(128 quotes found)
“The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.”
C. Wright Mills
“Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man! / When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Take ye him, and crucify him: for I find no fault in him.”
Bible
“And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time.”
Carl Yastrzemski
“I see You with Your crown, club, discus; and a mass of radiance, difficult to behold, shining all around with immeasurable brilliance of the sun and the blazing fire.”
Bhagavad Gita
“Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.”
Herbert Kaufman
“With the crown of thorns I wear, why should I be bothered with a prick like you?”
Dorothy Parker
“Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.”
“My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.”
William Shakespeare
“Pale, beyond porch and portal,/ Crowned with calm leaves, she stands,/ Who gathers all things mortal/ With cold immortal hands.”
Algernon Charles Swinburne
“Within the hollow crownThat rounds the mortal temples of a kingKeeps Death his court.”
