King Quotes

Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.

No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old.

Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser.

In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus.

When I have bad days, I just eat lots of chocolate ice cream and dance to the Lion King soundtrack. It's really odd, but it's true.

The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.

Who am I, that you should love me?

There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.

People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.

If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone

Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly.

Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.

King Kong, Count Dracula, and the Phantom of the Opera are just looking for love, like the rest of us.

In terms of favourite movies then, I like Lion King. Something more recent would be Alice in Wonderland; it'd be kind of cool to have The White Queen appear in Kingdom Hearts.

In between training sessions, I'll often watch DVDs of King Kong, Godzilla or Frankenstein, just to keep my mind on the task in hand and remind myself of the magnitude of the challenge.

Nonviolence with Dr. [Martin Luther ]King is only a method. That's not his objective.

Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's supposed to be.

Close your eyes and click your heals three times...because there's no place like Dome.

He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror of unrequited thirst when it set in again.

Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up

Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me!

Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back.

So what, ghosts can't hurt you. That's what I thought then.

Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.

The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it.

He removed his unvaluable valuables and dumped his shirt, pants, and skivvies into a letter slot.

Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.

Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is.

Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.

I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.

Such an ego simply forbade certain lines of thought.

Thoughts are king, Trixie, king!

When a woman who has much to say says nothing, her silence can be deafening.

Kill the king but spare the man.

Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.

King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them.

Eventually we will all wither and die in the wasteland of logic and science.

When I first drove my car down Sunset Strip, I nearly crashed my car gazing at the monolithic ads of various celebrities. They are bigger than King Kong, and more frightening.

Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war.

Injuries happen when your mind is beyond your body, largely when you think you're King Kong and lift weights heavier than the body can handle.

I like things that start depressing and dark and end up romantic, and thats what I really loved about King Kong.

I want to make movies just like "King Kong." You know, dinosaurs, big gorillas - it's everything that a nine year-old boy would fall in love with.

My first memory of loving music happened so early. We would always go to the beach in the summer and I would run from blanket to blanket, from family to family and just sing Lion King songs acapella.

Some of the films that I have really enjoyed include: The Fifth Element, The Crow, Toys, Seven, Forrest Gump, The Lion King, 12 Monkeys, Doctor Zhivago, Being There, and Trainspotting.

I think there's a part of all of us that wonders how we would survive on an island untouched by Man. Even better, an island untouched by Man and inhabited by King Kong.

It was just a kiss – " "Yeah, and King Kong was just a monkey.

I've always loved King Kong. He's like a modern-day myth, an icon of the cinema.

...and still the hands did their trick, like over-eager dogs that want to do their rolling—over trick for you not once or twice but all night.

Get busy living or get busy dying.”― Stephen King, The Shawshank Redemption

[L]ife is more than just steering a course around pain.