King's Ransom Quotes

#1. I just take this job very seriously. It's almost like you play a kid's game for a king's ransom. And if you don't take it serious enough, eventually, one day, you're going to say, 'Oh, I could have done this, I could have done that.'

Sean Taylor

#2. The British Parliament, in its famed Longitude Act of 1714, set the highest bounty of all, naming a prize equal to a king's ransom (several million dollars in today's currency) for a "Practicable and Useful" means of determining longitude.

Dava Sobel

#3. My sense of loneliness was not particularly great until I reached sixty. From that time on, I would have given an ex-king's ransom if I had been able, in my youth to seduce a lady into thinking of me as a handyman and provider around the house.

Frank Crowninshield

#4. Nothing moved on the surface but faint coruscations of starlight, caught like fireflies in a spider's web.

Diana Gabaldon

#5. A dream caused by too much reading and not enough sleeping.

Gwen Hayes

#6. Since I loved underground music, I tried to carve a space for feminism within it. Those were my hopes.

Kathleen Hanna

#7. No man can expect his children to respect what he degrades.' 'Ha,

Charles Dickens

#8. Religion is the master of creating dull and dim minds!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. There's enough for everyone. If you believe it, if you can see it, if you act from it, it'll show up for you. That's the truth.

Michael Beckwith

#10. The stories I tell myself about myself are contexts for what I believe is possible. These stories affect not only my attitudes about myself and others, but affect my behavior in what could become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Sharon Weil

#11. One of my greatest personal heroes is Jerry Lopez. When you can snowboard like he surfs, you'll be there!

Frederick Lenz

#12. I've certainly always had a very high regard for Botswana and so I paint a very good picture of the country and I've never pretended to be painting an entirely realistic picture.

Alexander McCall Smith

#13. Among the privileges of being a superpower, the right and the ability to make a local quarrel into a global one ranks very high.

Christopher Hitchens

#14. Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.

Ellis Peters

#15. I'm a writer and director. And the movie I've seen a million times is 'Coming Home,' directed by Hal Ashby and starring Jon Voight, Jane Fonda and Bruce Dern.

Jonathan Levine