‘Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.’ – Denis Diderot

‘In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.’ – Desiderius Erasmus

‘I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.’ – Pietro Aretino

‘A lion is called a ‘king of beasts’ obviously for a reason.’ – Jack Hanna

‘There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.’ – Orison Swett Marden

‘He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

‘I’m Machiavelli’s offspring, I’m the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both.’ – Kendrick Lamar

‘He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.’ – John Milton

‘A king without power is an absurdity.’ – James Monroe

‘I’ve always said, if you treat yourself like a queen, you’ll attract a king.’ – Pepa

‘I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.’ – Thomas More

‘Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.’ – King Solomon

‘I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world.’ – Buddha

‘Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King’s daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.’ – Joan of Arc

‘I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.’ – Elizabeth I

‘The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.’ – E. M. Forster

‘Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.’ – Constantin Brancusi

‘Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama’s running so we all can fly.’ – Jay-Z

‘You have to beat the king to be the king. No one is going to hand you a gold medal.’ – Donovan Bailey

‘The king must die so that the country can live.’ – Maximilien Robespierre

‘The greatest lesson I learned that year in Mrs. Henry’s class was the lesson Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to teach us all: Never judge people by the color of their skin. God makes each of us unique in ways that go much deeper.’ – Ruby Bridges

‘Authority forgets a dying king.’ – Alfred Lord Tennyson

‘In the land of the skunks, he who has half a nose is king.’ – Chris Farley

‘If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.’ – Mencius

‘Number one, cash is king… number two, communicate… number three, buy or bury the competition.’ – Jack Welch

‘I have seen the king with a face of Glory, He who is the eye and the sun of heaven, He who is the companion and healer of all beings, He who is the soul and the universe that births souls.’ – Rumi

‘One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.’ – Abraham Maslow

‘There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles! – John Hancock’ – John Hancock

‘I’m the greatest thing that ever lived! I’m the king of the world! I’m a bad man. I’m the prettiest thing that ever lived.’ – Muhammad Ali

‘There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.’ – Helen Keller

‘He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.’ – Saint Augustine

‘Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.’ – George Eliot

‘Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.’ – Horatio Nelson

‘It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.’ – William F. Buckley, Jr.

‘The enemies cannot destroy the king who has at his service the respect and friendship of the wise men who can find fault, disagree, and correct him.’ – Thiruvalluvar

‘Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.’ – Thomas Hardy

‘It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man.’ – Oriana Fallaci

‘The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.’ – Chanakya

‘Elvis may be the King of Rock and Roll, but I am the Queen.’ – Little Richard

‘Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.’ – Morgan Freeman

‘In my office in Jerusalem, there’s an ancient seal. It’s a signet ring of a Jewish official from the time of the Bible. The seal was found right next to the Western Wall, and it dates back 2,700 years, to the time of King Hezekiah. Now, there’s a name of the Jewish official inscribed on the ring in Hebrew. His name was Netanyahu.’ – Benjamin Netanyahu

‘Elvis was the king. No doubt about it. People like myself, Mick Jagger and all the others only followed in his footsteps.’ – Rod Stewart

‘The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.’ – Wallace Stevens

‘Death may be the King of terrors… but Jesus is the King of kings!’ – Dwight L. Moody

‘I’m a King. Regardless of what I’ve been through and what I’ve done, I present myself as a King. And I get that respect from people, from everybody I deal with. I worked my whole life to establish that respect and make sure I get that respect.’ – DMX

‘Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.’ – Pericles

‘Funny enough, you know who I used to really like in Lion King? It was Scar.’ – Burna Boy

‘I would rather die and come to Jesus Christ than be king over the entire earth. Him I seek who died for us; Him I love who rose again because of us.’ – Ignatius of Antioch

‘Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.’ – Thomas Malory

‘The year 1999, seventh month, from the sky will come a great King of Terror. To bring back to life the great King of the Mongols, before and after Mars to reign by good luck.’ – Nostradamus

‘I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as king as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.’ – Edward VIII

‘The people under our system, like the king in a monarchy, never dies.’ – Martin Van Buren

‘A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven.’ – Charles R. Swindoll

‘I’d rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools.’ – Jack Black

‘I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king’s business.’ – Isaac Newton

‘Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.’ – Louis XIV

‘He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.’ – John Mason Brown

‘Do you think I am standing here, making this up as I go? I am sorry to disillusion you. I am not Robin Williams. I am the king of the pen.’ – Mitch Hedberg

‘No one’s better than me. I’m not better than anyone. Whether it’s Eric Clapton or BB King we look straight at each other. And that keeps it real.’ – Carlos Santana

‘Melody is king, and don’t you ever forget it. Lyrics appear to be out front, but they’re not; they’re just an accompanying factor. If they’re good, you’re really in good shape. Lyrics are written to be rewritten.’ – Quincy Jones

‘I am an international leader, the dean of the Arab rulers, the king of kings of Africa and the imam of Muslims, and my international status does not allow me to descend to a lower level.’ – Muammar al-Gaddafi

‘If you can sell that you’re the King of Scotland, or Henry V on a tiny stage in a studio theater somewhere, then you can probably sell that you’re a starship captain or a time traveler.’ – David Tennant

‘The king reigns but does not govern.’ – Louis Adolphe Thiers

‘The people who have impacted the world didn’t live long. Martin Luther King. John F. Kennedy. These people who impact the world were not old people, but they lived so effectively that we cannot erase them from history.’ – Myles Munroe

‘Thank God we have the example of Martin Luther King, Jr. People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples’ lives, and that’s why it’s so important not just to commemorate his life, but to study and try to live by the principles of that life.’ – Coretta Scott King

‘In political and social analysis, we still have not cut off the head of the king.’ – Michel Foucault

‘That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.’ – William Blackstone

‘I got different moods. Like, if I’m in a good mood, I listen to ‘Up’ by Thug. If I’m not in a good mood, I’ll listen to ‘King TROUP’ – that’s a real emotional one.’ – Lil Uzi Vert

‘All we have to do is to peel the shrines like an onion, and we will be with the king himself.’ – Howard Carter

‘My tastes are not those of the king, who has none, except for hunting and mechanic’s labour.’ – Marie Antoinette

‘I want to be a traditional king first and foremost, building on the tradition of my predecessors standing for continuity and stability in this country, but also a 21st-century king who can unite, represent and encourage society.’ – Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands

‘Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned.’ – Marcus Garvey

‘Were I not a king, I would be a university man.’ – King James I

‘I have a lot of respect for Martin Luther King. I think he was one of the greatest orators that the country ever produced.’ – Fred Hampton

‘I wasn’t allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.’ – Denzel Washington

‘O king! I was but a man like others, asleep upon my couch, when lo, the breezes of the All-Glorious were wafted over me, and taught me the knowledge of all that hath been. This thing is not from me, but from One Who is Almighty and All-Knowing.’ – Baha’u’llah

‘I never saw Frankenstein or King Kong or the Creature from the Black Lagoon as bad guys. They were the good guys.’ – Tim Burton

‘Art thou the King of the Jews?’ – Pontius Pilate

‘I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.’ – Ralph Abernathy

‘When I was 15 years old and in the tenth grade, I heard of Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, when I was 18, I met Dr. King and we became friends. Two years after that I became very involved in the civil rights movement. I was in college at that time. As I got more and more involved, I saw politics as a means of bringing about change.’ – John Lewis

‘People say I am the king of painful shoes. I don’t want to create painful shoes, but it is not my job to create something comfortable. I try to make high heels as comfortable as they can be, but my priority is design, beauty and sexiness. I’m not against them, but comfort is not my focus.’ – Christian Louboutin

‘There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. Dr. King did not stir us to move for our civil rights to have them taken away in these kinds of fashions.’ – Dorothy Height

‘Jack Nicholson and I have been friends ever since we met while doing ‘The King of Marvin Gardens.” – Scatman Crothers

‘Barack Obama commits war crimes – Somalia, Yemen. He commits war crimes in Pakistan, Afghanistan. Martin Luther King Jr. tried to keep a spotlight on war crimes, to keep track of the innocents killed… There is a major clash.’ – Cornel West

‘There is no king of golf. Never has been, never will be. Golf is the most democratic game on Earth… It punishes and exalts us all with splendid equal opportunity.’ – Arnold Palmer

‘That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.’ – Woodrow Wilson

‘The NAACP was not a black-run, black-originated organization. It was run by 21 white, socialist, atheist, Marxist Democrats. It was the antithesis of Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.’s community at that time, which was capitalist, Christian, very pro-life, and pro-America.’ – Burgess Owens

‘Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win – preferably a knight rather than a king or queen.’ – John Rhys-Davies

‘When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King.’ – Leslie Fiedler

‘An insult is mean or unkind. Milton Berle called me the Sultan of Insult, and I was called the King of Insult. But the guy that gave me the best title – and I use it to this day – was Johnny Carson. He called me Mr. Warmth.’ – Don Rickles

‘It is not difficult now to make good food because we have sophisticated equipment and refined ingredients. Being innovative also helps you. It sets you apart from other chefs. But taste is king.’ – Alvin Leung

‘I’m going to be the next king of the Earth.’ – Lil Tjay

‘A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.’ – Marlene Dietrich

‘The thing about playing percussion is that you can create all these emotions that can be sometimes beautiful, sometimes really ugly, or sometimes sweet, sometimes as big as King Kong and so on. And so there can be a real riot out there, or it can be so refined.’ – Evelyn Glennie

‘You had better have one King than five hundred.’ – Charles II

‘I read a lot of science fiction, but I also mixed it up with a lot of other genres: crime, literary fiction, as well as nonfiction. Author-wise, I’m a fan of Stephen King, Lauren Beukes, Robert McCammon, Raymond Chandler, Greg Rucka, Ed Brubaker and Gail Simone, among many others.’ – Adam Christopher

‘We’re all expendable. We think the world’s going to stop when a pope dies, or a king. And then… life goes on.’ – Sylvester Stallone

‘I have mortally opposed the English king; I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he unjustly claimed as his own.’ – William Wallace

‘The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.’ – Muhammad Iqbal

‘I’m influenced by Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelly, Roland Kirk, John Coltrane, B.B. King, and then by bluegrass. But when I was 16, bluegrass wasn’t cool. We was rock n’ rollers then: Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis.’ – Dickey Betts

‘If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.’ – David Horowitz

‘Martin Luther King, Jr. didn’t carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag.’ – Adrian Cronauer

”The King of Masked Singer,’ as they call it in Korea, it’s the most popular show in Korea, and it’s my mom’s favorite show.’ – Ken Jeong

‘Without false modesty, I feel that, when I’m on the stage, I’m the king, the boss of the situation.’ – Vladimir Horowitz

‘What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.’ – Joseph Brodsky

‘Not one foot will I fly, so long as breath bides within my breast; for, by Him that shaped both sea and land, this day shall end my battles or my life. I will die King of England.’ – Richard III of England

‘To be a naturalist is better than to be a king.’ – William Beebe

‘Just as Jews in the U.S. joined Martin Luther King, I’m sure hundreds of thousands of Jews will join the struggle for civil equality in Israel.’ – Ayman Odeh

‘You supposed to be able to do anything in this world. That’s what Martin Luther King told me.’ – Lil Wayne

‘The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters.’ – Rush Limbaugh

‘We can’t answer King’s assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.’ – Sammy Davis, Jr.

‘I can only speak for myself, but when I was growing up in Memphis – and having the Martin Luther King holiday and the moment of pause on April 4th – he was just a statue to me. I wanted to make him a little bit more real to me as a human being.’ – Katori Hall

‘I love the story behind the Vasa Museum: in the 17th century, the Swedish king was trying to make a statement by building a huge ship that would sail around Europe carrying the Swedish flag and proving that we were a force to be reckoned with, and basically, the ship was top-heavy, and so it went 300 or so yards and sank.’ – Bill Skarsgard

‘It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.’ – Joan of Arc

‘The king is full of kindnesses toward me, and I love him tenderly. But it is pitiable to see his weakness for Madame du Barri, who is the silliest and most impertinent creature that it is possible to conceive.’ – Marie Antoinette

‘Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.’ – Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

‘The Declaration of Independence pronounced the irrevocable decree of political separation, between the United States and their people on the one part, and the British king, government, and nation on the other.’ – John Quincy Adams

‘Martin Luther King, with whom I worked very closely, became very distressed when a number of the ministers working for him wanted him to dismiss me from his staff because of my homosexuality.’ – Bayard Rustin

‘I am trying to build the biggest callus possible on my first finger so I can do one-finger bends and vibrato like B.B. King.’ – Paul Gilbert

‘Martin Luther King can have his own self-titled birthday recognized as a national holiday, but not our country’s first president?’ – The Ultimate Warrior

‘I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.’ – Robert Green Ingersoll

‘I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.’ – Thomas Babington Macaulay

‘Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King’s books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books.’ – Anne Rice

‘Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis?’ – Christopher Marlowe

‘I wrote poetry, which got me into lyrics. Stevie Wonder, Carole King, Elton John pulled me into pop. I started singing with a band – just for fun – when I was 17. And pretty soon, I was thinking I could sing pop in English as well as Spanish.’ – Gloria Estefan

‘We’ve come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can’t imagine Dr. King watching the ‘Real Housewives’ or ‘Jersey Shore.” – Samuel L. Jackson

‘I’ve never been a Burger King person. I’m a total McDonald’s person.’ – Anderson Cooper

‘Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort.’ – Robert Kennedy

‘I don’t believe in strict diets or starving yourself; eat three meals a day. I believe in eating a good breakfast, a good lunch and a light dinner. Eat breakfast like a king, eat lunch like a queen, and eat dinner like a pauper. Your ultimate goal is to eat all the basic food groups in those three different meals.’ – Denise Austin

‘A calling is you feel – you look out and see the need – maybe it’s the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it’s the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was – felt called.’ – Billy Graham

‘We went to Ibiza, and I was on Ritalin, and, for a kid who couldn’t concentrate, I read a 200-page book on King Arthur, and my mum just hated it. She said it just wasn’t me.’ – Alfie Allen

‘When me and Mike Tyson were around, we played king of the hill. Whoever comes to the hill, you get your behind whooped. We don’t pick and choose. I fought guys when I had fractured wrists and ribs, bad backs, I didn’t care. I was the king of the hill; Tyson was king of the hill. When we left, people were trying to get the ‘most money fight.” – Roy Jones Jr.

‘The year 1999, seventh month, from Heaven will come a great king of terror: to bring back to life the great King of Angolmois. Before and after Mars to reign by good luck.’ – Nostradamus

‘My bed is actually two king beds put together.’ – Cindy Margolis

‘We are one people; we are only family. And when we finally accept these truths, then we will be able to fulfill Dr. King’s dream to build a beloved community, a nation, and a world at peace with itself.’ – John Lewis

‘I admire people who have fought for change: Martin Luther King Jr., Harriet Tubman, Abraham Lincoln. I’m dead serious when I say that – those are my heroes. I also like Ben Affleck.’ – Ryan Garcia

‘I was brought into the life of one Bas Rutten in 2001 at a grappling tournament that I was attending to support a friend of mine. I had never met Bas before but, of course, knew who he was: the King of Pancrase, UFC Heavyweight champion, and the commentator with Pride.’ – Mauro Ranallo

‘In a blind town, the one-eyed man is king.’ – Ken Harrelson

‘If I were king of the world there wouldn’t be boat people, there would only be people coming in boats. I would mix us all up so that we were all exactly one shade of each other.’ – Bryce Courtenay

‘And the comic Daniel Kitson, he makes very good pies. I think he made one with feta, it was incredible. King of the pies.’ – Roisin Conaty

‘An elephant is the king of the jungle for the simple reason a lion is only brave when there is loads of them.’ – Dereck Chisora

‘My black hero is and always will be Martin Luther King, not just because of the strength of his oratory but because his vision was very much the reality that I’d come to take for granted.’ – David Harewood

‘There was a line call that didn’t look so great. I went ballistic. Called the umpire a jerk. Whacked a ball into the stands. Then smacked a soda can with my racket, and got soda all over the King of Sweden, who was sitting in the front row.’ – John McEnroe

‘The affairs of America I shall ever look upon as my first business whilst I am in Europe. Any confidence from the king and ministers, any popularity I may have among my own countrymen, any means in my power, shall be, to the best of my skill, and till the end of my life, exerted in behalf of an interest I have so much at heart.’ – Marquis de Lafayette

‘I really do love bluesy-jazzy music, so I love Etta James, B.B. King and Billie Holiday. I love that they have soul in their voices – I think that’s something important is having.’ – Bridgit Mendler

‘The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.’ – Sarah Bernhardt

‘When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.’ – John Wanamaker

‘Well, I’m half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My Australian mother, Meredith Hooper, was invited in late 2007 by some Australian friends to make up a token Australian audience in a tiny fringe theater play reading of an unproduced, unrehearsed play called ‘The King’s Speech.” – Tom Hooper

‘In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.’ – Gore Vidal

‘If Martin Luther King came back, he’d say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.’ – Henry Louis Gates

‘Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.’ – Sally Ride

‘Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King – and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.’ – James Hansen

‘The first real thing I heard was Three O’Clock Blues by B.B. King. That’s where it all began for me.’ – Robin Trower

‘My father is a South African actor who danced in broadway musicals for ‘Lion King.” – Doja Cat

‘I would not like a king who could obey.’ – Pierre Corneille

‘Indeed it is very hard, when we have let the King’s subjects have so much of our lands for so little value.’ – Joseph Brant

‘When I have bad days, I just eat lots of chocolate ice cream and dance to the ‘Lion King’ soundtrack. It’s really odd, but it’s true.’ – Blake Lively

‘I do think one success of Northern Europe, which the United States came from, was its willingness to accept innovation in business practices like Adam Smith and the whole Enlightenment. It essentially made the merchant class free instead of controlled by the king and aristocracy. That was essential.’ – James D. Watson

‘Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn’t care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It’s like, ‘Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.” – Nathan Fillion

‘Also, with information having just come out at the time about J. Edgar Hoover’s electronic surveillance of Dr. King, it gave greater weight to the statements of those persons who were alleging involvement of the FBI.’ – Louis Stokes

‘I’m hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That’s what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that’s from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.’ – Jay-Z

‘If Congress can move President’s Day, Columbus Day and, alas, Martin Luther King’s Birthday celebration for the convenience of shoppers, shouldn’t they at least consider moving Election Day for the convenience of voters?’ – Andrew Young

‘As for our great King, when we venture into His presence, let us have a purpose there. Let us beware of playing at praying; it is insolence toward God.’ – Charles Spurgeon

‘A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.’ – Jean de la Bruyere

‘I have been inspired by Martin Luther King and how he inspired a movement. I have learned that a cause must be organic; if it is to have an impact it must belong to those who join the movement and not those who lead it.’ – Simon Sinek

‘The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn’t just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther King. It was thousands and thousands – millions, I should say – of people taking risks, becoming leaders in their community.’ – Barbara Ehrenreich

‘Martin Luther King Jr. was an impassioned advocate of economic justice as well as social justice.’ – Martin Luther King III

‘My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them. The king will not have the same weaknesses as his grandfather. I hope that he will have no favorites; but I am afraid that he is too mild and too easy. You may depend upon it that I will not draw the king into any great expenses.’ – Marie Antoinette

‘I wrote for ‘King of the Hill’ for three seasons.’ – Wyatt Cenac

‘I am not like Stephen King, who writes one book, then writes another. I finish a book and go off and… look for wrecks. Then, six months later, I might start another book.’ – Clive Cussler

‘The King has a right to make political remarks. He is a Thai citizen and has his rights and freedoms under the Constitution. Each of you is under the Constitution, and so is the King. I am using my freedom under the Constitution.’ – Bhumibol Adulyadej

‘A king is always a king – and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse.’ – Mary Shelley

‘I grew up poor in crappy situations… various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes growing up, be it fiction like Stephen King or Piers Anthony or non-fiction like reading Hunter S. Thompson essays or reading the Beats. I was a huge fan of the Beat movement.’ – Corey Taylor

‘We can do little things for God; I turn the cake that is frying on the pan for love of him, and that done, if there is nothing else to call me, I prostrate myself in worship before him, who has given me grace to work; afterwards I rise happier than a king.’ – Brother Lawrence

‘Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in ‘King Lear.” – Simon Callow

‘People don’t see very often their death coming… Look at the French Revolution: The king of France was thinking in the 1780s, ‘We’re doing rather better than my father in the 1770s.” – Norman Davies

‘Back in 2000, I had come to a crossroads in my life, unsure about what career path I should pursue. Shepherd, bouncer, philosopher king, ventriloquist or perhaps man on the flying trapeze. Fortunately, I was guided back onto the path of the magical world of music.’ – Dennis DeYoung

‘The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba’s father gets trampled.’ – Vanessa Hudgens

‘The king of comedy is dead. Richard Pryor was the king of comedy. The rest of them are the king of copycats.’ – Paul Mooney

‘The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master’s ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.’ – Walter Lippmann

‘The King of Spain displayed his esteem for me in a manner that I confess flattered me pleasantly when, after the death of Don Luis de Haro, he stated publicly in front of all the foreign ambassadors that he wanted to follow my example in not having a prime minister any longer.’ – Louis XIV

‘Well, first of all, I was asked by Ross Perot on a telephone call in March of 1992 if, since he had committed on the Larry King Show to becoming a candidate for president, to get on all 50 ballots.’ – James Stockdale

‘Heard in full sound, the Gospels tell about the establishment of a theocracy, and portray what theocracy looks like with Jesus as king.’ – N. T. Wright

‘By blood a king, in heart a clown.’ – Alfred Lord Tennyson

‘My mother was a big influence. She kept pushing me because I was very shy and inhibited. And schoolwork was very difficult for me because I couldn’t concentrate. I was failing almost every subject. To this day, I’m not too good at reading a book. But I was the president of my high school comedy group, and they treated me like a king.’ – Don Rickles

‘A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back – but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.’ – Marian Wright Edelman

‘King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.’ – Constance Baker Motley

‘Martin Luther King took us to the mountain top: I want to take us to the bank.’ – Don King

‘Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.’ – Mark Van Doren

‘In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king.’ – Desiderius Erasmus

‘I mean the home run king, to me, is Hank Aaron, but statistically, it’s Barry Bonds.’ – Joe Buck

‘We’ve not reached the promised land. We’re still wandering around, bumping into each other in the wilderness of ignorance and hate. That is why the King holiday is so important.’ – Yolanda King

‘I want to get more and more sophisticated. I’m ready to go from being a kid to being a king.’ – King Krule

‘Democracies are slow to anger and hesitant to go to war: Voters don’t want to sacrifice their children for the glory of a selfish king.’ – Michio Kaku

‘I will tell you King’s First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.’ – Billie Jean King

‘I became the face of a leading personal injury firm, and popularised the catchphrase ‘Don’t delay, Claim Today.’ One of their adverts was targeted at the Pakistani and Indian community and became extremely popular as I appeared in it next to The King of Bollywood, Shah Rukh Khan.’ – Reham Khan

‘I want to reaffirm, as king, my faith in the unity of Spain.’ – Felipe VI of Spain

‘My greatest reward is knowing for certain, as I do with many other acts and artistes, that without Jonathan King being alive and involved, Genesis would not exist, and the guys would have had careers as intended – as accountants and lawyers!’ – Jonathan King

‘Because homecoming came first, and there was the homecoming court. The five guys on homecoming court were disqualified from being in the prom court. So being prom king was being sixth most popular.’ – Andy Richter

‘Martin Luther King was a misguided leader. He worked to be recognized as the leader of black America when what black America needs isn’t a leader, it is education.’ – Jim Brown

”Tiger King.’ They are absolutely gone with the fairies, they’re all absolutely raving out of the box, the lot of them. All those people with animals like tigers, who’ve got their own zoos in America, and one guy’s got something like 2,000 tigers in his back garden. It’s absolutely mad.’ – Shaun Ryder

‘I was condemned to be beheaded, or burnt, as the king pleased; and he was graciously pleased, from the great remains of his love, to choose the mildest sentence.’ – Sarah Fielding

‘A native speaker of English who has never read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barbarian.’ – Richard Dawkins

‘Yes, I think it’s really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement and moving toward a sort of coalitional relationship with the trade union movement.’ – Angela Davis

‘Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.’ – Morgan Freeman

‘I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War was raging. When I was 18, I was eligible for the draft, but when I went to be tested, I didn’t qualify.’ – Radhanath Swami

‘What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays’ Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people… Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie… Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it’s down to us.’ – Jim Hightower

‘I have stood on the shoulders of giants like Billie Jean King, Hillary Clinton, my mother – people who have really empowered and influenced my life in an incredible way.’ – Michelle Kwan

‘Nothing shocks me anymore. I’ve embraced men in thongs, I’ve embraced women with padded bras. I mean, I can embrace Larry King saying ‘fierce.” – Johnny Weir

‘A judge is not a god or a king. He has the last word most of the time, but sometimes, one makes mistakes.’ – Joseph Wapner

‘What the heck is a king? I’m a cog in the wheel.’ – Chuck Berry

‘What, nephew, said the king, is the wind in that door?’ – Thomas Malory

‘If we want to talk about Gross Natural Product, we have to talk about the King of Bhutan’s index of Gross National Happiness, too. Certainly I have found, as many travellers before me, that people in the poorest places are often the readiest to shower me, from an affluent country, with hospitality and kindness.’ – Pico Iyer

‘You have to realize that the customer really is king. People who go into more established businesses probably have to be careful not to be casual about that. When you have a brand-new business, and nobody knows who you are, you know you have to work really hard for your customers.’ – Fred DeLuca

‘I did my share of kid acting, like lots of us do. I even played King Herod when I was 6, but when I got to the end of my school period, that was it.’ – Theo James

‘Twain’s ‘A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court’ made me long to wake in an era when my Casio wristwatch would strike folks as sorcery, and Martin Amis’s ‘Time’s Arrow’ wrecked my assumption that all narratives had to proceed from Then to More-Recently-Than-Then.’ – Anthony Doerr

‘Martin Luther King Jr. was not just a man of peace. He was a radical pacifist, and so he was against war across the board.’ – Cornel West

‘After ‘The Wonder Years,’ I ended up having a voiceover career, which was something I never even knew was possible. But after the character I was playing on ‘The Wonder Years,’ people said, ‘Oh, would you like to do a Burger King thing? And there’s a 7 Up thing…’ And then I got to do ‘Dilbert.’ I think my voice kind of fit for that.’ – Daniel Stern

‘While our country has made great strides in breaking down the barriers which for so long denied equal opportunity to all Americans, we are not yet the beautiful symphony of brotherhood of Dr. King’s dream.’ – Adam Schiff

‘It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology – the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.’ – Martin Scorsese

‘I am very, very hopeful about the American South – I believe that we will lead America to what Dr. King called ‘the beloved community.” – John Lewis

‘The world is better because of Coretta Scott King. She affected countless lives and her voice will be deeply missed, especially by those who carry on her incredible undertaking.’ – Alcee Hastings

‘Martin Luther King said it was time to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of human civilization. I don’t think anyone is calling Martin Luther King a New Age woo-woo.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘We’re trained to see the world in terms of charismatic organizations and charismatic people. That’s who we look to for leadership and change, for transformation. We’re awaiting the next J.F.K., the next Martin Luther King, the next Gandhi, the next Nelson Mandela.’ – Paul Hawken

‘People say I am the king of painful shoes.’ – Christian Louboutin

‘I’m the king of napping. I can nap and I snore. Then I wake up, go to the toilet, wash my face, have a coffee and it’s like a brand new day.’ – Gino D’Acampo

‘Playing King George, for me, was a lesson in stillness and timing.’ – Jonathan Groff

‘Continuing down a path where profit is king is unsustainable for our society, our health and our planet.’ – Caroline Lucas

‘As Governor of my country, I have been an enemy to its enemies; I have slain the English; I have mortally opposed the English King; I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he unjustly claimed as his own.’ – William Wallace

‘I weigh the man, not his title; ’tis not the king’s stamp can make the metal better.’ – William Wycherley

‘Every man should be the intellectual proprietor of himself, honest with himself, and intellectually hospitable; and upon every brain, reason should be enthroned as king.’ – Robert Green Ingersoll

‘King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France… settle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France.’ – Joan of Arc

‘When I was a kid, I always looked up to people like B.B. King and Ray Charles.’ – Daryl Hall

‘I grew up the No. 1 Michael Jordan fan on Earth. I was from the Philadelphia area and Jordan was king.’ – Frank Vogel

‘When I start doing movies, that’ll be the time to pack Vine in. Quit when you’re on top. Be the king.’ – King Bach

‘I don’t really read a lot. I got a few Booker Prize books and some others and thought I’d try this but quite quickly I just stick them down. I do like some Stephen King books but with some of them I just put them down as well. But I’m like that with telly stuff as well and films or music.’ – Limmy

‘To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.’ – Elizabeth I

‘I always cry when Mufasa dies in ‘The Lion King.’ I just can’t handle it.’ – Spencer Matthews

‘If I were a Negro, I’d be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I’d rather go down with my flag flying. If you’re weak or crippled, or you can’t speak out or fight back in some way, then people don’t hesitate to treat you badly.’ – Abraham Maslow

‘There’s a real danger in trying to stay king of the mountain. You stop taking risks, you stop being as creative, because you’re trying to maintain a position. Apart from anything else that really takes the fun out of it.’ – Sissy Spacek

”Hurt Village’ is based on a real housing project in Memphis, about three minutes away from the Lorraine Hotel where Dr. King was assassinated, so in my work I’m focusing on a very specific area in Memphis. I see ‘Hurt Village’ as a natural extension of ‘The Mountaintop.” – Katori Hall

‘Stephen King. Now I’m not crazy about him, but he’s a great a writer.’ – Mickey Spillane

‘Every color I can think of and nationality, we were all touched by Dr. King because he made us like each other and respect each other.’ – Lena Horne

‘Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.’ – Isaac Newton

‘My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she would put on Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Cole Porter records. I’d crawl up on the piano stool, sit on a phone book and play.’ – Tori Amos

‘Having listened to great songwriters like James Taylor and Carole King, I felt there was nothing new that was coming out that really represented me and the way I felt. So I started writing my own stuff.’ – Amy Winehouse

‘Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.’ – Ambrose Bierce

‘I never needed much, and I never thought I’d get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven.’ – Dave Grohl

‘We don’t go to war to protect Pizza Hut or Burger King or some other things, some of the nonsense I’ve seen on our battlefields.’ – Michael T. Flynn

‘With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of a courtesan; it may be so, but I have the heart of a King. I live free, I enjoy myself, I can call myself happy.’ – Pietro Aretino

‘If you’re Stephen King and you have a massive body of huge-selling well-respected work, you can pivot and do whatever you want. I don’t have that body of work, I don’t have that audience that’s comfortable with me enough yet to follow my bliss with me.’ – Seth Grahame-Smith

‘When I heard BB King’s ‘Sweet Sixteen,’ I knew I wanted to play bass because that was the thing that made that record: the bass player.’ – Donald Dunn

‘I’m the king of Dublin.’ – Jose Aldo

‘I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.’ – Carlos Santana

‘In truth, we have delayed to pass sentence on the person of our lord the king, waiting, if perhaps he may, by God’s grace, repent; but we will pass it ere long unless he does repent.’ – Thomas Becket

‘I wasn’t predicted to be anything. I just followed an inner spirit, and it put me in the right place and the right time. I didn’t want to be the mayor of Atlanta. I didn’t want to run for Congress. I didn’t want to work for Martin Luther King Jr. I wanted to work close to him and be a writer and write about the movement.’ – Andrew Young

‘Martin Luther King, Jr. tried to live his life serving others.’ – Coretta Scott King

‘The greatest moral leader of my lifetime was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose private life does not bear close examination.’ – Molly Ivins

‘Will Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who likely will soon become king of his country, use his power to bring peace to the world around him?’ – Jamal Khashoggi

‘My child, you are going to be a great king; do not imitate me in the taste I have had for building, or in that I have had for war; try, on the contrary, to be at peace with your neighbors.’ – Louis XIV

‘I’ve only read three books by Stephen King. When I was 10 I read ‘The Long Walk,’ one of his pseudonymous Bachman books. In my early 20s, while trapped on a family vacation, I read ‘The Dark Half,’ which taught me a word I have never forgotten: psychopomp. Now I have read ’11/22/63.” – Lev Grossman

‘I started at Pillsbury as a manager in one of their analysis functions, then worked my way up the corporate ladder to become vice president. Moving to Burger King was an important moment in my career.’ – Herman Cain

‘If you want to call me a Karaoke King, I’ll take it.’ – Ian Brown

‘I love ‘The Stand;’ I read it when I was a kid – it was one of my favorite books when I was growing up. I love Stephen King; I think he’s a remarkable writer.’ – David Yates

‘I promise by my conscience and honor to faithfully fulfill the obligations of the office of president of the government with loyalty to the King, and to keep and enforce the Constitution as the fundamental norm of the State.’ – Pedro Sanchez

‘I’d rather break stones on the king’s highway than hem a handkerchief.’ – Anne Sullivan

‘I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn’t get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.’ – Ralph Abernathy

‘All Americans owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. King for his bravery and commitment to civil rights and nonviolence that changed this nation – and world – for the better.’ – Eliot Engel

‘I love Bill Clinton. I think we should make him king. I’m talking the red robe, the turkey leg – everything.’ – Tim McGraw

‘There’s a bunch of Stephen King books I love. ‘Salem’s Lot’ was always one of my favourites. ‘It.’ ‘Needful Things.’ Moving away from King, and ‘Silence of the Lambs’ is always a good choice.’ – Paul Cleave

‘I know, it’s weird that I’ve never done a musical. I turned down two of them. ‘The Lion King’ and ‘The Producers.’ I turned two of the biggest Broadway musicals down, am I a mess?’ – Mario Cantone

‘A pound of Alaskan king crab legs and buffalo shrimp = happy Travie.’ – Travie McCoy

”King Lear,’ I’ve been seeing all my life. I mean, the great actors of my lifetime… to join their company, as it were, by playing a part that’s challenged them, is one of the great joys of being an actor who does the classics.’ – Ian Mckellen

‘Every country should have at least one King Farouk.’ – Gore Vidal

‘My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.’ – Horatio Nelson

‘Why is it that the king can do no wrong? This shows they do not regard the king as being a human. But the king can do wrong.’ – Bhumibol Adulyadej

‘Take some elocution lessons; you can joke with Ebonics, but the truth is, nothing beats the King’s English. Learning how to speak properly, and the art of delivery can take you very far in life!’ – Wendy Williams

‘We will not bow to Caesar. The Lord Jesus Christ is our king.’ – John MacArthur

‘I saw B.B. King in concert one time where he had this guy that would bring him out a glass of water and towel to wipe his forehead with.’ – Johnny Van Zant

‘By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.’ – O. Henry

‘Well, you know, I played Mufasa in the workshop of The Lion King.’ – Keith David

‘He is the king. If it hadn’t been for Link Wray and ‘Rumble’, I would have never picked up a guitar.’ – Pete Townshend

‘They were of many types of seals, all bearing the insignia of the King.’ – Howard Carter

‘I’m too young to be a king and too committed to be a queen.’ – Robert Downey Sr.

‘I want to travel the world – like Egypt. I love history. That’s my favorite subject at school. From the building of the pyramids to… King Tut. Their way of working without technology. I find all that fascinating.’ – Millicent Simmonds

‘One thing that I love about ‘Difficult People’ is that Julie Klausner and our showrunner, Scott King, have written the lead character I play as a fully formed man.’ – Billy Eichner

‘I always thought if I had a band it would have the energy and feel of early Police, since that’s where my roots are, and then the harmonies of the Eagles, and the technique of King Crimson or something like that. Fast, up-tempo, beat-the-hell-out-of-the-drums, because that’s my style. Energy, but sophistication, rhythmically and melodically.’ – Taylor Hawkins

‘A personal game-changer was when Ridley Scott cast me as King John, the King of England, for ‘Robin Hood.” – Oscar Isaac

‘King’s response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values, a reinvigoration of our public life and a fundamental transformation of our way of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and plutocrats to everyday people and ordinary citizens.’ – Cornel West

‘On the king’s gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call’d him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave in his father’s stead.’ – Helen Hunt Jackson

‘Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed.’ – George Chapman

‘Tra-la-las and doo-be-do’s became a Neil Sedaka trademark. I was the king of the tra-la-las and doo-be-do’s in the ’50s and ’60s. But then when I re-recorded ‘Breaking Up,’ I started with a verse instead of the doo-be-do’s!’ – Neil Sedaka

‘King Pellinore that time followed the questing beast.’ – Thomas Malory

‘Life wasn’t about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society – with God at the top, then the king and then the father.’ – Ingmar Bergman

‘The reason you can take the leap of faith with Stephen King, when it comes to the paranormal, or the things that happen in the world that he creates, is because the characters that he writes are accessible.’ – Emily Rose

‘The king and the dauphin both like to see me on horseback. I only say this because all the world perceives it, and especially while we were absent from Versailles, they were delighted to see me in my riding habit.’ – Marie Antoinette

‘The first African-American leader was Dr. Martin Luther King.’ – Bobby Seale

‘A king should die on his feet.’ – Louis XVIII of France

‘I am the herald of the Great King.’ – Francis of Assisi

‘I was prom king. Which is actually saying I was the sixth most popular, because the five who were on homecoming were automatically disqualified from prom, so of course I have to look at it that way.’ – Andy Richter

‘Lincoln was not an intellectual, but no one in 200 years understood the language of the King James Bible or learned Blackstone’s Laws of England, or Cicero, or the language of the Founding Fathers, better than he did.’ – Michael Ignatieff

‘I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many people, black and white, were instrumental in changing the Jim Crow status quo on all levels.’ – Rita Dove

‘We reached a high point in my opinion with the passage of the civil rights legislation and Martin Luther King’s success and the crusade of others. I think we kind of breathed a sigh of relief as if we had achieved the end of racial discrimination or white supremacy.’ – Jimmy Carter

‘You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne. But I want you to understand that in making up my mind I did not forget the country or the empire, which, as Prince of Wales and lately as King, I have for twenty-five years tried to serve.’ – Edward VIII

‘What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.’ – Eazy-E

‘I loved doing the ‘King of Queens’, I have never had so much fun doing a show. People got to see a different side of me.’ – Lou Ferrigno

‘I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon… but I want to stay alive.’ – Madonna Ciccone

‘The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitted during carnival, even the songs that the Roman legionnaires would sing, calling Julius Caesar ‘queen,’ alluding, in a very transparent way, to his real, or presumed, homosexual escapades.’ – Umberto Eco

‘I don’t have a nickname. But, hey, they can call me what they want – The Silent Assassin, The Underground King. In Japan, they call me American Knuckle Star. Call me what you want.’ – Eddie Alvarez

‘There are always signs that a reign is ending, and they are usually spotted not in the king himself but in his court. In the inner circle, latent jealousies between advisers spill into open conflict, as they angrily debate who is to blame for the calamity, chewing over each other’s past errors and pointing the finger at old and nascent enemies.’ – Hanna Rosin

‘If there’s anything I love after my wife and my kids, it’s my toilet. I am king there.’ – Chunky Pandey

‘Andre Ward got the chance to fight Sergey Kovalev twice. Triple G and Canelo are fighting again. People are getting paid to play king of the hill again.’ – Roy Jones Jr.

‘Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our public life. And the king, as the head of state, must not only be an example but also a servant to that just and legitimate demand of the citizens.’ – Felipe VI of Spain

‘I was called before the king’s tribunal like a layman and was deserted in the quarter where I had looked for support. My brethren, the bishops, sided with the court and were ready to pronounce judgment against me.’ – Thomas Becket

‘I am the future of strength as I am King of the Stones!’ – Hafthor Bjornsson

‘For touching an adversary’s man, when it cannot be captured, the offender must move his King.’ – Howard Staunton

‘Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain’t no king, man.’ – Jeff Bridges

‘Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.’ – Coretta Scott King

‘If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me.’ – Charles Mackay

‘I have the vanity to think that every play I have written is different from the previous ones. Yet, even though they are written in a different way, they all deal with the same themes, the same preoccupations. ‘Exit the King’ is also ‘The Bald Soprano.” – Eugene Ionesco

‘I do want to live life king size, yes. But I also want to spend a lot on my children and give them happiness and security.’ – Suniel Shetty

‘It’s like I tell everybody, if you get a chance to win the Royal Rumble or the King of the Ring back when they had it, that means you’re gonna get a push. You getting an opportunity at something big, and it can really set up your future for you. So if you’re that guy, boy, it’s pressure.’ – Stone Cold Steve Austin

‘I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.’ – Peter Ustinov

‘The film I did with Bobby De Niro, ‘The King of Comedy’ – an awful lot came to me out of that movie because De Niro never allowed me any room to be crazy. If I had tried to play it the way I would normally play it and get hysterical, Bobby would punch me.’ – Jerry Lewis

‘They say that a kingdom is like a pyramid: the king on top and the people below. But in this country, it’s upside down.’ – Bhumibol Adulyadej

‘I love doing comedy. I did comedy for seven years on ‘The King of Queens.” – Lou Ferrigno

‘You don’t really have to say much when your headline is ‘Drag Queen Robs Burger King.’ Sometimes comedy writes itself.’ – Willie Geist

‘What will ye then that I shall do unto him whom ye call the King of the Jews?’ – Pontius Pilate

‘I remember back in the 1960s – late ’50s, really – reading a comic book called ‘Martin Luther King Jr. and the Montgomery Story.’ Fourteen pages. It sold for 10 cents. And this little book inspired me to attend non-violence workshops, to study about Gandhi, about Thoreau, to study Martin Luther King, Jr., to study civil disobedience.’ – John Lewis

‘I sort of found King Diamond in second grade, but I didn’t become a devoted Satanist until a few years later, but that was very much part of my adolescence as well.’ – Tobias Forge

‘Famous people are deceptive. Deep down, they’re just regular people. Like Larry King. We’ve been friends for forty years. He’s one of the few guys I know who’s really famous. One minute he’s talking to the president on his cell phone, and then the next minute he’s saying to me, ‘Do you think we ought to give the waiter another dollar?” – Don Rickles

‘I wanted to be an up-to-date king. But I didn’t have much time.’ – Edward VIII

‘Hercules King of Rome and of Annemark, three times one surnamed de Gaulle will lead, Italy and the one of St. Mark to tremble, first monarch, renowned above all.’ – Nostradamus

‘I’m like the king of the low-budget sequel. People ask, ‘What film are you gonna do next?’ ‘I don’t know, but it’s probably got a 3 or 4 in the title.” – Scott Adkins

‘World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.’ – Dalai Lama

‘The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife.’ – Robert Duvall

‘My hubby is such a sneaker king… and I am a stiletto queen! He always wants to see me in sneakers, but I believe I can do anything in heels.’ – Khloe Kardashian

‘If the king refuses the constitution, I shall oppose him; if he accepts it, I shall defend him; and the day on which he gave himself up as my prisoner secured me more fully to his service than if he had promised me half his kingdom.’ – Marquis de Lafayette

‘The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.’ – Northrop Frye

‘Texture and flavor is king.’ – Adriano Zumbo

‘I didn’t invent the word ‘hyphy’ and I’m not trying to say I’m the king of hyphy.’ – E-40

‘At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.’ – Lafcadio Hearn

‘I filed a brief as a friend of the court in the U. of Michigan to keep affirmative action at the U. of Michigan, which I attended the law school. And I was one of the original sponsors of making the Martin Luther King birthday a federal holiday.’ – Dick Gephardt

‘We wouldn’t be as far along as a country if we didn’t take on some of Martin Luther King’s ways that he instilled in us.’ – Rodney King

‘Voltaire, as full of life as summer is full of blossoms, giving his ideas upon all subjects at the expense of prince and king, was exiled to England.’ – Robert Green Ingersoll

‘The King of Prussia is innately a bad neighbor, but the English will also always be bad neighbors to France, and the sea has never prevented them from doing her great mischief.’ – Marie Antoinette

‘If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King.’ – Ramsey Clark

‘It was an attempt to stick the Congress’s finger in King Hussein’s eye.’ – George P. Shultz

‘The bump I was trying to hide could be the future king of England.’ – Bruce Oldfield

‘In Spain there’s the king – and then there’s Antonio.’ – Melanie Griffith

‘Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.’ – Sallust

‘Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?’ – Nancy Mitford

‘National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.’ – J. F. C. Fuller

‘One day after laying a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr., President Bush appoints a federal judge who has built his career around dismantling Dr. King’s legacy.’ – Hillary Clinton

‘A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.’ – John Selden

‘He played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the ace.’ – Eugene Field

‘King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.’ – Benjamin Disraeli

‘I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.’ – Phaedrus

‘Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation – through compassion and courage – about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.’ – Mark Pryor

‘Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes.’ – Ken Salazar

‘Dr. King’s leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better.’ – Maria Cantwell

‘I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with one leg, who can’t hear or see, live like a king while doing the only thing I wanted to do?’ – Bill Veeck

‘I think you have to find the humanity in the character and then the deterioration is a part of the process – the journey of the character. It’s like playing King Lear. You can start off as a nice old man who finishes up crazy.’ – David Wenham

‘Law is king of all.’ – Henry Alford

‘One of the greatest men to ever walk this land was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His life exemplified unity by bringing people together for the good of all. In any small way I hope to someday bring people together like Dr. King.’ – Zach Wamp

‘We’ve got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy’s acting like he’s king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!’ – Dan Burton

‘I’d rather be called King than other things I’ve been called.’ – Richard Petty

‘Well, first, I didn’t kill Dr. King.’ – James Earl Ray

‘The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent.’ – Sun Myung Moon

‘I play a guy who believes he’s a king. He’s the most common man in the world; in fact his family, like his suits, are just make-up. It’s about dysfunctional people and dysfunctional relationships.’ – James Caan

‘The king appeared… with his dogs and sycophants behind him.’ – Kathleen Winsor

‘The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions – even parading without a permit!’ – David Kirk

‘Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler.’ – E. T. Bell

‘Thus was the King and the Lord of glory judged by man’s judgment, when manifest in flesh: far be it from any of his ministers to expect better treatment.’ – George Whitefield

‘We knew Chris Matthews had no shame. Now we also know the king of TV ghouls has no souls.’ – Michelle Malkin

‘Right now we’re in the middle of a cultural war between the Muslims and the Western world. The politicians get in the way, but if you put two people together in a room, they can talk it out and work it out, just like Anna and the King.’ – Sandy Duncan

‘They were kind of like little Stephen King stories… but these go back many hundreds of years.’ – Michael McKean

‘As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.’ – David Crystal

‘The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness.’ – Heinrich Mann

‘Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation’s progress towards the realization of his dream.’ – Adam Schiff

‘Notwithstanding these setbacks, the dream of a beautiful American orchestra goes on, and I share Dr. King’s faith that each year we move inexorably closer to a magnificent opening night.’ – Adam Schiff

‘In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died.’ – Bobby Scott

‘She could only write with him at night and she was wasting her days just sitting around. So he thought I could write with her during the day. And that was Carole King.’ – Cynthia Weil

‘It wasn’t the greatest script in the world, but not many people can say they’ve played a wicked king in a swashbuckling Arthurian special-effects monster movie.’ – David Thewlis

‘When I saw all of the people I have known all these years, when we got together, it was scary because B.B King and I lived in the same place in Nevada.’ – Ruth Brown

‘I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.’ – Charles Edison

‘No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head.’ – Daryl Gates

‘Ray Charles’ revolutionary approach to music was also reflected in his politics and his deep and abiding commitment to Martin Luther King and the plight of African-Americans. Ray Charles may not have been on the front lines, but he put his money where his mouth was.’ – Diane Watson

‘The rise of King Crimson was so fast that, to me, it felt as if it was going out of control. And it was going so fast that I couldn’t keep up with what was happening.’ – Michael Giles

‘I’m now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I’m eternally grateful for.’ – Penelope Lively

‘If the English want a king, it is their business. If the Russians want communism, it is their business. If the Americans want our form of government, it is our business.’ – Julius Rosenberg

‘If you look at the British royal family and take away the scandals and the goofy stuff that’s going on, people love to have this king to look up to – the royals are like celebrities.’ – Kevin J. Anderson

‘There’s nothing secret about it. Everyone knows that I am waiting for my real parents, the king and queen, to come restore me to my rightful throne.’ – Meg Cabot

‘If you look at my career, towards the end you will see I was fighting like once a year. I was not part of the Don King top heavyweights, so I was kind of kept out. His guys were getting three to four fights a year and I could only get one.’ – Gerry Cooney

‘The bad press came because they thought I should fight more. I couldn’t get the fights because if I would sign to fight one of King’s guys I would be signed to him. I chose not to do that. In hindsight, that might have been a mistake.’ – Gerry Cooney

‘The Mohawks have on all occasions shown their zeal and loyalty to the Great King; yet they have been very badly treated by his people.’ – Joseph Brant

‘I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.’ – Karen Morley

‘The Wellcome Foundation offered me the chance to establish a small academic research unit, modestly funded, but with total independence. The real opportunity, however, came from King’s College, London.’ – James Black

‘Beauty and the Beast seemed like it all was really brown. The whole thing was just so brown and orange and yellow, like Burger King or something. I don’t think I would have liked Beauty and the Beast at any age.’ – Mike Judge

‘I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.’ – Dean Koontz

‘Will ye that I release unto you the King of the Jews?’ – Pontius Pilate

‘Reading Stephen King’s book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.’ – Mary Garden

‘The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown.’ – Dick Dale

‘There was an opening in the ER program at King Drew, so I spent the next month there, fascinated with the range of pathology that I observed, the diversity of skill that the ER physicians had to acquire, the variety of cases, and the ability to interact closely with people.’ – Samuel Wilson

‘I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David.’ – Luke Ford

‘Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.’ – Barney Frank

‘Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race.’ – Edward Thorndike

‘When he brought it to me four years ago, Rodney King had just arrived, I was involved in the clean-up of L.A. and I guess it was part of my experience.’ – Kathryn Bigelow

‘Well, the Empire State was about 40′ high in the studio. King Kong was a little model about 2′ high, and the scenery that he worked in was in proportion to his size.’ – Fay Wray

‘The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.’ – Alex Cox

‘In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King’s, especially the discovery of French and German literature.’ – Patrick White

‘I just took the idea that King Kong was too big for everything and reversed it and put George in a land of giants, which is basically what every kid goes through anyway – that, you know, the world is made for grownups, for tall people, for the giants.’ – William Joyce

‘The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surrounding and emphasize the adventure, but also speak about the frustration or, rather said, the curse of both protagonists, even before happened what happens them.’ – Maurice Jarre

‘With the players Madden is definitely king and that’s probably why it’s been one of the top selling games all these years and will probably continue to be.’ – Michael Strahan

‘I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profound advice.’ – Diahann Carroll

‘Nat King Cole was a really big influence.’ – Bryan White

‘All the fascination of King Solomon’s Mines seems to be behind those great mountains and this I may add is a bit of advance work for mother, an entering wedge to my disappearing from sight for years and years in the Congo.’ – Richard Harding Davis

‘King Arthur was one of my heroes – I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle’s cane for the sword Excalibur.’ – Lloyd Alexander

‘I just look at it, as it’s something that I had to do. I had this vision that really, Graceland is suited for a king and it is his castle. And people really should see it, as he loved it.’ – Priscilla Presley

‘Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn’t have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.’ – Anthony Holden

‘I think it’s a good thing for a president or political leaders to want to put their values or their faith into action. Desmond Tutu did that in South Africa. Martin Luther King Jr. did that here. This is a good thing.’ – Jim Wallis

‘Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, ‘The church is not meant to be the master of the state.’ We don’t sort of take power and grab the levers of government and impose our agenda down people’s throats.’ – Jim Wallis

‘No, we are not the master of the state, said King. We are not the servant of the state. We are the conscience of the state. The churches or the religious community should be, I think, the conscience of the state. We’re not just service providers.’ – Jim Wallis

‘It took a long time to get that film made. I went in for it almost right after or like maybe six or seven months after I had my son and actually auditioned for the Regina King part and they just were like, ‘No, you’re just – you just don’t really seem the part.” – Nia Long

‘I marched back then – I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King.’ – George Takei

‘For which reason I would exhort you to pay all due Regard to the government over us; to the KING and all in authority; and to lead a quiet and peaceable life.’ – Jonathan Mayhew

‘It was the king’s army, the king’s people, the king’s taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.’ – John Buchanan Robinson

‘Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about.’ – Jack Schwartz

‘God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.’ – Orson Pratt

‘If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.’ – Orson Pratt

‘I believe our country has to do whatever we can do to protect ourselves-we’re king of the hill. We need to protect democracy and the lives of those who live in the free world.’ – Rick Yune

‘I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.’ – David Friedman

‘Some time ago, I told Larry King that I planned to live to be 102. I still do.’ – Maureen O’Hara

‘The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition to the King himself and to endeavor by his personal influence to procure a favorable reception to this last address.’ – Mercy Otis Warren

‘In The Name of the King is the right title. To be honest, I don’t know who had the final idea for the title but I liked it and it has a strong connection to the movie’s story.’ – Uwe Boll

‘I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare.’ – Jodie Foster

‘Jim Crow was king… and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive.’ – Lou Brock

‘I’m not a big blues fan, but I don’t know anyone who doesn’t dig B.B. King.’ – Maurice Gibb

‘I was educated at King’s College, Taunton and went to the University of Cambridge in 1942.’ – Antony Hewish

‘In 83 I thought we were going to go all the way. We had Roy Smalley, and Steve King, and good players.’ – Bert Campaneris

‘I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best picture that I have it in me to do.’ – Dalton Trumbo

‘I was lucky, as many of my generation was, in having a man like Dr. King in our lives. He came at a time that we needed to take a long look at each other and see how similar we were.’ – Lena Horne

‘I remember the day tDr. King died. I wasn’t angry at the beginning. It was like something very personal in my life had been touched and finished.’ – Lena Horne

‘I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, will always be. He’s whats made it possible for everyone to be performers and to do the things they do now.’ – Jackie DeShannon

‘The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of Martin Luther King.’ – Jonathan Kozol

‘When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement.’ – Jonathan Kozol

‘Bob Arum and Don King can do their thing but if I fought for those guys and they put the money up like they are supposed to then I don’t have a problem.’ – Larry Holmes

‘We put our life on the line to fight for them, put on a show and these guys take our money so whatever happens to Bob Arum, Don King or anyone else is fine with me.’ – Larry Holmes

‘Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship.’ – Peter Bichsel

‘I think on balance, Don King has been bad for boxing. I think he’s done some very good things and I think he did a heck of a job of promoting Ali but I think I could have promoted Ali.’ – Dick Schaap

‘With such evidence, as well as the sealed doorway between the two guardian statues of the King, the mystery gradually dawned upon us. We were but in the anterior portion of a tomb.’ – Howard Carter

‘A player is said to have the opposition when he can place his King directly in front of the adverse King, with only one square between them. This is often an important advantage in ending games.’ – Howard Staunton

‘Be cautious of playing your Queen in front of your King and in subjecting yourself to a discovered check. It is better when check is given to your King to interpose a man that attacks the checking Piece than with one that does not.’ – Howard Staunton

‘For playing a man to a square to which it cannot be legally moved, the adversary, at his option, may require him to move the man legally, or to move the King.’ – Howard Staunton

‘In Castling, the King must be moved first, or before the Rook is quitted. If the Rook be quitted before the King is touched, the opposing player may demand that the move of the Rook shall stand without the Castling being completed.’ – Howard Staunton

‘When the King is checked, or any valuable Piece in danger from the attack of an enemy, you are said to interpose a man when you play it between the attacked and attacking Piece.’ – Howard Staunton

‘A judgment pronounced in accordance with the facts can therefore assign to it an historical place only within that movement of reformation which was brought to a victorious issue by King Josiah.’ – Julius Wellhausen

‘After a hundred years the son of the King then reigning, who was of another family from that of the sleeping Princess, was a-hunting on that side of the country, and he asked what those towers were which he saw in the middle of a great thick wood.’ – Charles Perrault

‘Monsieur Puss came at last to a stately castle, the master of which was an Ogre, the richest ever known; for all the lands which the King had then passed through belonged to this castle.’ – Charles Perrault

‘The King’s son, who was told that a great princess, whom nobody knew, was come, ran out to receive her. He gave her his hand as she alighted from the coach, and led her into the hall where the company were assembled.’ – Charles Perrault

‘The next day the two sisters went to the ball, and so did Cinderella, but dressed more magnificently than before. The King’s son was always by her side, and his pretty speeches to her never ceased.’ – Charles Perrault

‘My favorite singer to this day is Nat King Cole. I’ve tried to emulate his phrasing. It is so absolutely beautiful to listen to his lovely voice.’ – Johnny Mathis

‘King Lear alone among these plays has a distinct double action. Besides this, it is impossible, I think, from the point of view of construction, to regard the hero as the leading figure.’ – Andrew Coyle Bradley

‘Michael Giles the first drummer of King Crimson, never agreed to the name King Crimson. But then, if you’d knew Michael, you would know he didn’t agree to the album cover either. So maybe Michael didn’t agree to the point of definition with many things.’ – Robert Fripp

‘Now, if King Crimson accepts responsibility for innovating its own tradition, you can’t accept responsibility for the audience. And there is an enormous tangible weight of expectation, which comes from an audience attending a King Crimson concert.’ – Robert Fripp

‘What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?’ – Lord Mountbatten

‘Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don’t think he is not capable of hurting you.’ – Ron Livingston

‘I guess if one set of my books was selling like Stephen King’s, and the other wasn’t selling at all, editors would want me to do the ones that sold like Stephen King’s. But they seem to be willing to let me pick what I want to do next.’ – Fred Saberhagen

‘The King and Queen made the rounds after the film. We were told how we were to respond, and we were in a semi circle in the lounge area of the cinema, they came around after the King, the Queen and both Princesses.’ – Kim Hunter

‘She was in a difficult position being the widow of a great American hero, a role that carried high expectations but she did a credible job of continuing Dr King’s dream especially in the face of a changing and often hostile American public.’ – Morris Dees

‘A lot has happened since Dr. King left us. He probably wouldn’t recognize the landscape if he saw it, but I still believe he would still have the same spiritual faith and also faith in us as people – not only people in our nation, but people in the world.’ – Morris Dees

‘We used to play in a theater club in London called The King’s Head. When the theater let nut, around 10:00 P.M., we’d be ready to go and really get it on for about an hour or so.’ – Mark Knopfler

‘In 1988, King Hussein of Jordan said that it doesn’t take any connection any more to those territories, and he would like to split from those territories. So according to the international law, it doesn’t belong to anyone.’ – Silvan Shalom

‘Roger King is, without a doubt, the greatest salesman in the history of anything. And I don’t ever limit him just to television. He could sell you anything.’ – Merv Griffin

‘The biggest challenge was trying to convey the story of the making of a film that isn’t finished yet – and which won’t be finished until the third film, The Return of the King, reaches our cinemas towards the end of 2003!’ – Brian Sibley

‘In all, we investigated, I think, close to 50 rumors about offers to kill Dr. King around the country. But we found no evidence to support rumors of FBI involvement in the assassination.’ – Louis Stokes

‘But we did conclude that Ray had actually killed Dr. King pursuant to his theory that he was going to be able to get hold of that money. He had learned of this offer through his ties in the Missouri State Penitentiary.’ – Louis Stokes

‘There are, in the King case in particular, some names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony. We have put their testimony in the public domain, but feel that their names should continue to be anonymous.’ – Louis Stokes

‘Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king – a real leader.’ – Oriana Fallaci

‘In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature.’ – William Adams

‘What began as a revolt in response to the King of Great Britain’s repeated injuries against the colonies, soon became a passionate and glorious call to fight for the beginnings of a new country.’ – John Linder

‘This magistrate is not the king. The people are the king.’ – Gouverneur Morris

‘I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible.’ – Anne Rice

‘I can’t keep up with Stephen King’s output.’ – Anne Rice

‘Look at what the Omar of Qatar is doing, for example – the King of Morocco, Jordan, Bahrain. There are reform movements taking place, efforts to broaden the political participation of the populations of the region.’ – Frank Carlucci

‘I could do what a lot of people are doing and that’s sign the best Nicaraguan fighters and then sell them to Don King, but there’s no way I’ll do that.’ – Alexis Arguello

‘What was the reason for invading Iraq’ Was it a humanitarian crusade or an economic one’ I would be inclined to say the latter. It was the same with the Civil War, because the landed gentry’s money was being stolen by the king.’ – Dougray Scott

‘I can not, therefore, see how this can be imputed as a crime, or how any of the king’s ministers can be blamed for his doing what the public has no concern in; for if the public be well and faithfully served it has no business to ask by whom.’ – Robert Walpole

‘My friends in the Congress, I have known Coretta King since I went south during the civil rights movement as a lawyer. She was a vibrant, consistent, totally dedicated partner with her husband.’ – John Conyers

‘King Crimson will soon be touring parts of Europe.’ – Adrian Belew

‘King Crimson is never easy; it’s challenging. That’s why I like it.’ – Adrian Belew

‘King Charles II liked women’s company and well as making love to them.’ – Antonia Fraser

‘I was a child when the March on Washington led by Martin Luther King occurred, and I wanted to hear what was going on. I wanted to be a part of it. I wanted to contribute in the best way I possibly could.’ – Andre Braugher

‘As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King’s vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a fortifying staple in advancing the civil rights movement.’ – James T. Walsh

‘As soon as the news of the Cabot voyages reached the King of Portugal he arranged to send an expedition of discovery to the far north-west, perhaps to find a northern sea route to Eastern Asia.’ – Harry Johnston

‘King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.’ – Constance Baker Motley

‘By 1962, King had become, by the media’s reckoning, the new civil rights leader.’ – Constance Baker Motley

‘LET us honour the King by cherishing respectful Sentiments concerning him; speaking of him with Affection, with Esteem and Reverence; and by promoting a like Spirit and Conduct in others.’ – Charles Inglis

‘Amnesty is the magnet. Other magnets that you mentioned are anchor babies who get benefits in this country and employer deductions for employees, even if they are here illegally, which Mr. King is addressing.’ – Virgil Goode

‘When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality.’ – Julie Taymor

‘My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.’ – Mose Allison

‘It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king’s presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had. Any man might have his coming to him to ask him grace or judgment in such case as the king may give.’ – Jack Cade

‘They say that it were great reproof to the king to take again what he has given, so that they will not suffer him to have his own good, nor land, nor forfeiture, nor any other good but they ask it from him, or else they take bribes of others to get it for him.’ – Jack Cade

‘They say that the commons of England would first destroy the king’s friends and afterward himself, and then bring the Duke of York to be king so that by their false means and lies they may make him to hate and destroy his friends, and cherish his false traitors.’ – Jack Cade

‘We will that all men know we blame not all the lords, nor all those that are about the king’s person, nor all gentlemen nor yeomen, nor all men of law, nor all bishops, nor all priests, but all such as may be found guilty by just and true inquiry and by the law.’ – Jack Cade

‘In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King – and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you.’ – Boris Spassky

‘I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don’t want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I’m really about.’ – Waylon Jennings

‘Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.’ – Al Sharpton

‘Dr. King’s general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.’ – Al Sharpton

‘It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.’ – Al Sharpton

‘The most interesting guy I’ve ever played with was King Hassan of Morocco. I went over there on a trip in the early 1970s, and the King and I played five holes. I’ve never been that nervous in my life.’ – Lee Trevino

‘When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.’ – Gary Cherone

‘A person like Carole King could make up something, change it, and actually improve it.’ – Jules Shear

‘But, I would say when I was four years old and I was at the Alan King Tennis Tournament and I was hitting with all the pros that would come to town. They would get me on the court or take notice and that stayed with me.’ – Andre Agassi

‘It was Dr. King’s tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.’ – Wynton Marsalis

‘This rebuilding of New Orleans gives us the perfect opportunity to see if we’re ready to extend the legacy of Dr. King.’ – Wynton Marsalis

‘Of course, the kids who had never heard of a person called Ben E. King were then aware of the name associated with the song. That gave a tremendous lift to me as an artist.’ – Ben E. King

‘The movie is actually from a book by Stephen King called The Body. When they were gonna put it to a motion picture, they found the story was a bit too strong for the title The Body, based on a young kid’s movie. It would be too heavy.’ – Ben E. King

‘The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to the Constitution, and obedience to the ministers of Hungary.’ – Lajos Kossuth

‘Upon this the Hungarian ministers resigned, but the names submitted by the president of the council, at the demand of the king, were not approved of for successors.’ – Lajos Kossuth

‘We have to remember that Dr. King was not an idle dreamer. Dr. King was a man of action. If Dr. King were here, he would challenge us and exhort us.’ – Marc Morial

‘You know, after filming the movie the book was still just as big. I think it was actually bigger. I think Stephen King went back and wrote extra pages. He’s fantastic.’ – Timothy Olyphant

‘Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror.’ – William H. Macy

‘Once I was chased by the king of all scorpions. I have the most notorious animal stories.’ – Rachel Hunter

‘Angela King is a lovely person with a tremendous sense of art.’ – Peter Max

‘Dr. King is so inspiring, so impressive, so moving as a human being.’ – Michael Bolton

‘The ideals and principles for which Dr King fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago.’ – George Lucas

‘Why is the King of Hearts the only one that hasn’t a moustache?’ – James Branch Cabell

‘I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp – just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.’ – Dick Gregory

‘King’s Quest IV was a much bigger hit than I, II, or III. I do feel that King’s Quest IV was a pivotal game in bringing in more female players.’ – Roberta Williams

‘A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.’ – Pierre Corneille

‘In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.’ – Sallust

‘The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.’ – Livy

‘In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.’ – Raoul Vaneigem

‘Not too many people are – were as good as Bob Hope. George Burns was great at thinking, you know, on the spot. Steve Allen was marvelous, and so was George Burns. But Bob may be the king of them all, you know.’ – Rich Little

‘I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.’ – Andrew Jackson

‘My role on television is one of helping people reexamine the assumptions that they hold. I regard Dr. King. You would never hear me get up and speak without in some way, shape or form, referencing, Dr. King.’ – Tavis Smiley

‘What I’ve always said is that I’m opposed to institutional racism, and I would’ve, had I’ve been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.’ – Rand Paul

‘Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon joined them on the throne. It was during this period that the cycle of dietary and planetary destruction began, the thing we’re only realizing just now.’ – Mark Bittman

‘I knew all about Edward VIII’s abdication, George VI becoming the king and having a stammer, but nothing about how he got rid of it.’ – Geoffrey Rush

‘I think I would say ‘The King’s Speech’ is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented there’s more laughter in this film than in most comedies, while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending.’ – Tom Hooper

‘In ‘The King’s Speech,’ patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September, 1939, where the aggressor is clear, the fight is clear, it hasn’t become complicated over time.’ – Tom Hooper

‘I don’t think I had a script on ‘King Kong.’ But usually you read a script and then you go and audition for it. It’s rare when there’s no script. I sort of like the latter better, because I’m more successful at it.’ – Kyle Chandler

‘Whether you were talking about Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather’s, the National Restaurant Association, in each one of those situations, I had a daunting problem that I had to solve. And I used the same business principles to approach the problem and, more importantly, solve the problem in every one of the situations.’ – Herman Cain

‘We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail.’ – Cornel West

‘Obama has little or nothing to do with the civil-rights movement. His roots are in Kenya, and he is shaped far more by anti-colonialism than by anything that Martin Luther King said or did.’ – Dinesh D’Souza

‘With King Abdullah’s leadership and his people’s trust he can keep the kingdom stable and secure in all its affairs.’ – Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud

‘I’m the Ali of today. I’m the Marvin Gaye of today. I’m the Bob Marley of today. I’m the Martin Luther King, or all the other greats that have come before us. And a lot of people are starting to realise that now.’ – R. Kelly

‘I can give you the King’s English and then I can take it to the street, but do both or do one and don’t do one knowing only the street. That’s going to hold you back because what comes out is going to impress people, and it will impress them negatively.’ – Angela Bassett

‘My daddy, Rev. A. D. King, my granddaddy, Martin Luther King, Senior – we are a family of faith, hope and love.’ – Alveda King

‘When you look at the early-’30s movies, like King Kong, the codes of acting are very similar to those of silent movies. In some of the silent movies – the good ones, the ones done by the best directors – the acting is very, very natural.’ – Michel Hazanavicius

‘Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.’ – David Cameron

‘The objective of a referee is not to get mentioned. I tell a lot of young referees that not being mentioned is king. If you can achieve that, that then it has been a pretty good game.’ – Alan Lewis

‘The Women’s Sports Foundation holds a unique position in developing opportunities for girls and women of all abilities to be active whether recreationally or competitively, and I’m excited to help lead the organization to impact even more lives. It is an honor to continue to build the legacy created by Billie Jean King and all of our leaders.’ – Angela Ruggiero

‘Movies, TV, sports, come and go, but what you stand for is what people remember. Mandela, Martin Luther King, John Kennedy are people who really stood for something and were willing to die for it. You don’t see a whole lot of that any more.’ – Christopher Judge

‘I want to be the king of sprints because I think I am.’ – Asafa Powell

‘I was so lucky because what I did in ‘Thor’ was I built the character from the ground up – the foundations of his spirit, really. He was someone who was born with an expectation that he would one day be a king, born with an entitlement.’ – Tom Hiddleston

‘I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.’ – Liam Neeson

‘An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good man will be a good king, that all that is necessary is to be a decent human being and when you’re king everything will go swimmingly.’ – George R. R. Martin

”Content is King,’ and with more screens needing entertaining content now than at any time in history, that statement is truer than ever.’ – Mark Burnett

‘It’s time for me to do things I like so I will be happy, my wife will be happy, my friends will be happy. I just want to do something I’m proud of. It’s time for me to change. I could sign with a company for 10 movies and I’m the king of video and so what?’ – Jean-Claude Van Damme

‘I was the all-American face. You name it, honey – American Dairy Milk, Metropolitan Life insurance, McDonald’s, Burger King. The Face That Didn’t Matter – that’s what I called my face.’ – Debra Winger

‘Right now I’m singing along to books on tape. I typically pop in something like Stephen King’s ‘The Stand,’ and I love singing along to that kind of stuff.’ – Amy Poehler

‘Saudi Arabia has stability. The social contract and the political contract between the king and the rulers and the royal family and the ruled people in Saudi Arabia is very strong and the bondage is so solid.’ – Al-Waleed bin Talal

‘King Abdullah is a reformer.’ – Al-Waleed bin Talal

‘Actually, King Abdullah, under his supervision and guidance, has established a dialogue in Saudi Arabia whereby all the population, whether Shiite or Sunnis from north, south, west or east, they can get together and exchange their views.’ – Al-Waleed bin Talal

‘My father was the king of the joke-tellers. I was so impressed as a child watching him, holding people in rapt attention.’ – Carol Leifer

‘We don’t really know who killed Martin Luther King. We don’t really know who killed Bobby Kennedy. We don’t really know who killed John Kennedy. We don’t really know who killed Tupac Shakur.’ – Cynthia McKinney

‘Whether you’re president or speaker, if you’re wrong, we need to stand up and point it out. That’s what Martin Luther King had talked about: being judged by the content of our character and not the color of our skin. So some of us pounded away on some of the ridiculous policies of Pelosi – and lo and behold, over time, the public began to see.’ – Louie Gohmert

‘No film has captivated my imagination more than ‘King Kong.’ I’m making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old.’ – Peter Jackson

‘I don’t really care where I work, actually, because you know making a movie is like living in movie world. There’s such a secluded world, and the director is the king ruling the country, and everybody’s building this little town to speak in symbolism.’ – Franka Potente

‘It’s important to me that on ‘Family Feud’ I could kiss all the people. It sounds crazy but when I first came here Petula Clark was on a show with Nat King Cole and he kissed her on the cheek and eighty-one stations in the South canceled him. I kissed black women daily and nightly on ‘Family Feud’ and the world didn’t come to an end, did it?’ – Richard Dawson

‘Someone like Billie Jean King is completely my idol.’ – Serena Williams

‘I think all of us thought that by the ’70s, at the latest the ’80s, all the world’s problems would be solved and everyone would be getting along fine. And instead we saw that Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated that year, Robert F. Kennedy died. We saw that it was going to be a lot more difficult than I think we had thought.’ – Janis Ian

‘On cable now, the writer is king. Any actor chases that.’ – Jeff Daniels

‘People look at me like I should have been like Malcolm X or Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks. I should have seen life like that and stay out of trouble, and don’t do this and don’t do that. But it’s hard to live up to some people’s expectations.’ – Rodney King

‘The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just as the Stamp Act did in 1765, Obamacare should act as a wake-up call. Chief Justice Roberts provides us with a similar call to action.’ – Rand Paul

‘There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it’s about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.’ – Abdullah II of Jordan

‘I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.’ – Dalai Lama

‘The rage was in me, and if it wasn’t for the rage, then I wouldn’t know how to be calm. They feed off of each other. Just like when Malcolm X fed off Martin Luther King. They needed each other.’ – Gary Sheffield

‘We are a constitutional monarchy. I don’t order laws, I propose them. Article 35 of our constitution states that the king can only refuse a law of parliament once, then he has to sign it – if the same law is then supported by a two-thirds majority in both houses of parliament.’ – Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

‘In establishing democracy, we have to be sensitive to the regional and national context. Democracy also means to guarantee the rights of the minorities. That’s my job as a king. We have for example a Jewish ambassador in the US and a Christian in the UK.’ – Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

”The Christmas Song,’ by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance; to me it just sounds like the holidays. I’ve never sung it, because Nat’s version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.’ – Harry Connick, Jr.

‘Last year, when ‘Black Swan,’ ‘True Grit’ and ‘King’s Speech’ all grossed over $100 million, it gave studios and independent financiers the confidence to make daring movies and not do the same old you-know-what.’ – Harvey Weinstein

‘I think we do have our true, original stories that work. I can tell you that ‘The King’s Speech,’ which we did, became a worldwide smash because people loved the personal story.’ – Harvey Weinstein

‘Corporations are like countries now, there’s a king, there are serfs, there’s a court, basically everything but moats. They’re feudal societies, and there are good ones and bad ones.’ – Tony Gilroy

‘You know, in Saudi Arabia, there is a body of 40 people – 34 people exactly, that once the succession comes, they will meet and they will elect a king in there.’ – Al-Waleed bin Talal

‘I guess you can look at me, and tell I’m the old man. My name is BB King.’ – B. B. King

‘No king should rule absolutely, like a dictator.’ – Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

‘Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same.’ – Henry Louis Gates

‘I think that the implication of King’s assassination has not been fully appreciated.’ – Henry Louis Gates

‘Dr. King’s Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.’ – Henry Louis Gates

‘My father was king of the guidebooks and our holidays were always planned, taking us from a great gallery to an ace cafe to a beautiful view. And as an actor, I loathe improvisation because there’s no structure and no one knows what’s going on.’ – Olivia Williams

‘I did an interview once where I was asked who I found attractive and I went on about cartoons and Nala from ‘The Lion King’ – and it’s a bit weird but various of my ex-girlfriends actually did look like Nala.’ – Eddie Redmayne

‘All of the guests on ‘Faces of America’ were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to trace the ancestry of Native American writer Louise Erdrich back to 438 A.D. We found that Queen Noor is descended from royalty, and that’s before she married King Hussein of Jordan.’ – Henry Louis Gates

‘I don’t watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched ‘The King’s Speech’ on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.’ – Vivienne Westwood

‘My role as king will be much like my mum’s as queen, so long as I remain in tune with the people.’ – Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark

‘Stephen King once told me he liked my writing. And that was great.’ – Nelson DeMille

‘What holds an Arab leader in power is a mixture of violence and prestige. Both President Assad and King Hussein were felt to have defended Arab interests against the world. That, in the end, is more important than what they wear on their head.’ – James Buchan

‘Who elected Larry King America’s grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.’ – James Wolcott

‘A typical ‘Larry King Live’ is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as if he’s strapped to the chair with vertical seat belts, unable to eject.’ – James Wolcott

‘Like Andy Warhol and unlike God Almighty, Larry King does not presume to judge; all celebrities are equal in his eyes, saints and sinners alike sharing the same ‘Love Boat’ voyage into the dark beyond, a former sitcom star as deserving of pious send-off as Princess Diana.’ – James Wolcott

”Hairspray’ was a movie turned Broadway musical turned Hollywood remake, and that is the ‘Lion King’ circle of life as we know it in Times Square, the creative loop that swings for the stars and sometimes crashes into the upper deck.’ – James Wolcott

‘Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I’d become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn’t see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.’ – Larry Hagman

‘I just know I’m too much of a wuss for Stephen King’s books. I’m way too chicken to read horror.’ – Stephenie Meyer

‘My favorite play in drama school was ‘The Bacchae.’ It’s about a king who literally gets eaten alive by all the women in the play in a kind of orgy – it’s related to the word ‘bacchanal’ – and I loved that idea of animalistic chaos and following our own desires.’ – Hugh Jackman

‘My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the ’60s, and he’s very much for women’s rights.’ – Tori Amos

‘Only in America can a Barack Obama happen. Only in America can a Don King happen.’ – Don King

‘We are now operating a school system in America that’s more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King.’ – Jonathan Kozol

‘There are many people making a difference. I mean, Dr. King never held an office. Gandhi never held an office. There are people who are archetypes in our society who have never held office and made a difference.’ – Dennis Kucinich

‘When I got into rap I didn’t exactly win any popularity contests. I called myself Dee Dee King, after B.B. King, to the total dismay of my fellow Ramones.’ – Dee Dee Ramone

‘When I was growing up, if there was a Young Adult section of my town’s library, I missed it. I wandered right from ‘The Babysitter’s Club’ over to Stephen King. His books were big and fat and they seemed important. I eventually worked my way through most of the shelf, but ‘It’ is the one that stuck with me.’ – Erin Morgenstern

‘We’ve never had nannies. We’ve had great grandparents, great support from family, and the kids have been on every set: they’ve seen me play Gollum, King Kong, Captain Haddock, the lot. They totally get it, and they want to go into the business. Ruby, my daughter, is very keen to become an actress.’ – Andy Serkis

‘Sitting in the Oval Office, beneath a painting of George Washington, with a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. over his right shoulder and a bust of Abraham Lincoln over his left shoulder, Obama told ‘National Journal’ that the country’s economic woes are deep and endemic.’ – Ron Fournier

‘I had to ride a horse once. In ‘King Arthur.’ I said I could ride, but I had to call for lessons on the day the deal was signed. I started out on this little chunky thing and slowly moved up. It was months of work.’ – Clive Owen

‘I was a busy kid in high school – a little bit of an overachiever, I guess. Prom king was kind of silly, but the rest of the stuff was important to me.’ – John Legend

‘Well, I was always a bit of a political junkie. Even as a kid I would read biographies of presidents and of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King and Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington.’ – John Legend

‘I love watching the Serengeti, the way lions live. The only way the king lion loses his crown is by somebody physically defeating him.’ – Ray Lewis

‘And I used to say, ‘I’m black, too.’ In other words, I – my whole life I’ve been called a half-breed, a convict, king of the trailer trash, this and that. I take that and stand.’ – Duane Chapman

‘My very first job was a cashier at Burger King in Tucson, Arizona. And I occasionally worked the drive-thru. I’d go wherever I was needed! My second job was at Dairy Queen. I stayed in the fast food royalty.’ – Kate Walsh

‘I went to Saudi Arabia in 2010, and spent most of my time in Jeddah and the King Abdullah Economic City.’ – Dave Eggers

‘My sense of religion is Einstein’s sense of relativity. I don’t believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.’ – Mandy Patinkin

‘When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling tiger and a wonderfully natural mover.’ – Bruno Tonioli

‘Hollywood has known this for quite a while: Cable is the place to go because they truly have a supportive network and they want to do things that cannot be seen on broadcast. That stimulates the writer-producer. Cable is king.’ – Bryan Cranston

‘First, I wanted to be Chris Farley. When I was growing up, Chris Farley was still on the stages and fun to us. In my house, John Belushi was king. I didn’t grow up when he was – I was born in ’78 – the reruns of Belushi in ‘Animal House,’ and knowing he was at Second City, he was viewed as a king in my house.’ – Jake Johnson

‘The bar is so low in rap – mediocrity is king!’ – Jay Electronica

‘I must confess that I’m not a great reader. At the moment I’m reading my son’s ‘Stig of the Dump’ by Clive King and I’ve got a plant catalogue on the go.’ – Sophie Thompson

‘For ‘King Cole’s American Salvage,’ I rode around in the wrecker with a local driver and watched him deal with customers and hook up the cars. I watched the guy who tore apart the cars in the junkyard. I also wrote poems about those guys. I loved hanging around the yard.’ – Bonnie Jo Campbell

‘Could I imagine myself as king? Of course I could.’ – Jonathan Rhys Meyers

‘I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how riveting the action or interesting the plot twists, if I don’t feel like I’m meeting someone who feels real, I’m not going to be compelled to read further.’ – Maggie Stiefvater

‘I don’t see myself as a Larry King or somebody. When you do interviews, sometimes it turns to interrogations. I’m more of a conversationalist, not throwing hardball questions.’ – Joe Morgan

‘Truth can be a matter of perspective, but I also think there’s a truth that exists, that there are laws to the universe the way Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King believed.’ – Tom Shadyac

‘I’ve always been the king of silence. I’ve always been a minimalist comedian. I’ve taken my influence from Jack Benny, who was the king of that… I’ve always done ‘less is more.” – Albert Brooks

‘I have a huge author crush on Stephen King. Have never met him. Would probably embarrass myself. But it would be worth it.’ – Lisa Gardner

‘Some memorizers arbitrarily associate each playing card with a familiar person or object, so that the king of clubs is represented by, say, Tony Danza. The grand masters associate each card with a person, an action, or an object so that every group of three cards can be converted into a sentence.’ – Joshua Foer

‘Stephen King, by far, is the standard-bearer. I think anyone who writes suspense fiction and says that King isn’t an influence is either lying or being foolish. I read his book ‘On Writing’ before I read pretty much any of his fiction.’ – Michael Koryta

‘Chris Columbus, who directed the first two Harry Potter films and was the family comedy king through the ’80s and ’90s – ‘Mrs. Doubtfire,’ ‘Home Alone,’ etc.’ – Michael Koryta

‘I saw a picture of Elvis in blue lame, and thought that if I could recreate that suit and walk down the King’s Road in it, someone might pick me up and take me off on a crazy adventure.’ – Malcolm Mclaren

‘There’s a gap somehow between empathy and activism. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of ‘soul force’ – something that emanates from a deep truth inside of us and empowers us to act. Once you identify your inner genius, you will be able to take action, whether it’s writing a check or digging a well.’ – Sue Monk Kidd

‘I knew BB King when he first started out.’ – David Edwards

‘I have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents’ religion, I still think the King James Bible is the most important work of literature in English. None of us can help being influenced by it.’ – Ken Follett

‘We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor knows that hidden inside himself there’s a wizard and a king, he also knows that when he’s playing himself in his daily life, he’s playing a part, he’s performing, just as he’s performing when he plays a part on stage.’ – Wallace Shawn

‘I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956, with some of my brothers and sisters and first cousins – I was only 16 years old – we went down to the public library trying to check out some books, and we were told by the librarian that the library was for whites only and not for colors. It was a public library.’ – John Lewis

‘Country is bringing in a little rock element… a little ’80s element. Melody is king now. But its just in the music, its not so much in the songwriting, which is still very basic to the storytelling aspect of it.’ – Lionel Richie

‘Politics is its own world. It is a court and if the king’s eye lights on you, you are a powerful figure. If the king’s eye wanders elsewhere, you are out, whatever your title.’ – Maurice Saatchi

‘Since her landmark ‘Tapestry,’ Carole King has both oversimplified and over elaborated that masterful album’s style until her music has become something more overtly but less effectively personal.’ – Jon Landau

‘Carole King’s second album, ‘Tapestry,’ has fulfilled the promise of her first and confirmed the fact that she is one of the most creative figures in all of pop music. It is an album of surpassing personal-intimacy and musical accomplishment and a work infused with a sense of artistic purpose. It is also easy to listen to and easy to enjoy.’ – Jon Landau

‘Is there anything sadder than the foods of the 1950s? Canned, frozen, packaged concoctions, served up by the plateful, three meals per day, in an era in which the supermarket was king, the farmer’s market was, well, for farmers, and the word ‘locavore’ sounded vaguely like a mythical beast.’ – Jeffrey Kluger

‘No show can be ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show,’ including ‘The Gayle King Show.’ I think she’s very good but I think I’m very good too. I think we have different skill sets… but I don’t think that I could do what she does and never have.’ – Gayle King

‘I started when I was in ‘The King and I’ when I was on Broadway when I was nine.’ – Jenna Ushkowitz

‘I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that with more of a tendency toward jazz.’ – Edgar Winter

‘Also, I’d like to play an athlete again, while I’m still physically fit, or a musician, like Nat King Cole, because I play the trumpet and sing. I’d like to incorporate that into a character.’ – Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

‘I remember the day Richard Nixon won in 1968. That was a time that seemed certain to bring about long awaited seismic change in America. But events of tragic proportion took us on a turn. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. were suddenly dead.’ – Richard Schiff

‘I interviewed Ann Coulter when I was sitting in for Larry King a couple of times, and we have a rapport. I like to talk to her.’ – Joy Behar

‘The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past – Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela – they’re all inspirational religious leaders and smart tacticians. It would be nice to find the Muslim Gandhi, wouldn’t it?’ – Dennis C. Blair

‘John Kerry wants to be the hero in his own drama. He likes King Arthur and the Round Table. He likes the young swashbuckling Churchill, and he loved the early antics of Theodore Roosevelt.’ – Douglas Brinkley

‘I’m not looking to be the King of Comedy, or the King of Hollywood. I just want to be able to keep making stuff that I’m into and have the opportunity to challenge myself with, wearing different hats.’ – Mike White

‘From my time in ‘King Crimson,’ I’d describe a Progressive band as one that keeps trying to break musical barriers, and keeps trying to do new music.’ – Tony Levin

‘Listening to the type of music I grew up with, like King Sunny Ade, Fela Kuti and experiencing different things and conditions and hardship, as well as the good times in Nigeria, has definitely carved me into who I am.’ – Nneka

‘I’m interested in everything. I don’t see why Borges can’t work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can’t be mixed with Balzac. It’s just storytelling; it’s different ways of using codes and images and words and sounds.’ – Carlos Ruiz Zafon

‘A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.’ – Carlos Ruiz Zafon

‘My first show was ‘The King and I’ when I was five.’ – Chandra Wilson

‘I started playing guitar and writing songs when I was 15. I think what mainly sparked my interest was just the fact that I grew up listening to Cheryl King, Joni Mitchell, and James Taylor, and was just always inspired by that sort of organic art, and organic songs and just very natural songwriting that came out of some of those artists.’ – Kate Voegele

‘More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like it’s fun and they’re involved and are just, like, friends hanging out in somebody’s living room. I went to see Carole King on her ‘Living Room’ Tour, and that’s the kind of feeling I’m aiming for.’ – Kate Voegele

‘When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric. It has a roller-coaster effect.’ – Etgar Keret

‘To watch King Lear is to approach the recognition that there is indeed no meaning in life, and that there are limits to human understanding.’ – Peter Ackroyd

‘I don’t aspire at present to be king of the hill in American literature.’ – Mark Helprin

‘Larry King’s show got to be an increasingly lonely outpost of humane civility in a mephitic menagerie of hotheads, saber rattlers, cretins and crackpots.’ – Tom Shales

‘Maybe Larry Kings cannot thrive or even survive in a world where the norms for discourse are rage, vehemence and character assassination. King wanted to be liked, not feared; admired, not loathed.’ – Tom Shales

‘One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.’ – Jack Canfield

‘My mom didn’t write, but she loved to read. She liked books ‘that made you a little nervous.’ Stephen King, Dean Koontz and Peter Straub were the three wise men of our family bookshelf.’ – Michael Easton

”Newsies’ is definitely aerobic! The boys have to do a lot more than I do in the show, but for ‘King of New York,’ the big Act Two tap number, I have to be warmed up or I will hurt myself.’ – Kara Lindsay

‘I’ve made a dog’s breakfast of English history, geography, ‘King Lear,’ and the English language in general.’ – Christopher Moore

‘Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the ’70s of women who were mayors who couldn’t get credit unless their husbands signed for them.’ – Gail Collins

‘My dad’s family were political and he was always a theatrical creature, whereas my mum is really musical and her father was the touring pianist with Nat King Cole. My family was an explosive mixture of politics, religion and music – no wonder I turned out how I did.’ – Grace Jones

‘I’ve participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then British colonization, against Nasser, against Sadat who pushed me into prison, Mubarak who pushed me into exile. I never stopped.’ – Nawal El Saadawi

‘I loved Martin Luther King more than a brother.’ – Ralph Abernathy

‘I love Whitney Houston, Stevie Wonder, Brandi, Sade, Nat King Cole. I like the Beatles. I listen to a lot of that.’ – Leah LaBelle

‘As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and God rules over the whole earth, maketh the clouds his chariot, and reigns above the waterfloods as a king.’ – Annie Besant

‘I am, as far as my politics reaches, ‘King and Country’ – no ‘Innovations in Religion and Government’ say I.’ – John Clare

‘The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.’ – Malcolm X

‘There isn’t a King Lear for women, or a Henry V, or a Richard III. You reach a level where you can handle that stuff technically and mentally, and it’s not there.’ – Helen Mirren

‘I grew up Catholic, so I have these defenses about listening to anything with too much religiosity; some of the lyrics didn’t sit well in my mouth. One of my beefs is the patriarchal setup. Having the ‘he, he, he, God, God, God, king, king, king’ stuff was hard for me.’ – Patty Griffin

‘I think Judy Blume, Stephen King, and Dean Koontz are the three authors responsible for my being where I am today. I owe them a lot.’ – James Dashner

‘Every day, families in Africa go without food and water, never knowing when their next meal might be; but we can change that if we all work together. In order to make a difference, every purchase of my new energy shot, Street King, will provide a meal for a child in need.’ – Curtis Jackson

‘The desertion of Jesus, by his followers, furnishes an argument in support of the supposition that he attempted to be king of the Jews, rather than that he was a superior being.’ – Lysander Spooner

‘I just feel like if I really believe what Dr. King said, ‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,’ then I should be compelled to use my God-given platform to effect change.’ – Nate Parker

‘If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it.’ – Henri Rousseau

‘I don’t know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night.’ – Lady Gregory

‘People will come up to me everywhere and say, ‘Ah, I saw you on ‘Larry King,’ and, ‘Ah, I saw you on ‘Oprah.’ And it’s really nice, and a lot of people say, ‘Is it a pain?’ And I say ‘No.’ And it’s not annoying.’ – Mattie Stepanek

‘Probably more than anybody else, I loved Nat ‘King’ Cole as a performer – not only his singing but his piano playing. Whenever he had a new record come out, I’d get it and try to learn how he was playing. And he was one of the nicest people I’d ever met.’ – Bruce Forsyth

‘Burger King’s business model was broken. But it was like sex in the ’50s. Everyone knew it, but no one would talk about it.’ – Greg Brenneman

‘I do come from a theater background, where the playwright is optimal and king and you have to serve the playwright. So I am, of course, a huge fan of scripted everything.’ – Skylar Astin

‘I’ve never been innocent, but I don’t think I’m a bad kid! I didn’t get voted prom king. I was kind of the dancer, the performer, but I was always very athletic, too.’ – Jake T. Austin

‘I never thought of myself as a king. People really want you to be their deity. They forget the fact that you are a person who has feelings and doubts.’ – John Gutfreund

‘I’m a big Stephen King fan.’ – Nathaniel Philbrick

‘The stock market is overpriced. Everything is overpriced. Junk is king.’ – Jeremy Grantham

‘I believed in Obama for social issues. I believe he brought our nation together and healed our racial divide. Martin Luther King’s dream came true when he was elected. That’s huge.’ – Melissa Etheridge

‘From time to time, you have seminal personalities who really change the way the world sees itself – people like Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela. Warren Buffett is that kind of person in the business world.’ – Guy Spier

‘I want to play Martin Luther King. That is absolutely a role and a character who is important to the landscape of the world that I really want to play.’ – Columbus Short

‘For a long time, sure, I was letting the pressure of being Rodney King get to me. It ain’t easy. Even now, I walk into a place wondering, ‘What people are thinking? Do they know who I am? What do they think about what happened? Do they blame me for the all those people who died?” – Rodney King

‘I guess if they ever do a remake of ‘Sophie’s Choice,’ I could play the Meryl Streep part. I’ve got to work on my Polish accent. Maybe I’ll be the definitive King Lear one day. You know, if they ever feel that King Lear should be more Jewy.’ – Gilbert Gottfried

‘When I was first sent from H.M.S. King Alfred to be interviewed by Goodeve in the Admiralty, I was furious. The War seemed to me, in June of 1940, to be desperately serious, and England in imminent peril of invasion.’ – Nevil Shute

‘When you’re on stage singing, you’re naked. Your voice is something very intimate, and that’s why I’m scared every time before I perform. It doesn’t matter if I’m singing for a king or a queen or the Pope, it’s enough to be in front of anybody. I suffer, but I can’t do anything about it.’ – Andrea Bocelli

‘You really can’t do a remake. I mean, ‘King Kong’ needed its turn to be remade. It needed an update. But the ‘Bad News Bears,’ or ‘The Shaggy D.A.,’ those are classic movies. I think they did a good job of remaking them, but it’s just not the same thing. Nobody can top Tatum O’Neal. It just isn’t the same.’ – Carly Schroeder

‘My mom was an amazing singer and music was a big part of my life, so I grew up listening to Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Henry Mancini; I used to watch ‘The Andy Williams Show’ on TV. I was very musical, so I was watching stuff that most kids my age wouldn’t be interested in.’ – Gloria Estefan

‘My inspirations include the Beatles – love, love, love them – Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wonder.’ – Gloria Estefan

‘The saddest face I ever saw on Martin Luther King was at the funeral of the four little girls slain in Birmingham, Alabama.’ – James A. Forbes

‘I have a very high opinion of Steve King and his ability, so I would encourage him to consider any position for higher office.’ – Michele Bachmann

‘The Dr. King holiday is not just for black people, African-Americans or people of African descent.’ – LZ Granderson

‘I went out of my way to make ‘Immortal’ sound perfect. ‘Immortal,’ ‘Just What I Am,’ and ‘King Wizard,’ those are perfect beats. Not a lot of people can perform on them. I say that meaning they’re tailor-made for me.’ – Kid Cudi

‘I would actually like to play Bobby Brown. To me, he was just the King of R&B at one point.’ – Lance Gross

‘When I was about 6, my cousin was very active in a Filipino repertory company, doing musicals and plays. Her aunt was one of the founders of the company, and she told my mom that there were these auditions for ‘The King and I,’ and that they needed kids. I auditioned, got in and the love affair started from there and just kept going.’ – Lea Salonga

‘We are the only institution in our society that can question a president on a regular basis and make him accountable. Otherwise, he could be king.’ – Helen Thomas

‘I did a lot of theatre when I started out. It was the Lyceum, the Citz, the Tron and the Traverse. I came to London and did the Royal Court, the National, ‘King Lear’ at the Manchester Royal Exchange. I did little bits of comedy, like ‘Rab C Nesbitt,’ but I wasn’t predominantly about comedy.’ – Ashley Jensen

‘The only time I’ve played a real baddy was when I was Regan in ‘King Lear.” – Ashley Jensen

”Carrie’ was a pretty big-budget movie at a real studio, with a director that had already done a bunch of things and had some notoriety, and Stephen King was the writer.’ – P. J. Soles

‘I’m the king of brownie sundaes! – Matt Dallas’ – Matt Dallas

‘I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia.’ – Tracy Chapman

‘We’ve had a great change. Dr King saw to that. I was so grateful to see the ‘colored only’ signs come off the water fountains and bathrooms in the south. But the struggle lives on.’ – Mavis Staples

‘The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Madame Curie and Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver and on and on and on.’ – Christine Quinn

‘There are a few YouTube clips of me singing at The King’s Head in Santa Monica, so you can see how bad I am.’ – Vinnie Jones

‘Because of the nature of King Arthur and the resonance he has, not only with within the U.K., but right around the world, I have found it a huge honour to play the part. I will look back on it very fondly and be very proud to have been King Arthur when I finally hang up the chain mail!’ – Bradley James

‘Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that person is a prudential believer, akin to the person who obeys the command of an all-powerful secular king.’ – Alan Dershowitz

‘I love Monet – I’ve nicknamed him King Blob. When you go up to the painting, it’s a series of blobs – amazing.’ – Celia Imrie

‘When any young director gets hired by a studio to do a $125 million film based on a preexisting piece of intellectual property, they’re climbing into the meat grinder. And what you’re coming out with on the other side is a generic, heavily studio-controlled pile of garbage that ends up on the side of Burger King wrappers.’ – Neill Blomkamp

‘People talk about the difference between radio acting, TV acting and stage acting, but I think it’s all the same. For instance, when I played Vultan in ‘Flash Gordon,’ I put as much energy into it as I would with ‘King Lear’ – it’s all part of the same thing.’ – Brian Blessed

‘My all-time heroes are Thurgood Marshall and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., two men who had to really work to achieve what they did. And I had the privilege of meeting them both.’ – Monte Irvin

‘I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp… I listened to everything I could that came from that place that they call the blues but, in formality, isn’t necessarily the blues.’ – Eric Clapton

‘West Bengal belongs to Bengalis. We should live here like a king and not as servants.’ – Mithun Chakraborty

‘Television has its own award. It’s called the Emmy. It’s a good award. I like it. I have one. But you don’t see movies like ‘The King’s Speech’ win Oscars and then go to TV and qualify for Emmys. In documentaries, some networks have been able to game the system.’ – Michael Moore

‘I was raised in Arizona, and I went to public school, and the extent of my knowledge of the civil-rights movement was the story of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. I wonder how much my generation knows.’ – Emma Stone

‘I’m an Angus King independent.’ – Jesse Ventura

‘Even though I studied in New York and I know the American system, I come from France where I learned that with movies in France where the director is king. There’s no such thing as a studio edit. It’s the director’s cut, period.’ – Louis Leterrier

‘The idea that America elected a black man to be its president forty years after it declined to allow Martin Luther King Jr. to stand on a balcony without getting shot still maintains its power to awe and inspire.’ – Charlie Pierce

‘When you are a rock star in front of 20,000 people, you receive instant gratification. A rock star on tour is a king in his domain.’ – Gene Simmons

‘Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been the last person to have wanted his iconization and his heroism. He was an enormously guilt-laden man. He was drenched in a sense of shame about his being featured as the preeminent leader of African-American culture and the civil rights movement.’ – Michael Eric Dyson

‘I think we have to face right in the center of the hurricane, if you will, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s foibles and faults. I think that we do no good to ourselves and do no honor to him by pretending that he did not fail, that he did not wrestle greatly and, at times, surrender to his own sins and his own faults and failures.’ – Michael Eric Dyson

‘I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifying radically with those of us who are mere mortals. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s mortality says to us that here’s a figure who got up every day of his life facing tremendous odds and yet overcame them.’ – Michael Eric Dyson

‘You cannot hear the name Martin Luther King, Jr., and not think of death. You might hear the words ‘I have a dream,’ but they will doubtlessly only serve to underscore an image of a simple motel balcony, a large man made small, a pool of blood. For as famous as he may have been in life, it is – and was – death that ultimately defined him.’ – Michael Eric Dyson

‘When Dr. King was murdered, I had no idea who he was. But as soon as I heard his words on television that night when I was 9 years old, I was dumbstruck, awestruck by their power.’ – Michael Eric Dyson

‘I’m a ‘tweener,’ man! I couldn’t march with Dr. King and them. And I’m too old to be a hip-hopper. But I’ve been granted honorary status in each generation… I see my tongue as a bridge over which ideas can travel back and forth.’ – Michael Eric Dyson

‘When white supremacy becomes institutional, it begins to harm the very people who are not simply outside of it because of their race, it begins to harm the folk who look like the folk who want to be in charge. Martin Luther King, Jr., understood this, Malcolm X understood this, James Baldwin really understood this.’ – Michael Eric Dyson

‘If my brother and I wanted money in our pockets, we had to get jobs – my first was at 15, at Burger King. We had to come up with ways to create an income.’ – Queen Latifah

‘I grew up on Stephen King, reading the books. I love the small town, 1950s feel to it, that nostalgia, and that old America. What happens when something weird starts happening to all these people, something other-worldly, something demonic?’ – Alexander Koch

‘My manager got the script for ‘Under the Dome,’ and I read it and just fell in love with the character. I grew up on Stephen King, and I love his whole aesthetic of the classic American story with supernatural events happening, so it just made sense.’ – Alexander Koch

‘In 1974, when I started working with the material that became ‘Horses,’ a lot of our great voices had died. We’d lost Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin, and people like Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.’ – Patti Smith

‘I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father – and later trainers. My style became very technical. I sacrificed a lot of things. I was always hunting for the king, for the mate. I’d forget about my other pieces.’ – Garry Kasparov

‘I hope I’m remembered as the king of the world, the noble man who united all the nations of the earth. But that probably won’t happen.’ – Macaulay Culkin

‘My father firmly embraced the Ralph Kramden philosophy: he was king of his Levittown castle. He worked hard, and his family deferred to his wishes. Except me. I did not defer and was disciplined accordingly.’ – Bill O’Reilly

‘Martin Luther King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech always sends me down some path, some trajectory of some creative idea.’ – Abigail Washburn

‘Clearly, there are many places where diesel is king or gas-turbine is king, or IC engines will win, but there are many places in the world where, as we’ve seen, they just won’t do the job. The modern version of the Stirling engine has some very, very attractive characteristics, and we’re trying to optimize it for some of those applications.’ – Dean Kamen

‘I don’t think I’ll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding after having kids, like Mary King, but people say that you lose your nerve after you have kids. It’s the risk.’ – Zara Phillips

‘No one told Miles Davis or BB King to pack it in. John Lee Hooker played literally up to the day he died. Why should pop musicians be any different?’ – Paul Weller

‘Had Elijah Muhammad tried to introduce an orthodox form of Arab-oriented Islam, I doubt if he would have attracted 500 people, but he introduced a form of Islam that would communicate with the people he had to deal with. He was the king to those who had no king, and he was the messiah to those some people thought unworthy of a messiah.’ – John Henrik Clarke

‘The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.’ – Malcolm X

‘I changed from ‘Zoo Kid’ to ‘King Krule’ mainly because I didn’t want to be called a ‘Kid’ when I was 20, so I just thought I’d get rid of that alias and change it now while I’m younger. I wanted to change it quick. and ‘King Krule’ was the first thing that came into my head.’ – King Krule

‘Soon, I will be ‘King of all Hollywoodland.” – Joss Whedon

‘In England especially, I’ve found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it’s like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room.’ – Madonna Ciccone

‘I saw my first two Broadway shows when I was 4 years old, ‘The Lion King’ and ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ and after both of them I came home and reenacted the entirety of the shows on my living room table for my family and friends. I started doing that after every show I saw until I actually did my first youth production when I was 5.’ – Max Schneider

‘I did my first show when I was five and I was the King of the Oompa Loompas in ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.’ The kids’ theater company, I was the youngest one, so there wasn’t a part for me, so they made me the king of the Oompa Loompas.’ – Max Schneider

‘The Rastafari culture has a very strong connection to Haile Selassie, a descendant of King Solomon.’ – Ziggy Marley

‘Dr. King said, ‘We are all tied together in a garment of mutual destiny.’ Which says to me no matter how well I may be doing in Hollywood, if a young brother or sister in Louisiana, the South Bronx, the South Side of Chicago, South Central Los Angeles – is not doing well, then I’m not doing very well.’ – Hill Harper

‘I carried on acting during school holidays and was all set to go to drama school when I was offered my first professional job appearing in ‘King David’ with Richard Gere.’ – Gina Bellman

‘When your heart speaks to you about what you need to do to sustain life on this planet, listen to it, make a difference, and be an inspiration for generations to come. Be inspired by people like Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Christopher Reeve, Albert Schweitzer, Helen Keller, and many others.’ – Bernie Siegel

‘Carole King is one of my all-time favorite songwriters.’ – Judith Hill

‘When you think about ‘The Simpsons’ or ‘King of the Hill’ or something like that, the worlds tend to expand each episode, because there’s no additional cost incurred to hire an animated character.’ – Greg Daniels

‘I grew up near King’s Cross station in London, living in an apartment block where my dad was a caretaker.’ – Phil Daniels

‘The scriptures record remarkable accounts of men whose lives changed dramatically, in an instant, as it were: Alma the Younger, Paul on the road to Damascus, Enos praying far into the night, King Lamoni.’ – Ezra Taft Benson

‘I think ‘Two Towers’ is a completely distinct film from ‘Fellowship of the Ring’ or ‘Return of the King.’ I think that you can watch them as a group and watch how the story evolves, but I think each one was made in its own entirety, and each one has its own palate of sound and music and color and characterization.’ – Howard Shore

‘When you’re playing King Lear, you have to have a little humour, or you will have no tragedy when the king dies.’ – Robert Wilson

‘If you play the guitar, you’ve got to hold the chords down with one hand while you play with the other, so you’re limited to one hand. But the piano is the king of instruments because you have your 10 fingers, which become the 10 members of the orchestra.’ – Jools Holland

‘I learned from Van Morrison and BB King that the first take is the best. It’s about capturing a moment. It’s the same as love’s first kiss. If you try to do it again, it doesn’t work so well.’ – Jools Holland

‘My earliest memory is nursing and struggling to see the colored lights making up the map of the world, the famous backdrop for Larry King’s TV show. There’s an ‘I-want-to-do-all-things-at-once’ kind of theme to it.’ – Ronan Farrow

‘The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun Control Act of 1968.’ – Jeffrey Toobin

‘I’m excited about my own network, BounceTV. It’s the first African-American-owned broadcast network. It’s myself, my partner Rob Hardy, and some other African-American businessmen, including Andrew Young and Martin Luther King III.’ – Will Packer

‘I never understand when people say, ‘Do you do comedy or tragedy?’ I don’t think they’re very much different. They both have to be true, and there isn’t a great play in the world that doesn’t have funny parts to it – as ‘Salesman’ does, as ‘King Lear’ does. The whole idea is to reflect life in some way, which means surely you have to have both.’ – Mike Nichols

‘I didn’t want to look distinguished; I wanted to look fun, and also to fade into the street, into the King’s Road. If I don’t fade into a room at White’s, that’s fine. My father was chairman of Brooks’ and the Beefsteak, and I was brought up in that life, and it bores me rigid.’ – Nicholas Haslam

‘Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the king, but it’s not the king any more.’ – Chuck Palahniuk

‘I was at the first Minor Threat show, and you could tell, ‘This band is going to be the king of the town.’ It was obvious. They were so good.’ – Henry Rollins

‘You’re not a baby boomer if you don’t have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘Casting me as King Arthur was quite bold of ‘Spamalot’s producers, although it has been historically proved Arthur was Asian, and that Sunday trading started with Asians in 11th-century Britain.’ – Sanjeev Bhaskar

‘Yes; my brother Bobby used to distribute records at King Records. I had a job there, too, packing records up and shipping them off. But I always wanted to play sessions at Stax, so I figured out a way to do it.’ – Donald Dunn

‘I remember when Martin Luther King was assassinated. I was up early watching television and watched the announcement. I didn’t understand what the word ‘assassinated’ meant.’ – Henry Rollins

‘I was signed to A&M, I was signed to Lou Adler, who had a company within a company, which was A&M Records, and everything – James Taylor, Rita Coolidge, Carole King – I worked on all of that stuff.’ – Merry Clayton

‘Carole King is one of my dearest friends. We’re like family.’ – Merry Clayton

‘Young screenwriters are always very frustrated when they talk to me. They say, ‘How do we get to be a screenwriter?’ I say, ‘You know what you do? I’ll tell you the secret, it’s easy: Read ‘Hamlet.’ You know? Then read it again, and read it again, and read it until you understand it. Read ‘King Lear,’ and then read ‘Othello.” – John Logan

‘I used to listen to the radio, and when I was about 18 years old, B.B. King was a disc jockey and he had a radio program, 15 minutes a day, over in West Memphis, Arkansas, and he would play the blues.’ – Koko Taylor

‘At any given time I’m listening to the Cory Branan, Leonna Naess, Eve 6, the King’s Noyse, Sean Paul, Green Day, the BoDeans, Buddy Holly, Nowell Sing We Clear… the list goes on and on. But I rarely listen to music while I write. I start typing the lyrics.’ – Sarah Addison Allen

‘Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author’s job is to tell the truth.’ – Barry Eisler

‘Our nation has come so far since 1968 when Dr. King was assassinated, but I know we can do better to achieve The Dream, and that is why I keep marching on.’ – Charles B. Rangel

‘Dr. King’s famous ‘I Have a Dream’ speech was delivered at ‘The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,’ a call to justice beyond the traditional civil rights movement’s focus.’ – Charles B. Rangel

‘I was proud to march beside some of the most notable Civil Rights activists, such as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rev. Jesse Jackson, and Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., from Selma to Montgomery.’ – Charles B. Rangel

‘The real Stephen Colbert is a practicing Catholic. He teaches Sunday school. He can recite chapter and verse of chapter and verse – from both the King James Bible and ‘The Lord of the Rings.” – Kevin Bleyer

‘I think there’s something about supernatural shows that people see and just want to put me in them! I don’t know. I just finished another show – ‘The Nine Lives of Chloe King,’ with Skyler Samuels, who was my girlfriend in ‘The Gates’ – and I play another supernatural character on that show.’ – Colton Haynes

‘In the spring of 1957, Mickey Mantle was the king of New York. He had the Triple Crown to prove it, having become only the 12th player in history to earn baseball’s gaudiest jewel. In 1956, he had finally fulfilled the promise of his promise, batting .353, with 52 homers and 130 RBIs. Everybody loved Mickey.’ – Jane Leavy

‘To work is nothing; the king on his throne, the priest kneeling before the Holy Altar, all people in all places had to work, but no person at all need be a servant.’ – James Stephens

‘The trouble of the king becomes the trouble of the subject, for how shall we live if judgement is withheld, or if faulty decisions are promulgated?’ – James Stephens

‘In my Philly neighborhood, black and white kids hung together without even thinking about it. The spirit of Martin Luther King was alive and well.’ – Daryl Hall

‘In politics, Joseph Smith was something of a radical. He preached, instead of democracy, a version of theocratic rule within a framework given by his own prophetic leadership. At Nauvoo, Smith affected a Napoleonic uniform and made himself into a general and quasi king of the polity he had constituted.’ – Noah Feldman

‘I cannot wait to come back to Glasgow. I know the place like the back of my hand. In fact, one of the jobs I had as a student was in Cineworld. And I was always at gigs in King Tut’s, Nice ‘n’ Sleazy’s and the Barras. I played Ultimate Frisbee down on Glasgow Green and pulled pints in O’Neill’s on Queen Street.’ – Colin Morgan

‘When I first drove my car down Sunset Strip, I nearly crashed my car gazing at the monolithic ads of various celebrities. They are bigger than King Kong, and more frightening.’ – Rebecca Pidgeon

‘I have several books I can read over and over. With fiction, it’s ‘The Stand’ by Stephen King, which is my favorite all time. I read that at least once a year, the version which has 100,000 extra words, which is like the director’s cut and unabridged. I love the story. I love the social connotation to it.’ – Corey Taylor

‘I’m a little bit of a makeout king. I don’t discriminate too much.’ – Pete Wentz

‘I read every book there was on jazz, about the original players – King Oliver, Buddy Bolden and all those groups. At one time I was fairly well schooled in that… I could tell you who played where and when, historically, way before my time.’ – Clint Eastwood

‘Alan King, a comedian I adored, was considered society, and I was considered the Jewish kid from the neighborhood.’ – Don Rickles

‘If I hadn’t spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.’ – Jack Canfield

‘My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India.’ – Ricky Jay

‘I got to know Elton John’s older music by learning to like his newer stuff. ‘The Lion King?’ That’s what I like.’ – Aaron Schock

‘I liked Edinburgh as a university in a way that I’d never enjoyed King’s College London. I realised after I came to Edinburgh that perhaps it was a mistake to have gone to a college which was bang in the centre of a vast city. It had a bad effect on the social life of the students because a lot of them were commuting from outer London.’ – Peter Higgs

‘I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively – and there were a lot of choices – writing songs was king.’ – Jakob Dylan

‘In Jordan, where the prime minister is always a commoner, the king has announced some new reforms that would tend to move the country toward a more democratic system: Notably, the prime minister would emerge from the victorious political party, not from back room conversations in the royal palace.’ – Elliott Abrams

‘It’s not like I’m the first man ever to do this, y’know? You gotta go back to Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby and Sammy Davis Jr. Those are people who’ve done music well and movies well, and y’know, Frank Sinatra and Elvis and all these dudes have made the transition. I don’t know about Elvis, ’bout doin’ ’em good, y’know? It’s nothin’ new.’ – Ice Cube

‘Radio was used powerfully by Josef Goebbels to disseminate Nazi propaganda, and just as powerfully by King George VI to inspire the British people to fight invasion.’ – Rebecca MacKinnon

‘How many writers in history have ever been as famous as Stephen King? He casts an awfully long shadow.’ – Christopher Golden

‘I grew up in the 1960s in Memphis, and my father was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. I was born three years before Martin Luther King was killed, and I think that history of civil action was something that I had in my blood.’ – Ira Sachs

‘My dad is a huge folk music fan, so growing up, there were always records playing in my house. Carole King, James Taylor, Simon and Garfunkel, the Beatles – I grew up with this music, and I was aware of how special this music was to a lot of people.’ – Jake Epstein

‘I’m a huge Stephen King fan.’ – Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

‘My father established the first women’s university in the kingdom, abolished slavery, and tried to establish a constitutional monarchy that separates the position of king from that of prime minister.’ – Basmah bint Saud

‘Some people criticize the faithful for getting involved in politics, but it’s important to remember that down through the centuries, people motivated by their faith have done many important things. Martin Luther King Jr.’ – Frank Wolf

‘When Gingrich attacked CNN’s John King for bringing up his alleged proposal of an open marriage to his second wife, Gingrich accused him of lowering the level of discourse in a presidential debate, suggesting that such a discussion is unworthy of consideration by voters.’ – Robert Dallek

‘King Frederick I of Prussia conceived the Amber Chamber in 1701 as a magnificent gift to the Russian royal family that would seal the alliance between the two powers.’ – Stephen Kinzer

‘Of the great singing stars of the 1940s and ’50s, only one – Nat King Cole – died young, at age 45.’ – Robert Gottlieb

‘My last two years of high school, I think I went to Burger King every day for lunch.’ – Cameron Russell

‘Side note, I was Prom Prince. My friend and I campaigned to be Prom King and Queen, and we got the rest of the non-popular people in the school to vote for us. We didn’t win, but we got Prince and Princess.’ – Tom Lenk

‘It wasn’t until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there were Stephen King, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Richard Adams.’ – Kelley Armstrong

‘The first piece of ‘long’ fiction I wrote was a novella parody of Stephen King’s ‘Christine.’ I was in high school, and my version was about a kid with a possessed locker instead of a possessed car. It was also my first attempt at humour, which fell completely flat because no one who read it realized it was a parody!’ – Kelley Armstrong

‘It happened to me on ‘King of the Hill,’ where I’d left it before the end and didn’t really participate in the ending, and I always felt a little bit like I wanted to try a different version of that story.’ – Greg Daniels

‘I had my idea of what the series finale of ‘King of the Hill’ would be, but that’s not what the actual series finale was.’ – Greg Daniels

‘Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality.’ – Yvette Clarke

‘I hope that the opening of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will be a life-altering experience that inspires every American to rededicate themselves to the fulfillment of Dr. King’s dream.’ – Yvette Clarke

‘There’s a movie called ‘Elizabeth: The Golden Age,’ where I’m playing the King of Spain. It’s a small role, but it’s really, really interesting, the way I constructed it.’ – Jordi Molla

‘At first glance, Martha Stewart, queen of artfully distressed home furnishings, might not seem to have much in common with Michael R. Milken, one-time king of junk bonds.’ – Alex Berenson

‘Honestly, it’s terrible, but I don’t know if I’ve ever really read a Stephen King novel.’ – Jim Rash

‘The thing that everyone remembers about ‘Bambi’ is that moment. ‘The Lion King,’ took it to quite an extreme because it was an action sequence: his father was killed in a wildebeest stampede – I related, because mine was, too.’ – Nathan Lane

‘I’ve loved musicals ever since I saw ‘The Lion King’ on Broadway.’ – Mark Indelicato

‘Pretty much every society, every culture in the world has some version of the Arthur legend, so everybody knows it; certainly in the western world, everybody knows King Arthur, but nobody knows what happens next.’ – Neil Marshall

‘I was Aladdin, and then I was Captain Von Trapp from ‘Sound Of Music’ when I was 7 or 8, and then King Arthur. I was always the lead. I’ve always enjoyed being onstage, acting obnoxious, being someone that wasn’t me, hiding behind a character.’ – Christopher Mintz-Plasse

‘I was excited when King’s College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.’ – Malala Yousafzai

‘At Liverpool, I had almost everything but titles. I felt like a king, but the team was falling apart.’ – Fernando Torres

‘I like things that start depressing and dark and end up romantic, and that’s what I really loved about ‘King Kong.” – Petra Haden

‘In 1968, the sanitation workers of Memphis tried to form a union. The city resisted. The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. came to support them. That was where he lost his life.’ – Robert Reich

‘I was a homecoming king in high school! I was involved. I was a good member of the community, I thought.’ – Kevin Connolly

‘I was at the Royal Shakespeare Company, where I thought, in my naivete, I’d stay for the rest of my career. I’d thought I’d work up through the ranks and go from spear carrier – or in my case, the eunuch, which was several rungs below the spear carrier – to King Lear.’ – Christian McKay

‘Now I have an agent, a manager, a lawyer, a publicist, all the king’s horses and all the king’s men.’ – Christian McKay

‘The British Isles are awash with the choice of beautiful historic churches, abbeys, and cathedrals where one king or another has tied the knot and bestowed a royal precedent.’ – Tina Brown

‘I look at it like this: that if Shakespeare were alive today, he would have written two or three plays about the Kennedy family, and actors would traditionally play JFK like they Hamlet or King Lear. They just would. I mean, people have played JFK, and they’ll play him long after I have.’ – Rob Lowe

‘The defense of the West Bank by Arab forces would be a truly suicidal enterprise. The late King Hussein understood these facts well. Until 1967, he was careful to keep most of his forces east of the Jordan River. When he momentarily forgot these realities in 1967, it took Israel just three days of fighting to remind him of them.’ – Martin Van Creveld

‘I’ve never been that guy who says, ‘Ooh, I have to play King Lear’. First off, that’d be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who’s involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don’t think I’m through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.’ – Ted Danson

‘I don’t like fantasy where a king snaps his fingers and suddenly a whole army appears and goes off to war – he’s got to feed them, he’s got to pay them, he’s got to take care of the camp followers and the gamblers and the people who cause disorder.’ – Raymond E. Feist

‘I’m mainly an airport author, and if you’re trying to take your mind off the journey, you’re not going to read ‘King Lear.” – Maeve Binchy

‘The activities that went on at Camp King between 1946 and the late 1950s have never been fully accounted for by either the Department of Defense or the CIA.’ – Annie Jacobsen

‘The CIA teamed up with Army, Air Force and Naval Intelligence to run one of the most nefarious, classified, enhanced interrogation programs of the Cold War. The work took place inside a clandestine facility in the American zone of occupied Germany, called Camp King.’ – Annie Jacobsen

”King of California’ was just, I thought, a really great, fresh, original kind of script. I loved the tone, the mix of tragedy, comedy, and drama, and that it was a good part.’ – Michael Douglas

‘I thought ‘The King’s Speech’ was great.’ – Paul Haggis

‘I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.’ – LaMarr Woodley

‘I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.’ – Cory Booker

‘The thing with Stephen King is that everyone dies, and everyone comes back to life. So you never know with his mind where things go. It’s the same with Steven Spielberg, too.’ – Natalie Martinez

‘In 1999, I was in St. Louis with Martin Luther King III as we led protests against the state’s failure to hire minority contractors for highway construction projects. We went at dawn on a summer day with over a thousand people and performed acts of civil disobedience.’ – Al Sharpton

‘The first time I ever met Stephen King, he came up to me, and we went to shake hands, and he had, like, this fake rubber rat that he kind of, you know, shook at me. You know, and I said, ‘No, this is a cliche – this can’t be. Stephen King is trying to scare me with a fake rat?’ It was just really weird.’ – Rob Reiner

‘I actually love Stephen King’s writing. I mean, we, actually, at Castle Rock, we’ve made seven movies out of Stephen King books.’ – Rob Reiner

‘If it weren’t for Liberace, there would be no Madonna or Lady Gaga, Elton John, Bette Midler, or Elvis because it was Liberace who helped the King glitz up his act.’ – Robin Leach

‘After the French Revolution, it was not the treason of the king that was in question; it was the existence of the king. You have to be very careful when you judge and execute somebody for being a symbol.’ – Adam Michnik

‘If you’re the cashier at Burger King, of course you make less than the manager or even the CEO. The issue is whether you’re stuck being a cashier for the rest of your life.’ – Marco Rubio

‘Summer in Seattle allows me to indulge in some of the region’s top culinary delights – I’m talking about wild king salmon and fresh, ripe Washington stone fruits and berries like cherries, peaches, plums, and blueberries.’ – Tom Douglas

‘Spooning a seasonal fruit relish onto a plate of grilled king salmon is very much my style – flavorful, straightforward, and unfussy. I also like the way fresh, ripe fruit balances the richness of the salmon.’ – Tom Douglas

‘The flesh of king salmon, which varies in color from white to pink to red, has a high fat content, making it perfect for grilling.’ – Tom Douglas

‘Around the time I opened my second restaurant, Etta’s, I had just finished judging at the Jack Daniels World Invitational BBQ Championship in Lynchburg, Tennessee. Back home in Seattle, my goal was to recreate the sweet and smoky taste of that BBQ using our local wild king salmon instead of pig.’ – Tom Douglas

‘Another way I like to barbecue king salmon is as a whole fish stuffed, literally to the gills, with sweet onions, sliced lemons, and summer sage.’ – Tom Douglas

‘In times of crisis, cash is king.’ – Ricardo Salinas Pliego

‘I’ve been a fan of vampire fiction since way, way back – I loved Stephen King, Anne Rice, Peter Straub, Robert McCammon, Shirley Jackson, lots of great horror and paranormal fiction.’ – Rachel Caine

‘My favorite country blues player was Big Bill Broonzy. City blues was Freddie King, but I liked them all – Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Ralph Willis, Lonnie Johnson, Brownie McGhee and the three Kings, B.B., Albert and Freddie. Jazz-wise, I listened to Django, Barney Kessel and Wes Montgomery.’ – Alvin Lee

‘One day, I went to buy something for my dad at the shops, and I heard a song by Nat King Cole called ‘Stardust Melody.’ It was like I went into a trance or something. I forgot all about my dad sending me to the shop. When I got home, I explained to him what happened. I thought I was going to get a whipping, but he understood.’ – Desmond Dekker

‘Of course Stephen King doesn’t believe in teen novels. I’ve started to suspect he doesn’t even believe in teenagers.’ – Robin Wasserman

‘My first six books were horror, I think because when I was young I loved Stephen King. John Wyndham, Daphne Du Maurier, and it’s natural to try and emulate the books you first loved.’ – Sarah Pinborough

‘If I say often enough that I’m going to be in ‘King Kong,’ I’m hoping that Peter Jackson will take the hint.’ – Ian Mckellen

‘If you are playing King Lear you are the centre of attention anyway. You don’t need to draw attention to yourself. It’s all laid out for you.’ – Ian Mckellen

‘I used to think ‘King Lear’ was an analysis of insanity, but I don’t really think it is. When Lear is supposed to be at his most insane, he is actually understanding the world for the first time.’ – Ian Mckellen

‘Working on ‘King Of Texas’ was a life experience for me.’ – Marcia Gay Harden

‘Among all the characters mentioned in the Bible, none is more mysterious than Melchisedec; said to be without father, mother, or earthly kin, and holding the dual office of king and priest.’ – Max Heindel

‘I’ve just written a very gritty, non-magical take on the King Arthur legend, ‘Here Lies Arthur,’ and I’m currently toying with some other historical ideas, as well as working with the illustrator David Wyatt on some sequels to my Victorian space opera ‘Larklight.” – Philip Reeve

‘The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by inventing museums. Museums are about representing power. It could be the king’s power or, later, people’s power.’ – Orhan Pamuk

‘In England, the sovereignty resides exclusively in the person or individual who is king. All Englishmen are his subjects. And the highest peer in the realm… has no share in the sovereignty.’ – Roger B. Taney

‘Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.’ – Karen DeCrow

‘Listen, man: I am not the industrial godfather, king, whatever. I don’t relish that title. I don’t like it. I think it’s limiting. I do country, I do blues. I don’t just go straight.’ – Al Jourgensen

‘I would like to do ‘King Lear.’ But I would like to do it in Swedish.’ – Max von Sydow

‘Together, for over 50 years, King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia have devoted themselves to Spain.’ – Felipe VI of Spain

‘In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king.’ – Efren Ramirez

‘I have been thinking a lot about what we see in villains, how we relate to villains, and what it is about certain villains that we actually empathize with. Like Macbeth. We’re not supposed to like a guy who kills the king and takes over, but there’s something about him we’re really fascinated by.’ – Finn Wittrock

‘Memphis is the place where rock was born and Martin Luther King, Jr., was killed. It’s full of contradictions, abject poverty, and riches that only music can provide.’ – Shawn Amos

‘In the U.S., search engines are king. That is because everyone already knows what they are looking for. Brands have been around for a long time.’ – Victor Koo

‘Content is king. When you are asking people to read you several times a day, you better have some fine content.’ – Barry Ritholtz

‘No matter what, if my son was gay, I’d treat him like a king.’ – Tracy Morgan

‘I think one of the reasons Stephen King’s stories work so well is that he places his stories in spooky old New England, where a lot of American folk legends came from.’ – Ted Naifeh

‘Stephen King consummately honors several traditions with his rare paperback original, ‘Joyland.’ He addresses the novel of carny life and sideshows, where the midway serves as microcosm, such as in those famous books by Ray Bradbury, Charles Finney and William Lindsay Gresham.’ – Paul Di Filippo

‘The science-fictional motif of lethal, infectious information – bad memes – is a fascinating one, with an extended history. One of the earliest instances is Robert W. Chambers’s ‘The King in Yellow’ from 1895. Chambers’s conceit is a malevolent play: read beyond Act II, and you go mad.’ – Paul Di Filippo

‘I love seafood. Whenever I’m in Las Vegas, I love going to the Bellagio buffet because they have these great king crab legs.’ – Harland Williams

‘Once upon a time, my mother lived in the posh downtown of Homs, Syria. She described my grandfather as a king in a storybook, atop a horse, wearing a didashah and pointing a long arm.’ – Mona Simpson

‘The very first music I recorded by myself, when I was 17, I said it was by King Tuff.’ – King Tuff

‘I ended up doing these other diverse things, but King Tuff is the thing I always wanted to come back to – just good, straightforward rock n’ roll. That music is the most me, you know?’ – King Tuff

‘I don’t think of ‘Macbeth’ as the villain. I don’t think of ‘King Lear’ as the villain. I don’t think of ‘Hamlet’ as the villain. I don’t think of ‘Travis Bickle’ as the villain.’ – Damien Chazelle

‘I was brought up with beautiful music – Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day – brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.’ – Imelda May

‘I would love to work with Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, B.B. King. I’d love to do something with Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane, and The Last Shadow Puppets. If I got a call from Juliette Lewis or PJ Harvey, or Chrissie Hynde, that’d be a thrill.’ – Imelda May

”The Return Of The King’ has a conclusion.’ – Peter Jackson

‘I still like the King’s Road. It is very alive; it is a hustle of things from different countries and so on. It is lovely.’ – Mary Quant

‘Jean Shrimpton was the most beautiful of all the models I have known. To walk down the King’s Road, Chelsea, with Shrimpton was like walking through the rye. Strong men just keeled over right and left as she strode up the street.’ – Mary Quant

‘We are increasingly offered a diet in which sensation, not story, is king.’ – Beeban Kidron

‘Muddy Waters, I suppose, was my first great hero. You know, every boy wants to be a guitar player, and Muddy Waters was just the king. He was the King Bee. He was it.’ – Hugh Laurie

‘I realized that my grandfather walked with Martin Luther King forty years ago. That was his dream. And in his little way, he helped us get closer to where we are today.’ – Tim Daly

‘I think, along with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks will go down as one of the two most well-known and remembered figures out of the Civil Rights Movement.’ – Douglas Brinkley

‘I love Radiohead, which most people don’t expect, and I listen to everything from Stevie Wonder to Steely Dan, Carole King, The Beach Boys, The Kinks, Beyonce Knowles, Vampire Weekend, The Beatles, Joni Mitchell, Burt Bacharach, and Paul Simon.’ – Eliza Doolittle

‘My grandfather sold insurance to King Farouk of Egypt. And my savta’s parents helped found the city of Tel Aviv in 1906. Our family name used to be Mizrahi, but they changed it to Mayron, which means ‘happy water’ in Hebrew.’ – Melanie Mayron

‘I don’t remember much about the specifics of the economics courses that I majored in – I apparently internalized the key concepts – but I still remember vividly the thrill of reading ‘Don Quixote,’ Epictetus, ‘The Aeneid,’ ‘King Lear’ and ‘Candide,’ and how contemporary the stories and ideas in these old and ancient texts struck me.’ – Daniel S. Loeb

‘I’m an old soul. I like the Nat King Cole; Sam Cooke is my favorite singer of all time. But I’m into neo-soul; I’m into R&B. Some of the modern stuff appeals to me, but most of it comes from an older time.’ – Trai Byers

‘I grew up on all sorts of horror – Hammer Horror and Vincent Price’s ‘Theatre Of Blood.’ I loved the hidden, scary layers, but there wasn’t that much around for youngsters in terms of horror books. I can remember reading Stephen King’s ‘Salem’s Lot’ and ‘Cujo,’ but I thought there should be more for teenaged horror fans.’ – Darren Shan

‘I used to play quite a good lead guitar, R&B style. Clapton and BB King are heroes.’ – Philip Kerr

‘My favorite-ever version of ‘King Lear’ is the 1971 film by Peter Brooks. He has this enormous fur thing, and it adds enormous gravitas.’ – Ben Mendelsohn

‘Sure, best seller. I’d love to knock Stephen King off the top of the list. I know I won’t, but, after all, I spend my life inventing a different reality.’ – Tim O’Brien

‘J. K. Rowling’s first ‘Harry Potter’ manuscript was rejected 12 times. Stephen King’s ‘Carrie’ was rejected 30 times. ‘Gone With The Wind’ was rejected 38 times. I was immensely proud to have beaten them all.’ – Ashwin Sanghi

‘If I were king of the world, babies born in airplanes, balloons and blimps would, instead of choosing to be German, Maldivian or American, all get special heavenly blue passports with a stork on the cover labeled ‘Sky Baby’ – and they’d be allowed to come and go anywhere they please.’ – Robert Krulwich

‘A forest – the word dates back to the Norman occupancy, when it meant an area set aside for England’s violent new masters to hunt boar and deer – is necessarily larger than a wood. It belonged to the king and was a fit place for his recreation.’ – John Burnside

‘My first date ever, I was kind of nervous, so I was like, ‘I’m going to bring Brady to this walk on the beach with this girl,’ and she was like, ‘Oh my gosh, I have a King Charles Cavalier, too.’ I’m like, ‘Money, perfect, amazing.” – Charlie Puth

‘My process seems to be unusual in the sense that I don’t create worlds before characters. With me, character is king.’ – Ann Aguirre

‘When I was 6, a family friend gave me E.L. Konigsburg’s ‘A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver’ and launched me on a full-blown Eleanor obsession. I wanted to ride off on Crusade, to launch a thousand troubadour songs, to marry a king – and then jilt him and marry another.’ – Lauren Willig

‘I grew up in the ’70s, and I hear in my own stuff a lot of what I grew up listening to, which is to say I hear a lot of Billy Joel, Paul McCartney, Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Stevie Wonder.’ – Jason Robert Brown

‘When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.’ – Victor Hugo

‘I am, of course, directly descended from Brian Boru, the last king of Ireland, a fact certified by my mother and therefore beyond dispute. But as everybody else with a drop of Irish blood in his carcass is also a guaranteed descendant of the old billy goat, I am not overly arrogant because of this royal strain.’ – Preston Sturges

‘I regard the rights of men and women equal. In Love’s fair realm, husband and wife are king and queen, sceptered and crowned alike, and seated on the self-same throne.’ – Robert Green Ingersoll

‘The place does not make the man, nor the sceptre the king. Greatness is from within.’ – Robert Green Ingersoll

‘In France, the people were the sport of a king’s caprice. Everywhere was the shadow of the Bastille. It fell upon the sunniest field, upon the happiest home.’ – Robert Green Ingersoll

‘I was just so excited to have a child! I held him up like he was Simba in ‘The Lion King.’ I wanted to sing ‘The Circle of Life.” – Aaron Lazar

‘Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.’ – Dana Stabenow

‘I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov’s nonfiction books, and Roald Dahl.’ – Nnedi Okorafor

‘Back in the day, the album was king in many ways. And, of course, we were very tied in with the birth of FM/college radio in the States, and what we were doing suited the format of those young radio stations.’ – Chris Squire

‘I spent three days with Don King, and I interviewed 45 people. I studied his speech, his mannerisms. He invited me to a couple of fights, and I watched him.’ – Ving Rhames

‘Don King is as American as apple pie. He is America.’ – Ving Rhames

‘You get Don King’s point of view in what is almost a Shakespearean, classical technique. He comes across almost like a lovable rogue, like Iago in ‘Othello’ or Richard III. He’s doing all these bad things, but I kind of like him. It’s like ‘Pulp Fiction’: Everybody’s a bad guy, yet you like them.’ – Ving Rhames

‘While I’m working, I stick with music that won’t distract me – the dub stylings of Scientist and King Tubby, maybe some Beethoven string quartets.’ – Adam Mansbach

‘Most of us remember Nat King Cole as a vocalist. His warm, grainy baritone is still so closely identified with such familiar ballads as ‘Stardust’ and ‘The Christmas Song’ that it’s hard to imagine anyone else performing them.’ – Terry Teachout

‘The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.’ – Ta-Nehisi Coates

‘The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.’ – Ta-Nehisi Coates

‘My first name is a boy’s name. It’s Tanner. I’ve always gone by my middle name but, yeah, my first name is Tanner. And King is my mom’s last name. I took my mom’s last name since I was 18.’ – Elle King

‘In my formative years, I never missed the ‘Creature Double Feature’ on Saturday afternoon TV, even if it meant switching back and forth between ‘Gamera’ and the Red Sox. I did a book report on Stephen King’s ‘Night Shift’ in seventh grade. Unrated Italian horror movies became a weekly rite of passage once I hit seventeen.’ – Chuck Hogan

‘Get your butt in a chair and write. If it comes out weak or bad or clunky or ordinary, then accept that this happens to everyone. Everyone. Get it down, get it done, and fix it in the rewrite. Just like everyone from Stephen King to J. K. Rowling to Chuck Palahniuk does.’ – Jonathan Maberry

‘Jim Rollins is the king of the weird science action genre.’ – Jonathan Maberry

‘I don’t aspire to write like Steve King. Sure, I admire his work, and I think he’s a hell of a nice guy; we met shortly after my first Stoker win. I aspire to write like Jonathan Maberry.’ – Jonathan Maberry

‘If you’re the water boiler king of China, you’re selling a billion water boilers.’ – Kevin Kwan

‘I’ve always been drawn to the Edwardian period in England. To me, it seems like such a fascinating time, when the British Empire was at the height of its powers and the strict mores of the Victorian age were dissipating into the decadence of King Edward’s reign.’ – Kevin Kwan

‘Anne Boleyn isn’t a sympathetic character, but I like that she isn’t a people pleaser. She’s ambitious and manipulative, but she’s honest. I’m biased, but I don’t think a woman who has said ‘no’ to the King of England for six years would jump into bed with four of his best friends. She was a slick political mind.’ – Lydia Leonard

‘I can’t assume that people see me the way I see myself. I have to show them. But I can’t do it in a way where it’s too much, where it’s rude. I feel like when you’re a king, you lead. And I just see myself as a king, or as something more than just a regular human being.’ – Shameik Moore

‘Saudi Arabia isn’t the enemy, but it is a problem. It could make so much positive difference in the Islamic world if it used its status to soothe Sunni-Shiite tensions and encourage tolerance. For a time, under King Abdullah, it seemed that the country was trying to reform, but now under King Salman, it has stalled.’ – Nicholas Kristof

‘Ian Rankin’s Rebus is the king of modern British crime fiction. He is dour, determined, and constantly falls foul of his seniors. For all this, we root for him. He is eminently loveable, a quixotic hero moving through the darker half of a Jekyll and Hyde Edinburgh.’ – Mark Billingham

‘One of the best things about the award season is that when a British film succeeds at the Oscars and BAFTAs, such as ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ in 2009 and ‘The King’s Speech’ this year, the British public get right behind it with an immense sense of national pride.’ – Gurinder Chadha

‘Ah-rah-han, the first Buddhist apostle of Burma, under the patronage of King Anan-ra-tha-men-zan, disseminated the doctrines of atheism and taught his disciples to pant after annihilation as the supreme good.’ – Adoniram Judson

‘Nora Roberts, Stephen King, Lee Child and George R. R. Martin write wildly different books. Their writing, plotting and styles have little or nothing in common. But they all write books and characters that readers find appealing.’ – M. J. Rose

‘I have favorite authors from a lifetime of reading, so there are some I’ll automatically read every time they have a new novel. Included in them: Robert Goddard, Jeffery Deaver, Sophie Kinsella, Katherine Neville, Greg Isle, Laurie King, Lee Child, Lisa Tucker, Susan Howatch, Paul Auster. Barry Eisler, David Hewson, Tracy Chevalier.’ – M. J. Rose

‘If the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil rights movement made demands that altered the course of American lives and backed up those demands with the willingness to give up your life in service of your civil rights, with Black Lives Matter, a more internalized change is being asked for: recognition.’ – Claudia Rankine

‘In big battle scenes, like ‘King Arthur’, you see the knights in all their fine armour, but they’re not in the thick of it: follow the perspective, and you’ll find some poor little sod, who didn’t want to be there, anyway, with his head split.’ – Michael Foreman

‘My dad was a real man’s man, and so were my brothers, in a small town where hockey is king. It’s a masculine culture. It made me really attentive to what it meant to be a guy.’ – Lynn Coady

‘The MLK Shabbat Suppers focused on the theme of educational inequity, which Dr. King considered inextricably linked to the struggle for equality and justice.’ – Lynn Schusterman

‘One of the disconcerting things about writing for publication is that you’re trying to clear your little parcel of land in a field where Taste is king – and, as we all know, there’s no accounting for Taste.’ – Darin Strauss

‘Two of the first plays I saw after I arrived in Britain were ‘King Lear’ in Liverpool, and ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ at Stratford. One was produced with hardly a backdrop and the other with gigantic scene changes. I was impressed by what connected the two: the words and their life beyond the stage.’ – Romesh Gunesekera

‘The horror genre is vast and full of brilliance. Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Herman Melville, the book of Esther. I’ll happily join that list.’ – Victor LaValle

”King Kong,’ especially the first two acts of it, is a really good example of the use of miniatures mixed with digital characters and how convincing it was.’ – Jon Favreau

‘In 1974/75, I spent a sabbatical year with Professor Vince Jaccarino and Dr. Alan King at the University of California in Santa Barbara to get a taste of nuclear magnetic resonance. We solved a specific problem on the bicritical point of MnF2, their home-base material. We traded experience, NMR, and critical phenomena.’ – Heinrich Rohrer

‘Under a pulsating full moon, the gussied-up Billie Jean King National Tennis Center seems much softer and prettier at night, with the fountains bubbling and fans without tickets to the big stadium sitting in the plaza and watching a big screen.’ – George Vecsey

‘In the spring of 1854, some of my publications persuaded King Maximilian II of Bavaria to offer me, at the suggestion of Emanuel Geibel, a position in Munich with an annual salary of 1000 guilders, to take part in his so-called symposia, weekly soirees at which scholars and poets were gathered.’ – Paul Heyse

‘We lived in a suburb of Birmingham where I attended the local state school from the age of five. I then went on to King Edward VI High School in Edgbaston, Birmingham.’ – John Vane

‘For many of us, our proms were less Walt Disney’s ‘Cinderella’ and more Stephen King’s ‘Carrie.’ The less we spent on them, the better.’ – Gina Barreca

‘I attribute the black tones in my films to Stephen King, Tim Burton, Joe Hill and Richard Matheson. However, most of my writing is influenced by mental health. I’m incredibly passionate about shedding light on the stigmas associated with mental illnesses.’ – Anna Akana

‘Fiction about mining has a long tradition – Emile Zola’s ‘Germinal’ and Upton Sinclair’s ‘King Coal’ come to mind – and most readers will be aware of the industry’s harsh conditions.’ – Floyd Skloot

‘Historians of European royalty have written of the king’s ‘two bodies’ : one mortal and corrupt; the other divine, abstract and timeless.’ – Stacey D’Erasmo

‘I can laugh at myself because I’ve had to. Everything would have been much worse if I’d been the singing son of Nat ‘King’ Cole.’ – Natalie Cole

‘I don’t think anyone can measure up to what my father had achieved. I’m just happy to at least play some of his music, but he is really the one who was the pioneer, the one who started all this. He’s really The King.’ – Natalie Cole

‘I’ll never totally get away from being who I am, which first, to many, is the daughter of Nat King Cole, which became even more intensified with the ‘Unforgettable’ album.’ – Natalie Cole

‘It is foolishly thought by some that democratical constitutions will not, cannot, last; that the States will quarrel with each other; that a king, or at least a nobility, are indispensable for the prosperity of a nation.’ – Marquis de Lafayette

‘Protestants in France are under intolerable despotism. Although open persecution does not now exist, yet it depends upon the whim of the king, queen, parliament, or any of the ministry.’ – Marquis de Lafayette

‘No person is more convinced than I am of the necessity of giving great splendour and energy to the great hereditary magistracy exercised by the king; but in a free country, there can only be citizens and public officers.’ – Marquis de Lafayette

‘I can assure the Marquis de Chasteler that it is my unalterable determination never to set foot on any territory which acknowledges obedience to His Majesty the King of Bohemia and Hungary.’ – Marquis de Lafayette

‘The king knows with what ardor and perseverance I have at all times been devoted to the cause of liberty and to the principles of humanity, equality and justice.’ – Marquis de Lafayette

‘J. Cole’s 2014 ‘Forrest Hills Drive.’ The album, artwork, and director of that album was a huge influence on the visuals for ‘Homecoming King.” – Hasan Minhaj

‘My father was a Baptist preacher, and he used to read the King James Bible to me every single morning. He made me memorize it and repeat verses at night before I went to sleep.’ – Jay Parini

‘I started off in drama, and there are so many women that I admire. Women in this industry are gladiators. Cicely Tyson, Viola Davis, Taraji Henson, Regina Hall, Regina King.’ – Bresha Webb

‘For me, I am a really tall woman, and I am really tall in heels, and I feel bigger, and I like being bigger. I think I was a king in a past life.’ – Alysia Reiner

‘The original settlers in Iceland were the nobles of Norway who left their native land to avoid the tyranny of Harold Fairhair, who tried to crush their power so as to make himself a despotic king in the land.’ – Sabine Baring-Gould

‘The largest two books I’ve ever read more than once are ‘Bleak House’ by Charles Dickens and ‘The Stand’ by Stephen King, about 1,200 pages each.’ – Simon Toyne

‘One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.’ – Sam Kean

”She’s Dynamite’ was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n’ roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n’ roll.’ – B. B. King

‘A movie like ‘Selma’ should be a relic in a time capsule from 1965, a clue to how well we heeded King’s words and how far we have advanced. Instead, it is a reminder that the ‘American problem’ has yet to be solved.’ – Richard Corliss

‘An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this masterly production is hard to equal; and even though its Saxon vocabulary and poetic rhythm be unsuited to general composition, it is an invaluable model for writers on quaint or imaginative themes.’ – H. P. Lovecraft

‘I’ve always felt the man is king of the house and should be amused and treated well.’ – Jerry Hall

‘With a name like Cush Jumbo, you never get forgotten. The ‘Jumbo’ is from my father, who is Nigerian, and ‘Cush’ was a king in ancient Egypt. It’s a name that took a few years to grow into, but now I feel it was meant to be. It’s absolutely who I am, and I love it.’ – Cush Jumbo

‘Yahoo!, over the years, had been the king of the banner ad.’ – Marissa Mayer

‘Johnny Mercer started Capitol Records, and he brought in Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Nat King Cole. He just let them sing whatever they wanted, and it became the best record company in America.’ – Tony Bennett

‘I respected Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra. Those were my heroes, and they were 10 years older than I was.’ – Tony Bennett

‘Civil disobedience has almost always been about expression. Generally, it’s nonviolent, as defined by Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi, and King.’ – Marvin Ammori

‘The framers hated the tyranny of King George, but they were also afraid of the mob. That’s why they put so many checks and balances into our system, to guard against the excesses of a government that might be inflamed by public passion or perverted by a dictator’s whim.’ – David Ignatius

‘Even the king of phrasing, Frank Sinatra, did not do as well as Joe Cocker with his reinterpretation of ‘Something’ by George Harrison, which Sinatra called the greatest love song ever written.’ – Andrew Rosenthal

‘I don’t know about young Thor and King Thor getting their own series someday, although it would be nice if I could write three Thor series at the same time.’ – Jason Aaron

‘The motivations of kings in British history can generally be reduced to two: the quest for territory and the search for a male heir. No king was secure on his throne until he had a son, and no queen consort was ever really safe without a boy.’ – Kate Williams