Queens Quotes - Page 16

• It's no stretch to picture me standing next to Al Pacino or Robert De Niro. Those are ethnic New York men. I'm an ethnic New York girl. Everybody has their limitations. I mean, I should never be cast as Queen Elizabeth.

  Ellen Barkin

  Girl, New York, Mean

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• I can't think of anybody we toured with that had more impact on us than Queen.

  Phil Ehart

  Thinking, Impact, I Can

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 25, 2015.

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• Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force.
  [Fr., La force est la reine du monde, et non pas l'opinion; mais l'opinion est celle qui use de la force.]

  Blaise Pascal

  Use, World, Opinion

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• Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Mixtures, Actresses, Victoria

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• Let me cradle myself back Into the darkness Of the half shapes ... Of the cauled beginnings ... Let me stir the attar of unused air, Elusive ... ironically fragrant As a dead queen's kerchief ... Let me blow the dust from off you ... Resurrect your breath Lying limp as a fan In a dead queen's hand.

  Lola Ridge

  Lying, Blow, Hands

  Lola Ridge (1920). “Sun-up, and Other Poems”

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• Becka might have been average in L.A., but average in L.A. is Queen of Mars in the visiting room of a federal penitentiary in North Carolina.

  Kelly Link

  Average, North Carolina, Mars

  "Magic for Beginners". Book by Kelly Link, 2005.

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• Like or dislike her, the British Queen is harmless. Her role is purely ceremonial. Conversely, life and death are in the hands of the monarch who sits in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

  Ilana Mercer

  Hands, Life And Death, Pennsylvania

  "Mobocracy vs. Monarchy". www.wnd.com. May 20, 2011.

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• Imagination is the queen of truth, and possibility is one of the regions of truth. She is positively akin to infinity.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Imagination, Infinity, Possibility

  "Salon de 1859". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1859.

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• I was appalled to find that the mathematical notation on which I had been raised failed to fill the needs of the courses I was assigned, and I began work on extensions to notation that might serve. In particular, I adopted the matrix algebra used in my thesis work, the systematic use of matrices and higher-dimensional arrays (almost) learned in a course in Tensor Analysis rashly taken in my third year at Queen's, and (eventually) the notion of Operators in the sense introduced by Heaviside in his treatment of Maxwell's equations.

  Kenneth E. Iverson

  Taken, Years, Needs

  "Kenneth E. Iverson with Donald B. McIntyre". Autobiographical sketch from an unfinished work, keiapl.info. (ca. 2004).

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• The queen of virtues is the recognition of one's own flaws.

  Jack McDevitt

  Recognition, Flaws, Virtue

  Jack McDevitt (2004). “Omega”, p.255, Penguin

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• I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Kings, Book, Epic

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• Something about the topic of consciousness makes people, like the White Queen in Through The Looking Glass, believe six impossible things before breakfast.

  Steven Pinker

  Believe, Impossible Things, Glasses

  Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.133, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The Queen of England is Defender of the Faith but the President of the United States is Defender of the Constitution, which defends all faiths.

  Walter F. Mondale

  Atheism, President, England

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• The Queen of England jumped out of a helicopter and parachuted into the stadium. What was even more amazing was when Prince Charles flew in using his ears as a hang glider.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, London Olympics, Ears

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• I have never wanted to be a queen! Cleopatra was a role, and I am an actor, so it was fun to play one, but it's not real.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Fun, Real, Play

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• In France, I would like to worth with Patrice Chereau, who made Queen Margot.

  Louis Garrel

  France, Made

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• That's the thing - you do a job like 'Shameless,' and suddenly that's why you can get a job like 'The Virgin Queen', not because of all the classical theatre you've done. But we can be very snippy about television. It's absolutely the most potent and powerful form of storytelling we have.

  Anne-Marie Duff

  Jobs, Powerful, Theatre

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• People call me stupid for treating you like a queen, but I dont even worry `cause you`re my unforeseen.And I hope that you`ll be with me, if only in my dreams. But here you are next to me and you`re glad, or so it seems.

  Alexander Rybak

  Dream, Stupid, People

  Song: Funny Little World, Album: Fairytales, 2009

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• [To the bishop who suggested the widowed queen now consider herself 'as married to Christ':] That's what I call twaddle!

  Queen Victoria

  Speaking Up, Bishops, Married

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• The Government should take a firm, bold line. This delay - this uncertainty, by which, abroad, we are losing our prestige and our position, while Russia is advancing and will be before Constantinople in no time! Then the Government will be fearfully blamed and the Queen so humiliated that she thinks she would abdicate at once.

  Queen Victoria

  Thinking, Russia, Government

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• My father built low- and moderate-income housing in Queens and Brooklyn. I learned a lot from him. But I went in a different direction. I built Trump Tower in Manhattan, the most luxurious building in the world. It's not going to be easy for my son, but maybe it shouldn't be easy. Life is, after all, a test.

  Donald Trump

  Father, Son, Different

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• You are being trained to be a Queen, but you do not have to act like one until y ou get your own hive. Being a Queen will not overtax you as you will never be called upon to use your mind on any major matter. You will use the National Mind, their mind. It's very restful.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Mind, Use, Matter

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• Becoming a YA author was actually a very lucky accident. When I wrote the Queen of Everything, I thought it was a book for adults.

  Deb Caletti

  Book, Adults, Lucky

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• The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens in suits and pinstripes, so busy establishing themselves, were useless at changing anything.

  Derek Jarman

  Cities, Good Man, Useless

  Derek Jarman (2010). “At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament”

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• As gay people, we always think outside of the box. The irreverent is always important to a drag queen and anyone else who lives outside the box. And this is why drag's important: remember to not take life seriously. It's always important to see the laughter in the illusion that we pretend is real.

  RuPaul

  Laughter, Real, Gay

  "T Lo Interviews The One and Only RuPaul". tomandlorenzo.com. March 03, 2009.

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