Famous Quotes & Sayings

P. T. Barnum

If I was not a remarkably modest man, I should probably brag a little, and say that I had done what no American ever before accomplished by visiting the queen at her palace twice within eight days.

Ozzy Osbourne

Freddie is great. At a time when everybody around was doing God knows what, Queen was making music.

Mary Wortley Montagu

We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.

Pat Conroy

Here's what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or a black woman moving into a subway entrance in Harlem. Turn me into something else, writers of the world. Make me Muslim, heretic, hermaphrodite. Put me into a crusader's armor, a cardinal's vestments. Let me feel the pygmy's heartbeat, the queen's breast, the torturer's pleasure, the Nile's taste, or the nomad's thirst. Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.

Julia Roberts

I've never had to pretend to be having sex with somebody. I'm like the queen of the foreplay dissolve.

Julia Quinn

Miss Wynter, I think you should be the evil queen,” Harriet said. “There’s an evil queen?” Daniel echoed. With obvious delight. “Of course,” Harriet replied. “Every good play has an evil queen.” Frances actually raised her hand. “And a un—” “Don’t say it,” Elizabeth growled. Frances crossed her eyes, put her knife to her forehead in an approximation of a horn, and neighed.

Julia Quinn

He sucked his lips in an attempt not to laugh. "Aren't you Spanish?" She raised one arm in a salute. "Viva la Queen Isabella!" "I see. Then why are you speaking with a French accent?

Kristin Scott Thomas

I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background.

Moliere

If Claret is the king of natural wines, Burgundy is the queen.

Keisha Castle-Hughes

It feels kind of strange knowing that I rule the whole planet of Naboo and I'm only thirteen. At first, my face—because it was really white—was a bit of a shock. But when the whole costume was put together and the headdress was put on, I really felt proud, like a Queen.

Katherine Mansfield

You are a Queen. Let mine be the joy of giving you your kingdom.

Martin Gardner

Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant general the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.

Marilyn Monroe

I used to say to myself, 'What the devil have you got to be proud about, Marilyn Monroe?' And I'd answer, 'Everything, everything,' and I'd walk slowly and turn my head slowly as if I were a queen.

Niecy Nash

I was in a very fancy, high-end boutique where the sales associates stand around like mannequins. I walked in and the first thing they said was, "Ooh it smells like booty in here" because they knew me from Scream Queens.

Nicki Minaj

You can hate me, but why knock my hustle? I'ma be the queen no matter how they shuffle.

Nicki Minaj

You could be the king but watch the queen conquer

Nicholas Sparks

I am still yours, Allie, my queen, my timeless beauty. You are, and always have been, the best thing in my life

Muhammad Ali

Being Ali's doctor is somewhat like being gynacologist to the Queen of England. One does not have to do much to receive good press.

Mikhail Bulgakov

Don't be afraid, Queen ... don't be afraid, Queen, the blood has long since gone into the earth. And where it was spilled, grapevines are already growing.

Mikhail Bulgakov

Is that vodka?" Margarita asked weakly. The cat jumped up in his seat with indignation. "I beg pardon, my queen," he rasped, "Would I ever allow myself to offer vodka to a lady? This is pure alcohol!

Princess Margaret

My children are not royal; they just happen to have the Queen for their aunt.

Princess Margaret

The Queen is the only person who can put on a tiara with one hand, while walking down stairs.

Psy

My lifetime role model and hero is Freddie Mercury of Queen.

Psy

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

Princess Diana

As for becoming queen, it was never on the forefront of my mind when I married my husband. It was a long way off, that thought.

Princess Diana

I'd like to be queen of people's hearts.

Little Richard

Elvis may be the King of Rock and Roll, but I am the Queen.

Patrick Ness

So the good prince was a murderer and the evil queen wasn't a witch after all.

Parker Posey

I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf

Paloma Faith

A lot of men do have a fear of my ultra-femininity. Sometimes people say I look like a drag queen, that I look scary, but I think that's a fear of my confidence. Most women in contemporary culture pare down their femininity, so there's a slight androgyny about them, and I think men have got used to seeing that.

Lily Collins

Never once does 'Snow White' herself look in the mirror so she isn't aware of her beauty or what apparently that does to people. It's really just the queen and the prince that talk about it.

Lev Grossman

Quentin had an obsolete sailing ship that had been raised from the dead. He had psychotically effective swordsman and an enigmatic witch-queen. It wasn't the Fellowship of the Ring, but then again he wasn't trying to save the world from Sauron, he was trying to perform a tax audit on a bunch of hick islanders…

Larry Rivers

One night in the early sixties I passed something on the Long Island Expressway just before the Queens tunnel that I must have seen for years. The billboard advertising cigars, Dutch Masters. I realized it was sort of perfect. It's weird isn't it? You're looking at Rembrandt - in neon! It was too much, it was irresistible.