I'm not the grand poobah. I'm not the emperor. That's not what I want to be. — John Calipari Copy Share Image
The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
A writer should always bravely face life, risking death and mutilation in order to dethrone an emperor. — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Let me be the child in the story and declare that the Emperor is naked — or that America is culturally bankrupt. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“It is not always a question of the Emperor having no clothes on. Sometimes it is, 'Is that an Emperor at all?” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
I was named after the great emperor Cyrus as my father, Farokh Broacha, was a great admirer of the Persian emperor. Continuing… — Cyrus Broacha Copy Share Image
There are still a lot of Mike Tyson fans out there, and a lot of disbelievers in the first fight, and they… — Lennox Lewis Copy Share Image
“The Emperor’s cat had received the fifth rank, and was given the appropriate title-name ‘Myōbu’. It was a charming creature, and the… — Sei Shōnagon Copy Share Image
“I am the Esteemed Emperor’s Yunan’s trueborn son, with the blood of a long line of emperors running through me. You, on… — K.S. Villoso Copy Share Image
“That’s why the Emperor needs an Empire, Kanan. It’s like a space slug, whose only function is to stay alive. It’s got… — John Jackson Miller Copy Share Image
The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold. The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Every monarch in the world, except the Emperor of China, wears a military uniform, and bestows the greatest rewards on the man… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
As I was working I noticed that the way I designed the differential gearing actually created a spare drive that sat directly… — Kit Williams Copy Share Image
Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration;… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
They used Akbar's principles to formulate a version of Islam that could peacefully co-exist with other religions (or so they claimed). An… — Manil Suri Copy Share Image
Having a baby isn't so bad. If you're a female Emperor penguin in the Antarctic. She lays the egg, rolls it over… — L. M. Boyd Copy Share Image
“And there on the piss-soaked cobbles, his back to the alley and his face to the wall, lay the object of their… — Jordan Stratford Copy Share Image
Christians aren’t making a religious claim when they say Jesus rose from the grave. They’re making a historical one; they’re saying that… — Greg Gilbert Copy Share Image
The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may be regarded as the truly essential features… — Henri Pirenne Copy Share Image
We live in a very special time right now. At no other time in history has there been such mass disillusionment in… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
I had always been fascinated with Napoleon because he was a self-made emperor; Victor Hugo said, 'Napoleon's will to power,' and it… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Once I spoke about this subject among a group of English intellectuals. One of them was a professor on Roman Law at… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“We are the Sublime Radiance, the Star of India, and the Sun of Glory," said the emperor, who knew a thing or… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Sicarius padded toward the exit, his soft black boots silent on the tile floor. He paused in the doorway and glanced at… — Lindsay Buroker Copy Share Image
In 302, the Roman emperor Diocletian commanded "there should be cheapness," declaring, "Unprincipled greed appears wherever our armies ... march. ... Our… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Lee Marvin was there at the same time, and I knew obviously it was his movie [Emperor Of The North], and Ernie… — Keith Carradine Copy Share Image
But this inestimable privilege was soon violated: with the knowledge of truth the emperor imbibed the maxims of persecution; and the sects… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“The Emperor of Ice-Cream Call the roller of big cigars, The muscular one, and bid him whip In kitchen cups concupiscent curds.… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image