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.

Plato

The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

Jane Fonda

I was a chameleon, the woman men wanted me to be.

Raquel Cassidy

I went to see 'Men In Black 2.' It was just a commodity, just money being shifted.

William Wilberforce

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.

William Wilberforce

Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.

Abbott L. Lowell

There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.

Abbott L. Lowell

All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.

Antoni Gaudi

The straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God

Lord Shaftesbury

Temper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man.

Richard Paul Evans

We are all in motion. Always. Those who are not climbing toward something are descending toward nothing.

Reinhold Messner

My market value increases with every outside critisism. Therefore, the frequently raised contention that I am the most highly critisized mountaineer does not disturb me in the slightest.

Reinhold Messner

Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.

Warren G. Harding

Actually, we're just glorified flagpole sitters.

Warren G. Harding

As I hammered in the last bolt and staggered over the rim, it was not at all clear to me who was the conqueror and who was the conquered. I do recall that El Cap seemed to be in much better condition than I was.

Warren G. Harding

I do recall that El Cap seemed to be in much better condition than I was,

Warren G. Harding

Screwing is more enjoyable than drilling bolt holes !.

Warren G. Harding

I couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity.

Yvon Chouinard

Remember: if you take bivouac equipment along, you will bivouac...