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"The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be only five Kings left--the king of England, the king of Spades, The king of Clubs, the king of Hearts, and the king of Diamonds." »King Farouk of Egypt
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"Every king sleeps, but not every king wakes up as king! The snakes of the intrigue crawl around during the night! The cleverest king is the least sleeping king!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Carter This is the United States of james Carter here. I'm the president, I'm the emperor, I'm the king. I'm Michael Jackson, you Tito" »Rush Hour
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"A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return." »Salman Rushdie, O Magazine, April 2003
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"A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return." »Salman Rushdie
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"The conqueror and king in each of us is the Knower of truth. Let that Knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen." »George S. Arundale
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"If a king’s adviser is wiser than him, let him be the king!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Henry james was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met." »William Faulkner
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"Henry james chews more than he bites off." »Mrs Henry Adams (c. 1880)
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"james, you ought to discover some day that words have an exact meaning." »Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957
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"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else." »Judy Garland
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"Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else." »Judy Garland
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"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." »Judy Garland
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"Henry james writes fiction as if it were a painful duty." »Oscar Wilde
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"If at first you don't succeed, call it version 1.0" »Charles Lauller
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"Henry james created more convincing women than Iris Murdoch put together." »Wilfred Sheed
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"Henry james would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard." »H. L. Mencken
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"Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the king of England 'the alleged king of England' to avoid libel suits." »Stephen Leacock
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"It is not advisable, james, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener." »Ayn Rand
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"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon." »Napoleon
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"To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him." »Johann von Goethe
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"There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his." »Helen Keller
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"Every king needs a counsellor, a counsellor who is never afraid of the king." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"If there is, in fact, a Heaven and a Hell, all we know for sure is that Hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix..." »Hunter S. Thompson, Generation of Swine
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"Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for." »Amos Tversky
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"I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer." »Real Live Preacher
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"Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between james Thurbers." »Leo C. Rosten
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"According to conviction, I am not simply what I am doing now. I am also what I have done, and my conventionally edited version of my past is made to seem almost more the real me than what I am at this moment. For what I am seems so fleeting and intangible, but what I was is fixed and final. It is the firm basis for predictions of what I will be in the future, and so it comes about that I am more closely identified with what no longer exists than with what actually is" »Alan B. Watts
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"Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.N.B. A lesser-known version of this quotation was supposedly said by Frederick the Great at Prague in 1757 By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes." »Colonel William Prescott
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"I am the lizard king. I can do anything." »Jim Morrison
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