Royal Quotes - Page 16

• A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Nature, Instinct, Geese

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.240, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Charles Darwin [is my personal favorite Fellow of the Royal Society]. I suppose as a physical scientist I ought to have chosen Newton. He would have won hands down in an IQ test, but if you ask who was the most attractive personality then Darwin is the one you'd wish to meet. Newton was solitary and reclusive, even vain and vindictive in his later years when he was president of the society.

  Martin Rees

  Years, Hands, Personality

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• If the Royal Variety Show was put in a matter transportation machine with the Royal Institution Christmas lectures, this is what you'd get.

  Robin Ince

  Machines, Matter, Lectures

  "O come all ye non-faithful, and rejoice in science" by Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. December 06, 2009.

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• It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Flying, World, Should

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.1864, Delphi Classics

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• When I heard the royal family wanted to have me perform in celebration of Prince William's marriage, I knew I had to give them a little something. 'Wet' is the perfect anthem for Prince William or any playa to get the club smokin'.

  Snoop Dogg

  Giving, Perfect, Clubs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• [The Royal Society] is quite simply the voice of science in Britain. It is intellectually rigorous, not afraid to be outspoken on controversial issues such as climate change, but it is not aggressively secular either, insisting on a single view of the world. In fact, there are plenty of eminent scientists - Robert Winston, for instance - who are also men of faith.

  Bill Bryson

  Faith, Science, Men

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• And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest of royal families," Satan said, "sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose - there is no such war in the history of the race."

  Mark Twain

  Crush, War, Race

  Mark Twain (2014). “The Mysterious Stranger: and Other Stories”, p.143, Diderot Publishing

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• Sire, there is no royal road to geometry.

  Euclid

  Geometry

  Quoted in Proclus, Commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elementa

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• I shall make it my chief business to see that the [royal] executive power has its place in the constitution.

  Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

  Executive Power, Revolution, Constitution

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• If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Wedding, Grateful, Writing

  "U.K. Appoints First Female Poet Laureate". www.foxnews.com. May 01, 2009.

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• Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.

  Princess Diana

  Women, Princess, History

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• The past is buried deep within the ground in Rabat, although the ancient walls in the old city are still standing, painted in electrifying variations of royal blue that make the winding roads look like streamlets or shallow ocean water

  Raquel Cepeda

  Travel, Wall, Ocean

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the most important secret societies of the 20th century is called the Round Table. It is based in Britain with branches across the world. It is the Round Table that ultimately orchestrates the network of the Bilderberg Group, Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission and the Royal Institute of International Affairs.

  David Icke

  Secret, Important, World

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• I am fascinated by the Royal Family because they are shrouded in mystique, and the Queen, and to a certain extent William, represent fabulous blank canvases. I find the Prince of Wales less fascinating because he spills the beans and we know too much about him.

  Alison Jackson

  Queens, Too Much, Fabulous

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• Once in royal David's city Stood a lowly cattle shed, Where a Mother laid her Baby In a manger for His bed: Mary was that Mother mild Jesus Christ her little Child . . . With the poor, and mean, and lowly, Lived on earth our Savior Holy.

  Cecil Frances Alexander

  Life, Mother, Baby

  1848 'Once in Royal David's City'.

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• I just recently joined Twitter. It's very positive - I love all the accolades. If my ego is hurting, I can just open my Twitter account and see 'Oh, I love you! I love the show!' and it's great. I'm trying to find the balance between trying to be funny, being honest and just being a promoter as the guy on 'Royal Pains.'

  Mark Feuerstein

  I Love You, Hurt, Pain

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• Singing for royalty is a dream of mine - I'd absolutely love to sing for the Queen at the Royal Variety Show. All the contestants are very good. I will just have to do my best and see what happens.

  Susan Boyle

  Dream, Queens, Singing

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• Knowing constancy, the mind is open.
  With an open mind, you will be openhearted.
  Being openhearted you will act royally.
  Being royal, you will attain the divine.
  Being divine, you will be at one with the Tao.
  Being at one with the Tao is eternal.
  Though the body dies, the Tao will never pass away.

  Laozi

  Heart, Knowing, Mind

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Alongside my "no email" policy, I resolve to make better use of the wonderful Royal Mail, and send letters and postcards to people. There is a huge pleasure in writing a letter, putting it in an envelope and sticking the stamp on it. And huge pleasure in receiving real letters, too.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Real, Writing, People

  "Why I decided to pull the plug on email" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2007.

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• I knew she was a party girl. The book I liked most on her was called [princess] Margaret: A Life of Contrasts and getting to know her, it was how conflicted her position and her internal life - or self - was. She is so fiercely royal and so fiercely "sister of the queen" or "daughter of the king" because that is her identity and it's all she's ever known. And at the same time she is struggling to push the boundaries and to break away from it, to be different or to modernize the monarchy, to turn it on its head.

  Vanessa Kirby

  Girl, Daughter, Queens

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Corney & Barrow are proud to have the royal warrant, meaning that they provide the Palace with some of the greatest - and necessarily most expensive - wines from around the world. I am pleased to say that they also hold my own warrant, for providing exceptional wines at - surprisingly - modest prices.

  Simon Hoggart

  Wine, World, Proud

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• ... as a rule of thumb, whenever there appears a plural, correct for a singular. Should I ever let slip a royal WE, put me out of my misery with a swift blow to the head.

  Nicole Krauss

  Blow, Thumbs, Misery

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.86, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I've been trying to get into the Royal Box in New York for years. They say I'm too dirty, my material is too blue. But I think Redd, the whites and blue can be a nice combination.

  Redd Foxx

  New York, Nice, Dirty

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We gather at night to celebrate being human. Sometimes we call out low to the tambourine. Fish drink the sea, but the sea does not get smaller! We eat the clouds and evening light. We are slaves tasting the royal wine.

  Rumi

  Wine, Night, Clouds

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• What does New York sound like? For me, the Charlie Parker at the Royal Roost recordings on the Savoy label are the total embodiment of the New York music experience.

  Henry Rollins

  New York, Sound, Doe

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