Royalty Quotes - Page 10

• I will say that I'm proud of my connection to DC comics because they are absolutely fabulous in sending reprint royalty checks.

  Mike Royer

  Dc Comics, Proud, Fabulous

  "HomeInterviews Interview: Mike Royer Talks Classic Cartoons, Jack Kirby and Much More". Interview with Bryan Stroud, comicsbulletin.com. January 30, 2015.

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• Muse of poetry, come to his aid, I thought. Could the man produce one more metaphor of husbandry? He seemed to be trying. "Green wood," I suggested, but even he sensed that there was something unfortunate about a metaphor for a king in which you dry out your royalty before you set fire to it.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Kings, Men, Fire

  Megan Whalen Turner (2010). “A Conspiracy of Kings”, Greenwillow

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• What did it mean to be called “lord”? I’ll assume you’ve never had the honor, since I doubt any of you happen to be British royalty. (And, if by chance you are, then let me say, “Hello, Your Majesty! Welcome to my stupid book. Can I borrow some cash?”)

  Brandon Sanderson

  Stupid, Book, Mean

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “The Scrivener's Bones: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.114, Macmillan

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• If you look at the world's top 50 drugs being sold today, they are being marketed and sold by companies that did not invent them. I respect patents. I'll pay a royalty. But I shouldn't be denied the right to produce drugs for poor people at reasonable prices.

  Yusuf Hamied

  People, Drug, Patents

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• Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being colorless together was a better plan. I thought of that policeman, Eddie Hazelwurst, saying I'd lowered myself to be in this house of colored women, and for the very life of me I couldn't understand how it had turned out this way, how colored women had become the lowest ones on the totem pole. You only had to look at them to see how special they were, like hidden royalty among us. Eddie Hazelwurst. What a shitbucket.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  White, People, House

  Sue Monk Kidd (2011). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.128, Hachette UK

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• I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention.

  Yusuf Hamied

  Believe, Drug, Essentials

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• In America we're in this awful situation, and you know, I hardly get any royalties anymore because music is just stolen from the internet.

  Terry Bozzio

  America, Awful, Internet

  Source: beintheloopchicago.com

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• I might have become a minor celebrity but royalty checks were a long way off.

  Charley Pride

  Long, Might, Way

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• I would say the hummingbird really deserves the royalties on [some of my songs].

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Hummingbirds, Deserve

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• I'm just working class. I can pay the bills most of the time, usually from royalties.

  Chuck Mosley

  Class, Pay, Bills

  Source: thequietus.com

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• [Romeo + Juliet] is relevant when Hamlet and all of that was out, when [William] Shakespeare wrote it. It's relevant now. It's not a shocker, but then it is. I guess so because I'm in it, so it's shocking that it's still on TV. People are still talking about it. Hey, I'm still getting royalty checks from it. It's amazing to me and I hope it continues forever.

  Quindon Tarver

  Talking, People, Forever

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• Some people see streaming as a bad thing because of the royalty amount paid, but as more and more people get on these services and stream music all day long, you'll be able to generate quite a bit of income from streaming.

  Ryan Merchant

  Long, People, Income

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction; I love myself too well.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Lying, Wish, I Love Myself

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• America is subsidizing what is left of the prestige and strength of the once mighty Britain. The sun has set forever on that monocled, pith-helmeted resident colonialist, sipping tea with his delicate lady in the non-white colonies being systematically robbed of every valuable resource. Britain's superfluous royalty and nobility now exist by charging tourists to inspect the once baronial castles, and by selling memoirs, perfumes, autographs, titles, and even themselves.

  Malcolm X

  White, America, Forever

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.292, Ballantine Books

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• Were you to converse with a king, you ought to be as easy and unembarrassed as with your own valet-de chambre; but yet every look,word, and action should imply the utmost respect.... You must wait till you are spoken to; you must receive, not give, the subject of conversation, and you must even take care that the given subject of such conversation do not lead you into any impropriety.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Kings, Giving, Waiting

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.268, OUP Oxford

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• The rulers of the earth are all worth knowing; they suggest moral reflections: and the respect that one naturally has for God's vice-regents here on earth is greatly increased by acquaintance with them.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Leadership, Reflection, Knowing

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• Purim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude , the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty.

  I. L. Peretz

  Toady, Firsts

  "Prince of the Ghetto". Book by Maurice Samuel (p. 123), 1948.

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• Hillary Clinton and her husband, the former president, are of course by all measures quite wealthy as well, having earned tens of millions of dollars in book royalties and speaking fees in recent years. Which is why in speeches, she leans heavily on her family history.

  Tamara Keith

  Husband, Book, Years

  Source: www.npr.org

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• That is what diminishes the artist and his song. The artist is now hermetically sealed. The publishing company got him his deal and they expect to profit from his songs. So what if he is a better singer than a songwriter; let's put him in a room with a real songwriter. Something great is bound to come...except very often nothing great comes out of such contrived match-ups. Nobody knows where a great song comes from, and that's why so many writers credit the Lord as a co-writer (though I notice they never offer Him half the writer's royalties) when they come up with a real gem.

  Michael Kosser

  Song, Real, Writing

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• There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Leadership, Kings, Queens

  Sarah Moore Grimké, Mary S. Parker (1838). “Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker”, p.59

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• Right,' Thomas said. 'Where are we headed?' 'To where they treat me like royalty,' I said. 'We're going to Burger King?' I rubbed the heel of my hand against my forehead and spelled fratricide in a subvocal mutter, but I had to spell out temporary insanity and justifiable homicide, too, before I calmed down enough to speak politely. 'Just take a left and drive. Please.' 'Well,' Thomas said, grinning, 'since you said 'please' - Thomas Raith & Harry Dresden, Small Favor, Jim Butcher

  Jim Butcher

  Kings, Temporary Insanity, Hands

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• A substitute shines brightly as a king
  Until a king be by, and then his state
  Empties itself, as dot an inland brook
  Into the main of waters.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Water, Shining

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 90

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• The king-becoming graces,
  As justice, verity, temp'rance, stableness,
  Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness,
  Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude,
  I have no relish of them, but abound
  In the division of each several crime,
  Acting in many ways.

  William Shakespeare

  Perseverance, Kings, Justice

  William Shakespeare (2002). “Macbeth”, p.186, Barron's Educational Series

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• The gates of monarchs
  Are arched so high that giants may jet through
  And keep their impious turbans on without
  Good morrow to the sun.

  William Shakespeare

  Giants, May, Sun

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Cymbeline”, p.72, Palgrave Macmillan

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• The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Humility, Race

  Mark Twain, Michael Barry Frank, Robert Pack Browning, Lin Salamo, Frederick Anderson, Mark Twain (1980). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume III: (1883-1891)”, p.424, Univ of California Press

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