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Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly. -- John Lydon
There's nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth. -- Alice Cary
When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family? -- Robin Williams
But where, says some, is the King of America? I'll tell you. Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain. -- Thomas Paine
How's Her Royal Bitchiness?" "Alive." "Pity. -- Nalini Singh
The Royal family have always been great philanthropists. -- Arpad Busson
In 1995, I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. -- John E. Walker
It is an honour to fight at the Royal Albert Hall. -- Billy Joe Saunders
the Church will go on being a Royal Academy of Males. -- Dorothy Richardson
People think I hate the Royal Family, but that's not true. -- John Lydon
Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty. -- Simon Van Booy
Winning the Royal Rumble is as big an accomplishment as anything. -- John Cena
A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg. -- Michael Foot
A goose flies by a chart the Royal Geographic Society could not improve. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar. -- Oscar Wilde
Common sense is not really so common. The Art of Thinking: Port-Royal Logic -- Antoine Arnauld
The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash. -- Winston Churchill
Be Royal in your Own Fashion: Act like a King to be treated -- Robert Greene
The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do. -- Gianni Versace
The Royall Crowne cures not the head-ach. [The Royal Crown cures not the headache.] -- George Herbert
No golfer has completed his education until he has played and studied Royal Dornoch. -- Herbert Wind
Thinking is not always...comforting. It is always good, but not always comforting. Royal Assassin -- Robin Hobb
What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre. -- Robert Ballard
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and CSIS have provided extraordinary co-operation, as I mentioned earlier. -- Paul Cellucci
I'm ashamed to say the first play I saw at the Royal Court was mine. -- Christopher Hampton
Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet. -- Deborah Bull
Royal blood isn't blue, it is a jaundiced shade of red and riddled with broken chromosomes -- Dean Cavanagh
What am I supposed to call you?""Your Royal Husbandness. It's required by law, I'm afraid. -- Kiera Cass
Never criticize the composition of a Royal Highness. You never know who may have written it. -- Johannes Brahms
If you look at most of the Royal Houses in Europe, the inbreeding was pretty outstanding. -- Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Three Royal Air Force aeroplanes have come over to us so far with their arms and equipment. -- John Amery
What we need is someone to abolish the House Of Lords, get rid of the Royal Family... -- John Boorman
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. -- Sigmund Freud
Our judgement is that the presence of the Royal Marines garrison is sufficient deterrent against any possible aggression. -- Margaret Thatcher
Prince Charles is the only member of the Royal Family who ever left Cinderella for the Ugly Duckling. -- Des Hanafin
Glaswegian ebola patient moved to London's Royal Free Hospital. Not so independent when it matters most are we jocksville? -- Katie Hopkins
I've always gravitated towards opera, and the Royal Opera House is quite possibly the greatest opera house on earth. -- Rufus Wainwright
I once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in. -- Dave Grohl
My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue, an everlasting vision of the ever changing view. -- Carole King
One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing. -- Clive Barnes
If the Royal Family was going to assassinate someone, they would have gotten rid of me a long time ago. -- John Lydon
I don't think I have had a big break, although joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1986 opened up new horizons. -- Richard McCabe
His Majesty the King requires that the Royal Chancellery in all written documents endeavor to write in clear, plain Swedish. -- Charles XII of Sweden
Why should I fear? I am on a Royal Mission. I am in the service of the King of kings. -- Mary Slessor
Even somebody like The Black Keys or Royal Blood, they all have this original roots base to what they do. -- Paul Weller
Royal Canadian Air Farce, and I was in three sketches there. And they wrote some really great stuff for me. -- Trish Stratus
English clubs are very exclusive. I played Royal Foxshire and they made me wear a suit and tie. . . in the shower. -- Bob Hope
I have a Bachelor in medicine, a Bachelor in surgery, and I am a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. -- Hasnat Khan
You do not come to the thee-ator and it will wither your soul." (Madam Leadora Seamstress for the Royal Magnificent Theater) -- Kristen Britain
The Royal Festival Hall in London is nice; people hang out there. I think this inviting, non-exclusive character is very important. -- Esa-Pekka Salonen
By the way, when you finish the bottle of Crown Royal, you can still use the pouch to hold your broken dreams. -- Jon Stewart
I loved Gwyneth Paltrow in 'The Royal Tenenbaums' and Reese Witherspoon in 'Election.' I love quirky films and characters like that. -- Phoebe Tonkin
The Royal Family have always had an interest in a number of different areas of society. We are a part of society. -- Prince Andrew
Wyndham's is a beautiful old theatre. The sensation on the stage isn't as different as you might think from the Royal Court. -- Sophie Thompson
As a rule, ladies of the Royal Family wear light coloured clothes because such colours are more discernible against a great crowd. -- Norman Hartnell
I combined theatre and films with live TV, such as The Royal Variety Show, performing sketches opposite Bob Hope and Maurice Chevalier. -- Shirley Eaton
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
In Europe, Henk Tennekes was dismissed as research director of the Royal Dutch Meteorological Society after questioning the scientific underpinnings of global warming. -- Richard Lindzen
I blew amps like they were made of tissue paper. Once I blew out the sound system at Royal Albert Hall in London. -- Dick Dale
Dad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in discipline. -- Mike Myers
I do take class because I still dance, and yes, I do slip into class with the Royal Ballet from time to time. -- Deborah Bull
I combined theatre and films with live TV, such as 'The Royal Variety Show,' performing sketches opposite Bob Hope and Maurice Chevalier. -- Shirley Eaton
I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work with him any time he asks me. -- Carole King
Lucy Fry and I became very good friends on the setâ?¦I called her â??Royal Hignessâ?? & she answered, â??Yes, my Guardian. -- Danila Kozlovsky
My main influence are the other members of the Royal Art Lodge, we've drawn together enough that we can't help but influence each other. -- Marcel Dzama
Royal titles ceased to be recognised by the Indian government in 1971. The title of Nawab and Maharaja are not recognised by the Indian government anymore. -- Saif Ali Khan
Dylan Landis knows how to unnerve a reader, even as she's appreciating being unnerved. Rainey Royal thrums with sex and power. A brave, exquisite book. -- Mary Kay Zuravleff
I'm an officer in her Majesty's Royal New Zealand Navy. I'm a public relations officer in the Royal New Zealand Navy. Sounds good, doesn't it? -- Mark Hadlow
I've worked in a few sort of 'institutional' theaters - the Royal Shakespeare, the National Theater in England - and they're hopelessly top-heavy with bureaucracy. -- Tim Curry
Wimbledon is getting a bit too like Royal Ascot. It's not what happens or who wins so much, as what clothes do I have on. -- David Lloyd
I regret not having enough training, I trained for a year at The Royal Court, but I very quickly went off to do films and television. -- Charlotte Rampling
The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island. -- William Blackstone
We Will Rock You' is one of my favorite shows. I first saw it when I was a student at the Royal Academy and loved it. -- Rachel Tucker
At the moment I'm enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I'm also keen to pursue my interest in television and particularly in science. -- Deborah Bull
When I left the Royal College, I decided I would only make paintings that I would want to look at myself, that felt close to my life. -- Chris Ofili
Britain's Royal Families' became my first published book, in 1989, from The Bodley Head, and the rest of the story is - dare I say it? - history! -- Alison Weir
What an electric thrill it sends up and down the spine, how it sets the heart racing: A Royal Romance! A Royal Wedding! The pomp and the pageantry! -- Hamish Bowles
I'm obsessed with the Victorian era and the British Royal Navy... I'd love to play a troubled sailor or captain or a boatman on a three masted ship. -- Nick Offerman
On Saturdays I worked all day in Hunter Gaunt's drugstore in Winchester, and then at night, my mother drove me to Front Royal, where I sang pop tunes. -- Patsy Cline
Lady Diana Spencer looked to relatively unknown designers - David and Elizabeth Emanuel, recently graduated from the Royal College of Art - when she wed Prince Charles in 1981. -- Hamish Bowles
Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people who resort to them. -- Joshua Reynolds
I was actually hoping the Royals would pick me. It was the main team I wanted to go to. Their colors are Royal blue and that's my favorite color.? -- Zack Greinke
My massage was marvellous. I feel really relaxed. And my masseur, Harold :You can't have a masseur called Harold. It's like having a member of the Royal Family called Ena. -- Victoria Wood
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
Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal Bench Of British Themis, with no mean applause Pronounced and in his volumes taught our Laws, Which others at their Bar so often wrench -- John Milton
Bernie Ebbers and Ken Lay were caricatures - they were easy to spot. They were almost psychopaths. But it's much harder to spot problems at companies like Royal Dutch [Shell]. -- Charlie Munger
The Admiralty said it was a plane and not a boat, the Royal Air Force said it was a boat and not a plane, the Army were plain not interested. -- Christopher Cockerell
The AAC at Royal Melbourne was a wonderful memory for me. I had a slightly disappointing finish, but I gained a lot of experience by playing in the last group. -- Guan Tianlang
The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford. -- Trevor Nunn
The old fellow who was cadging drinks from me the other night at the Cafe Royal told me he had known Julian Bern's people in the old days at Rome. -- Robert Briffault
I was wrong to exaggerate in statements related to my experiences in the White House and the Royal Family. I am truly sorry for misleading people and misstating the facts. -- Robert Irvine
If you ask me why I've succeeded, it's because I was in the Royal Marines. You have this unbelievable sense of achievement and of overcoming adversity. That's the confidence it breeds. -- Brian McDermott
Perhaps the most important contribution to science that the Royal Society has made in its three centuries of existence is its early role in publishing Newton's masterful account of his discoveries. -- Julian Schwinger
The Royal Family doesn't go out shopping for their uniforms: they've got some guy sewing on all the ornaments in-house. You could say I've got my own in-house team as well. -- Theophilus London
I think if my eight-year-old self could see me at the Royal Albert Hall winning a prize for playing the Doctor on telly, he would need a stiff shot of Irn-Bru. -- David Tennant
In 'A Royal Affair' I had to learn to act like a queen and learned Danish. It's so much different to act in another language. It's the nuances in the words. -- Alicia Vikander
Gwyneth Paltrow -- she always looks like she's about to cry. I wish someone would just kick her and get it over with. But I loved her in The Royal Tenenbaums. -- Jinkx Monsoon
His [Sam Fuller] self-discipline was amazing. No matter what happened, he'd always go out to his Royal Upright typewriter and just keep working on his stories, his "yarns" as he called them. -- Curtis Hanson
What a person want in life ?1. Simple, steady life.2. Self satisfaction and craziness from work and life he live.3. Luxury/Royal life.Choice is yours, in which way you want to live. -- kurbhatt
Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick. -- Wally Schirra
I've never done stand-up; I came via small-scale touring theatre, through the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, then I got employed on that as an actor who had a humorous sensibility. -- Mark Williams
I'm a pro! No, what I mean is I have performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company in England. I have been all over the place. I have studied theatre for seven years. -- Kunal Nayyar
I was always involved in the arts from a young age. I started studying classical piano at age four as a student of the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music. -- Monica Raymund
I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn't recruit me and he said: 'Well, Walt, we took a look at you and you weren't any good.' -- Walt Garrison
I think it's perhaps fair to say we've been one of the most influential Royal Commissions this country ever had and there's nothing we have said that isn't relevant to the present situation. -- Frank Scott
I was studying at the Royal Academy of Arts, and I was playing the role of Dr. Ivan Chebutikin in Chekov's 'Three Sisters.' I was about 50 years too young for the part. -- Kenneth Branagh
There has been corruption in the Belgian civil service and at government level for decades. The Royal family do what they can to hold things together, and they don't do a bad job. -- Nicholas Royle
I am glad to have this opportunity of expressing my high appreciation of the honour extended to me many years ago by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science by enrolling me amongst its members. -- Guglielmo Marconi
I loved Queen, Journey, Fleetwood Mac, and people like Barbara Streisand. The thing with me is that classical music was also an inspiration. I took piano lessons at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels for 10 years. -- Lara Fabian
As I walked up the imposing steps of the Royal Academy, I came fact to face with Alwen Hughes. She looked just as stunning as she had done in my first year at art school. -- Rolf Harris
When we were studying at the Royal Antwerp Academy, we were taught to seek inspiration from everyone, everything and everywhere. My parents and grandparents were also a great inspiration for me a very young age. -- Dries van Noten
I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training. -- Josef Albers
When I got into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, a doctor told me to give up the course as I'd be totally deaf within a couple of years. But I refused to give in. -- Stephanie Beacham
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition is very difficult to hang because it is so large and the quality is very varied. There are 1,200 works, an almost impossible number, some are interesting and some are not. -- Michael Craig-Martin
I would argue that television and particularly the BBC were instrumental in puffing up the Royal Family to a level where they were inflated out of all, all proportion to their relevance on the national scene. -- Andrew Morton
Top-shelf fiction, a Crown Royal ride into the heart of Night and New York. Con Lehane's work is reminiscent of the best of Lawrence Block, which is to say that this is very good stuff, indeed. -- George Pelecanos

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