Queens Quotes - Page 37

• The Queen has been guillotined, accused of crimes beyond imagining. Last night she appeared to me in a dream, handing me her head.

  Sandra Gulland

  Dream, Night, Lasts

  Sandra Gulland (2002). “The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B: A Novel”, p.252, Simon and Schuster

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• I am the queen of spades, I am the wasp that stings, I am the dark serpent. I am the invulnerable animal who passes through fire and is not burned.

  Elena Ferrante

  Dark, Animal, Fire

  Elena Ferrante (2005). “The Days of Abandonment”, p.64, Penguin

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• Lot's of marriages don't last as long as Queen have been together.

  John Deacon

  Long, Together, Lasts

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• I will be as good unto ye as ever a Queen was unto her people. No will in me can lack, neither do I trust shall there lack any power. And persuade yourselves that for the safety and quietness of you all I will not spare if need be to spend my blood.

  Elizabeth I

  Blood, People, Safety

  Elizabeth I (2002). “Elizabeth I: Collected Works”, p.54, University of Chicago Press

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• In between the Queen and the First Lady, Nancy Reagan, sat Tony Richardson, looking very calm. Later on it emerged that this was because, having not been apprised of the placement until he was about to sit down, he had died of fright. To have expired was to be fortunate.

  Clive James

  America, World, Firsts

  Clive James (2013). “Snakecharmers In Texas”, p.187, Pan Macmillan

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• You can only win the game when you understand that it is a game. Let a man play chess, and tell him that every pawn is his friend. Let him think both bishops holy. Let him remember happy days in the shadows of his castles. Let him love his queen. Watch him lose them all.

  Mark Lawrence

  Winning, Men, Thinking

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.20, Penguin

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• Pawns are really queens in disguise.

  Lisa Mangum

  Pawns, Disguise

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• The Queen is by much the most powerful of the forces.

  Howard Staunton

  Powerful, Most Powerful, Force

  Howard Staunton (1847). “The chess-player's handbook ...: with frontispiece”, p.4

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• The rifle is the queen of weapons and its effective use is one of the greatest satisfactions available to man.

  Jeff Cooper

  Men, Rifles, Use

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• By the respectable terms of the modern literary profession, novelists do not preach. And, in fact, there has probably not been a less respectable novelist among the irrefutably enduring writers of our time than Ayn Rand: philosopher queen of the best-seller lists in the forties and fifties, cult phenomenon and nationally declared threat to public morality in the sixties, guru to the Libertarians and to White House economic policy in the seventies, and a continuing exemplar or Wilde's tragic observation that more than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

  Claudia Roth

  White, House, Lists

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• There's a big world out there. Bigger than prom, bigger than high school, and it won't matter if you were the prom queen or the quarterback of the football team or the biggest nerd. Find out who you are and try not to be afraid of it.

  Drew Barrymore

  Football, Team, School

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• The cheapest of all things is kindness, its exercise requiring the least possible trouble and self-sacrifice. Win hearts, said Burleigh to Queen Elizabeth, and you have all men's hearts and purses.

  Samuel Smiles

  Kindness, Heart, Exercise

  Samuel Smiles (1859). “Self-help; with illustrations of character and conduct”, p.323

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• It's a sort of piss-take on culture, because a drag queen is a clown - a parody of our society. It's a sarcastic spoof on culture, which allows us to laugh at ourselves - but in a way that is inclusive of everyone.

  RuPaul

  Sarcastic, Laughing, Culture

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• Drag queen is a gender like no other, and with practice I'd learned to rise to it.

  Kate Bornstein

  Practice, Gender, Drag

  Kate Bornstein (2012). “A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology, and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today”, p.199, Beacon Press

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• I'm not a party animal; I took my job as Miss USA very seriously Sometimes, of course, I want to let it all go. Even though I'm a beauty queen, you're also an unofficial ambassador, and there's a lot of pressure.

  Rima Fakih

  Jobs, Party, Animal

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• Life can unmoor so many feelings; it is a relief we sleep through it.
  Night unravels the day and reinvents it for the first time.
  We may mean nothing to time, but to each other we are kings and queens, and the world is a wild benevolent garden filled with chance meetings and unexplained departures.

  Simon Van Booy

  Kings, Mean, Sleep

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.272, Oneworld Publications

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• Unchecked pride evolves into swagger, a hypnotizing mask of insecurity that can and does compromise our ability to make progress and attain power. Pride stands in the way of forgiveness and a strategic approach to navigating a chessboard rigged to prevent pawns from becoming kings and queens.

  Jason Whitlock

  Kings, Pride, Insecurity

  "LeBron's pride simply not important". abcnews.go.com. July 11, 2014.

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• Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Together, you’ve got a kingdom. If you have a Corvette, you don’t put water in the tank. The human machine deserves the same treatment.

  Jack LaLanne

  Kings, Exercise, Water

  "Exercise king LaLanne wants to reach listeners". Interview with Jane Glen Haas, www.ledger-enquirer.com. October 9, 2007.

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• A PHD is not the end of education. Education exists even among the bees who feed their queen only with the purest.

  Sahndra Fon Dufe

  Phds, Bees, Ends

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

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• Sometimes Queens' music is dark, but somehow it's ok to deliver it with a smile on your face because thing's are still going to kick in.

  Joshua Homme

  Smile, Dark, Faces

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• When the Queen says 'well done,' it means so much.

  Prince William

  Mean, Done, Wells

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• At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that.

  Anita Roddick

  Jobs, Awards, Body

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• The best band in the world is Queen, definitely.

  Matthew Bellamy

  Band, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Throughout her career, Ana Barbara has cultivated endless hits; each of her albums was a true musical surprise... this is why today she is honored with the title of Queen of Grupero.

  Ana Barbara

  Careers, Musical, Titles

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• The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as well as choices unexpectedly forced on them by things beyond their control.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Heart, Character, Fate

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