Sayings About Being Royal

#1. Apparently, the princes had found the only four women in the universes who didn't dream of being royal, rich and adored by their husbands.

Michelle M. Pillow

#2. Sometimes being a Highland Laird was a royal pain in the arse.

Victoria Roberts

#3. The games haven't even started yet and already there are people complaining about the horrible accommodations at the Sochi Olympic village. Toilets don't flush. The faucets spew discolored water. They say it's like being on a Royal Caribbean cruise.

Jay Leno

#4. With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.

Pat Benatar

#5. I think it's all absolute nonsense how people talk about photography as being an art. It's a very menial career that you do if you draw badly. Now they teach it at the Royal College of Art and get grand about it. It's the only course there that I don't understand.

Antony Armstrong-Jones

#6. I'm embarrassed that people will know that I can't ride a bicycle. For years, I have been feigning bad ankles and saying I wasn't in the mood for a bike ride.

Jill Soloway

#7. Pray state, this day, on one side of a sheet of paper, how the Royal navy is being adapted to meet the conditions of modern warfare.

Michael Paterson

#8. Towards the end of the Lord Chamberlain's era, when his hold was being loosened, private prosecutions began to happen. A member of staff at the Royal Court ordered to stop the play, and the police were brought in.

Timothy West

#9. Tommen looked back to Ser Kevan. "Can I seal them now, Great-Uncle?" Pressing his royal seal into the hot wax was his favorite part of being king, so far.

George R R Martin

#10. Most whale photos you see show whales in this beautiful blue water - it's almost like space.

Brian Skerry

#11. What! I don't care about being a princess! And since I'm already a young lady, how else could I behave? That's like asking a fish not to swim!"
~Princess Eilonwy, daughter of Angharad, daughter of Regat, of the Royal house of Llyr

Lloyd Alexander

#12. I want someone who builds people up, not tears them down. I need someone who makes me laugh and isn't afraid to rib me when I'm being a royal jerk.' She smiled a little. 'You're that girl. I want to be with you, and I want everyone to know it.

Jen Calonita

#13. The birth certificate of the royal baby lists her parents' occupations as being 'the prince and princess of the United Kingdom.' It says that under occupation, which I guess sounds better than 'unemployed.'

Conan O'Brien

#14. This resemblance became clear in the Bush the father's visits to the region. He wound up being impressed by the royal and military regimes and envied them for staying decades in their positions and embezzling the nation's money with no supervision.

Osama Bin Laden

#15. [On being told by a horse show spectator that she looked like Princess Anne:] I think I'm a bit better-looking than she is.

Anne, Princess Royal

#16. When you accept you are a winner, that is when you will triumph.

Stephen Richards

#17. Insanity is a state of mind. Souls are a state of being. Being soulless is a state of insanity.

Royal Henry Bleu

#18. There are precedents for what happens when societies allow the divide between rich and poor to get so huge that it stops being funny and starts becoming a sick, blood-boiling joke. If you had a Tardis, you could go back to 1917 and ask the Russian royal family how it was all going.

John Niven

#19. War Wizards don't give up. They find a way around any obstacle, even if that way results in their own death. He called the way of the wizard the dance with death.

Terry Goodkind

#20. Dylan Landis knows how to unnerve a reader, even as she's appreciating being unnerved. Rainey Royal thrums with sex and power. A brave, exquisite book.

Mary Kay Zuravleff

#21. Ella, being a royal bitch won't make you like me any less. It also won't change how I feel about you.

A.M. Madden

#22. When writing, don't try to lead the story; let the story lead you.

Giuseppe Bianco

#23. Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly.

John Lydon

#24. I dreamt of becoming a ballet dancer. I studied with the Royal Academy of London for 11 years, and that did not pan out, but my love for being on stage was born there. And then, I actually went to drama school in Paris, France. That's where it first started.

Diane Kruger

#25. Sending children away to get control of their anger perpetuates the feeling of 'badness inside them ... Chances are they were already feeling not very good about themselves before the outburst and the isolation just serves to confirm in their own minds that they were right.

Otto Weininger

#26. Francis Crick, co-winner of the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the structure of DNA, believes that DNA could only have arrived from space, sent in the form of bacteria from more advanced civilizations.

Walker Percy

#27. To get good, it's helpful to be willing, or even enthusiastic, about being bad. Baby steps are the royal road to skill.

Daniel Coyle

#28. Fate isn't set in stone. Free will can change everything

A.J. Messenger

#29. The Church will go on being a Royal Academy of Males.

Dorothy Richardson

#30. My glowing form was so heavy, its feet sank into the top of the tank.
"Sekhmet!" I yelled.
The lioness whirled and snarled, trying to locate my voice.
"Up here, kitty!" I called.
She spotted me and her ears went back. "Horus?"
'Unless you know another guy with a falcon head.

Rick Riordan

#31. I am a socialist and at the same time clear about a certain number of values ... family values, environmental values, the value of succeeding at school, the value of merit and respect for work. To me these are not incompatible with being of the left.

Segolene Royal

#32. There are many talented people.

Paula Abdul

#33. The scrutiny was smothering. Right now it seemed that being Vendan within these outpost walls was preferable to being the impudent royal who had abandoned their precious prince at the altar.

Mary E. Pearson

#34. She was the royal princess. She had to start acting like one. She had to stop talking about being trapped, about being handed over from one man to another. She had to start acting.
She had to start being the hero.

Liz Braswell

#35. One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.

James Purefoy

#36. Trinity Royal, which was being nuzzled by a dozen small launches nosing into her flank like piglets suckling on a sow.

Bernard Cornwell