Jon Snow Quotations

Should I shoot him? He was a tyrant. He'd killed thousands.

Bush is perhaps a brighter man that we imply, but on the other hand he's probably just as narrow a man as we report him to be.

It happens all the time. People feel threatened by my height.

I don't think there is a tremendous future for large numbers of news channels in Britain. It's moving so fast to the web, and their numbers - all the news channels - are so pitifully small. Increasingly, if there's a major news development you are going to the web first to find out what's happening there and then.

I don't know whether we think in moving images or whether we think in still images. I have a suspicion that on our hard drive, our series within our brains, [exist] still photographs of very important moments in our lives. ... That we think in terms of still images and that what the photography is doing is making direct contact with the human hard drive and recording for all time a sense of what happened.

My whole day is built around meetings that can be achieved around bike rides. My contract actually offers me a free car from my home to my office and back, but I suppose I am addicted to cycling.

I'm as embarrassed as hell about it. I purged myself of my shame by buying the Beatles 'all you need is love', one of the most evocative singles of all time.

The only way to do my job without optimism would be as a cynic, and that's not my nature.

Presentationally, Bill Clinton is a US President to die for. The truth is, far too many have.

The more you give a king, the more he wants. We are walking on a bridge of ice with an abyss on either side. Pleasing one king is difficult enough. Pleasing two is hardly possible.

I want to fight for the side that fights for the living. Did I come to the right place?

At Halloween a lot of young people were wearing Bush masks mocked up as an incarnation of the Devil.

Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle. Who knows?

Winter is coming, we know what's coming with it. We can learn to live with the wildlings, or we can add them to the army of the dead.

But if that's not enough, then consider this: if the Night's Watch are truly brothers, then Lord Commander Mormont was our father. He lived and died for the Watch and he was betrayed by his own men, stabbed in the back by cowards. He deserved far better.