From a private gentlewoman you have made me first a marchioness, then a queen; and, as you can raise me no higher in the world, you are now sending me to be a saint in Heaven.

The executioner is, I believe, very expert; and my neck is very slender

And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me.

The king has been very good to me. He promoted me from a simple maid to be a marchioness. Then he raised me to be a queen. Now he will raise me to be a martyr.

King has absolute power. And what he has given he can taken away.

If any person should meddle with my cause, I require them to judge the best'.

Remember me when you do pray that hope doth lead from day to day.

O Lord have mercy on me, to God I commend my soul.

If it ever lay in my power, I will work the Cardinal as much displeasure as he has done to me.

To Jesus Christ I commend my soul; Lord Jesus receive my soul.

Some promises are lies we never meant to tell.

If you have food in your jaws you have solved all questions for the time being.

People are so used to seeing John Goodman as a loveable dad or the quirky characters he played in the Coen Brothers films.

The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'

Mom ran the house, so we grew up Portuguese.

I am against government by crony.

If everybody walks into the room wearing crutches you don't know who can stand on their own two feet.

I really do love football.

I never knew teachers are human beings like everybody else-- and better too!

I actually did ponder doing the Brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie thing and get a kid from Ethiopia. But you know, I already have an ashtray.

I want the people who listen to my music to feel the feeling that I feel, to cry the cry that I cry - justice. I want them to feel in their hearts the need for justice.