Regibus Quotes

#1. Knowest thou not that kings have long hands?
[Lat., An nescis longos regibus esse manus?]

Ovid

#2. In times when nothing stood / but worsened, or grew strange / there was one constant good: / she did not change.

Philip Larkin

#3. In the film industry, we tend to pick up where others have left off, and I'd like to think the influences I picked up from Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Sylvester Stallone and Jean-Claude Van Damme are visible in my work.

Scott Adkins

#4. In the United States, to an unprecedented degree, the individual's social role has come to be determined not by who he is but by what he can accomplish.

John W. Gardner

#5. May the sun shine warm upon your face; the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of His hand.

R.P. Dahlke

#6. We can't heal what we don't feel. We can't have a future until we fully inhabit our present. It's like the proverbial Groundhog Day. Most people don't live 70-90 years; they live the same year 70-90 times because they keep regurgitating an incomplete present.

Derek Rydall

#7. First, I was a glacial blonde doing music programmes. Then I was the film kind of sexy bird late at night. It was frustrating like I guess it's frustrating for everyone who is not fully employing their talents.

Mariella Frostrup

#8. I was a complete tomboy. I loved wandering out in storms or walking on the beaches in the dark. It was a very free upbringing, and I'm grateful to my parents for that.

Amanda Burton

#9. They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.

Queen Elizabeth II

#10. As I watch, the sky fills with clouds of snow feathers from every kind of bird there ever was and even some that only exist in the imagination, like the bluebirds that fly over the rainbow.

Kate Atkinson

#11. People are looking for original content in many different places, as are advertisers. This takes us into a whole new ballgame.

Jeff Zucker

#12. My battered friends and I had just had a brush with death, dancing with this evil.

Richelle Mead

#13. Poverty can't be an excuse for bad teaching, but teaching can't be the only thing we do to combat poverty.

Tony Danza

#14. It doesn't worry me a bit that China and Japan hold so much US debt. In a way, it seems foolish for them to do it because they get lower returns than they might elsewhere. But that is their business.

Milton Friedman

#15. That is the Magic. Being alive is the Magic - being strong is the Magic. The Magic is in me - the Magic is in me.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#16. Teaching, I find, is not the most amusing thing on earth; in fact, with a stupid lump for a Pupil, it is about the most irksome.

Jane Welsh Carlyle