Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rich Little

Not too many people are - were as good as Bob Hope. George Burns was great at thinking, you know, on the spot. Steve Allen was marvelous, and so was George Burns. But Bob may be the king of them all, you know.

Rebecca Wells

I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.

Robert Duvall

The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife.

Robert De Niro

Better to be king for a night than a schmuck for a lifetime.

Roald Dahl

I like enthusiasts of any kind.

Roald Dahl

I therefore invite you all," Mr Fox went on, 'to stay here with me for ever.' For ever!' they cried. 'My goodness! How marvellous!' And Rabbit said to Mrs Rabbit, 'My dear, just think! We're never going to be shot again in our lives!' We will make,' said Mr Fox, 'a little underground village, with streets and houses on each side - seperate houses for Badgers and Moles and Rabbits and Weasels and Foxes. And every day I will go shopping for you all. And every day we will eat like kings.' The cheering that followed this speech went on for many minutes.

Roald Dahl

Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.

Roald Dahl

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.

Richard Preston

It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty.

Richard Rohr

When I am not king, then THE Kingdom has its best chance of breaking through.

Richard Rohr

I think your heart needs to be broken, and broken open, at least once to have a heart at all or to have a heart for others.

Tullian Tchividjian

Grace doesn't lead us into destructive behavior. Sin does. And grace is the only remedy for sin. The kindness of God leads to repentance.

Sometimes, looking up at Sophiatown... I have felt I was looking at an Italian village somewhere in Umbria. For you do ‘look up’ at Sophiatown, and in the evening light, across the blue-grey haze of smoke from braziers and chimneys, against a saffron sky, you see close-packed, red-roofed little houses. ...And above it all you see the Church of Christ the King, its tower visible north, south, east, and west....

Saul Bellow

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.

Sarah Fielding

I was condemned to be beheaded, or burnt, as the king pleased; and he was graciously pleased, from the great remains of his love, to choose the mildest sentence.

Sarah Dessen

It is kind of hard to hold a lot in. But for me… it’s sometimes even harder to let it out.

Sarah Dessen

It was great. Freedom even the imagined kind always is.

Sarah Dessen

You're not the kind of person who smiles for nothing, Colie. I have to earn every one.

Sarah Dessen

Whenever something great happens, you’re always kind of poised for the universe to correct itself.

Sarah Dessen

The kind who live for music and are constantly seeking it out, anywhere they can. Who can't imagine a life without it. They're enlightened.

Sandra Cisneros

I grew up with this kind of grocery store that caters to the poor. They serve you the worst food

Roger Ebert

I'm kind of glad the web is sort of totally anarchic. That's fine with me.

Roger Ebert

Kindness’ covers all of my political beliefs.

Rod Steiger

That's all religion is -- some principle you believe in . . . man has accomplished far more miracles than the God he invented. What a tragedy it is to invent a God and then suffer to keep him King.

Rod Stewart

Elvis was the king. No doubt about it.

Rod Stewart

Elvis was the king. No doubt about it. People like myself, Mick Jagger and all the others only followed in his footsteps.

Robin McKinley

He looked at her rather as a man looks at a problem that he would very much prefer to do without. She supposed it was a distinction of a sort to be a harassment to a king.

Robin McKinley

And none at all has ridden at the king's side since Aerinha, goddess of honor and flame, first taught men to forge their blades. You'd think Aerinha would have had better sense.

Robin McKinley

We kings do develop a certain ability to recognize objects under our noses.

Roberta Williams

King's Quest IV was a much bigger hit than I, II, or III. I do feel that King's Quest IV was a pivotal game in bringing in more female players.

Robert Rankin

Jack, get a grip of yourself.' I have a grip of myself.' Jack took a grip of himself. It was a most intimate grip; not the kind of grip that you usually take of yourself in public.

Robert Quillen

It's a great kindness to trust people with a secret. They feel so important while telling it.

Robert Pinsky

Poetic language is singularly appropriate for recounting the life of the king who is traditionally accepted as the author of the poetic psalms, some of which are included in the narrative.