Quotes About Tourney

#1. retinue to the city for the tourney on Prince Joffrey's

George R R Martin

#2. Robert got a pair of twins on a serving wench at Casterly Rock, three years ago when he went west for Lord Tywin's tourney. Cersei had the babes killed, and sold the mother to a passing slaver.

George R R Martin

#3. Above him loomed a grotesque fat man [ ... ] His bedrobe was large enough to serve as a tourney pavilion, but its loosely knotted belt had come undone, exposing a huge white belly and a pair of heavy breasts that sagged like sacks of suet covered with coarse yellow hair.

George R R Martin

#4. And the mystery knight should win the tourney, defeating every challenger, and name the wolf maid the queen of love and beauty." "She was," said Meera, "but that's a sadder story.

George R R Martin

#5. Why, could the good man not impose his will, control his wife? asked Mrs. Carew, who always made much of masculine authority in her talk with friends but ruled the roost at home.

Leonard Tourney

#6. I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups.

Emma Thompson

#7. This was the moment he most loved about tourneying, that first glorious sortie with banners streaming, trumpets blaring, and the earth atremble with pounding hooves as hundreds of knights came together in a spectacular clash of sound and fury.

Sharon Kay Penman

#8. The post office in the city of Christmas, Florida, where thousands descend each year to get their holiday cards postmarked. It's the best tradition we got, so fuck it, I'm rodeo-riding this cultural mutation.

Tim Dorsey

#9. Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Martin Luther

#10. The way to achieve your goals is step by step, you just need to build enough track, to be ahead of the train." ~ John Milton Lawrence

John Milton Lawrence

#11. Authenticy in marketing is telling a story people want to hear.

Seth Godin

#12. Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.

Vita Sackville-West

#13. You can't ever put your self-definition in the hands of somebody who meets you for 15 minutes.

Helena Bonham Carter

#14. If we lacked imagination enough to foresee something better, life would indeed be a tragedy.

Laurence J. Peter

#15. What is that thing? It looks like a model of the human digestive tract made from broken beer bottles and sadness.

Robert Kroese

#16. Ambition characterizes and distinguishes national officeholders from other kinds of human beings.

Tom Cotton

#17. If the universe sprung into existence and then expanded exponentially, you get gravitational waves traveling through space-time. These would fill the universe, a pattern of echoes of the inflation itself.

Neil Turok

#18. In his comic scenes, Shakespeare seems to produce, without labor, what no labor can improve.

Samuel Johnson

#19. They could read it on each other, their faces wrinkled pages. Words hiding in the folds of their clothes. She was made of letters then, as all of us are now.

Brian Francis Slattery

#20. A thunderous boo is one thousand times stronger, nobler, and more powerful than a standing ovation. Admiration corrupts.

Nelson Rodrigues

#21. I would have said yes to abortion if only it was right. I mean, yeah it's right. Well no it's not right that's why I said no to it.

George W. Bush