Royalty Quotes - Page 8

• I think he supersedes Peyton Manning but let's not throw Tom Brady in the category with Joe Montana, who was 4-for-4. He's royalty.

  Deion Sanders

  Thinking, Nfl, Montana

  45 Copy quote

• I'm an ice queen, I'm the Sun King, I'm an alien fleeing from District 9 and I'm a dominatrix. So I reckon that makes me a lukewarm royalty with a whip from outer space.

  Anna Wintour

  Fashion, Kings, Queens

  "Anna Wintour to Letterman: 'I'm An Alien, Remember?'". people.com. August 25, 2009.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't. ... I want to grow up with my audience. I don't expect to be getting through to the younger pop crowd. I learned that from Paul Simon. ... When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there. ... People have told me songs I've written have changed their life. That's remarkable. That keeps your faith.

  Joe Strummer

  Song, Growing Up, Rain

  15 Copy quote

• I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't.

  Joe Strummer

  Music, Rain, Income

  54 Copy quote

• 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

  Kings, Stupid, Sheep

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.143, Princeton University Press

  84 Copy quote

  Show source

• This has been a long and tiring battle for 10 years. And I'm glad it's finally resolved. My principles and reputation as a creative artist were involved here-it wasn't just about the royalties. I can now look foward to getting on with my career.

  Irene Cara

  Artist, Careers, Years

  5 Copy quote

• A native American group has filed a class-action lawsuit against the government for mismanagement of oil, gas, grazing, timber and other royalties since 1887. They're seeking $100 billion. Here's the good news: The government has responded what I believe is an appropriate counteroffer: A two-cent Navajo stamp.

  Stephen Colbert

  Believe, Native American, Class

  6 Copy quote

• A person who can get a good table at Chez Panisse at the last minute is a very important person indeed. Royalty begins with Alice Waters.

  Willard Spiegelman

  Food, Water, Cooking

  5 Copy quote

• Nike told me, 'We can't give you royalties because you're not a professional athlete.' I told them 'I'll go to the Garden and play one-on-no-one.' I'm a performance athlete!

  Kanye West

  Nike, Athlete, Garden

  "Kanye West Partners With Adidas, Cuts Ties With Nike" by Evan Minsker, pitchfork.com. November 25, 2013.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I gave birth to most of them MC's...
  So when it comes around to the month of May,
  Send me your royalty check for Mother's Day.

  Roxanne Shante

  Mother, Rap, Hip Hop

  Song: Have A Nice Day

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. A Republic is a government in which that attention is divided between many, who are all doing uninteresting actions. Accordingly, so long as the human heart is strong and the human reason weak, Royalty will be strong because it appeals to diffused feeling, and Republics weak because they appeal to the understanding.

  Walter Bagehot

  Strong, Heart, Government

  'The English Constitution' (1867) 'The Monarchy'

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• I can tell you this, if it wasn't for my book royalties, I'd be in debt.

  Benny Hinn

  Book, Debt, Ifs

  12 Copy quote

• Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant.

  Vine Deloria Jr.

  Goal, Unconscious, Consuming

  Vine Deloria,Jr. (1971). “Custer Died For Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto”

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• I find the treatment of royalty distinctly peculiar. The royal family lives in palaces heavily screened from prying eyes by fences, grounds, gates, guards, all designed to ensure the family absolute privacy. And every newspaper in London carried headlines announcing PRINCESS ANNE HAS OVARIAN CYST REMOVED. I mean you're a young girl reared in heavily guarded seclusion and every beer drinker in every pub knows the precise state of your ovaries.

  Helene Hanff

  Girl, Princess, Eye

  5 Copy quote

• Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

  David Cronenberg

  Art, Past, Mass

  7 Copy quote

• [On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.

  Bette Midler

  Princess, Spite, Nature Love

  8 Copy quote

• Catherine the Great, like others of her kind, did not succeed in imparting greatness to her descendants.

  Katharine Anthony

  Greatness, Succeed, Kind

  Katharine Susan Anthony (1925). “Catherine the Great”

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.

  Hannah More

  Virtue, Manners, Treason

  6 Copy quote

• The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard but very polished people.
  [Fr., La cour est comme un edifice bati de marbre; je veux dire qu'elle est composee d'hommes fort durs mais fort polis.]

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Mean, People, Palaces

  "Characters", VIII, 1688.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Thriller album is still the biggest album of all time. That is still returning huge royalty cheques.

  Martin Bashir

  Albums, Literature, Thrillers

  84 Copy quote

• I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.

  Ba Jin

  Reader

  "Chinese Modern Literature Laureate Expected to Become Centenarian". en.people.cn. August 13, 2001.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• An absolute and unlimited right over any object of property would be the right to commit nearly every crime.If Ihad sucha right over thestick Iamaboutto cut, I might employ it as a mace to knock down the passengers, or I might convert it into a sceptre as an emblem of royalty, or into an idol to offend the national religion.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Cutting, Idols, Would Be

  Principles of the Civil Code, pt.1, ch.13, final note. Collected in John Bowring (ed) Works (1838-43), vol.1.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sure am glad I'm not royalty," I muttered. "I wouldn't want to have to bump uglies with someone I can't stand. On a regular basis. And no one else." "Ow!" I exclaimed, trying to yank my fingers from Trent but finding them caught. Then I colored, realizing what I'd said. "Oh… sorry," I stammered, meaning it. "That was insensitive." Trent's frown turned into a sly smirk. "Bump uglies?" he said, eyes on the table behind me. "You are a font of gutter slang, Rachel. We must do this again.

  Kim Harrison

  Sorry, Eye, Trying

  5 Copy quote

• When you're on MTV Asia, you're like royalty. When you walk down the streets of the Philippines or Indonesia, everyone wants to try to touch you.

  Kerri Kasem

  Mtv, Trying, Want

  4 Copy quote

• The confused mass of rules of conduct called law, which has been bequeathed to us by slavery, serfdom, feudalism, and royalty, has taken the place of those stone monsters, before whom human victims used to be immolated, and whom slavish savages dared not even touch lest they should be slain by the thunderbolts of heaven.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Confused, Taken, Law

  Peter Kropotkin (1927). “Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings”, p.198, Courier Corporation

  8 Copy quote

  Show source