Queens Quotes - Page 18

• Here! 'Not thread nor glue, not nails nor screws, will ever self and shadow wed.' Helpful, those poet-types. Perhaps this one: 'Seek the grimy queen of dread machines, if you your errant shadow miss.' Now that's quite good! As a Prophetic Utterance, Third Class (Vague Hints and Mysterious Signs), you couldn't ask for better. It's downright plain-spoken!

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Self, Class, Missing

  Catherynne M. Valente (2012). “The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There”, p.202, Macmillan

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• It was a dream world, a kind of Alice in Wonderland, with its kings and queens, princes and princesses, and our millions of loyal subjects. But it wasn't real, and it couldn't last.

  Sylvia Sidney

  Dream, Art, Kings

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• As the saying goes, behind every great man is an even greater woman. I guess playing Hera [in Wonder Woman] means that I'm, well, not only Queen of the Gods, I'm better than he is!

  Marg Helgenberger

  Mean, Men, Wonder Woman

  "David McCallum and Marg Helgenberger Take on Zeus and Hera in the Wonder Woman Animated Film". movieweb.com. December 17, 2008.

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• I am a taxonomist, I work in the descriptive, narrative sciences of natural history. Unfortunately there is this status ordering from physics, the queen of the sciences up on top, down through a bunch of squishy subjects, ending up with sociology and psychology on the bottom. Palaeontologists are not much above that in their conventional ordering.

  Richard Lewontin

  Top Down, Psychology, Narrative

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Drag queens always love a portmanteau of combining words and making something new, because this whole world is shilarious. And so you have to contain yourself with words. Shilarious is just something that is a really hooty kiki funny item.

  RuPaul

  World, Something New, Drag

  "RuPaul Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. June 10, 2011.

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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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• I suppose they call me a womans director because there were all these movie queens in the old days, and I directed most of them. But I also directed Jack Barrymore and Ronald Colman and James Stewart, to name a few.

  George Cukor

  Names, Directors, Call Me

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• I am not a boy, not a girl, I am not gay, not straight, I am not a drag queen, not a transsexual - I am just me, Jackie.

  Jackie Curtis

  Girl, Gay, Boys

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

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• I was also a congressman. I had decided to run for office and had become a congressman with Queen Latifah.

  Rob Reiner

  Running, Office, Congressman

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm going to Queen Mary's [university] in East London and I am trying to juggle it. Sometimes, it's really hard.

  Yasmin Paige

  East London, Trying, Sometimes

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I have nothing to complain about.. except maybe people wondering if a queen like me can be butch-it-up enough to play a convincing straight man.

  Rupert Everett

  Men, Play, People

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• When you're on stage singing, you're naked. Your voice is something very intimate, and that's why I'm scared every time before I perform. It doesn't matter if I'm singing for a king or a queen or the Pope, it's enough to be in front of anybody. I suffer, but I can't do anything about it.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Kings, Voice, Singing

  "This much I know: Andrea Bocelli" by Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2012.

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• I lost the love of all the homosexuals in the world by saying that Princess Diana was trash and got what she deserved. She could have been Queen of England - and she was swanning about Paris with Arabs. What disgraceful behavior. Going about saying she wanted to be the queen of hearts. The vulgarity of it is so overpowering.

  Quentin Crisp

  Princess, Heart, Paris

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• Every Saint belongs to the court of the Queen of All Saints.

  John Eudes

  Saint, Court

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• The servants of Mary are as sure of getting to Paradise as though they were already there. Who are they who are saved and who reign in Heaven? Surely those for whom the Queen of Mercy intercedes ... The clients of Mary will necessarily be saved.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Heaven, Reign, Clients

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• From Satan or from God, what matter? Angel or Siren,
  What matter, if you make - fairy with velvet eyes,
  Rhythm, perfume, light, o my only queen -
  The universe less hideous, each moment less strained?

  Charles Baudelaire

  Eye, Angel, What Matters

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• That's the thing I loved about drag queens, life was a constant movie; no matter how ridiculously things didn't match they would sacrifice everything for the pose, and I was definitely into the pose.

  Mary Woronov

  Sacrifice, Matter, Drag

  Mary Woronov (2000). “Swimming Underground: My Years in the Warhol Factory”, Serpents Tail

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• If I may bend your ear for a moment, I like Terry Pratchett. I like footnotes. I like footnotes even when they are not as entertaining as a Pratchett footnote, even when they are in the middle of a book on evolutionary biology and briefly explain the Red Queen hypothesis or the fate of the Stephen's Island Wren or how many bunnies can dance on the back of Australia. Footnotes fill me with a very mild glee. The endnote simply does not compare.

  Ursula Vernon

  Book, Fate, Islands

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• It is obvious I shall have to abandon my hopes of getting the Queen's head off the stamps.

  Tony Benn

  Stamps, Obvious, Abandon

  Tony Benn (1987). “Out of the Wilderness: Diaries, 1963-67”, Hutchinson Radius

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• The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stocking for queens but in bringing them within the reach of factory girls in return for a steadily decreasing amount of effort.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Girl, Achievement, Effort

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.67, Routledge

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• In my work and what I do, I am Queen of the Universe every day!

  Lady Gaga

  Universe

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• It's such a measure of your solidarity with Ed, that when you would give lectures, he would be wearing a tartan tie that matched. And I demanded that outfit, I thought it was so punk - her long skirt, she looked like a Scottish queen, so regal.

  Vera Farmiga

  Ties, Long, Giving

  "Vera Farmiga and Paranormal Investigator Lorraine Warren Talk THE CONJURING, the Nature of Evil, Their Relationship, and More". Interview by Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. July 17, 2013.

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• Mary J. Blige is the Queen Latifah character. Her voice in this movie [Rock of ages] is, she just gives it this incredible warmth, and she's just this person who blows out of the screen. She's just incredible.

  Adam Shankman

  Character, Blow, Rocks

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't apologize for my diamonds, Rolls-Royce, Range Rover, or anything. Look, Queen Elizabeth has more diamonds than me. Why don't people attack her for it?

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  People, Looks, Apologizing

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• I love being in London because it means I am breathing the same air as the Queen.

  Melissa George

  Mean, Love Is, Air

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