Queens Quotes - Page 39

• It was a saying of an ancient philosopher, which I find some of our writers have ascribed to Queen Elizabeth, who perhaps might have taken occasion to repeat it, that a good face is a letter of recommendation.

  Joseph Addison

  Taken, Letters, Might

  'The Spectator' no. 221, 13 November 1711.

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• It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.

  Fran Drescher

  Growing Up, People, Childhood

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• As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently involve past societies as well as present day ones.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Inspiration, Writing, Past

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• I have also known some of the world's finest brains and some of these, though passionately fond of chess, have been pretty poor players. I used to know one of the world's leading mathematicians and whenever we played chess I had to give him the odds of a Queen to make matters more equal, and even then I always won.

  Harry Golombek

  Success, Player, Odds

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• There are so many health nuts out there who eat nothing but natural foods but they don't exercise and they look terrible. Then there are other people who exercise like a son-of-a-gun but eat a lot of junk... Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you've got a kingdom.

  Jack LaLanne

  Kings, Son, Exercise

  Jack LaLanne Dies: Who the Fitness Guru Really Was" by John Robbins, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 24, 2011.

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• I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.

  Macy Gray

  Queen Elizabeth

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• Health, money. That's what people worried about in the 14th century as much as today. I find it so much more interesting than the supposed activities of kings, queens, generals.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Kings, People, Interesting

  "Peter Ackroyd: 'I just want to tell a story'" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2011.

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• Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special.

  Antonia Fraser

  First Love, Special, Firsts

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• She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Dream, Sailor, Compliment

  "Sundown". Song by Gordon Lightfoot, March 25, 1974.

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• I made her the queen of my double wide trailer with the polyester curtains and redwood deck.

  Sammy Kershaw

  Quality, Redwoods, Made

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• When I walk the streets, kings and queens step aside, every woman I meet, they all stay satisfied.

  George Thorogood

  Kings, Steps, Egotism

  Song: Bad to the Bone

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• Coming out's the hardest part, when you're Queen Elvis.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Coming Out, Hardest

  Song: Queen Elvis II, Album: Eye

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• Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.

  Al Stewart

  Art, Media, Cafes

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• "Try another Subtraction sum. Take a bone from a dog: what remains?" [asked the Red Queen] Alice considered. "The bone wouldn't remain, of course, if I took it-and the dog wouldn't remain; it would come to bite me-and I'm sure I shouldn't remain!" "Then you think nothing would remain?" said the Red Queen. "I think that's the answer." "Wrong, as usual," said the Red Queen, "the dog's temper would remain."

  Lewis Carroll

  Dog, Science, Thinking

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Through the Looking-Glass (Alice): Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.87, 谷月社

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• "She can't do sums a bit!" the Queens said together, with great emphasis. "Can you do sums?" Alice said, turning suddenly on the White Queen, for she didn't like being found fault with so much. The Queen gasped and shut her eyes. "I can do Addition, if you give me time-but I can do Subtraction, under any circumstances!"

  Lewis Carroll

  Time, Eye, Science

  Lewis Carroll (2016). “Alice In Wonderland Collection: All Four Books: Alice in Wonderland, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Hunting of the Snark and Alice Underground”, p.144, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Long ago life was clean, sex was bad and obscene, and the rich were so mean. Stately homes for the Lords, croquet lawns, village greens, Victoria was my queen.

  Ray Davies

  Sex, Home, Mean

  Song: Victoria

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• And you, Ringbearer' she said, turning to Frodo. 'I come to you last who are not last in my thoughts. For you I have prepared this.' She held up a small crystal phial: it glittered as she moved it and rays of white light sprang from her hand. 'In this phial,' she said,' is caught the light of Earendil's star, set amid the waters of my fountain. It will shine still brighter when night is about you. May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out. Frodo took the phial, and for a moment as it shone between them, he saw her again standing like a queen, great and beautiful.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Beautiful, Stars, Dark

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.266, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A lot of men do have a fear of my ultra-femininity. Sometimes people say I look like a drag queen, that I look scary, but I think that's a fear of my confidence. Most women in contemporary culture pare down their femininity, so there's a slight androgyny about them, and I think men have got used to seeing that.

  Paloma Faith

  Men, Thinking, People

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• Free Agents' was an awesome experience. I never play the glam girl in anything, so that was a new experience. I would walk into one of my trailers and it would be like Spanx, a spray-tan gun, and chicken cutlets. I would have hair extensions. It was hilarious. Every day felt like I was turning into an awesome drag queen.

  Kathryn Hahn

  Girl, Gun, Play

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• I know if I had the chance of going aboard the Titanic in those days, I would have gone - I know I would have. I adore going on the Queen Mary - I think it's the only way to travel from New York.

  Celia Imrie

  New York, Thinking, Gone

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• I was only saying to the Queen the other day how I hate name dropping.

  Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

  Hate, Names, Name Dropping

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

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• Me, I look in the mirror and all I see is this Jewish kid from Queens.

  David Krumholtz

  Kids, Mirrors, Looks

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

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• Anger he smiles, towering in shiny metallic purple armor. Queen Jealousy, envy waits behind him, her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Revenge, Purple, Envy

  Jimi Hendrix (2013). “Starting At Zero: His Own Story”, p.120, A&C Black

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• Somebody said he came from New Orleans, where he got in a fight over a Cajun queen. And a crushing blow from a huge right hand, sent a Louisiana fella to the Promised Land.

  Jimmy Dean

  Crush, Revenge, Fighting

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• I just produced Criminal, this remake of Nine Queens, and one of the things that appealed to me about Nine Queens is that it was a performance piece, and that's the most fun.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Fun, Criminals, Pieces

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