Prince Quotes

Be neither too remote nor too familiar.

I find myself born into this particular position. I'm determined to make the most of it. And to do whatever I can to help. And I hope I leave things behind a little bit better than I found them.

Astriola. That IS demon pox. You had evidence that demon pox existed and you didnt mention it to me! Et tu, Brute!' He rolled up the paper and hit Jem over the head with it.

I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.

In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you fast.

I hope I'm not a tourist attraction - I'm sure that they come here really because St. Andrews is just amazing, a beautiful place.

Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.

He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives.

There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.

Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak.

Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can't reach.

I will get married when I build a house in Banana Island

It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class. If you're not, then you have to hustle-and that's good.

Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

I want us to have it all, love and career. It's a struggle sometime to achieve that, but I love the struggle.

A classic is a classic for a reason. Let's try to create new classics. The idea of repeating ourselves drives me a little crazy.

Be passionate about your [movie] material, because you're going to have to overcome a lot of "No's," and it's that passion that fuels the fight.

The law never tells you to pray.

He, who praises you for what you have not, wishes to take from you what you have.

Do not be deceived by the outward appearance of age or youth - a new pitcher may be full of good, old wine, while an old one may be totally empty.

Action takes precedence over study.

In the U.K., we have the best geography teachers in the world!

Your greatest achievement is to love me.

The French don't know how to cook breakfast.

Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs are being excluded from the calculations.

I suppose I'd get in trouble if I were to melt them down.

I don't know how they're going to integrate in places like Glasgow and Sheffield.

To avert disaster, we have not only to teach men to make things but to teach them to have complete moral control over what they make.

We don't, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren.

No, I'd probably end up spitting it out over everybody.

So this is feminist corner then.

I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated.

I do want to give out a positive message and be successful.

We have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have.

You were playing your instruments? Or do you have tape recorders under your seats?

I'm reasonably headstrong about what I believe in, and what I go for, and I've got fantastic people around me who give me great support and advice.

"It looks as though it was put in by an Indian." He later backtracked: "I meant to say cowboys."

You have mosquitoes. I have the Press.

There are always twenty excellent reasons for doing nothing for every one reason for starting anything-especially if it has never been done before.

It's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form.

Tolerance is the one essential ingredient ... You can take it from me that the Queen has the quality of tolerance in abundance.

Just because you're big doesn't mean you can't be an athlete. And just because you work out doesn't mean you're going to have a 12-pack.

A universal ethos cannot be thought the property of any one culture.

You can imagine the kind of dinner parties I had to go to at a young age... pretty dull.

So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.

I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man.

If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?

These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments and shivers of the heart.

Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.

You can only chase a butterfly for so long.