Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Pratchett

I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.

Steven Spielberg

I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood.

Mick Jagger

Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.

George R. R. Martin

None of us is ever ready,' he (Ned) said. 'For knighthood?' 'For death.

Roger Scruton

The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.

Libba Bray

In a world like this one, only the random makes sense.

Mary McCarthy

In morals as in politics anarchy is not for the weak.

Oprah Winfrey

It was anarchy inside that building, ... gangs banded together and had more ammunition, at times, than the police.

Adam Rapp

There was a kind of physical anarchy that dominated most of my younger life. I was always too skinny, not hairy enough, my voice jumped around. It was a thing that drove me away from towel lines in gym class.

Mark Helprin

The craftless anarchy of the Beat poets on the one hand, and the extreme control of Henry James on the other, suggest that for most human beings, just as both freedom and discipline are necessary in life, serendipity and design must coexist in a work to make it readable.

James Fisher

Roles of the various university constituent groups are either ill- or undefined, the By-Laws of the Board of Trustees are replete with implied invitations to conflict and micro-management, and the Presidency is effectively compromised. In such circumstances, a kind of anarchy invariably becomes the order of the day.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Woodstock was about the closest thing to anarchy I've ever seen in my whole life, and I didn't like it.

Aldous Huxley

The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.