Famous King Quotes

#1. She [Mary I] married Philip King of Spain, who in her sister's reign, was famous for building Armadas.

Jane Austen

#2. This ought to be a season for cooperation in terms of pushing our economy forward, job creation, steadying the middle class, and laying the groundwork for a better future. And that's what we want to work on with Republicans and Democrats.

David Axelrod

#3. Famous women keep their same names even after they get married because their names are their bread and butter.

Stephen King

#4. God doesn't call people to a job description, He calls people to Himself and His mission in the world.

Louie Giglio

#5. Everyone knows, even the smallest kid knows about Martin Luther King Jr., can say his most famous moment was that 'I have a dream speech. No one can go further than one sentence. All we know is that this had a dream. We do not know what the dream was'.

Henry Louis Taylor Jr.

#6. No," he assured her. "The old Alex would've had plenty to say." She lifted an amused eyebrow as he continued. "Old Alex would've instantly hated that douche.

Elizabeth Reyes

#7. Dr. King's famous 'I Have a Dream' speech was delivered at 'The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,' a call to justice beyond the traditional civil rights movement's focus.

Charles B. Rangel

#8. How many writers in history have ever been as famous as Stephen King? He casts an awfully long shadow.

Christopher Golden

#9. I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.

Nat King Cole

#10. At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.

Lafcadio Hearn

#11. My earliest memory is nursing and struggling to see the colored lights making up the map of the world, the famous backdrop for Larry King's TV show. There's an 'I-want-to-do-all-things-at-once' kind of theme to it.

Ronan Farrow

#12. Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.

Larry Hagman

#13. Before you leave, wouldn't you like the message Sarah's friend left for you?"
She had already started for the door and now turned. "By all means."
"He said he'd destroy your husband... after he killed you.

B. J. Daniels

#14. King Crimson were the only really famous band I'd been in.

Jamie Muir

#15. Hate is too great a burden to bear ...

Coretta Scott King

#16. Stephen King consummately honors several traditions with his rare paperback original, 'Joyland.' He addresses the novel of carny life and sideshows, where the midway serves as microcosm, such as in those famous books by Ray Bradbury, Charles Finney and William Lindsay Gresham.

Paul Di Filippo

#17. During this time he got news that a famous statue of Orpheus, enshrined in south Macedon, had started to sweat profusely. The seers, pondering the omen, decided that the new King's exploits would give the poets work.

Mary Renault

#18. Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes, or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

C.S. Lewis

#19. There are often multiple sources for some famous statements by King; as a professional speaker and minister he used some significant phrases with only slight variation many times in his
essays, books, and his speeches to different audiences.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#20. It has a way of eroding barriers-that famous Yankee reticence-which would otherwise be impregnable.

Stephen King

#21. I gave you all!" screeched Lear, waving a palsied claw at Regan.
"And you took your bloody time giving it, too, you senile old fuck," said Regan.

Christopher Moore

#22. Dr. King didn't get famous giving a speech that said,"I have a complaint."

Van Jones

#23. Happiness does not come from external objects. It comes from peace of mind. You can be famous; you can be a king, a queen, anything. It does not necessarily bring happiness or peace of mind. It comes about through following dharma.

Frederick Lenz

#24. The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930's were very different from those in later times. I had never before encountered minds of that quality at close quarters and they influenced me strongly.

George Stigler

#25. Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#26. Happy Birthday to Fay Wray, a wonderful actress. She was, of course, in the movie 'King Kong' and would have been 99-years-old today. She was famous because of her love interest with a giant ape, and, wait a minute, that's Maria Shriver.

David Letterman

#27. It was a famous old hotel called the Overlook. It burned down ten years ago. The caretaker burned it down. He was crazy. Everybody in town said so. But never mind: he's dead.

Stephen King

#28. Especially with comedy, you take massive risks because ultimately you're trying to be funny. If you're not funny, then it's really embarrassing and you look stupid.

Dominic Cooper

#29. We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.

Florence King

#30. We all can't be famous but we can all be great and we become great when we serve others

Martin Luther King Jr.

#31. I felt the vacuum in him. It was the same as the one in me. It wanted, but it didn't know what it wanted, so it pulled at everything.

Nick Burd

#32. Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.

James Wolcott

#33. Great things are brought about and burdens are lightened through the efforts of many hands anxiously engaged in a good cause.

M. Russell Ballard

#34. I had a beautiful mother and a famous father, and I didn't know where I fit in.

Elle King

#35. My intention is not to repudiate an African American identity but perhaps to resist how labels take hold, or to make it as slow a process as possible. That's more my sense of it.

Mark McMorris