Being an umpire is like being a king. It prepares you for nothing.
A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one.
Killing one person makes you a murderer. Killing a million people makes you a king. Killing them all makes you God.
Why would I want to be president? I'm the king of Disneyland.
I'm still the king of me.
I feel like I've been on EastEnders all my life and now I'm playing King Lear.
When corruption is king, there is no accountability of leadership and no trust in authority. Society devolves to the basic units of family and self, to the basic instincts of getting what you can when you can, because you don't believe anything better will ever come along. And when the only horizon is tomorrow, how can you care about the kind of nation you are building for your children and your grandchildren? How can you call on your government to address what ails society and build stronger institutions?
My dad's family were political and he was always a theatrical creature, whereas my mum is really musical and her father was the touring pianist with Nat King Cole. My family was an explosive mixture of politics, religion and music - no wonder I turned out how I did.
I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.
Her queen danced like a flame in the wind, and the mercurial king like the weight at the center of the earth.
By blood a king, in heart a clown.
Anybody who takes Martin Luther King seriously has got to go beyond the standard understanding of who he was, has to connect those dots.
I would rather be tied to the soil as a serf. . . than be king of all these dead and destroyed.
He hated games they made the world look too simple. Chess, in particular, had always annoyed him. It was the dumb way the pawns went off and slaughtered their fellow pawns while the king lounged about doing nothing. If only the pawns would've united. . . the whole board could've been a republic in about a dozen moves.
An admiral without ships, a hand without fingers, in service of a king without a throne. Is this a knight who comes before us, or the answer to a child's riddle?