Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Demetri Martin

Knights would have probably liked refrigerator magnets.

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

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

And sometimes through the mirror blue The knights come riding two and two.

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.

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.

Edmund Spenser

A Gentle Knight was pricking on the plaine.

Dan Brown

Langdon turned to Sophie. "Who is that? What... happened?" Teabing hobbled over. "You were rescued by a knight brandishing an Excalibur made by Acme Orthopedic.

Dustin Diamond

The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon.

Anatoly Karpov

The fact that a knight is temporarily on the edge of the board is of no great significance.

Andrew Wyeth

And, of course, I began drawing so much - wild, undisciplined pencil drawings and watercolors of knights battling and such.

David Baldacci

Confidence is one thing, disrespect is quite another. (Justice Elizabeth Knight)

John Frusciante

Enclosure, upon its completion, was the record which represented the achievement of all the musical goals I had been aiming at for the previous 5 years. It was recorded simultaneously with Black Knights' Medieval Chamber, and as different as the two albums appear to be, they represent one investigative creative thought process. What I learned from one fed directly into the other. Enclosure is presently my last word on the musical statement which began with PBX.

John Evelyn

This knight was indeed a valiant gentleman; but not a little given to romance, when he spake of himself.

Garry Trudeau

Keith Knight is mapping out a previously unknown vector of the vast cartoon universe.

Emily Dickinson

Earth is a merry damsel, and heaven a knight so true

Benjamin Cardozo

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

Jeremy Clarkson

I therefore have to use The Force. And weirdly, this doesn't work very well. I don't understand why, because on the last census, I put my religion down as Jedi Knight...

Harold Pinter

I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.

George R. R. Martin

Lords are gold and knights steel, but two links can't make a chain. You also need silver and iron and lead, tin and copper and bronze and all the rest, and those are farmers and smiths and merchants and the like. A chain needs all sorts of metals, and a land needs all sorts of people.

Jim Butcher

This is ridiculous. I look like the Games Workshop version of a Jedi Knight.

[The Front Page] is still full of peppy banter as it sends its seedy knights after cheap scoops.

Kirsten Dunst

And sometimes, you need your knight in shining armour,

Emily Post

The honor of a gentleman demands the inviolability of his word, and the incorruptibility of his principles. He is the descendent of the knight, the crusader; he is the defender of the defenseless and the champion of justice--or he is not a gentleman.

Lisa Kleypas

He was so far from the gallant knights in her romantic fantasies...He was tarnished, scarred, imperfect.

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Not every rider is a horseman and not every horseman is a knight.

Joshua Foer

Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like 'knight.'

John Keats

Oh what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering?

Patrick Stewart

The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.