What royal families are very good at doing is surviving and reinventing themselves. That's true whether it's a constitutional monarchy in Britain… — Robert Lacey Copy Share Image
I am pure light, not just a fistful of clay. The shell is not me, I came as the royal pearl within.… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Royal relationships across the generations have often been strained and distant, rather than close and affectionate. Most eldest sons, interminably waiting to… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
Any big televised event that starts at the crack of dawn is worth getting up for. I've done it all my life:… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
Alongside my 'no email' policy, I resolve to make better use of the wonderful Royal Mail, and send letters and postcards to… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Though I was satisfied that I was on the verge of perhaps a magnificent find, probably one of the missing tombs that… — Howard Carter Copy Share Image
Dylan Landis knows how to unnerve a reader, even as she's appreciating being unnerved. Rainey Royal thrums with sex and power. A… — Mary Kay Zuravleff Copy Share Image
The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Ill buy an old jacket and attach gold buttons and a couple royal patches. Or Ill find an old busted sweatshirt, tear… — Theophilus London Copy Share Image
The BBC is the greatest broadcaster in the world. It's the standard that everyone measures themselves against. If we lose the BBC,… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
Glass is a thing in disguise, an actor, is not solid at all, but a liquid?an old sheet of glass will not… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was in King Lear with Sir Tom Courtenay at The Royal Exchange in Manchester. In fact, that's where I met my… — Ashley Jensen Copy Share Image
Someday," Magnus said, looking at the crumpled royal person at his feet, "I must write my memoirs. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
King Frederick I of Prussia conceived the Amber Chamber in 1701 as a magnificent gift to the Russian royal family that would… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Rob Gronkowski cost me the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal, and I haven't forgot that. — Jinder Mahal Copy Share Image
One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
Princess Diana talking to Prince William about the loss of her title Her Royal Highness: She turned to William in her distress.… — Paul Burrell Copy Share Image
Success is not to be gained by a blind and slavish following of anyone's rules or advice, our own any more than… — William Walker Atkinson Copy Share Image
The Spanish voyager, as his caravel ploughed the adjacent seas, might give full scope to his imagination, and dream that beyond the… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
'Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the… — Jason Scott Lee Copy Share Image
I wanted to work in the arts. My dream come true would be to be an architectural historian and work with the… — Jaye Davidson Copy Share Image
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most. — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image