Queens Quotes - Page 34

• 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'm singing I'm always trying to get to the highest point possible. I'd fly to the top of Buckingham Palace to sing to the queen.

  Florence Welch

  Always Trying, Singing, Palaces

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• I didn't do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Artist, Admire

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• If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Would Be, Saws, Queen Elizabeth

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• Being a small boy it's very daunting seeing the Queen around and not really quite knowing what to talk about.

  Prince William

  Boys, Knowing, Seeing

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• My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.

  A. N. Wilson

  Book, Writing, Toby

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• It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.

  A. N. Wilson

  Kings, Eerie, Perspective

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• But I never worried about having a child in my 40s, which is unusual - normally, I'm the queen of worry.

  Debra Winger

  Children, Worry, Worried

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• I like all the families in the U.K. But what I like about the idea of the royal family is... they seem like they're well educated and there's something admirable about them. And the Queen... she reminds me of my grandma.

  will.i.am

  Grandma, Ideas, Royal

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

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• I'd love to do a show in Vegas with drag queens. The tackier the better.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Love, Vegas, Drag

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• My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler.

  John Oliver

  Voice, Sound, Ears

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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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• My little cousin Jimmy told me in jail he was a drag queen.

  Master P

  Cousin, Jail, Littles

  Song: Snitches

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• The role of Charlie Eppes has changed me. I never imagined I would play a role like this. I lost some weight, grew my hair and now every woman in America over 40 wants to date me. It's their daughters I want to convince. The truth is all this talk makes me blush. Me, I look in the mirror and all I see is this Jewish kid from Queens.

  David Krumholtz

  Daughter, Kids, Play

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

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• At 13, when I was a runaway, I was taken in by the most amazing drag queens in Portland, Ore. We didn't always know where our next meal was coming from, but there was so much camaraderie and love. Not to mention, those girls could paint a face, and I learned how because of them.

  Rose McGowan

  Girl, Taken, And Love

  "Rose McGowan On Childhood As Runaway With Drag Queens, Not Being Bi-Sexual". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2011.

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• I quite love sequins; I think it's the drag queen in me.

  Sienna Miller

  Thinking, Drag, Sequins

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