King Quotes

The Wellcome Foundation offered me the chance to establish a small academic research unit, modestly funded, but with total independence. The real opportunity, however, came from King's College, London.

James W. Black
- Real
- Opportunity
- Small
In the country of the blind, who are not as unobservant as they look, the one-eyed is not king, he is spectator.

Clifford Geertz
- Country
- King

His brow is seamed with line and scar; His cheek is red and dark as wine; The fires as of a Northern star Beneath his cap of sable shine. His right hand, bared of leathern glove, Hangs open like an iron gin, You stoop to see his pulses move, To hear the blood sweep out and in. He looks some king, so solitary In earnest thought he seems to stand, As if across a lonely sea He gazed impatient of the land. Out of the noisy centuries The foolish and the fearful fade; Yet burn unquenched these warrior eyes, Time hath not dimmed, nor death dismayed.

Walter de La Mare
- Time
- Death
- Eyes
My mother's family has been in Maine for over 300 years on the same farm. They have a King George III deed.

Alexander Chee
- Family
- Mother
- King
Even though I studied in New York and I know the American system, I come from France where I learned that with movies in France where the director is king. There's no such thing as a studio edit. It's the director's cut, period.

Louis Leterrier
- American
- Period
- King
Just as the Huns under their king Attila created for themselves a thousand years ago a name which men still respect, you should give the name of German such cause to be remembered in China that no Chinaman will dare look a German in the face.

Wilhelm II
- Men
- Respect
- German
Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks,And he has chambers in King's Bench walks.

Colley Cibber
- King
If we want to talk about Gross Natural Product, we have to talk about the King of Bhutan's index of Gross National Happiness, too. Certainly I have found, as many travellers before me, that people in the poorest places are often the readiest to shower me, from an affluent country, with hospitality and kindness.

Pico Iyer
- People
- Country
- Kindness