I'm not the grand poobah. I'm not the emperor. That's not what I want to be. — John Calipari 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
The right song can turn an emperor into a laughingstock, can bring down dynasties. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“They are the Emperor's spies, his eyes and ears. And occasionally his assassins.” — Jonathan Moeller 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
Germany's greatness makes it impossible for her to do without the ocean, but the ocean also proves that even in the distance,… — Wilhelm II Copy Share Image
Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
A single grain of rice can tip the scale. One man may be the difference between victory and defeat. -The Emperor of… — Mulan Copy Share Image
When I'm wrong I'm like the Emperor on the Death Star thinking he'll turn Luke. Yet, when I'm right I'm a Jedi… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
“Somewhere on the world was the Emperor's palace, set amid one hundred square miles of natural soil, rainbowed with flowers.” — Isaac Asimov 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
“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
Someone is going to figure out how to make this work and when they do, all the anti-gambling, over-regulating authoritarian governments will… — Calvin Ayre Copy Share Image
He found himself weeping. Not for the future or for the emperor. These were the tears of a man who saw before… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
That was Robert Aldrich. And that [Emperor Of The North] was one of the only times I actually got a part in… — Keith Carradine Copy Share Image
An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Any man who criticizes my suicide and passes judgment on me with an expression of superiority, declaring (without offering the least help)… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“only two people known by name were also called “Son of God.” One was the Roman emperor—starting with Octavian, or Caesar Augustus—and… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
You sell your happiness for peanuts! You sell your smile for pennies! I tell you, it's not worth it. The entire world… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
The imprudent Maximus disregarded these salutary considerations: he gratified his resentment and ambition; he saw the bleeding corpse of Valentinian at his… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
When the first emperor wanted to unify the country, one of the major policies was to create one system of written signs.… — Ha Jin Copy Share Image
On those remote pages [of 'a certain Chinese encyclopedia'] it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
A grower of chrysanthemums awaited a visit from the emperor, who was coming to enjoy his blossoms, of which there were hundreds… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
“The nature of history itself defies us. To know with certainty what the last Dragon Emperor thought or planned or schemed would… — Daniel Abraham Copy Share Image
It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“What do you say to a warmongering emperor who has conquered many worlds and displaced thousands of refugees from their homes in… — S.G. Blaise Copy Share Image
It's funny that Chairman Mao's great hero was Napoleon, because Napoleon started out as a revolutionary for the underdogs and then made… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
Those who see what's obvious aren't necessarily brighter than others. They're just more likely to observe that the emperor is naked. Like… — Richard Farson Copy Share Image
I was thinking, "So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the new Georgia, Stalin is no longer Georgian. He's a Russian emperor. — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
“he couldn’t even write his name. When he was Emperor, he had to sign documents with a stencil.” — K.J. Parker Copy Share Image
“Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on Earth has it worse than an Emperor penguin.” — Apsley Cherry-Garrard Copy Share Image
To violate the law is the same crime in the emperor as in the subject — Chinese Proverbs Copy Share Image
![“That was Robert Aldrich. And that [Emperor Of The North] was one of the only times I actually got a part in a movie in the conventional way: The role was there, I auditioned, I auditioned again, and then I actually did a full-fledged screen test, which they shot on a soundstage on the lot at 20th…” quote by Keith Carradine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f5c/keith-carradine-15039_20th-century_that-was-robert-aldrich-and-that-emperor_2636566.png)
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