King Harold Quotes

#1. If King Harold had had swans on his side, England would still be Saxon.

Connie Willis

#2. I flip the turntables. I write a lot from the male perspective, but as a female. That's how I live my life. I can roll with the boys.

Elle King

#3. Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

Patrick Rothfuss

#4. Al Gore announced Tuesday that he plans to launch a 24-hour cable news network for young adults. Gore claims he's been wanting to do this since he invented cable TV in the 1990s.

Tina Fey

#5. Disease [is] as one of our languages. Doctors understand what disease has to say about itself. It's up to the person with the disease to understand what the disease has to say to her.

Susanna Kaysen

#6. There was a glass-fronted cabinet opposite, filled with plates on display stands and teacups with so many curlicues it was a wonder you could drink from them without cutting your lips.

Patrick Ness

#7. he's been in the trenches, but you have this incredibly strong urge to tell him to go screw

Scott Pratt

#8. The best presenters have conversations with their audiences.

Robert Bly

#9. I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations.

Rosemary Clooney

#10. It should be held as an eternal truth, that what is morally wrong can never be politically right.65

Karen Swallow Prior

#11. Stephen King is Cervantes compared with David Foster Wallace. We have no standards left.

Harold Bloom

#12. Go for the impossible. I always tried to find my own limits. So far I did not find them, so my universe is in constant expansion.

Paulo Coelho

#13. Zitner said hell would freeze over before something like that happened. Harold had a brief image of Adolf Hitler and Judas Iscariot handing out ice-skates and went on heaving sandbags.

Stephen King

#14. The original settlers in Iceland were the nobles of Norway who left their native land to avoid the tyranny of Harold Fairhair, who tried to crush their power so as to make himself a despotic king in the land.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#15. As an actor, you know, I love not being pigeonholed, which is great. No one really knows who I am. So that's a positive.

Kathryn Hahn

#16. Men do things. We can't help it. That's all there is to it. As you will discover in time, the primary choice every man has to make is whether he wants to be himself or if he wants peace.

Manu Joseph

#17. King die hard, in Shakespeare and in life.

Harold Bloom

#18. I cannot locate any aestetic dignity in [Stephen] King's writing: his public could not sustain it, nor could he ... Art unfortunately is rarely the fruit of earnestness, and King will be remembered as a sociological phenomenon, an image of the death of the Literate Reader.

Harold Bloom

#19. Like television, motion pictures, and computers, [Stephen] King has replaced reading ... the triumph of the genial King is a large emblem of the failures of American education.

Harold Bloom

#20. I am not unique in my elegiac sadness at watching reading die, in the era that celebrates Stephen King and J.K. Rowling rather than Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll.

Harold Bloom

#21. I started after him ... and the clown looked back. I saw Its eyes, and all at once I understood who It was."
"Who was it, Don?" Harold Gardner asked softly.
"It was Derry," Don Hagarty said. "It was this town.

Stephen King

#22. A man cannot be comfortable spiritually who is in bondage financially.

Francis M. Lyman

#23. Be loyal to the royal that is in you, for you are the child of a King.

Harold B. Lee

#24. Harold glared sullenly at him again, the eyes those of a piggy little boy who wants the whole cookie jar to himself. Ain't he going to be surprised, Stu thought, when he finds out a girl isn't a jar of cookies.

Stephen King

#25. I myself do not believe that the Torah is any more or less the revealed Word of God than are Dante's Commedia, Shakespeare's King Lear, or Tolstoy's novels, all works of comparable literary sublimity

Harold Bloom

#26. My introduction, implicitly echoing Oscar Wilde's remark that all bad poetry is sincere, grants the benign social decency of [Stephen] King's fictions.

Harold Bloom

#27. The King once said to me, 'Harold, you stand above all other men.' I said, 'No, Sire. I want nothing more than to stand shoulder to shoulder with my men. I am nothing without them.

Elizabeth Alder

#28. Fish had already told both Wertham and Detective King that, in addition to shoving needles inside his body, he liked to soak pieces of cotton in alcohol, cram them up his rectum, and set fire to them.

Harold Schechter

#29. Harold knew things. It was good that he did, but it was also rather spooky, as if they had a fifth-rate god traveling with them - more or less omniscient, but emotionally unstable and likely to fragment at any time.

Stephen King