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Why not the Bahamas? Or the Corn Palace? -- Richelle Mead
You don't go to Buckingham Palace in a sweater, -- Oscar de la Renta
There are rumours of fractions within the Palace dressing room. -- Shaun Derry
Why don't you try wandering with me to the Palace of Not-Even-Anything -- Zhuangzi
That kind of ball is meat and two drink for the Palace defence. -- Denis Irwin
I took a little break after 'The Palace of Illusions' to clear my head. -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
It looks tough for Palace when you see some of the results they've got coming up. -- Shaun Derry
I've nothing against the Queen personally: I had lunch at the Palace once upon a time. -- Seamus Heaney
I'll do about 13 shows in Branson next year, and I'll be performing at the Grand Palace. -- Mel Tillis
The Midnight Palace is a great place on the web for the very best on Hollywood Classics! -- Keith Thibodeaux
Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was. -- Charles Dickens
Good places for aphorisms: in fortune cookies, on bumper stickers, and on banners flying over the Palace of Free Advice. -- Mason Cooley
The Mahabharata,' which inspired my novel 'Palace of Illusions,' also has many stories embedded within the main tale. -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of Afrasiyah. -- Bill Vaughan
In the papers this morning: 'Police closing in on Ian Holloway.' Sorry, it's 'Palace closing in on Ian Holloway.' -- Alan Brazil
A friend got me a job on the door of the Camden Palace nightclub, which quickly progressed to running the place. -- Sam Taylor-Johnson
I love running in Europe, man, running at places like Zurich and Crystal Palace where the crowd is so knowledgeable and appreciative. -- Maurice Greene
I love ....Adore ...Princess Of The Palace .....If It Was Shared With You My Friend .....It Means You're My Eternal Friend ..... Be Proud . -- sami abouzid
I have been to Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street but cannot get on the BBC. I am very disappointed because it boils down to snobbery. -- Phil Taylor
It would be good to see what the Queen gets up to at Buckingham Palace. I bet she spends her whole time watching 'Coronation Street.' -- Amelia Warner
When I'm singing I'm always trying to get to the highest point possible. I'd fly to the top of Buckingham Palace to sing to the queen. -- Florence Welch
It would be interesting to go to Buckingham Palace. I'd just like to see what goes on - I'm not bothered about hearing any political chat. -- Pauline Quirke
Miss Mills replied, on general principles, that the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was. -- Charles Dickens
When George [Harrison] died the guards at Buckingham Palace played a medley of George's songs during the changing of the guard; that sort of thing never happens. -- Lemmy Kilmister
I don't care if you danced naked on the roof of the Little Palace with him. I love you, Alina, even the part of you that loved him. -- Leigh Bardugo
The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in close proximity than when I'm performing at The Palace Theatre. -- Deborah Cox
[On Edna Ferber's Ice Palace] ... the book, which is going to be a movie, has the plot and characters of a book which is going to be a movie. -- Dorothy Parker
I used to write letters to the wounded in the Palace Hotel, and I used to drive a station wagon with blood in bottles to a battalion aid station. -- Martha Gellhorn
We do not want to be giving quality sides such as Southampton, Palace, Norwich and the rest eight or nine points start and expect to get back up with them. -- Paul Ince
My good friend Paul Shaffer and I are going to continue in show business. Next month Paul and I will debut our new act at Caesar's Palace with our white tigers. -- David Letterman
I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea. -- Anthony Holden
Revolution does not mean torrents of blood, the taking of the Winter Palace, and so on. Revolution means a radical transformation of society's institutions. In this sense, I certainly am a revolutionary. -- Cornelius Castoriadis
The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and when we have lightly stepped inside, slams it shut behind us. -- Umberto Eco
Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession. -- Ian Botham
I went to Buckingham Palace and I wanted to take something from there, but there was nothing good to steal, although I did nick some serviettes with ER and Her Majesty on them from the Jubilee celebrations. -- Konnie Huq
I classify Sao Paolo this way: The Governor's Palace is the living room. The mayor's office is the dining room and the city is the garden. And the favela is the back yard where they throw the garbage. -- Carolina Maria de Jesus
When I started work with LucasArts Computer Division back in 1984, I went to the Palace of Fine Arts and saw the Festival of Animation for the first time. I loved the diverse collection of animated films the festival held. -- John Lasseter
Cottontail knocked on the big front door and was admitted to the Palace. There she stood in her funny country clothes but none of the other four Easter Bunnies laughed, for they were wise and kind and knew better. -- DuBose Heyward
Britain is obviously one of the world powers and they bombed the World Trade Centre, which is a landmark in itself, and over in Britain you've got Buckingham Palace and the Eiffel Tower, which are big buildings, so to speak. -- Robbie Kearns
On October 18, 1941, I suddenly received a mandate from His Majesty to form a new cabinet. This was completely unexpected, and when I was summoned to the Imperial Palace I thought I would be questioned on the army's point of view -- Hideki Tojo
On October 18, 1941, I suddenly received a mandate from His Majesty to form a new cabinet. This was completely unexpected, and when I was summoned to the Imperial Palace I thought I would be questioned on the army's point of view. -- Hideki Tojo
We are thrilled with the response we are getting to Le Cirque at The Leela Palace New Delhi. Our goal is to bring a luxury dining experience consistent with international standards of excellence to the expanding and discerning clientele in India. -- Sirio Maccioni
People in England who do not like gardening are very few, and of the few there are, many do not own to it, knowing that they might just as well own to having been in prison, or got drunk at Buckingham Palace. -- E. M. Delafield
When I was 14 and living in London, I'd go around Hampton Court Palace with its marvelous atmosphere, through the gateway where Ann Boleyn walked, the haunted gallery down which Katherine Howard ran. It all set me going. It all started from there. -- Jean Plaidy
The day I'm in England performing, English security let a man in a Batman suit climb Buckingham Palace. I felt so much safer... Batman was on the wall of Buckingham Palace for five hours. Wouldn't happen in America - three minutes: dead Batman. -- Christopher Titus
PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions. The Primate of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury, an amiable old gentleman, who occupies Lambeth Palace when living and Westminster Abbey when dead. He is commonly dead. -- Ambrose Bierce
The first time I stepped onto the rooftop of the Potala Palace in Lhasa in 1985, I felt, as never before or since, as if I was stepping onto the rooftop of my being: onto some dimension of consciousness that I'd never visited before. -- Pico Iyer
Diana and I had a very good relationship with no personal problems. The only problem we did have was with the media, and the only place we could have any real privacy was at Kensington Palace, as they could not get to us there. -- Hasnat Khan
At the start of the trip, I took shots of the sights. The Colosseum. Belvedere Palace. Mozart Square. But I stopped. They never came out very well, and you could get postcards of these things. But there are no postcards of this. Of life." -- Gayle Forman
I've known Emeril for more than 20 years from when I featured him on 'Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous' from his days at Commander's Palace in New Orleans and from when I helped start the Food Network where he subsequently hosted an amazing 2,000-plus shows. -- Robin Leach
He thinks he is a flower to be looked at And when he pulls his frilly nylon pants right up tight He feels a dedicated follower of fashion. When a waiter at Buckingham Palace spilled soup on her dress: Never darken my Dior again! -- Ray Davies
They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world. -- Anthony Holden
It is alarming ... to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal Palace while he is still organising and conducting a campaign of civil disobedience. -- Winston Churchill
I've performed in Auburn Hills, at The Palace, so I haven't really been in downtown Detroit, but I've been able to be here, and I can really see, what the city was. Like, I can feel why Motown started here and how amazing it was. -- Jordin Sparks
I asked a girl once why she was vegetarian. I said, is it because you love animals? And she replied, no it's because I had plants. To that I said, don't ever let someone take you to see the Palace Gardens- you'd both end up in jail. -- Kelly Batten
Go back to The October Palace, which came out in 1994, and there are poems with windows, doors, the rooms of the gorgeous and vanishing palace that is this ordinary world and ordinary life. Jungian archetype would say the house is a figure for the experienced, experiencing self. -- Jane Hirshfield
The White Palace was pretty impressive. Very impressive, in fact. The day to day running of the set was everybody showed up for work. They are seasoned filmmakers over there. They have an infrastructure for filmmaking, which is very healthy. It's small, but they were tenacious, polite, timely. -- Pierce Brosnan
While starving refugees in Homs were providing target practice for government snipers, Bashar al-Assad's strongest international backer was in Sochi, at the Iceberg Skating Palace, visibly moved, smiling with deep satisfaction, as the Russians beautifully glided and leaped their way to the gold medal in the team event. -- George Packer
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail. -- John Donne
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. -- William Blake
The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity. -- John Milton
The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace. -- Horace
Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene. -- Edmund Waller
The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland. -- Anselm Kiefer
I'd rather live in a cave with a view of a palace than live in a palace with a view of a cave. -- Karl Pilkington
Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior. -- William Shenstone
Ask yourself: if I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn't I have flown directly into Beijing? I could be living in a palace petting a phoenix by now. -- Edward Snowden
Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built. -- Fernando Pessoa
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness. -- Hannah More
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them. -- Henry David Thoreau
The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. It's a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections - and it's hidden inside an old palace in the old city of Barcelona. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Like the skyscraper, the automobile, and the motion-picture palace, neon signs once symbolized popular hopes for a new era of technological achievement and commercial abundance. From the 1920s to the 1950s, neon-lit streets pulsed with visual excitement from Vancouver to Miami. -- Virginia Postrel
In 2006, I entered the presidential palace in the main square of La Paz as the first indigenous president of Bolivia. Our government, under the slogan 'Bolivia Changes,' is committed to ending the colonialism, racism and exclusion that many of our people lived under for many centuries. -- Evo Morales
My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers. -- Imelda Marcos
I basically left Texas with no money. I was making $3.50 working in some mall, so I didn't have a lot of cash. I took $1,000 and headed to California. Along the way I stopped in Vegas because I had always wanted to see Caesar's Palace. So I stopped there and won $2,500 on a slot machine! It was amazing. -- Krista Allen
Growing up, I was a little hippie kid. I went to some good concerts... Amnesty International with Bob Dylan and Tracy Chapman... The best concert I ever went to was this one at the Cow Palace my freshman year in college on New Year's Eve. It was Pearl Jam opening for Nirvana opening for Red Hot Chili Peppers. -- Summer Sanders
The earth's biosphere could be thought of as a sort of palace. The continents are rooms in the palace; islands are smaller rooms. Each room has its own decor and unique inhabitants; many of the rooms have been sealed off for millions of years. The doors in the palace have been flung open, and the walls are coming down. -- Richard Preston
Allegory dwells in a transparent palace. -- Antoine-Marin Lemierre
You cannot make a cheap palace. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
And keeps the palace of the soul. -- Edmund Waller
A library is a palace of dreams. -- M.C. Beaton
Ignorance is God's prison. Knowing is God's palace -- Rumi
My soul is not a palace of the past... -- James Russell Lowell
The dome of thought, the palace of the soul. -- Lord Byron
For serenity, always prefer the cottage to the palace! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Don't expect ambiguities, hesitations or palace intrigues from me. -- Anibal Cavaco Silva
Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace. -- George Bernard Shaw
You aim for the palace and get drowned in the sewer. -- Mark Twain
We must kill the guard before we can enter the palace. -- Evan Meekins
A cottage will hold as much happiness as would stock a palace. -- Hamilton Wright Mabie
There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always. -- Grant Morrison
Death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace. -- Richard Sibbes
Ive always believed the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. -- Woody Harrelson
Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence. -- Teresa of Avila
With equal pace, impartial Fate Knocks at the palace, as the cottage gate. -- Horace
Flowers have the greatest talent in converting an ordinary place into a magical palace! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace. -- Frank McCourt
Take the road to contradiction, it'll lead you, I promise, to the palace of wisdom. -- Frank Lentricchia
When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace. -- Mahatma Gandhi
When the palace is magnificent, the fields are filled with weeds, and the granaries are empty. -- Laozi
Keeping plenty of gold and jade in the palace makes no one able to defend it. -- Laozi
I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand. -- Lord Byron
A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet. -- Shmuel Niger
For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small. -- Phillips Brooks
It's harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin. -- Woodrow Wilson
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God than live in that palace at Washington. -- Rachel Jackson
One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge. -- Mark Twain
I don't want to be a prisoner in a palace, living in such a constricted way - too tight! -- Dalai Lama
Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand. Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand! -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
This rose of pearl-coated infinity transformsthe diseased slums of a broken heartinto a palace made of psalms and gold." -- Aberjhani
This rose of pearl-coated infinity transformsthe diseased slums of a broken heartinto a palace made of psalms and gold. -- Aberjhani
Success never resides in the world of weak wishes, but in the palace of purposeful plans and prayerful persistence. -- William Arthur Ward
One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams. -- Victor Hugo
My childhood was very sheltered. I grew up in a palace. But I lived in Morocco as a Moroccan citizen. -- Mohammed VI of Morocco
Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment. -- Gautama Buddha
Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade And keeps that palace of the soul serene. -- Edmund Waller
Just a rat, she repeated to herself. After all, there were rats in the palace. Human and otherwise. Could be worse. -- Cinda Williams Chima

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