Prince Quotes

Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.

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

I thought... that we could at least talk about books.

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.

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.

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.

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?

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.

I could have worse tags than 'Airmiles Andy' - although I don't know what they are.

I do think I am a country boy at heart. I love the buzz of towns and going out with friends and sitting with them drinking and whatever - it's fun - but, at the same time, I like space and freedom.

The idea that I have to be on the same side of the fence as Dan Quayle is cruelly depressing to me, but the truth is, I believe in family values.

I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director.

Most of the big money people don't know what would interest an audience if you did it. They only know what interested the audience last time.

The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out.

We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.

I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did.

In film school, I knew I wanted to be a director, but I found out pretty damn quickly that nobody was just going to hand me a script to direct.

I always used to sing in the shower, but I never really got into the music until a friend of mine helped me a lot with recording.

Were you here in the bad old days? ... That's why you can't read and write then!

Oh! You're the people ruining the rivers.

Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species.

Are you running away from something?

It is frequently more rewarding merely to ask pertinent questions. It may get someone to go and look for an answer.

Who is going to be the first to face up to the need for self-restraint in the number of children brought into the world?

You cannot mock God because whatever good thing you do, you're gonna reap for it.

Isn't it interesting that God appears holy when he's gracious?

You don't need to have a perfect ending to be happy.

There is something about going to sea. A little bit of discipline, self-discipline and humility are required.

If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.

We should be treating, I think, the whole issue of climate change and global warming with a far greater degree of priority than I think is happening now.

I'm in a privileged position and I'm going to do my utmost to use that privileged position on behalf of the U.K., its citizens, its businesses and people.

I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.

If there's a man on second, I'm trying to get him in with a base hit. The doubles and homers will come. Sooner or later they'll go out naturally. I'm just trying not to do too much.

Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.

Today is reality. Yesterday is history.

I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages.

She is incredibly fit, but we remind staff that she's not just the monarch, but our mother.

Coming up through high school, coaches would tell me not to swing so hard. It's the only way I know. It just happens.

I've always been told I was extremely well-behaved as a kid.

Obviously, I think this [162 games a year four times] caused my early retirement, but I couldn't do it any other way. Just for the record, I never asked for any of the days off in my career.

Being Jem, Tessa reflected, must be a great deal like being the owner of a thouroughbred dog that liked to bite your guests. You had to have a hand on his collar constantly.

I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.

College was to teach me that I was one of life's journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts.

Killing rips the soul apart.

Rejection, though--it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.

The past stands in the path of the future, knowing it will be crushed.

The proof that the little prince existed is that he was charming, that he laughed, and that he was looking for a sheep. If anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists.

Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight.

Dumbledore raised his finger for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon dumb.