Quotes and Sayings About Knights
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Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Before I was cast on The Surreal Life my knowledge of Christopher Knight was pretty much he was on The Brady Bunch and I hated The Brady Bunch.
-- Adrianne Curry -
I said to him, "State your business, mortal!" There was no need for me to call him "mortal" or to speak like a sixteenth-century knight. It just sounded cool.
-- Alan GoldsherSource : Alan Goldsher (2010). “Paul Is Undead”, p.155, Simon and Schuster
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The Kassideans or Assideans...arose either during the Captivity or soon after the restoration...The Essenians were, however, undoubtedly connected with the Temple (of Solomon), as their origin is derived by the learned Scalier, with every appearance of truth, from the Kassideans, a fraternity of Jewish devotees, who, in the language of Laurie, had associated together as 'Knights of the Temple of Jerusalem.'...From the Essenians Pythagoras derived much, if not all, of the knowledge and the ceremonies with which he clothed the esoteric school of his philosophy.
-- Albert Mackey -
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If, anywhere, brethren of a particular religious belief have been excluded from this Degree [18° Knight Rose Croix], it merely shows how gravely the purposes and plan of Masonry may be misunderstood. For whenever the door of any Degree is closed against him who believes in one God and the soul's immortality, on account of the other tenets of his faith, that Degree is Masonry no longer.
-- Albert Pike -
I have so many [on-set Glee BFFs]. I love Kevin (McHale). I love Amber (Riley); Amber and I are essentially the same person, even though one’s fiercer than the other—don’t tell her it’s me. I love Chris Colfer, he’s a gem. Melissa (Benoist) and Blake (Jenner), I love them. We’re such a tight-knight family because we spend so much time together.
-- Alex Newell -
She hath no loyal knight and true, The Lady of Shalott.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
The fact that a knight is temporarily on the edge of the board is of no great significance.
-- Anatoly Karpov -
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And, of course, I began drawing so much - wild, undisciplined pencil drawings and watercolors of knights battling and such.
-- Andrew Wyeth -
Her father said she was a princess. He did not see that she was a brave knight.
-- Anne Ursu -
'The Dark Knight' is a really good movie that reached both critics and mainstream audiences.
-- Anurag KashyapSource : The Hollywood Reporter Interview, www.hollywoodreporter.com. 2012.
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How vain are our fears! I thought to myself. Sometimes we fear that which our opponent (or fate) had never even considered! After this, then, is it any longer worthwhile to rack one's brain to find new ghosts to fear? No, indeed: All hail optimism! - upon playing Hermanis Mattison after he overlooked an unusual knight manouevre.
-- Aron Nimzowitsch -
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The code of the knight is still the code of the gentleman today.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino -
I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.
-- Barbara Feldon -
The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.
-- Benjamin Cardozo -
A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights; and it is not the least of these necessary hardships to have to serve with sailors.
-- Bernard Law Montgomery -
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In the family of continents, Africa is the silent, the brooding sister, courted for centuries by knight-errant empires - rejecting them one by one and severally, because she is too sage and a little bored with the importunity of it all.
-- Beryl Markham -
I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight, and they all had big voices too; just different than mine.
-- Beth Ditto -
I was the adoring son of a Welsh-Irish father, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, a Catholic Knight of Columbus who was a blue-collar, trade union organizer and, not surprisingly, a fervid Nixon-hater.
-- Bob GuntonSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I could give any woman in the world a piece and a move; to Gaprindashvili even, a knight.
-- Bobby Fischer -
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Son, my name isn't Knight to you, it's Coach Knight or it's Mr. Knight. I don't call people by their last name and neither should you.
-- Bobby Knight -
Then when Gladys Knight came in to do my songs that was the straw that broke the camel's back.
-- Brenda Holloway -
Maybe all young men who love us become knights in shining armor when we love them back.
-- Cameron DokeySource : Cameron Dokey (2012). “Once: Before Midnight; Golden; Wild Orchid”, p.368, Simon and Schuster
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For so long, it was just my secret. It burned inside me, and I felt like I was carrying something important, something that made me who I was and made me different from everybody else. I took it with me everywhere, and there was never a moment when I wasn't aware of it. It was like I was totally awake, like I could feel every nerve ending in my body. Sometimes my skin would almost hurt from the force of it, that's how strong it was. Like my whole body was buzzing or something. I felt almost, I don't know, noble, like a medieval knight or something, carrying this secret love around with me.
-- Carolyn ParkhurstSource : Carolyn Parkhurst (2008). “Lost and Found: A Novel”, Little, Brown
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I want to keep on living forever and watching heroes and fools and knights go up and down, into the world and out. I want to keep being myself and mind the work that minds me. Work is not always a hard thing that looms over your years. Sometimes, work is the gift of the world to the wanting.
-- Catherynne M. Valente -
So most people go around with grimy machinery, when all it would take is a bit of spit and polish to make them paladins once more, bold knights and true.
-- Catherynne M. Valente -
I have had the privilege of working with the best in the business, from photographers to designers to magazines. There's not much more to ask for but I'm still looking forward to one day working with photographers Mert and Marcus, Tim Walker and Nick Knight.
-- Chanel Iman -
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Every Great Story deserves a Great Ending and 'The Dark Knight Rises' is our Attempt to give that GREAT story, a GREAT ENDING.
-- Christopher Nolan -
Langdon turned to Sophie. "Who is that? What... happened?" Teabing hobbled over. "You were rescued by a knight brandishing an Excalibur made by Acme Orthopedic.
-- Dan Brown