Famous Quotes & Sayings

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Kings are like stars, - they rise and set, they have - The worship of the world, but no repose

Richard Petty

I'd rather be called King than other things I've been called.

Rodney King

People look at me like I should have been like Malcolm X or Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks. I should have seen life like that and stay out of trouble, and don't do this and don't do that. But it's hard to live up to some people's expectations.

Robin Hobb

King Shrewd is expecting me, rather he isn't expecting me, and that is precisely why I must go to him now.

Warren Ellis

Stephen King says that if you forget an idea, then it can't have been any good. He means he, not you. You are not Stephen King. Do not attempt to emulate Stephen King at home.

Ursula K. Le Guin

One man may as easily destroy, as govern: be King or Anti-King.

Vladimir Putin

Russia will always remember the contribution [of King Fahd] in the development of Russian-Saudi relations, which in recent years were raised to a qualitatively higher level.

William Gurnall

For a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage.

William Beebe

To be a Naturalist is better than to be a King.

Raymond Chandler

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.

Henry Ford

Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Since I am used to speaking in public, I know that it is useless.

Mo Rocca

I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things.

Milton Friedman

In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work.

Albert Camus

One grows out of pity when it's useless.

Sonia Rykiel

It's useless to send models out on the runway to cry.

Sophia Bush

The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.

Sylvia Pankhurst

. . . the fact that [English] has shed most of the old grammatical forms which time has rendered useless and scarcely intelligible, has made English a model, pointing the way which must be followed in building the Interlanguage. . .

Rowan Atkinson

But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.

Zig Ziglar

Take time to be quiet.

Julia Quinn

Just be quiet and accept the praise.

Marquis de Sade

Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?

Joyce Carol Oates

The quiet people just do their work.

Tom Hobbins

They did what they had to do. It was a quiet ride home.

Bryan Ferry

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.

Jane Austen

I was quiet but I was not blind.

Tommy Bond

We didn't talk about it. It was real quiet in the dugout.