I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.

Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.

I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.

I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.

In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.

We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.

People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

Every time Paul and Gene use my makeup, they have to pay me a royalty check. I think they changed the makeup so they didn't have to pay me.

Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

Well, a lot of our concerts do okay, and I know we still get royalty checks which still isn't that important, but again, I have to just say that we're making our records.

Congress did a good thing back in 1995 in passing the Deep Water Royalty Relief Act. That act did a simple thing. It provided automatic royalty relief for new leases for 5 years in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

An organized effort is making to deceive the people. There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty and the aristocracy of gold.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free.

Archaeologists are underpaid publicity agents for deceased royalty.

If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'

Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.

There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.

We were descended from royalty.

I type even faster than I talk. I'm very proud of that. I type so fast. And I have to because the characters are living in real time and I've got to keep up with them. It's a miracle they even give me a royalty.

These are clothes my friends and I could wear. This ain't Prada. I don't want to be one of those celebrities that slaps their name on a label and collects royalty checks. Everything on that runway reflects me.

But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation.

Singing for royalty is a dream of mine - I'd absolutely love to sing for the Queen at the Royal Variety Show. All the contestants are very good. I will just have to do my best and see what happens.

The Thriller album is still the biggest album of all time. That is still returning huge royalty cheques.

I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.

No band is special, no player royalty.

Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely.

A band isn't a band unless they're playing together. Otherwise, it's just five guys that are living off their royalty checks.

According to my royalty statements, 'The Green Progression' sold 392 copies in hardcover.

Celebrity these days is completely for sale; it's not remotely mysterious. But there's something that remains glamorous and mysterious about royalty.

Historians of European royalty have written of the king's 'two bodies' : one mortal and corrupt; the other divine, abstract and timeless.

I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention.

I know one author whose royalty income has been halved from £34,000 a year to £16,000.

I'm geek royalty now.

If you're a Kennedy and you go to Italy or you go to Argentina, you're treated as royalty. And in the United States, we're endlessly fascinated by the family.

In England, one without a trace of Royalty will master. Twenty months he will rule; twenty months he will bleed the lands, then his end comes quickly.

My whole thing is loyalty. Loyalty over royalty; word is bond.

Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.

Royalty mostly seem like members of some anachronistic faith, like the Amish, peculiar in gilded buggies.

The country of Britain is wonderful because of its royalty.

There's an unhealthy obsession in America with royalty and the class system.

There's no royalty in America, so people deify actors.

Wherever I go in the world, I'm treated like royalty.

Every habit is made of three parts... a cue, a routine and a habit. Most people focus on the routine and behavior, but these cues and rewards are really the way you make something into a habit.

Somehow, I don't think Jesus came to Earth to ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange.

In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are.

Pushing the boundaries of what's acceptable - to me, that's something I'm definitely interested in and want to pursue.

When I got into all the grunge stuff, I really liked Hole. I actually saw them in concert when I was a sophomore in high school. It was kind of rare to see a successful female rocker get down and dirty with the guys. And Courtney Love did. It was fun to be a fan of something different.