Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gerard Way

I thought if we made an album that tried to change the world, or give it hope, it would really happen. But all people found was death and destruction and misery and self-hate. I learned that the world doesn't want to be saved, and it will f**king punch you in the face if you try.

Harry Houdini

Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat.

Hans Christian Andersen

Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as crystal, it is very, very deep; so deep, indeed, that no cable could fathom it: many church steeples, piled one upon another, would not reach from the ground beneath to the surface of the water above. There dwell the Sea King and his subjects.

Greta Gerwig

I think in theater the playwright is king. Those words are unchangeable. They are the reason that everything else flows from.

Gordon B. Hinckley

... the whole design of the gospel is to lead us onward and upward to greater achievement, even, eventually, to godhood. This great possibility was enunciated by the Prophet Joseph Smith in the King Follet sermon. It is this grand and incomparable concept: As God now is, man may become!

Gordon B. Hinckley

He whose birth we commemorate this season is more than the symbol of a holiday. He is the Son of God, the Creator of the earth, the Jehovah of the Old Testament, the fulfillment of the Law of Moses, the Redeemer of mankind, the King of Kings, the Prince of Peace.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Christmas means 'giving,' and the gift without the giver is bare. Give of yourselves; give of your substance; give of your heart and mind. "Christmas means 'compassion and love' and, most of all 'forgiveness' How poor indeed would be our lives without the influence of His teachings and His matchless example. "He whose birth we commemorate this season is more than the symbol of a holiday. He is the Son of God, the Redeemer of mankind, the King of Kings, the Prince of Peace.

Giuseppe Zangara

I kill kings and presidents first, and next all capitalists.

Giuseppe Zangara

I want to kill the president because I no like the capitalists. I have the gun in my hand, I kill kings and presidents first and next all capitalists.

Herman Cain

Whether you were talking about Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather's, the National Restaurant Association, in each one of those situations, I had a daunting problem that I had to solve. And I used the same business principles to approach the problem and, more importantly, solve the problem in every one of the situations.

Herman Cain

I started at Pillsbury as a manager in one of their analysis functions, then worked my way up the corporate ladder to become vice president. Moving to Burger King was an important moment in my career.

Herbert Spencer

Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.

Herman Melville

A ship is a bit of terra firma cut off from the main; it is a state in itself; and the captain is its king.

Herman Melville

Better be secure under one king, than exposed to violence from twenty millions of monarchs, though oneself be one of them.

Henry David Thoreau

Do we call this the land of the free? What is it to be free from King George the Fourth and continue the slaves of prejudice? What is it to be born free and equal, and not to live? What is the value of any political freedom, but as a means to moral freedom?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A born king is a very rare being.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.

Jerry Falwell

I must personally say that I do question the sincerity and nonviolent intentions of some civil rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mr. James Farmer, and others, who are known to have left-wing associations.

Jeremy Grantham

The stock market is overpriced. Everything is overpriced. Junk is king.

Florence King

America is not a democracy, it's an absolute monarchy ruled by King Kid. In a nation of immigrants, the child is automatically more of an American than his parents. Americans regard children as what Mr. Hudson in Upstairs, Downstairs called betters. Aping their betters, American adults do their best to turn themselves into children. Puerility exercises droit de seigneur everywhere.

Fernando Torres

At Liverpool, I had almost everything but titles. I felt like a king, but the team was falling apart.

Fiona Apple

When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He'll Win the Whole Thing 'Fore He Enters the Ring There's No Body to Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might So When You Go Solo, You Hold Your Own Hand and Remember That Depth Is the Greatest of Heights and If You Know Where You Stand, Then You Know Where to Land and If You Fall It Won't Matter, Cuz You'll Know That You're Right

Henry Louis Gates

If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.

Henry Louis Gates

Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.

Henry Louis Gates

Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same.

Henry Miller

Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. There is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.

Henry Miller

We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.

George Eliot

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Gouverneur Morris

This magistrate is not the king. The people are the king.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

The real beggar is indeed the true and only king.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

The true vagrant is the only king above all comparison.

Gottfried Leibniz

Of what use would it be to you, sir, to become King of China on condition that you forgot what you have been? Would it not be the same as if God, at the same time he destroyed you, created a King in China?

Gore Vidal

We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.