Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Gray

Ruin seize thee, ruthless king! Confusion on thy banners wait! Though fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state.

Thomas Hardy

Many...have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.

Thomas Hardy

Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.

Thomas B. Macaulay

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

Thomas Hobbes

There be as many persons of a king, as there be petty constables in his kingdom. And so there are, or else he cannot be obeyed. But I never said that a king, and every one of his persons, are the same substance.

Thomas Hobbes

It is manifest therefore that they who have sovereign power, are immediate rulers of the church under Christ, and all others but subordinate to them. If that were not, but kings should command one thing upon pain of death, and priests another upon pain of damnation, it would be impossible that peace and religion should stand together.

Tim Burton

And I Jack, the Pumpkin King, have grown so tired of the same old thing...

Thomas Jefferson

It's only merit was in being the first publication which carried the claim of our rights their whole length, and asserted that there was no rightful link of connection between us and England but that of being under the same king.

Thomas Frank

Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we also had an entire genre of journalism dedicated to brushing the problem off.

Thomas Friedman

If we don't have a more serious energy policy, the difference between a good day and bad day for America from here on will hinge on how the 86-year-old king of Saudi Arabia manages...change.

Thomas Cahill

The phrase the violent bear it away fascinated the 20th century Irish-American storyteller Flannery O'Connor, who used it as the title of one of her novels. O'Connor's surname connects her to an Irish royal family descended from Conchobor (pronounced Connor), the prehistoric king of Ulster who was foster father to Cuchulainn and husband of the unwilling Derdriu. In the western world, the antiquity of Irish lineages is exceeded only by that of the Jews.

Victor Ortiz

I want to be one of the greats. I want to be the pound for pound king and I know what it takes to get there.

Victor Hugo

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

Victor Hugo

It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.

Victor Hugo

Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.

Victor Hugo

For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.

Vernon Howard

Who asks a king for a penny?

Robert Fripp

Now, if King Crimson accepts responsibility for innovating its own tradition, you can't accept responsibility for the audience. And there is an enormous tangible weight of expectation, which comes from an audience attending a King Crimson concert.

Robert Fripp

Michael Giles the first drummer of King Crimson, never agreed to the name King Crimson. But then, if you'd knew Michael, you would know he didn't agree to the album cover either. So maybe Michael didn't agree to the point of definition with many things.

Robert Fripp

That certain feeling happened to me in a big way quite often with the first King Crimson. Amazing things would happen-I mean, telepathy, qualities of energy, things that I had never experienced before with music. You can't tell whether the music is playing the musician or the musician is playing the music.

Robert Fripp

When music appears which only King Crimson can play, then, sooner or later, King Crimson appears to play the music.

Robert Frost

The problem for the King is just how strict The lack of liberty, the squeeze of the law And discipline should be in school and state....

Robert Frost

... A nation has to take its natural course Of Progress round and round in circles From King to Mob to King to Mob to King Until the eddy of it eddies out.

Robert Bolt

Some men think the Earth is round, others think it flat; it is a matter capable of question. But, if it is flat, will the King's command make it round? And, if it is round, will the King's command flatten it?

Robert Bolt

Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.

Rita Ora

Beyoncé built her f–king foundation from the bottom. I think that’s the exact career every female artist wants to have.

Rita Dove

I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many people, black and white, were instrumental in changing the Jim Crow status quo on all levels.

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.

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 Trower

The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me.

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.