Queens Quotes - Page 27

• I want to say unequivocally the Queen is magnificent. She is the enduring force, she is the glue that makes everyone feel good. She is beloved. I would rue the day when she may not be here.

  Louis Susman

  Feel Good, Glue, May

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• I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York.

  Amy Ryan

  New York, Class, Backgrounds

  "Q&A: We Heart Amy Ryan". Interview with Nojan Aminosharei, www.elle.com. September 22, 2010.

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• I feel like I'm a drag queen.

  Maya Rudolph

  Drag, Drag Queen, Feels

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• Be cautious of playing your Queen in front of your King and in subjecting yourself to a discovered check. It is better when check is given to your King to interpose a man that attacks the checking Piece than with one that does not.

  Howard Staunton

  Kings, Men, Doe

  Howard Staunton (1872). “The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess, Exemplified in Games Actually Played by the Greatest Masters and Illustrated by Numerous Diagrams of Original and Remarkable Positions”, p.40

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• Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of flowers should be.

  Sappho

  Flower, Rose, Reign

  Pindar, Anacreon, Sappho, Musaeus (Grammaticus.) (1822). “The Odes of Pindar”, p.281

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• When you're a mayor and you have a problem you blame the provincial government. If you are provincial government and you have a problem you blame the federal government. We don't blame the Queen any more, so once in a while we might blame the Americans.

  Jean Chretien

  Government, Might, Blame

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• I don't design clothes for the Queen, but for the people who wave at her as she goes by.

  Willi Smith

  Clothes, People, Design

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• Of course we have Queen Elizabeth as head of state, but in many ways we are a kind of republic. We don't have royals in Australia, so it was kind of unusual to run into those kind of people. But aside from that it was quite ordinary.

  Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark

  Running, Australia, People

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• Queen and Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and Guns N' Roses - I had a huge rock-band mania. I play a little bit of drums.

  PSY

  Gun, Rocks, Play

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• AC/DC, Def Leppard, Alice Cooper - I learned stories of all these guys. That's when I fell in love with Queen, which is one of my favorite bands of all time... I started paying attention to what made music good. I started paying attention to why I liked it.

  Rico Love

  Guy, Attention, Band

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• Led Zeppelin. Queen. Deep Purple. These were the bands I listened to. I still listen to them.

  Yul Vazquez

  Purple, Band, Zeppelins

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• Imagine a State occasion where the Queen is wearing trainers with her tiara because she thinks it will make people like her better, more folksy. It's unthinkable. But that's patently the thought process Gordon Brown (or his spin doctor) went through before the Prime Minister appeared on the world stage in Beijing without his suit and tie.

  Peter York

  Thinking, Ties, Doctors

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• Mathematics is not arithmetic. Though mathematics may have arisen from the practices of counting and measuring it really deals with logical reasoning in which theorems-general and specific statements-can be deduced from the starting assumptions. It is, perhaps, the purest and most rigorous of intellectual activities, and is often thought of as queen of the sciences.

  Christopher Zeeman

  Science, Logical Reasoning, Practice

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• May, queen of blossoms,
  And fulfilling flowers,
  With what pretty music
  Shall we charm the hours?
  Wilt thou have pipe and reed,
  Blown in the open mead?
  Or to the lute give heed
  In the green bowers.

  Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow

  Flower, Giving, May

  Edward Thurlow, “May”

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• The mangosteen, queen of the tropical fruit.

  David Fairchild

  Food, Science, Fruit

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• When I was seventeen
  I drank some very good beer
  I drank some very good beer I purchased
  With a fake ID
  My name was Brian McGee
  I stayed up listening to Queen
  When I was seventeen

  Homer

  Beer, Names, Fake

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• I do think of myself as a queen, but I don't think I'm the only queen. There's room for other queens. We reign over different kingdoms.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Thinking, Different, Kingdoms

  Source: www.independent.ie

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• Woman is, by habit or nature, queen of the household. She is not designed to organize on a large scale.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Women, Habit, Scales

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• "God save our gracious Queen": Why would we invoke a non-specific deity to bail out these unelected spongers?

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, Bail

  "Part Troll". Documentary, Comedy, Music, 2004.

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• When I became a feminist, when the movement started in the late sixties, I started writing because I had something urgent to say. My first novel, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen, is the product of that urgency.

  Alix Kates Shulman

  Writing, Prom Queen, Feminist

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• If one wants to be called a queen, one should act with civility and grace.

  Jinkx Monsoon

  Grace, Want, Civility

  "Interview with Jinkx Monsoon: Host for the 7th Annual Academy Awards Party at Seattle Cinerama". Interview with Brian Peterson, seattlegayscene.com. February 22, 2012.

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• I would like to work with Paul McCartney in the future. Or Brian Seltzer. But I guess like, like I said - I'm into The Strokes, like Ben Folds, Eliot Smith, the Beatles are my favorite, the Beach Boys, Queen.

  Drake Bell

  Beach, Boys, My Favorite

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• I'm a big fan of the Queen. She carries herself well, as does the Prince of Wales, despite getting lots of stick.

  Alan Titchmarsh

  Fans, Doe, Sticks

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• And hail their queen, fair regent of the night.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Night, Hail

  "Botanic Garden". Book by Erasmus Darwin, part I, canto II, line 90,

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• Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper.

  Voltaire

  World, Usurpers, Twenties

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.135

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