Queens Quotes - Page 35

• It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called on to believe what to many people is impossible. Instead of rejoicing in this glorious "impossible" which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his might actions comprehensible to our finite minds.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Morning, Believe, Impossible Things

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.69, Convergent Books

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• One of the world's most popular entertainments is a deck of cards, which contains thirteen each of four suits, highlighted by kings, queens and jacks, who are possibly the queen's younger, more attractive boyfriends.

  Daniel Handler

  Kings, Popular Entertainment, Cards

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• The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday-but never jam today It must come sometime to jam today, Alice objected No it can't said the Queen It's jame every other day. Today isn't any other day, you know

  Lewis Carroll

  Yesterday, Jam, Today

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• Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen.

  Jane Yolen

  Fairy Tale, Happy Endings, Tales

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• Staring at the wall opposite him he presented the queen with a view of his ear and awaited her orders.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Wall, Views, Order

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• I spent 20 years of my life building up Queen, and now Im spending years of my life trying to get away from it.

  Brian May

  Years, Building Up, Trying

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• There are a lot of things in Queen albums that you don't expect; that's why we threw them in

  Brian May

  Albums

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• From the beginning of Queen there was such momentum that I never had any time to do anything else. My energy was 95% focused on the band

  Brian May

  Energy, Momentum, Band

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• At the moment the Queen stuff does sell really well, but there's no guarantee it'll go on forever

  Brian May

  Forever, Doe, Guarantees

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• People have been rumouring that Queen are going to split up for the last eight years at least. I've got some great cuttings at home from people saying 'One thing is certain, Queen will no longer exist in a year's time.' And that was in 1973.

  Brian May

  Home, Cutting, Eight

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• I think I was always a drama queen. I really, really, really loved playing pretend.

  Kathryn Hahn

  Drama, Thinking

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• If I am going to be the future bloody Queen of England I'm going to wear that dress once because I'm giving up the rest of my life, all of my privacy. At least I can get a new dress every day!

  Kelly Osbourne

  Giving Up, England, Dresses

  "'If I had that job I would only wear a dress once': Now Kelly Osbourne takes a swipe at Kate Middleton". www.dailymail.co.uk. August 6, 2011.

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• Maketa Groves has a strong, bright lyric gift. Her poems come out of music and are full of music. They bring us the sounds of the streets and the sounds of nature, and make us see once again that they are parts of the same song. She celebrates American lives as they are lived today: the mother scrubbing her kitchen floor at midnight, the drag-queens in the Tenderloin, the homeless woman knitting in the courtyard. This is poetry that relentlessly shows us the beauty in the world, with all its struggles and complexity, and demands that we go out to meet it with open hearts.

  Diane di Prima

  Mother, Song, Strong

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• I was homecoming queen. I was star of my basketball team.

  Marla Maples

  Basketball, Stars, Team

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As for becoming queen, it was never on the forefront of my mind when I married my husband. It was a long way off, that thought.

  Princess Diana

  Husband, Long, Mind

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• Combinations with a queen sacrifice are among the most striking and memorable.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Memorable, Sacrifice, Chess

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• The Republican Party has moved so far to the right, you can't recognize Mitt Romney. What Mitt Romney will appear in October? Mitt Romney has changed positions more often than a pornographic movie queen.

  Arlen Specter

  Party, October, Republican

  "Specter makes X-rated Romney joke" by Tim Mak, www.politico.com. March 28, 2012.

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• I like a man who looks like a bad boy but knows how to treat a woman like a queen.

  Candice Swanepoel

  Boys, Men, Looks

  "Ask A Supermodel: Valentine's Tips For Men". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com. February 12, 2012.

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• I should be judged as a captain who went from Spain to the Indies to conquer a people numerous and warlike, whose manners and religion are very different from ours, who live in sierras and mountains, without fixed settlements, and where by divine will I have placed under the sovereignty of the King and Queen our Lords, an Other World, whereby Spain, which was reckoned poor, is become the richest of countries. Columbus is coming from the Indies as a prisoner to Cadiz.

  Christopher Columbus

  Country, Kings, Other Worlds

  Letter to Dona Juana de Torres, Oct. 1500

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• May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was eight, and refusing to watch the Queen's Christmas Day broadcast.

  Alastair Campbell

  Christmas, Mother, Memories

  "The royals are so thick" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2011.

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• Italy, my Italy! Queen Mary's saying serves for me (When fortune's malice Lost her Calais): "Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of it 'Italy.'"

  Robert Browning

  Heart, Lost, Fortune

  'De Gustibus' (1855) pt. 2, l. 39

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• It feels intensely twisted to see reigning industry queen Jenna Jameson chilling out at the Vivid booth in Jordaches and a latex bustier and to know already that she has a tattoo of a sundered valentine with the tagline Heart Breaker on her right buttock and a tiny hairless ole just left of her anus.

  David Foster Wallace

  Tattoo, Valentine, Heart

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• The Queens Of The Stone Age have teamed up with multimedia wizard brain Liam Lynch to make the video for 'Burn The Witch' , a home-made affair that's just in time for Halloween. For the band, playing both the roles of cast and crew paid ginormous dividends, in the form of a video that cuts the heads off all contemporaries .

  Joshua Homme

  Halloween, Home, Cutting

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• The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of Woman's Rights with all its attendant horrors on which her poor, feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety.

  Queen Victoria

  Sex, Writing, Rights

  Letter to Sir Theodore Martin, 29 May 1870

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• Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles will devour; Brightness falls from the air; Queens have died young and fair; Dust hath closed Helen's eye.

  Thomas Nashe

  Beauty, Beautiful, Flower

  1592 'A Litany in Time of Plague'.

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