Evel Knievel Quotes

No prince, no king, no president has ever lived a better life than I have!

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• You understand, in my life, the only other person I spoke with or speak with more than Prince is my mother.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Life
  • Mother
  • My Life

• We all have to let go of the Prince Charming complex and realize he doesn't necessarily exist in the package we assume he'll come in.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Prince
  • Realize
  • Go

• It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had. Any man might have his coming to him to ask him grace or judgment in such case as the king may give.

  

  Jack Cade
  • May
  • Man
  • King

• The whole European Federal plan is ridiculous. We are patriotic. The single currency is an outrage. We want the Queen's head - or the King's head, if we have a king - on our own coins.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Want
  • Single
  • King

• No king should rule absolutely, like a dictator.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Like
  • King
  • Rule

• I used to think 'King Lear' was an analysis of insanity, but I don't really think it is. When Lear is supposed to be at his most insane, he is actually understanding the world for the first time.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Time
  • World
  • Understanding

• I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?'

  

  Tate Taylor
  • Life
  • Woman
  • Write

• We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • President
  • Scary
  • Dumb

• I read that my lifelong dream is to serve as speaker with Hillary Clinton as president. So what?

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Dream
  • President
  • Serve

• I always thought if I had a band it would have the energy and feel of early Police, since that's where my roots are, and then the harmonies of the Eagles, and the technique of King Crimson or something like that. Fast, up-tempo, beat-the-hell-out-of-the-drums, because that's my style. Energy, but sophistication, rhythmically and melodically.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Style

• I never thought, 'Oh God, I'm in Prince's shadow.' He'd been performing for years, and he was my teacher.

  

  Vanity
  • God
  • Teacher
  • Shadow

• It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Dream
  • President
  • Europe

• I took the leap, yes, but I didn't like the ledge where I landed - I fought the bear, I kissed the princess, but now I don't want to be king. Well, where in the fairy tales did it ever say Cinderella had to like being queen?

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • King
  • Princess
  • Cinderella

• I am Tarzan, King of the Apes, mighty hunter, mighty fighter. In all the jungle there is none so great.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Great
  • King

• In order to enter into a real knowledge of your condition, consider it in this image: A man was cast by a tempest upon an unknown island, the inhabitants of which were in trouble to find their king, who was lost; and having a strong resemblance both in form and face to this king, he was taken for him, and acknowledged in this capacity by all the people.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • People
  • Real
  • Strong

• What grace could all your worldly power bringTo One whose crown of thorns has made him King,The Christ who gave His body to the flails,Who humbly bore the lance and piercing nails?Or do you fear the rabble might disgrace The One.

  

  Alexander Pushkin
  • Power
  • Fear
  • King

• All this 'King' stuff is pure bullshit. I eat and sleep and go to the bathroom just like anyone else. I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time.

  

  Clark Gable
  • Time
  • Sleep
  • King

• It is not the trappings that make the prince, nor, indeed, the sword that makes the warrior.

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Prince
  • Warrior

• Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect. Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.

  

  Bill Nighy
  • Up
  • Respect
  • Singing

• Nur wer einig ist mit der Welt kann einig seyn mit sich selbst.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

• I think people are getting into these 'Empire' songs because of the emotional investment they have in the characters. You kind of feel like you know the songs already because you just watched them play out in front of you with these characters.

  

  Ne-Yo
  • People
  • Emotional

• Reducing consumption is imperative, but it's pointless to cut out meat and cars while having lots of children.

  

  Madeleine Bunting
  • Children
  • Car
  • Cutting

• I think women who are pretty certainly have an advantage in any field, in any profession. When a girl is born people still say: Oh, I'm glad that she is pretty. They don't look at whether she is intelligent.

  

  Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
  • People
  • Girl
  • Intelligent

• No prince, no king, no president has ever lived a better life than I have!

  

  Evel Knievel
  • King
  • President
  • Prince