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Image of Jacob Hopkins
I worked with Adam Pally and he's hilarious and the king of improv!
- Jacob Hopkins
Collection: Kings
Image of Raoul Peck
[James] Baldwin was a celebrity. A TV show like Kenneth Clark could put him aside of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. He was, at least, one of the three most important spokesmen of the movement and of the black community.
- Raoul Peck
Collection: Kings
Image of Bridget Carpenter
I read Stephen King as a junior high schooler. My father introduced me to Stephen King far too young, which I'm very grateful for now.
- Bridget Carpenter
Collection: Kings
Image of Bridget Carpenter
I just felt my good fortune, and I also trust my love for the book, my love for the material, and my reverence for Stephen King.
- Bridget Carpenter
Collection: Kings
Image of Nate Powell
A decade passed between King's assassination and my birth, but the older I get, the more acutely aware I become that 10 years is nothing.
- Nate Powell
Collection: Kings
Image of Andrew Aydin
"March" was inspired by "Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story." I actually first heard about that comic from John Lewis, who told me that it played an important role in the movement. And so once he told me about that, it made me start thinking, "Well, why doesn't John Lewis write his own comic book?".
- Andrew Aydin
Collection: Kings
Image of Andrew Aydin
I went on to write my graduate thesis on the ["Montgomery Story"] comic book itself. It was the first long-form history that was ever written about it. And it's how I found out Martin Luther King actually helped edit "Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story."
- Andrew Aydin
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Image of Seth Rogen
I actually live right near a high school and I always walk by...I live in a high school. I actually live in the boiler room of a high school at night. When I see high school guys now I'm actually like, 'Thank f - king God I'm not in high school anymore because they look like they could kick the living s - t out of me.'
- Seth Rogen
Collection: Kings
Image of Karen Marie Moning
The White Mansion isn't boring, lass. Never boring. It's the grand demesne the Unseelie King built for his concubine. It's a living, breathing love story, testament to the brightest passion that ever burned between our races. You can follow the scenes through if you've time enough and are willing to risk getting lost for a few centuries.
- Karen Marie Moning
Collection: Kings
Image of John Robbins
Gross National Happiness is more important than Gross Domestic Product. attr to Buthan's King Jigme Singye Wangchuck
- John Robbins
Collection: Kings
Image of J. C. Ryle
Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord...He waits quietly for the King.
- J. C. Ryle
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Image of Swami Vivekananda
The world is a demon. It is a kingdom of which the puny ego is king. Put it away and stand firm.
- Swami Vivekananda
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Image of Swami Vivekananda
You know your real nature [to be divine]. You are the king and play you are a beggar. . . . It is all fun. Know it and play. That is all there is to it. Then practice it. The whole universe is a vast play.
- Swami Vivekananda
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Image of Megan Whalen Turner
He looked at their shabby clothes in puzzlement. “We were traveling anonymously for safety—” explained the magus. “But surely—” “—and then we were robbed on the road.” “Ah,” said the king, “the danger in being anonymous.
- Megan Whalen Turner
Collection: Kings
Image of Megan Whalen Turner
The prison keeper choose an inopportune time to look around the doorway into the cell. He and the king locked gazes, and the king's eyes narrowed while the prison keeper's widened.
- Megan Whalen Turner
Collection: Kings
Image of Megan Whalen Turner
Oh, that," said the king with a shrug. "That isn't your honor, Costis. That's the public perception of your honor. It has nothing to do with anything important, except perhaps for manipulating fools who mistake honor for its bright, shiny trappings. You can always change the perceptions of fools.
- Megan Whalen Turner
Collection: Kings
Image of Megan Whalen Turner
Your Majesty, you just-" Costis stopped. "Just what?" the king prompted wickedly. Nothing would induce Costis to say out loud that the king had almost fallen from the palace wall and that Costis had seen him manifestly saved by the God of Thieves. The king smiled. "Cat got your tongue?" "Your Majesty, you are drunk," Costis pleaded. "I am. What's your excuse?
- Megan Whalen Turner
Collection: Kings
Image of Henry Rollins
I was at the first Minor Threat show, and you could tell, 'This band is going to be the king of the town.' It was obvious. They were so good.
- Henry Rollins
Collection: Kings
Image of Tony Benn
Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution
- Tony Benn
Collection: Kings
Image of Alexander Pope
Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person; they make friendships as kings of old made leagues, who sacrificed some poor animal betwixt them, and commenced strict allies; so the ladies, after they have pulled some character to pieces, are from henceforth inviolable friends.
- Alexander Pope
Collection: Kings
Image of Swami Vivekananda
"Some would call you a saint, some a chandala; some a lunatic, others a demon. Go on then straight to thy work without heeding either" - thus saith one of our great Sannyasins, an old emperor of India, King Bhartrihari, who joined the order in old times.
- Swami Vivekananda
Collection: Kings
Image of Blaise Pascal
To call a king "Prince" is pleasing, because it diminishes his rank.
- Blaise Pascal
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Image of Ron Paul
I'm not against the FBI investigation in doing a proper role, but I'm against the FBI spying on people like Martin Luther King. I'm against the CIA fighting secret wars and overthrowing government.
- Ron Paul
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Image of Leonardo da Vinci
King of the animals — as thou hast described him — I should rather say king of the beasts, thou being the greatest — because thou hast spared slaying them, in order that they may give thee their children for the benefit of the gullet, of which thou hast attempted to make a sepulchre for all animals; and I would say still more, if it were allowed me to speak the entire truth.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Collection: Kings
Image of William Shakespeare
Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge, That no king can corrupt.
- William Shakespeare
Collection: Kings
Image of William Shakespeare
Cheerily to sea; the signs of war advance: No king of England, if not king of France
- William Shakespeare
Collection: Kings
Image of John Milton
It is lawful and hath been held so through all ages for any one who have the power to call to account a tyrant or wicked king, and after due conviction to depose and put him to death.
- John Milton
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Image of Percy Bysshe Shelley
And on the pedestal these words appear:
 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
 Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' 
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
 Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
 The lone and level sands stretch far away.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Image of Cinda Williams Chima
The answer is no, I would rather marry the Demon King himself than marry you. I suggest you look elsewhere for a bride. And heaven help the one you choose.
- Cinda Williams Chima
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Image of Mark Twain
It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn't no kings nor dukes at all, but just low-down humbugs and frauds. But I never said nothing, never let on; kept it to myself; it's the best way; then you don't have no quarrels, and don't get into no trouble. If they wanted us to call them kings and dukes, I hadn't no objections, 'long as it would keep peace in the family; and it warn't no use to tell Jim, so I didn't tell him. If I never learnt nothing else out of pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way.
- Mark Twain
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Image of Thomas Paine
The state of a king shuts him from the world, yet the business of a king requires him to know it thoroughly.
- Thomas Paine
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Image of Kristin Cashore
Now we just need to find someone who is close to the king but is really a spy for Mydogg." "That should be easy. I could probably shoot an arrow out the window and hit one.
- Kristin Cashore
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Image of Horace Walpole
When the Prince of Piedmont [later Charles Emmanuel IV, King of Sardinia] was seven years old, his preceptor instructing him in mythology told him all the vices were enclosed in Pandora's box. "What! all!" said the Prince. "Yes, all." "No," said the Prince; "curiosity must have been without.
- Horace Walpole
Collection: Kings
Image of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Image of Jean-Paul Sartre
Aegistheus, the kings have another secret.... Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the Gods can do nothing against that man. It is a matter for men to handle amongst themselves, and it is up to other men and to them alone to let him flee or to destroy him.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
Collection: Kings
Image of Rick Riordan
You want to know how Egyptians pulled the brains out of mummies. or built the pyramids, or cursed King Tut's tomb? My dad's your man.
- Rick Riordan
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Image of Rachel Caine
News flash, lady. There are no queens anymore,” Shane said. He loaded shells in a shotgun and snapped it shut, then searched for a place to strap it on that didn’t interfere with the flamethrower. “No queens, no kings, no emperors. Not in America. Only CEOs. Same thing, but not so many crowns.
- Rachel Caine
Collection: Kings
Image of Voltaire
He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.
- Voltaire
Collection: Kings
Image of Jonathan Swift
The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.
- Jonathan Swift
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Image of Donald Trump
Kuwait - they live like kings. The poorest person in Kuwait, they live like kings. And yet, they're not paying. America makes it possible for them to sell their oil. Why aren't they paying us 25 percent of what they're making? It's a joke.
- Donald Trump
Collection: Kings
Image of B.K.S. Iyengar
Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.
- B.K.S. Iyengar
Collection: Kings
Image of Ozzy Osbourne
Mind you, it’s all bullshit with wine, isn’t it? It’s just f**king vinegar with a fizz, no matter what the tasters say.
- Ozzy Osbourne
Collection: Kings
Image of Christopher Paolini
From now on, I promise I wil consult with you before I do anything you don't expect. Is that acceptable? Only if it involves weapons, magic, kings, or family members, she said. Or flowers. Or flowers, she agreed.
- Christopher Paolini
Collection: Kings
Image of Timothy Keller
If you need something in addition to God to make you happy, that is your true King.
- Timothy Keller
Collection: Kings
Image of Hiromu Arakawa
A king is no king without his people, but a people without their king would be lost as well.
- Hiromu Arakawa
Collection: Kings