Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ira Levin

I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.

Hannah More

To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.

Keith Giffen

He's a prig. He's royalty and he can't get over it.

Christa B. Allen

I want to play a princess or some woman from royalty or aristocracy. If I get to have an accent, even better. And I want to play a butt-kicking superhero, like Catwoman.

Louis XIV

I am the State. [Fr., L'etat c'est moi.]

Tim Berners-Lee

Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free.

Prince Charles

All the time I feel I must justify my existence.

Pierre Corneille

Clemency is the surest proof of a true monarch. [Fr., La clemence est la plus belle marque Qui fasse a l'univers connaitre un vrai monqrque.]

Walter Scott

For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.

Mel Gibson

I'm as vain as the next guy. I have a facade on right now. But you can't see it, because it's reality-based.

Philip Sidney

Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.

Mary Howitt

To ask me is in vain; For who goes up your winding stair Can ne'er come down again.

Mark Twain

Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it.

Joseph Addison

Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain.

Hosea Ballou

Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.

Horace

Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion.

John Gay

Who talks much, must talk in vain.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the "No.

Derek Jarman

On December 22, 1986, finding I was body positive, I set myself a target: I would disclose my secret and survive Margaret Thatcher. I did. Now I have set my sights on the millennium and a world where we are all equal.

Denzel Washington

I walk by faith, not by sight.

Denis Waitley

Optimism boosts your energy and focuses your sights on reaching your goals, rather than wallowing in your setbacks.

Alain de Botton

A lump rises in our throat at the sight of beauty from an implicit knowledge that the happiness it hints at is the exception.

Al Gore

I put all my sighs in a lockbox

Blaise Pascal

We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by the evil which is so common, while that which is good is so rare.

Blaise Pascal

Notwithstanding the sight of all our miseries, which press upon us and take us by the throat, we have an instinct which we cannot repress, and which lifts us up.

Alexandra Adornetto

But I was wrong. I should have known it wasn't owver, couldn't be over quite easily. No sooner was Xavier out of sight than a little cylinder of paper fell from the top of my locker. As I unrolled it, I knew I'd see black calligraphy crawling across it like a spider. Dread settled around me like a fog as the words burned into my brain: The Lake of Fire awaits my lady

Jared Fogle

If people didn't give a damn, I wouldn't be in the position I'm in. I try not to lose sight of that.