Knights Quotes - Page 12

• She hath no loyal knight and true, The Lady of Shalott.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Loyal

  Alfred Tennyson, Geneviève Côté (2009). “The Lady of Shalott”, p.17, Kids Can Press Ltd

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• Contemporary fantasists all bow politely to Lord Tennyson and Papa Tolkien, then step around them to go back to the original texts for inspiration--and there are a lot of those texts. We have King Arthur and his gang in English; we've got Siegfried and Brunhild in German; Charlemagne and Roland in French; El Cid in Spanish; Sigurd the Volsung in Icelandic; and assorted 'myghtiest Knights on lyfe' in a half-dozen other cultures. Without shame, we pillage medieval romance for all we're worth.

  David Eddings

  Kings, Inspiration, Other Cultures

  David Eddings, Leigh Eddings (2007). “The Rivan Codex: Ancient Texts of THE BELGARIAD and THE MALLOREON”, p.6, Del Rey

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• Snow, get behind me!" Charming shouted as he leaped to his feet. "I'll handle this brute." "Billy", the teacher cried. "This is the twenty-first century, Women don't need the white knight routine anymore. I can fight my own battles.

  Michael Buckley

  Teacher, Fighting, White

  Buckley, Michael (2011). “The Unusual Suspects: The Sisters Grimm, Book Two”, p.245, Abrams

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• And at thirty-eight a brilliant exponent of arms and a knight of the great fighting and religious Order of St John, the Chevalier de Villegagnon had absolutely no use for common sense himself, but respected it in the laity.

  Dorothy Dunnett

  Religious, Fighting, Eight

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• If you envy me whatever modicom of success that I enjoy, you must also envy me my time, my labour, my finance, my anxiety, my frustration and my determination. Jose Sulaiman is the greatest boxing man that I have ever met. I think he is a knight in shining armour for the boxer, but I always insulate myself with the rules.

  Don King

  Determination, Frustration, Men

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• Diabetes is passed that way -- over and down, like a knight in chess.

  Maile Meloy

  Chess, Way, Diabetes

  Maile Meloy (2010). “Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It”, p.70, Canongate Books

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• The very purpose of a knight is to fight on behalf of a lady.

  Thomas Malory

  Fighting, Purpose, Behalf

  Sir Thomas Malory (1962). “Le morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the legends of the Round Table”, Signet

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• Michael [Jackson] had paintings of himself at Neverland depicting himself as a knight and surrounded by cherubs and angels. People might think he's an egomaniac, but he's not. It's because the world turned against him.

  David LaChapelle

  Angel, Thinking, People

  Source: wwd.com

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• This knight was indeed a valiant gentleman; but not a little given to romance, when he spake of himself.

  John Evelyn

  Romance, Gentleman, Littles

  E. S. de Beer (ed.) 'The Diary of John Evelyn' (1955) vol. 3, p. 40 (6 September 1651)

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• From the time I started teaching, when I was 21, I've always signed my name Bob Knight. My college coach called me Bobby, still does. But I have never introduced myself to anybody in my adult life in any way other than, "I'm Bob Knight."

  Bobby Knight

  Teaching, College, Names

  "On the Road With America's Angriest Man. An Interview With Bobby Knight". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, playboysfw.kinja.com. March 20, 2014.

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• I spent my entire experience with Gary on Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy staring at him and not returning any lines because I think he's God. The second time on The Dark Knight Rises I was playing God, so I ignored him. Kicked him a bit, that kind of thing. Gary Oldman is one of my heroes, I did nothing but glean from him.

  Tom Hardy

  Hero, Dark, Thinking

  "Tom Hardy Describes Showdown With Gary Oldman In 'The Dark Knight Rises'". Interview with Terri Schwartz, www.ifc.com. May 22, 2012.

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• For Michael [Bay] and I [ Transformers: The Last Knight ] is our third movie so we're quite familiar with each other and know where to push each other and bring the best out of each other. But I'm definitely not as young as I used to be, that's the biggest difference.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Differences, Lasts, Used

  Source: collider.com

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• Seize the outpost K5 with your knight, and you can go to sleep. Checkmate will come by itself.

  Savielly Tartakower

  Sleep, Chess, Checkmate

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• The knight of QB3 is under obligation, the moment the enemy gives him the chance, of undertaking an invasion of the center by Kn-Q5.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Night, Giving, Enemy

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• A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Mad, Causes, Merit

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote”, p.209, Collector's Library

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• A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure - an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life, to dissolution as well as creation - characterizes Montaigne's restless reflections on matter in motion, Cervantes's chronicle of his mad knight, Michelangelo's depiction of flayed skin, Leonardo's sketches of whirlpools, Caravaggio's loving attention to the dirty soles of Christ's feet.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Dirty, Reflection, Feet

  Stephen Greenblatt (2011). “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern”, p.12, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Women love firefighters so much because it’s like a knight in shining armor kind of thing.

  Taylor Kinney

  Firefighter, Shining, Armor

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• I should have blown this mic like I said I might
  Got the force of 20 men like a Jedi Knight.

  Kwame

  Men, Should Have, Hip Hop

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• [The Front Page] is still full of peppy banter as it sends its seedy knights after cheap scoops.

  Jay Carr

  Pages, Banter, Stills

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• May it not also be that the cause of civilization itself will be defended by the skill and devotion of a few thousand airmen? There never has been, I suppose, in all the world, in all the history of war, such an opportunity for youth. The Knights of the Round Table, the Crusaders, all fall back into the past.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Fall, Past

  Sir Winston Churchill, Winston Churchill (1965). “Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words”

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• As a kid, I dreamed of a knight in shining armor coming to rescue me. Now, I just dream of equal pay for equal work.

  Ingrid Weir

  Dream, Kids, Equal Pay

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• The illusion that consumption - and its correlative, income - is desirable probably stems from too great preoccupation with what Knight calls "one-use goods," such as food and fuel, where the utilization and consumption of the good are tightly bound together in a single act or event. ... any economy in the consumption of fuel that enables us to maintain warmth or to generate power with lessened consumption again leaves us better off. ... there is no great value in consumption itself.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Together, Events, Income

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• Sometimes people will bring up these odd things that I did a one-off from. Like, I did a 'Knight Rider,' and I'll get an E-mail from a 'Knight Rider' fan who says, 'Look what I did to my car!' And I don't know if you know about this, but there is a sub-cult of 'Knight Rider' fan who trick out their cars to look like KITT. I'm, like, 'Really? Isn't there anything else you can do? Do you make that much money? Because I have projects I'd like to get off the ground, so how about you don't make KITT and you give it to me?'

  Robbie Rist

  Giving, Car, People

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• The knight is renowned for, among other things, its suitability as a blockader ... Because its strength lies in short-range operations it is not uncomfortable standing in a single spot for long periods, as the Bishop is.

  Samuel Reshevsky

  Lying, Long, Bishops

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• God is no White Knight who charges into the world to pluck us like distressed damsels from the jaws of dragons, or diseases. God chooses to become present to and through us. It is up to us to rescue one another.

  Nancy Mairs

  God, Dragons, White

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