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.

Vittorio Alfieri

A conquering king will banish from his breast hatred towards one whom he no longer fears.

Vittorio Alfieri

Thou knowest not the endless artifices of a court. Invented crimes are often there alleged; but real ones, and those especially, which may offend his pride, are oftentimes not to a king divulged.

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.

William Blackstone

That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.

Vincent Price

Man has ruled this world as a stumbling demented child king, long enough. And as his empire crumbles, my precious black widow shall rise as his most fitting successor.

Sandra Bullock

I've pretty much kicked over every stone. And there's nothing in me that says, "I must create this particular thing."

Walter Winchell

He (Alexander Woollcott) always praises the first production of each season, being reluctant to stone the first cast.

Louis MacNeice

Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me.

Muddy Waters

I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone.

Lenny Bruce

If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone.

Lenny Bruce

The thing with Catholicism, the same as all religions, is that it teaches what should be, which seems rather incorrect. This is what should be. Now, if you're taught to live up to a what should be that never existed - only an occult superstition, no proof of this should be - then you can sit on a jury and indict easily, you can cast the first stone, you can burn Adolf Eichmann, like that!

Ouida

Histories in blazonry and poems in stone.

George Ade

A rolling stone gathers no moss and therefore will not be derided as a moss-back. Roll as much as possible.

Maggie Stiefvater

We are shoulder to shoulder due to the size of the cab, and if Gratton is made of flour and potatoes, Sean is made of stone and driftwood and possibly those prickly anemones that sometimes wash up on shore.