Shakespeare Throne Quotes

#1. Directing is all about storytelling. It's not about equipment, or anything else.

John Carpenter

#2. The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne,
Burnt on the water.

William Shakespeare

#3. For my grief's so great
That no supporter but the huge firm earth
Can hold it up: here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
(Constance, from King John, Act III, scene 1)

William Shakespeare

#4. Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds to the throne of Denmark? Or why the barons ganged up on Richard II?

Edward Abbey

#5. The proverb answers where the sermon fails.

William Gilmore Simms

#6. I think virgins are far more interesting to write about. If we've been around the block a few times, we know what to expect. Not so with virgins.

E.L. James

#7. If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

Abiola Abrams

#8. It's always been kind of weird to me because when you give someone an autograph, you're looking down at a piece of paper and once you sign it the person moves on.

Christopher Meloni

#9. Passions are the gales of life.

Alexander Pope

#10. Northumberland, thou ladder wherewithal the mounting Bolingbroke ascends my throne.

William Shakespeare

#11. Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the throne?

Amos Bronson Alcott

#12. He had a winning smile, but everything else was a loser.

George C. Scott

#13. Here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.

William Shakespeare

#14. I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.

Patricia Polacco

#15. Historically, Macbeth is one of the greatest kings Scotland ever had. He was on the throne for 19 years, and he simply has this dreadful reputation because Shakespeare manipulated history for the benefit of James I, who was paying him to write the play to blacken Macbeth's name.

David Hewson

#16. We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned.

James Buchan

#17. Let there be songs to fill the air.

Robert Hunter

#18. These days people don't search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living, raise families and look after themselves, that's all. To them, being smart is more important than being wise!

Ajahn Chah

#19. I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.

Dana Carvey

#20. It is a glorious fever, desire to know.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton