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
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
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
For touching an adversary’s man, when it cannot be captured, the offender must move his King. – Howard Staunton
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
Everyone puts all of the advances that we’ve made on Dr. King, but there’s a lot of people who were part of the civil rights movement. – Ilyasah Shabazz
Hip-hop has done more for race relations than most cultural icons; and I say save Martin Luther King, because his ‘I Have A Dream’ speech was realized when Obama was elected into office. – Jay-Z
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
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
Biggie was the King Of New York as a rapper. There’s a lot more dangerous guys than Biggie Smalls out there, you know what I’m saying? John Gotti was way closer to King Of New York than him. – Jay-Z
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
Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain’t no king, man. – Jeff Bridges
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
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
Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King – and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights. – James Hansen
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
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
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
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
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
Who elected Larry King America’s grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes. – James Wolcott
Dr. King was unpopular while he was alive – he’s only popular now because he’s dead and not a threat to anyone. – John Legend
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
What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness. – Joseph Brodsky
Early on, I wrote a letter to the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. I was 17. I felt called, moved. – John Lewis