Famous Quotes & Sayings

Demetri Martin

Checkers taught me that a King is a man with another man on top of him. But life taught me that that's actually called a Queen.

Bob Dylan

Warlords of sorrow and queens of tomorrow will offer their heads for a prayer. You can't find no salvation, you have no expectations anytime, anyplace, anywhere.

Brian May

For a time I didn't want to answer any questions about Queen. I'd like to be viewed as something alive and relevant, not some fossil.

Clive James

In between the Queen and the First Lady, Nancy Reagan, sat Tony Richardson, looking very calm. Later on it emerged that this was because, having not been apprised of the placement until he was about to sit down, he had died of fright. To have expired was to be fortunate.

Ann Coulter

How can rogue terrorists in Iraq detonate bombs? They're all too busy flying kites with their children! Hasn't [Katrina vanden Heuvel (Queen of the May at the fun-loving Nation magazine)] seen Fahrenheit 9/11?

Amy Winehouse

You've got a degree in philosophy; so you think you're cleverer than me. But I'm not just some drama queen. Cause it's where you're at, not where you've been.

Alphonsus Liguori

The servants of Mary are as sure of getting to Paradise as though they were already there. Who are they who are saved and who reign in Heaven? Surely those for whom the Queen of Mercy intercedes ... The clients of Mary will necessarily be saved.

Rick Owens

I am a middle-aged opera queen in loafers that makes out I am a 16 year old death metal skater... It's all fake! My hair is fake, my body is fake and my teeth are kind of fake

Thomas Hood

How widely its agencies vary,- To save, to ruin, to curse, to bless,- As even its minted coins express, Now stamp'd with the image of Good Queen Bess, And now of a Bloody Mary.

Bashar al-Assad

Terrorism is a state of mind that on the one hand has to do with ignorance and, on the other hand, can be attributed to a feeling of desperation over the political situation, which at some point takes the form of revenge.

Brenden Morrow

It's not so much revenge, but I think you want to hold on to a little of that just for extra motivation.

Edgar Allan Poe

A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

The best revenge is to improve yourself.

Amy Adams

I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me - ever.

Robert Hamer

And as the Italian proverb says, 'Revenge is the dish which people of taste prefer to eat cold.'

Sophie Kinsella

Everyone knows revenge is a dish best served when you've had enough time to build up enough vitriol and fury.

Uwe Boll

In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.

Steven Pinker

Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.

Bible Bible

The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour.

Jim Houdek

To see the sea of all of the purple shirts coming, you just stand there in awe.

Angus Young

You should hear me on my own. It's horrendous.I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, Geez, this is ridiculous.

Alfred Noyes

Oh, grown-ups cannot understand, And grown-ups never will, How short the way to fairyland Across the purple hill.

Kobe Bryant

I like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up.