Battle Royal Quotes

#1. Pain s the truth of art. Art is not a hobby or a pastime. It is the result of an internal battle royal, one between the quest for safety and the desire to matter.

Seth Godin

#2. Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.

Bobby Fischer

#3. God's will! my liege, would you and I alone, Without more help, could fight this royal battle!

William Shakespeare

#4. Andross, you motherfucker.

Brent Weeks

#5. The rock is a field of battle between our weakness and our strength. We wouldn't touch rock if we were perfectly self-controlled. And he who would climb and live must continuously wage this battle and never let folly win. It's an outrageously demanding proposition. But I never said it was easy.

Royal Robbins

#6. The Royal Navy had not built its magnificent reputation over the centuries by avoiding battle.

Arthur Nicholson

#7. Have you got a flag?

Eddie Izzard

#8. Human freedom increasingly depends on who controls what we know and, therefore, how we understand our world. It depends on what information we are able to create and disseminate: what we can share, how we can share it, and with whom we can share it.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#9. People look at you and me to see what they are supposed to be. And, if we don't disappoint them, maybe, just maybe, they won't disappoint us.

Walt Disney

#10. So dumb to say, I won't while doing it.

M.F. Moonzajer

#11. For all the poor in the world against all tyranny

Ernest Hemingway,

#12. One of our church networks has as its purpose statement "To have a church within walking distance of every person living in Las Vegas.

Neil Cole

#13. Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you.

Jimmy Johnson

#14. The music industry is a world of smoke and mirrors: they tell you exactly what they think you want to hear. And they are bare-faced lying. I tend to stay away from that.

Kelis

#15. So may you come into the true Kingdom of Culture ... and may you be armed against the worst blows that fate can deal you in this world.

George Hamlin Fitch

#16. Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.

Marcel Proust

#17. It's sort of a law of the art world: The stuff that grows in importance is only the stuff you bought because it wowed you.

Douglas Coupland

#18. Voltaire was also there, fleeing a royal arrest warrant, and working as a kind of one-man eighteenth-century USO show during the siege, offering bons mots and brandy between bouts of battle and composing odes to the military men. The

Tom Reiss