Queens Quotes - Page 14

• I was reading William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It was a really good mix; it was a therapeutic mix.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Mother, Reading, Biographies

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• I am never offended when I see the drag-queens dressed up like me.

  Cher

  Drag, Like Me, Dressed Up

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• I have walked majestically with kings and queens and presidents and other heads of states.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Kings, President, States

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• I love a smart, well-written show, and '30 Rock,' well, you can't get any better than that. Tina Fey poos funny. There's nothing that she does that isn't funny. That show is an example of how brilliant she is. It's so smart. They've done some brilliant commentary about the 'Housewives' with 'Queen of Jordan,' their show-within-the-show.

  Andy Cohen

  Smart, Rocks, Example

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• I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama.

  Joan Collins

  Nice, Drama, Mean

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• It's a petty thing, but I wouldn't join the Scouts when I was a kid, 'cause you had to swear allegiance to the queen. I'm just not a royalist. I think it's idiotic, a hereditary principle.

  Elvis Costello

  Kids, Thinking, Principles

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• The Queen of Crafts herself, Martha Stewart, and I have the same birthday. I prefer to think it's the glue-gun wielding, perfect-tart-producing Martha and not the copper pan-throwing, jail-going Martha. But I suppose if I am going to share a calendar square with some of Martha, I have to share it with all of Martha.

  Sloane Crosley

  Birthday, Gun, Thinking

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• I think it might be better to have the President sort of like the King of England - or the Queen - and have the real business of the presidency conducted by ... a city manager-type, a Prime Minister, somebody who's directly answerable to Congress, rather than a person who moves all his friends into the White House and does whatever he wants for four years.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Kings, Real, Moving

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• Queen Mary had a way of interrupting tattle about elopements, duels, and play debts, by asking the tattlers, very quietly yet significantly, whether they had ever read her favorite sermon--Dr. Tillotson on Evil Speaking.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Play, Evil, Drs

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• The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair Across the tide to see her image there: Then looking up and round the prospect wide, When did Praxiteles see me thus? she cried.

  Plato

  Sculpture, Tides, Made

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• Oh, Brignall banks are wild and fair, And Greta woods are green, And you may gather garlands there Would grace a summer's queen.

  Walter Scott

  Summer, Grace, May

  'Rokeby' (1813) canto 3, st. 16

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• In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies.

  Alexander Pope

  Eye, Past, Balls

  Alexander Pope (2013). “The Rape of the Lock In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.49, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Opinion is the queen of the world.

  Blaise Pascal

  World, Opinion

  Blaise Pascal, Thomas Adam (1833). “Thoughts on religion”, p.125

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• The motorcycle black madonna Two wheeled gypsy queen.

  Bob Dylan

  Two, Black, Motorcycle

  'Gates of Eden' (1965 song)

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• With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Years, Black, Painting

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• Sleep and I do not have a good relationship. We have never been good friends. I am constantly chasing sleep and then pushing it away. A good night's sleep is my white whale. Like Ahab, I am also a total drama queen about it. I love to talk about how little sleep I get. I brag about it, as if it is a true indication of how hard I work.

  Amy Poehler

  Good Night, Drama, Sleep

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• I'll take being on Baywatch over being Prom Queen any day.

  Brande Roderick

  Prom Queen, Prom, Baywatch

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• And when children begin to use their reason, fathers and mothers should take great pains to fill their hearts with the fear of God. This the good Queen Blanche did most earnestly by St. Louis, her son: witness her oft-repeated words, "My son, I would sooner see you die than guilty of a mortal sin;" words which sank so deeply into the saintly monarch's heart, that he himself said there was no day on which they did not recur to his mind, and strengthen him in treading God's ways.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Mother, Pain, Children

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• I would live in a communist country providing I was the Queen.

  Stella Adler

  Country, Ego, Communist

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• Happiness does not come from external objects. It comes from peace of mind. You can be famous; you can be a king, a queen, anything. It does not necessarily bring happiness or peace of mind. It comes about through following dharma.

  Frederick Lenz

  Kings, Buddhism, Mind

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• Warlords of sorrow and queens of tomorrow will offer their heads for a prayer. You can't find no salvation, you have no expectations anytime, anyplace, anywhere.

  Bob Dylan

  Prayer, Future, Expectations

  Song: No Time to Think, Album: Street Legal, 1978

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• I love Queen. Not all of it. Some of it, I can't get into. But "Don't Stop Me Now" is a pretty hilarious song. It's a good pick-me-up in the car.

  Charlie Day

  Song, Car, Pick Me Up

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I just got an apartment here in Nashville, and I invested in a Queen-sized bed because I'm like, "I haven't had a big bed since I was a kid." I woke up this morning on one side, like, in "coffin position."

  Lzzy Hale

  Morning, Kids, Nashville

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• Give a drag queen a fish and you feed her for a day; show her how to be fishy and you feed her for a lifetime.

  RuPaul

  Giving, Lifetime, Drag

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• When ABBA broke up, I assumed our music would fall into oblivion so in the early 90's with BJRN AGAIN becoming popular and when U2 invited Benny and I on stage to sing Dancing Queen, I just assumed we were being sent up. But now I see they were paying tribute to us

  Bjorn Ulvaeus

  Fall, Dancing, Becoming

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