job. ~ Robert M. Pirsig

It was as a result of his courage that two white men were on trial for killing a Negro, a trial in which, whatever the result, there is a kind of majesty. And we owe that sight to Mose Wright, who was condemned to bow all his life, and had enough left to raise his head and look the enemy in those terrible eyes when he was sixty-four. ~ Robert A. Caro

I don't do deleted scenes. ~ Robert Schwentke

I,believe, as do so many of my fellow Americans, that the wild horse is an irreplaceable national treasure. It would be a tragic mistake to allow this noble creature to disappear from our western landscape."
– Robert Redford ~ Robert Redford

They're combining that new fertility drug with a birth control pill for people who don't want triplets. ~ Robert Orben

You learn to tell stories by telling stories. ~ Robert Rodriguez

That's the great thing about literature
it makes the world less lonely. ~ Robert Stone

All I did was basically play myself in the role of Napoleon Solo. ~ Robert Vaughn

The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying. ~ Robert Jordan

Look at the world of books nowadays. People just download books. They don't go to a bookstore. Amazon is wiping out Borders and Barnes and Noble. Those are brilliant examples of ephemeralization doing more with less at a better price. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

The fact is ... that when totalitarian nations like China and Saudi Arabia play ball with U.S. business interests, we like them just fine. But when Venezuela's freely elected president threatens powerful corporate interests, the Bush administration treats him as an enemy. ~ Robert Scheer

Do you realize that a middle-class couple, one archaeologist, one dolls' expert, can't move from their house because ancient spirits are blocking them in? It's a reasonable sort of day's experience, isn't it? ~ Robert Holdstock

Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it's probably a bad business in which to invest. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

But the World being once fram'd, and the course of Nature establish'd, the Naturalist, (except in some few cases, where God, or Incorporeal Agents interpose), has recourse to the first Cause but for its general and ordinary Support and Influence, whereby it preserves Matter and Motion from Annihilation or Desition; and in explicating particular phenomena, considers onely the Size, Shape, Motion, (or want of it) Texture, and the resulting Qualities and Attributes of the small particles of Matter. ~ Robert Boyle

We need librarians who can handle this tremendous jumble of information that is in cyberspace. ~ Robert Darnton

Grief, however, creates a strange sensitivity. The world is too intense to tolerate: a veil, a drink, another anesthetic is required to blot out the ache of what remains. One sees too much and feels it, as Robert Lowell puts it, "with one skin-layer missing. ~ Kay Redfield Jamison

When I first met Robert Patrick, I died - he is so scary looking - he is a scary looking man. ~ Katherine LaNasa

Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book. ~ Robert Reed

Manuals have their uses ... but they are not to be confused with living. ~ Robert Fulghum

Most people want everyone else in the world to change but themselves. ~ Robert T. Kiyosaki

The use of tact is always needful but it is especially necessary when speaking a truth that may strike a sensitive nerve in another. ~ Robert E. Fisher

There is no better example of the weakness of our dominant medicine than its clearly ineffective War On Cancer. By the same token, there is no better example of the superiority of complementary, alternative medicine than its management of this dread disease. We are equally concerned about whether mainstream medicine's demand for proof works to maintain it at its current level of ineptitude. ~ Robert Atkins

I always imagine that I want to make art that is going to kill you,whether it's going to do it visually or physically, I'll take either way. ~ Robert Longo

Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs. ~ Robert Wyatt

I can't bring myself to say, 'Well, I guess I'll be toddling along.' It isn't that I can't toddle. It's just that I can't guess I'll toddle. ~ Robert Benchley

The best crop of a garden, year after year, is hope. ~ Robert Rodale

Never pity missionaries; envy them. They are where the real action is
where life and death, sin and grace, Heaven and Hell converge. ~ Robert C. Shannon

Most men think in a straight line,' he said, barely audible over the town's noise and the wind. 'They see only their own actions, like a single thread in the Norns' loom, knotted only when they thrust their life on others. They see through one set of eyes, hear through one set of ears, all their life.' He stared at me. 'To look at things through someone else's eyes is a rare thing, which cannot be learned. To those with the gift, it is not hard, nor complicated. But, to survive and be more than any others, it is essential. You have that gift, I am thinking.' I ~ Robert Low

From my numerous observations, I conclude that these tubercle bacilli occur in all tuberculous disorders, and that they are distinguishable from all other microorganisms. ~ Robert Koch

I wished for Derek Michen to kiss my face off (that one was when I was nine years old and was absolutely positive he was the love of my life. He did kiss me two weeks later, but then he also kissed Jessica, David, Megan, Rhonda, and Robert. Derek turned out to be a bit of a whore). ~ T.J. Klune

And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts. ~ Robert Jay Lifton

It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

The Estate of Zora Neale Hurston would like to thank those people who have worked so hard over the years in introducing new generations of readers to the work of Zora Neale Hurston. We are indebted to Robert Hemenway, Alice Walker, and all the Modern Language Association folks who helped usher in Zora's rediscovery. ~ Zora Neale Hurston

He do that with me, too," Susan said. "It drives me fucking crazy." "Gee," I said, "I was liking it better when we were talking about Hawk's problems." Susan smiled. ~ Robert B. Parker

Perhaps the best single thing to learn is to recognize a value trap when you're in it and work on that before you continue on the machine. ~ Robert M. Pirsig

Becoming a successful professional writer implies that one's own mind is entertaining enough to keep the work interesting. ~ Robert Stump

I like a lot of good European films, good - anything really. I'm a big fan of Netflix and I get films from them all the time. If I hear about something that I don't know, that I haven't seen, forgot about, I immediately jot it down and add it to my Netflix list or if there's a film that's available that I haven't seen for many years, I get that. ~ Robert Barry

The vices and moral weakness of man are not invincible: Man is perfectible, or in other words, susceptible of perpetual improvement. ~ Thomas Robert Malthus

The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy commercial interests got all the licenses with no public input, no congressional input for that matter. ~ Robert McChesney

The person becomes attached to the vehicle and then fails to see all the other investment vehicles and procedures available. ~ Robert T. Kiyosaki

History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events. ~ Robert Harris

First God created time; then God created man that man might, in the course of time, perfect himself; then God decided that He'd better create eternity. ~ Robert Breault

Every real thing is a joy, if only you have eyes and ears to relish it, a nose and tongue to taste it. ~ Robert Farrar Capon