When I bought the Rolls Royce they thought it was leased, then I bought that new Ferrari hater rest in peace.
— Meek Mill
Eye-opening Rolls Royce quotations
We run after values that, at death, become zero.
At the end of your life, nobody asks you how many degrees you have, or how many mansions you built, or how many Rolls Royces you could afford. That's what dying patients teach you.
Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.
Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble.
(Quidvis recte factum quamvis humile praeclarum.)
Strive for perfection in everything you do.
Take the best that exists and make it better.
Where I lived, it was a cold mining place, a village called Dunston.
The only time you saw a Rolls-Royce was when somebody died.
If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls Royce would today cost $100 and get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside.
At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock.
You're asking if I'm happy? I've got 87 million in the bank, I've got a Rolls Royce, I've got 3 stalkers, I'm about to go on the board at Manchester City, I'm part of the greatest band in the world. Am I happy with that? No, I'm not! I want more!
In Hollywood, we have some of the richest unemployed people in the world.
They have sun tans. Some of them have chauffeurs in Rolls-Royces waiting outside. They have their golf clubs ready in the car. There is no law that says you cannot play golf while being unemployed.
Paul Furlong is my vintage Rolls Royce and he cost me nothing.
We polish him, look after him, and I have him fine tuned by my mechanics. We take good care of him because we have to drive him every day, not just save him for weddings.
Much as I like owning a Rolls-Royce, I could do without it.
What I could not do without is a typewriter, a supply of yellow second sheets and the time to put them to good use.
When you are a rich man you are proud to own a Rolls Royce and when you are a poor man you are proud to own a Renault.
I am like a Rolls- Royce. I can run without an engine, purely on reputation
I don't need a Rolls-Royce, I don't need a house in the country, I don't need to live in the south of France. I'm quite happy as I am.
If a British guy saw someone at the wheel of a Rolls- Royce, he'd say 'come the revolution and we'll take that away from you, mate', where the American would say 'one day I'll have one of those, when I have worked hard enough'. It's unfortunate we Australians inherited the British mentality.
I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic.
Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.
If you want to be equal with me, you can get your own Rolls-Royce, your own house and your own million dollars.
What good is a beautiful dame with a Rolls-Royce frame, and a Volkswagen brain?
People always expect you to be jumping out of a Rolls Royce and being in the papers for drunk and disorderly or sleeping around.
"Cannonball Adderley said, 'First 20 minutes we'll jazz out, then the last hour it's gonna be songs that people paid to see.' Which is why he was driving a Rolls-Royce."
All brands, whether high-ticket luxury ones such as Cartier or Rolls-Royce or 'masstige' ones with luxe-y overtones but altogether more affordable, all want to grow. Even brands that may have started in a modestly niche design and lifestyle fashion can find themselves under pressure to go global or to sell out at the top.
We get picked up in these Rolls Royces and get three miles down the highway and five cop cars pull us over.
If we were second class citizens we'd be driving old Cadillacs and living good.
If we were first class we'd be driving a Rolls Royce.
My father earned every penny he had, and I would have loved to have bought him a Rolls-Royce because his whole life was cars. Sadly, he didn't live to see the day when I could have done that for him, which still hurts.
When his rolls royce was mobbed by fans the chauffeur said: ''do you want me to get them off the car?'' and Lennon replied: ''No - they paid for it, they can wreck it
Last year my wife got a Rolls-Royce.
My parents were my first bosses - they gave me my moral compass, goals, and first recognition. My dad worked 25 years for Rolls Royce in England. He taught me the value of working someplace where you can make a difference - not chasing money but doing work that you found purposeful.
Floyd Paterson and other fighters, they just don't take part.
They make a million dollars, they get a Rolls Royce and a nice home and a white wife and think, 'well, I made it'.
Man, I've got a Rolls-Royce. Big house. Limo. All those things. This is why every kid's dream is to be a major-league ballplayer.
I wouldn't trade a good horse for the best Rolls-Royce ever made -- unless I could trade the Rolls for two good horses.
The Rich arrived in pairsAnd also in Rolls Royces;
They talked of their affairsIn loud and strident voices...The Poor arrived in Fords,Whose features they resembled;They laughed to see so many LordsAnd Ladies all assembled.The People in BetweenLooked underdone and harassed,And our of place and mean,And Horribly embarrassed.
I don't apologize for my diamonds, Rolls-Royce, Range Rover, or anything.
Look, Queen Elizabeth has more diamonds than me. Why don't people attack her for it?