Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Sheffield

'The Queen Is Dead' is not merely the Smiths' best album, but it is one of those timeless, perfect, inexhaustible artifacts that could only have been made by a gang of sullen, sun-deprived rock & roll boys fighting off adulthood tooth and nail.

Richelle Mead

...and motioned me toward a spot next to a middle-aged Moroi in a very formal and very designer black suit. The suit screamed, I'm sorry the queen is dead, and I'm going to look fashionable while showing my grief

Russell Baker

It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent.

W. H. Auden

If it really was Queen Elizabeth who demanded to see Falstaff in a comedy, then she showed herself a very perceptive critic. But even in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Falstaff has not and could not have found his true home because Shakespeare was only a poet. For that he was to wait nearly two hundred years till Verdi wrote his last opera. Falstaff is not the only case of a character whose true home is the world of music; others are Tristan, Isolde and Don Giovanni.

Roger Waters

Doctor Doctor what is wrong with me This supermarket life is getting long What is the heart life of a colour TV What is the shelf life of a teenage queen

Walter F. Mondale

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.

Henry Adams

If it were worth while to argue a paradox, one might maintain that nature regards the female as the essential, the male as the superfluity of her world. Perhaps the best starting-point for study of the Virgin would be a practical acquaintance with bees, and especially with queen bees.

Henry Bessemer

We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated.

Malcolm Muggeridge

I think Queen Elisabeth II is a charming woman.

Sarah Vowell

In the U.S.A., we want to sing along with the chorus and ignore the verses, ignore the blues. . . No one is going to hold up a cigarette lighter in a stadium to the tune of "mourn together, suffer together." City on a hill, though -- that has a backbeat we can dance to. And that's why the citizens of the United States not only elected and reelected Ronald Reagan; that's why we ARE Ronald Reagan.

William Howard Taft

The City that knows how.

Walt Whitman

This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me

Saint Augustine

Every city is a living body.

Will Oldham

Cities are made for enemies to destroy.

Zaha Hadid

I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.

Winston Churchill

Lenin was sent into Russia by the Germans in the same way that you might send a phial containing a culture of typhoid or cholera to be poured into the water supply of a great city, and it worked with amazing accuracy.

William Hazlitt

The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas.

Yaphet Kotto

I like doing business in a black city.

Dave Miller

He used my office to make phone calls,

Wallace Stevens

I certainly do not exist from nine to six, when I am at the office.

Barbara Matthews

Right now police officers are trying to keep people off the road.

Amy Rice

I'll be (at the office) from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays.

Nancy Pelosi

This president goes into office with more expectations than any president I can ever remember in my lifetime.-2008

Mikhail Prokhorov

My love affairs are just between my office and gym.

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

I said when I came into office that I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat.

Jose Marti

He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.

Jay Zagorsky

You can?t go to work if you are in a lawyer?s office.