Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Pratchett

- I notice you didn't laugh, Mr. Black! - No, Your Majesty. We are forbidden to laugh at the things kings say, sire, because otherwise we would be at it all day.

Terry Pratchett

Ridcully was to management what King Herod was to the Bethlehem Playgroup Association.

Leonard Cohen

Now I've heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this the fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Laurell K. Hamilton

Rafael, the Rat King, stared at the carnage with black-button eyes. "She is dead." "Ding dong, the witch is dead,

L. Lionel Kendrick

The temple is a place of worship. Reverence is a supernal form of worship. It is the form of worship found in the celestial kingdom.

John Keats

X. I saw pale kings and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried—“La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall!” XI. I saw their starved lips in the gloam, With horrid warning gaped wide, And I awoke and found me here, On the cold hill’s side. XII. And this is why I sojourn here, Alone and palely loitering, Though the sedge is wither’d from the lake, And no birds sing.

John Keats

I saw pale kings and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried- "La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall!

John Kenneth Galbraith

Who is king in the world of the blind when there isn't even a one eyed man?

Lil Wayne

Sometimes I wanna drop a tear but no emotion from a king.

Leo Tolstoy

Kings are the slaves of history.

Peter Kropotkin

You reason like the king, who, being sent across the frontier, called out, 'What will become of my poor subjects without me?'

Peter Farrelly

They're happy to be Siamese twins. They feel blessed. But the rest of us have to go through the world alone. And they don't. And because they have this great attitude, they have a lot of friends. They were the kings of the prom. You know, they were in the state championship hockey team. You know, they're the goalie. And it's just they're a couple of winners who happen to be Siamese twins.

Paulo Coelho

Leave your comfortable life and go in search of your kingdom.

Peter S. Beagle

I am no king, and I am no lord, And I am no soldier at-arms," said he. "I'm none but a harper, and a very poor harper, That am come hither to wed with ye." "If you were a lord, you should be my lord, And the same if you were a thief," said she. "And if you are a harper, you shall be my harper, For it makes no matter to me, to me, For it makes no matter to me." "But what if it prove that I am no harper? That I lied for your love most monstrously?" "Why, then I'll teach you to play and sing, For I dearly love a good harp," said she.

Peter O'Toole

Do you not know that King Kong the first was just three foot six inches tall? He only came up to Faye Wray's belly button! If God could do the tricks that we can do he'd be a happy man!

Peter Jackson

What I love about films is that you can see "King Kong" and you can be affected by it and then you realize that he was just this little guy when he made that fall.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

To the King, one must give his possessions and his life; but honour is a possession of soul, and the soul is only God's.

Kevin J. Anderson

If you look at the British royal family and take away the scandals and the goofy stuff that's going on, people love to have this king to look up to - the royals are like celebrities.

Kendrick Lamar

I'm Machiavelli's offspring, I'm the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both.

Rain

I can eat everything; chocolate, hamburgers, pizza, go to McDonalds, Burger King, KFC. It's all in my body.

Liam Neeson

I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.

Joseph Campbell

The mighty hero of extraordinary powers, able to lift Mount Govardhan on a finger, and to fill himself with the terrible glory of the universe, is each of us: not the physical self visible in the mirror, but the King within.

Joy Behar

I interviewed Ann Coulter when I was sitting in for Larry King a couple of times, and we have a rapport. I like to talk to her.

Juicy J

They call me the trippy king.

Kage Baker

England was a cold, backward, rebellious little kingdom. It's king: Henry the Eighth, remembered principally for his six wives and the chicken legs clutched in his fat fists.

Otto von Bismarck

Revolutions in Prussia are started by kings, and since it is a revolution, it is better to start it ourselves than to suffer of it

Paramahansa Yogananda

In the earlier days of history, kings and leaders went to the battlefield with their men; but today, those who determine that a nation will go to war remain safely behind. The next time leaders talk of warring, all the people should get together and send those leaders to the front lines. Give them a big arena with wonderfully effective ammunition, and the war will be finished in a day

George MacDonald

The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love.

Lloyd Alexander

And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.

John Flanagan

I'm not really interested in being king. I prefer to work for a living

Joe Rogan

People say you can abuse marijuana. You can abuse cheeseburgers. Does that mean we should close Burger Kings.

John G. Schmitz

Martin Luther King is a notorious liar[]

Maggie Stiefvater

He danced on the knife’s edge between awareness and sleep. When he dreamt like this, he was a king. The world was his to bend. His to burn.