Famous Quotes & Sayings

When we were growing up in Philadelphia, she would drop us off at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on weekends, ... I was enamored of the armor collection of knights and weapons.

Chanel Iman

I have had the privilege of working with the best in the business, from photographers to designers to magazines. There's not much more to ask for but I'm still looking forward to one day working with photographers Mert and Marcus, Tim Walker and Nick Knight.

William Shakespeare

Lords, knights and gentlemen, what I should say My tears gainsay; for every word I speak, Ye see I drink the water of my eye.

Catherynne M. Valente

So most people go around with grimy machinery, when all it would take is a bit of spit and polish to make them paladins once more, bold knights and true.

Catherynne M. Valente

I want to keep on living forever and watching heroes and fools and knights go up and down, into the world and out. I want to keep being myself and mind the work that minds me. Work is not always a hard thing that looms over your years. Sometimes, work is the gift of the world to the wanting.

Barbara Feldon

I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.

Bernard Law Montgomery

A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights; and it is not the least of these necessary hardships to have to serve with sailors.

Bob Gunton

I was the adoring son of a Welsh-Irish father, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, a Catholic Knight of Columbus who was a blue-collar, trade union organizer and, not surprisingly, a fervid Nixon-hater.

David Icke

A crucial Elite group behind the Civil War was the Knights of the Golden Circle, again based in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I never was obsessive about anything I watched when I was a kid, except maybe 'The A-Team' and 'Airwolf' And I loved 'Knight Rider' and then later 'Baywatch.'

Bobby Fischer

There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knights-odds to and still beat.

Bobby Fischer

I could give any woman in the world a piece and a move; to Gaprindashvili even, a knight.

Brenda Holloway

Then when Gladys Knight came in to do my songs that was the straw that broke the camel's back.

If revenge is sweet, why does it leave such a bitter taste? In disarming Peter, Christ disarmed ever knight. Turn the other cheek.

Jaime Ray Newman

God bless ABC. They are my knights in shining armor. I love their content. Just as a person, I'm a huge fan of 'Scandal,' I still love 'Grey's Anatomy,' and 'Resurrection' looks amazing.

I have a piece of evidence the book doesn't have with regards to the Knights Templar. You'll have to come to the lecture to see what it is.

When they started in with the hip-hop music, people poured out onto the street and started raising Cain. Since then, the Knights have voluntarily agreed to ban hip-hop music from the club. For some reason the hip-hop crowd always gives us trouble.

Mark Twain

Mardi Gras is a thing which could hardly exist in the practical North. For the soul of it is the romantic, not the funny and the grotesque. Take away the romantic mysteries, the kings and knights and big-sounding titles, and Mardi-Gras would die, down there in the South.

C. S. Lewis

We have discovered that the scheme of 'outlawing war' has made war more like an outlaw without making it less frequent and that to banish the knight does not alleviate the suffering of the peasant.

C. S. Lewis

Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.

Our guests enjoy an industry-exclusive 21 square feet of personal space, a 78-inch lie flat bed and a companion seat complete with a full size table. There would probably be enough room for King Arthur and his Knights to have a productive meeting at the Round Table on one of our flights.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more: but they are not what they appear - they are merely masks... Usually, as I say, there is nothing but industrialists, businessmen and speculators concealed behind all these masks.

Anurag Kashyap

'The Dark Knight' is a really good movie that reached both critics and mainstream audiences.

Edmund Spenser

A Gentle Knight was pricking on the plaine.

Benjamin Cardozo

The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

Terry Brooks

One summer we played for a week at being Knights of the Round Table, using broom handles as swords and lances and metal garbage can lids as shields.

Bryant H. McGill

Women do not need a knight in shining armor or a Prince Charming to come to their rescue.

Charles Kingsley

Toil is the true knight's pastime.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Jamie Wyeth

My father, whose work I adore... was down working on little things of grass and dead birds. Well, that didn't interest me. As an 8-year-old kid, I wanted knights in armor and so forth.

Alex Newell

I have so many [on-set Glee BFFs]. I love Kevin (McHale). I love Amber (Riley); Amber and I are essentially the same person, even though one’s fiercer than the other—don’t tell her it’s me. I love Chris Colfer, he’s a gem. Melissa (Benoist) and Blake (Jenner), I love them. We’re such a tight-knight family because we spend so much time together.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Who is this? And what is here? And in the lighted palace near Died the sound of royal cheer; And they crossed themselves for fear, All the Knights at Camelot; But Lancelot mused a little space He said, "She has a lovely face; God in his mercy lend her grace, The Lady of Shalott.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

She hath no loyal knight and true, The Lady of Shalott.