Top 100 Squire Quotes

#1. The fawning courtier and the surly squire often mean the same thing,
each his own interest.

George Berkeley

Squire Quotes #28666
#2. And over my head," relates Squire Haligast, "it form'd an E-clipse, an emptiness in the Sky, with a Cloud-shap'd Line drawn all about it, wherein words might appear, and it read, - 'No King . . .

Thomas Pynchon

Squire Quotes #43500
#3. Isabelle is like a warrior going into battle and she needs ... you said yes? You'd really choose an inexperienced squire?" she asked, her voice incredulous.
He laughed. "I would."
She smiled. "You're lying to me to make me feel better. It's all right. It's working. Now tell
me another lie.

Julie Garwood

Squire Quotes #69143
#4. Red will be made white
Darkness shall become light
Faith will be made sight
Squire shall become knight

Bryan Davis

Squire Quotes #74221
#5. What baron or squire Or knight of the shire Lives half so well as a holy friar.

John O'Keefe

Squire Quotes #84430
#6. Oh, let us love our occupations,
Bless the squire and his relations,
Live upon our daily rations,
And always know our proper stations.

Charles Dickens

Squire Quotes #111304
#7. I'm to attend balls and banquets without my squire?" demanded Raoul, all innocence. "I can't handle things like requesting water to shave with, or getting my clothes pressed. I need Kel.

Tamora Pierce

Squire Quotes #155173
#8. Roger let go; they were now on firm ground, and he did not wish any watchers to think that he was exercising any constraint over his father; and this quiet obedience to his impatient commands did more to soothe the Squire than anything else could have effected just then.

Elizabeth Gaskell

Squire Quotes #248231
#9. Girl, boy or dancing bear, you're the finest page-the finest squire-to-be-at court. (Jon to Alanna)

Tamora Pierce

Squire Quotes #270792
#10. I do try to say, God's will be done, sir," said the Squire, looking up at Mr. Gibson for the first time, and speaking with more life in his voice; "but it's harder to be resigned than happy people think.

Elizabeth Gaskell

Squire Quotes #287318
#11. Nay, nay!" said the Squire. "It's not so easy to break one's heart. Sometimes I've wished it were. But one has to go on living - 'all the appointed days,' as is said in the Bible.

Elizabeth Gaskell

Squire Quotes #568968
#12. His squire's voice broke through the haze of rage that had settled in his head.

Melanie Dickerson

Squire Quotes #584690
#13. AT THE SOUND of the bell, Sir John forgot all ills. "Squire Shallow," he shouted merrily, "the lunch bell calls. Come along and don't forget to bring the bottle of sack. We shall share a celebratory glass over the wizard's hide. High Ho! Off to R-O-O-O-ASTING a wizard we must go!

Sully Tarnish

Squire Quotes #586549
#14. But the country is changing." "It's going to the dogs, I think; - about as fast as it can go." "We build churches much faster than we used to do." "Do we say our prayers in them when we have built them?" asked the Squire.

Anthony Trollope

Squire Quotes #605603
#15. Thin rays of orange creep up Tower Bridge and I realize I have never seen the sunrise from here. I had no idea that it could rise, almost perfectly, between the two towers of the bridge. This new light is a new day, and Timothy Squire and I watch it together.

John Owen Theobald

Squire Quotes #757817
#16. No m'lord. It wouldn't be a secret army if we had seen it. My squire, who has not had the opportunity to be clearly informed about the presence of a secret army, has been ignorant of its existence.

Gary Edward Gedall

Squire Quotes #776501
#17. What are you? (Danger)
Well, had you listened before you stabbed me, you would have heard the 'I'm Acheron's Squire' part. Apparently that somehow escaped your hearing and you mistook me for a pin cushion. (Alexion)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Squire Quotes #826288
#18. Better a long life as a squire than a shore one as a soiled knight.

George R R Martin

Squire Quotes #841003
#19. Her Squire, Celena, Ms. Blood Rite, I-kill-anything-that-breaks-formation, is on her way over here to have a word with you. Since Celena isn't real big on conversation, I'm taking that as a euphemism for 'kick your ass.' (Rafael)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Squire Quotes #866693
#20. Septon Cellador spoke up. "This boy Satin. It's said you mean to make him your steward and squire, in Tollett's place. My lord, the boy's a whore ... a ... dare I say ... a painted catamite from the brothels of Oldtown." And

George R R Martin

Squire Quotes #941704
#21. Since Don Quixote de la Mancha is a crazy fool and a madman, and since Sancho Panza, his squire, knows it, yet, for all that, serves and follows him, and hangs on these empty promises of his, there can be no doubt that he is more of a madman and a fool than his master.

Miguel De Cervantes

Squire Quotes #1034042
#22. Let us be perfectly clear here," said Squire Loontwill. "You are willing to marry our Alexia, even though she is ... well ... ," he floundered. Felicity came to his rescue. "Old." Evylin added, "And plain." "And tan," said Felicity. The squire continued. "And so extraordinarily assertive.

Gail Carriger

Squire Quotes #1135909
#23. Touching your cap to the squire may be damn bad for the squire, but it's damn good for you.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Squire Quotes #1139861
#24. I have seen soldiers panic at the first sight of battle, and a squire pulling arrows from his body to fight and save his dying horse. Nobility is not a birthright, but is defined by one's actions.

Kevin Costner

Squire Quotes #1267931
#25. The old squire died as a gentleman should, of apoplexy, in his armchair, with a decanter at his elbow.
("The Vengeance Of The Dead")

Robert Barr

Squire Quotes #1283879
#26. My name is Jerrod Ross, Squire from Pendern Hall. And who might you be, madam?"

"I? I am Sandra Cranston, Mistress of the walk-up second story flat," she replied coldly.~Timeless Heart

Karyn Gerrard

Squire Quotes #1297582
#27. Captain," said the squire, "the house is quite invisible from the ship. It must be the flag they are aiming at. Would it not be wiser to take it in?"
"Strike my colours!" cried the captain, "No sir, not I"...

Robert Louis Stevenson

Squire Quotes #1367497
#28. All my life I was fascinated by memory," Squire told me. "Then I met E.P., and saw how rich life can be even if you can't remember it. The brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone.

Charles Duhigg

Squire Quotes #1440749
#29. but upon the marriage of the young 'squire, it had received the improvement of a farm-house elevated into a cottage, for his residence,

Jane Austen

Squire Quotes #1460363
#30. The dance, like most dances after supper, was a merry one; some of the older folks joined in it, and the squire himself figured down several couple with a partner, with whom he affirmed he had danced at every Christmas for nearly half a century.

Washington Irving

Squire Quotes #1533403
#31. The Squire came to the side of the bed, and put his arms under Dickon, and lifted the boy - in a dead sleep all the time - and carried him out so, at the door.

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Squire Quotes #1665967
#32. Love without hope, as when the young bird-catcher
Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's own daughter,
So let the imprisoned larks escape and fly
Singing about her head, as she rode by.

Robert Graves

Squire Quotes #1694207
#33. Kiggs. "You were just a squire when they were banished; technically, you weren't banished at all." Maurizio

Rachel Hartman

Squire Quotes #1696649
#34. The Squire's life was quite as idle as his sons', but it was a fiction kept up by himself and his contemporaries in Raveloe that youth was exclusively the period of folly, and that their aged wisdom was constantly in a state of endurance mitigated by sarcasm.

George Eliot

Squire Quotes #1839961
#35. I just try and get the best out of an artist - we all have a responsibility to fill the world with awesome songs!

Matt Squire

Squire Quotes #100
#36. Of course, Paul McCartney's sound is different from mine, but it's the way you hear things, really.

Chris Squire

Squire Quotes #8771
#37. Hey kid ... Im thinking of you! Keep the faith! Youre never alone.

Squire Rushnell

Squire Quotes #30150
#38. Strangely enough, 'I've Seen All Good People' is, I think, the second most played Yes song on American radio after 'Owner Of A Lonely Heart.' And then I think 'Roundabout' is third.

Chris Squire

Squire Quotes #51459
#39. Yes is what I like doing more than anything else. Somewhere along the way, as people came and went, it fell to me to kind of keep it going and oversee the spirit of the enterprise, as it were.

Chris Squire

Squire Quotes #58420
#40. There's always the joy of the performance and fine-tuning new interpretations. Over the years, we've all grown as musicians, so obviously there is a lot of subtlety that wasn't there in the first place.

Chris Squire

Squire Quotes #59303
#41. I'm not so think as you drunk I am !

John Squire

Squire Quotes #60614
#42. I learned to do a few tricks that other people hadn't done before. I developed that trebly bass thing a little further.

Chris Squire

Squire Quotes #64422
#43. I couldn't get session work because most musicians hated my style.

Chris Squire

Squire Quotes #65212
#44. I like to get a vibe first, then a melody and really beat up the melody for a while, then try and find a lyric that really suits him/her.

Matt Squire

Squire Quotes #73070
#45. We've never been to Israel. I'd like to play in Israel.

Chris Squire

Squire Quotes #76141
#46. There's been talk of YES possibly doing something on Broadway in New York. People have approached me with that idea, and there are discussions about that.

Chris Squire

Squire Quotes #107464
#47. We started Yes as a vehicle to develop everyone's individual styles.

Chris Squire

Squire Quotes #134071
#48. I wouldn't object to working with any former member of Yes, really.

Chris Squire

Squire Quotes #148105
#49. Traditionally, an engineer is responsible for capturing sound - microphone choice, gear, etc. A producer can have a number of different responsibilities - anything from songwriting to judging performances - setting mood, and (perhaps most importantly) choosing which songs to work on!

Matt Squire

Squire Quotes #188945
#50. Each of us is born with a built-in GPS, God's Positioning System, a sophisticated navigational package that divinely aligns us with people and events and keeps us from losing our way.

Squire Rushnell

Squire Quotes #196502
#51. 'Close To The Edge,' we actually had played it from beginning to end before we recorded it in the studio. So we knew how long it was, and we knew it would fit on the album fine, so we didn't do any editing.

Chris Squire

Squire Quotes #199754
#52. I would work with Trevor Horn any day of the week. I have a great relationship with him.

Chris Squire

Squire Quotes #236001
#53. Artists get to step outside their comfort zone a 'lil bit and we get some great songs!!

Matt Squire

Squire Quotes #258951
#54. My new knight mistress is famed for wielding sharp edges: Sword, Knife and Tongue!

Tamora Pierce

Squire Quotes #283283
#55. In many ways, I think about the possibility that there could still be a Yes in 100 or 200 years from now, just like a live symphony orchestra.

Chris Squire

Squire Quotes #283456
#56. I thought, 'Wow, if we could have a career that was five or six years long, that would be fantastic.' And, of course, never even thinking it would still be something I'd be doing in 45 years.

Chris Squire

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#57. I really believe that the aliens are us from the future. It seems to me a very plausible reason that explains a lot of phenomena as opposed to green men with one eye from outer space.

Chris Squire

Squire Quotes #309312
#58. It's been a long time since we've been out there playing new material, and we have really enjoyed that. Of course we still enjoy playing the Yes standards as well, but it's great to have a bit of a challenge and pull off new material.

Chris Squire

Squire Quotes #321408
#59. In the half light of morning, in a world between the sheets
I swear I saw her angel wing, my vision was complete
from TIGHTROPE - Stone Roses

Matt Squire

Squire Quotes #334705
#60. I have never played anything live - except for a few special occasions - from 'Fish Out of Water.'

Chris Squire

Squire Quotes #376112
#61. People are used to us being onstage for a while.

Chris Squire

Squire Quotes #388235
#62. All movies, when they're about the music business, tend to have a bit of a wide latitude in terms of how things really were.

Chris Squire

Squire Quotes #415364
#63. Steve Howe met Paul Simon and said that Paul was very approving of our version of 'America.'

Chris Squire

Squire Quotes #423453
#64. We did do the whole of the live suite from 'Fly From Here,' and that was very enjoyable to do. In fact, that is actually our longest piece of music, I think, that we'd ever done.

Chris Squire

Squire Quotes #426038
#65. Moms, even good ones, sometimes lose it a little so as not to lose it all.

Susan Squire

Squire Quotes #446970
#66. '90125' was our biggest-selling album worldwide.

Chris Squire

Squire Quotes #460447
#67. Every artist is different - I work with a lot of artists from the ground up because it's really amazing to watch projects go from Minute 1.

Matt Squire

Squire Quotes #494700
#68. I've had to replace parts in the basses when they've gotten old or worn out, so everything isn't absolutely original.

Chris Squire

Squire Quotes #517423
#69. Philly has always been one of our favorite towns to play in, and the fans have been very loyal and very supportive over the years.

Chris Squire

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#70. Historical exclusivity often has a way of turning into present and institutionalized tragedy. Whose story gets told matters.

Aurin Squire

Squire Quotes #528816
#71. After awhile, you start realizing that change is good for you. It's healthy.

Chris Squire

Squire Quotes #535704
#72. There is a well known saying among designers in the educational games business: 'If you want to take all of the fun out of it, get a bunch of educators involved.

Kurt Squire

Squire Quotes #536432
#73. The other guys and myself have agreed that Billy Sherwood will do an excellent job of covering my parts, and the show as a whole will deliver the same Yes experience that our fans have come to expect over the years.

Chris Squire

Squire Quotes #581087
#74. I like working with modern sounds in the studio as much as I'm happy to work with a basic rock n' roll format.

Chris Squire

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#75. Although you will often receive something other than what you prayed for, I have never known it to be worse - it has always been better than expected.

Squire Rushnell

Squire Quotes #608015
#76. I've been called the journeyman. It's really more by default than it is by design.

Chris Squire

Squire Quotes #624217
#77. Let us alone, little woman. We understand each other, don't we, doctor? Why, bless your life, he gives me better than he gets many a time; only, you see, he sugars it over, and says a sharp thing, and pretends it's all civility and humility; but I can tell when he's giving me a pill.

Elizabeth Gaskell

Squire Quotes #662602
#78. Everyone enjoys downtime at home, I'm sure, for various reasons, but I find the whole system of being out there and doing shows for people - the more of it you do, in fact the more energizing it is, for me individually.

Chris Squire

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#79. With how huge Yes was, especially in the '70s and '80s, as a touring band and actually playing at the JFK Stadium in Philadelphia to 130,000 people, which is the biggest-paying show ever in rock history, you would think we'd done enough for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Chris Squire

Squire Quotes #698386
#80. Success is different for every artist - I get psyched when i help realise their vision etc.

Matt Squire

Squire Quotes #706625
#81. 'Close to the Edge' is the album where we first attempted to do the extra-long-form piece of music, having one song taking up the whole side of a piece of vinyl.

Chris Squire

Squire Quotes #717822
#82. Pooh! away with love! Nay, my dear, we loved each other so dearly we should never have been happy with any one else; but that's a different thing. People aren't like what they were when we were young. All the love nowadays is just silly fancy, and sentimental romance, as far as I can see.

Elizabeth Gaskell

Squire Quotes #741416
#83. Steve Hackett is a very underrated writer and actually a very good singer.

Chris Squire

Squire Quotes #770067
#84. I think I'll not attempt to do a 'Fish Out Of Water 2.'

Chris Squire

Squire Quotes #771855
#85. I think what the story of Yes has been is we've wandered in and out of different styles over the years.

Chris Squire

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#86. I was a big Who fan when I was 15, 16 years old, and I used to go watch them play at the Marquee Club in London as often as I could.

Chris Squire

Squire Quotes #877316
#87. He had married a delicate fine London lady; it was one of those perplexing marriages of which one cannot understand the reasons.

Elizabeth Gaskell

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#88. Let every family meet once a day or week for a real hearty sing, and their sing will give them more pleasure than they will take all the rest of the day.

Orson Squire Fowler

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#89. Not many people know this, but when Yes first started doing club dates back in 1968, '69, we did a few tracks from 'The Magic Garden' album in our set. We just loved the harmonies that the 5th Dimension had as well.

Chris Squire

Squire Quotes #894042
#90. The Beatles had a six-year career, from 1963 to 1969, which - to me, in my early 20s - seemed like a phenomenally long time.

Chris Squire

Squire Quotes #908900
#91. I think it was 'Tales of Topographic Oceans' on 8-track that was the funniest thing because it would fade out in the middle of a song and fade back in again, and when the tracks change, it was quite amusing.

Chris Squire

Squire Quotes #910401
#92. 'Fragile,' of course, was a very successful album for us, especially here in the States. It had a lot of solo pieces on it, though.

Chris Squire

Squire Quotes #915780
#93. It depends on various things like if the promoters want to have a break so they can sell more T-shirts and booze, then they ask if we can do an interval. I personally prefer not to do that. Once you get onstage, I like to stay there.

Chris Squire

Squire Quotes #918786
#94. On our studio album 'Fly From Here' in 2011, we spent a year and a half promoting that around the world.

Chris Squire

Squire Quotes #938533
#95. The idea of 'Yes on Broadway' has come up. It would reflect the history of Yes.

Chris Squire

Squire Quotes #941433
#96. The band will be going along, and somebody or another will say, 'I want to go off and do a solo career.' ... They come back, and other people come in.

Chris Squire

Squire Quotes #951124
#97. Over the years, Yes actually made 20 albums of original studio material.

Chris Squire

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#98. Touring is a tough business.

Chris Squire

Squire Quotes #965157
#99. I was working in a music store in London, and this particular place happened to be the importers for Rickenbacker guitars into England. So I started seeing these basses coming in.

Chris Squire

Squire Quotes #968336
#100. The way Yes works is when we have a new member come in, as in Jon Davison, it's appropriate that we see what differences we can get out of a new contributing member in order to keep Yes interesting.

Chris Squire

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