Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antonia Fraser

Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special.

Jayne Mansfield

I've been identified with pink throughout my career, but I'm not as crazy about it as I've led people to believe. My favorite colors are actually neutrals — black and white — but then who thinks of a movie queen in black and white? Everything has to be in living color.

Jayne Mansfield

I'll have to have a palace, of course. I may not be a princess, but I am a movie queen, and every queen should have a palace.

Jay Smith

In Indiana we had a queen we named Alice which lived to the ripe old age of eight years and two months and did excellent work in her seventh year. There can be no doubt about the authenticity of this statement. We sold her to John Chapel of Oakland City, Indiana, and she was the only queen in his yard with wings clipped. This, however is a rare exception. At the time I was experimenting with artificial combs with wooden cells in which the queen laid.

Candice Swanepoel

I like a man who looks like a bad boy but knows how to treat a woman like a queen.

Ernest Becker

We consult astrology charts like the Babylonians, try to make our children into our own image with a firm hand like the Romans, elbow others to get a breath-quickening glimpse of the queen in her ritual procession, and confess to the priests and attend church. And we wonder why, with all this power capital drawn from so many sources, we are deeply anxious about the meaning of our lives. The reason is plain enough: none of these, nor all of them taken together, represents an integrated world conception into which we fit ourselves with pure belief and trust.

Freddie Mercury

The concept of Queen is to be regal and majestic. Glamour is part of us, and we want to be dandy.

Freddie Mercury

Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It's just a name. But it's regal, obviously, and -sounds splendid.

Freddie Mercury

When the whole point of Queen was to be original.

Freddie Mercury

I never carry money, just like the real Queen. If I fancy something in a shop I always ask someone on our staff to buy it.

Freddie Mercury

I'm a Freddie Mercury fan. (In response to an interviewer backstage at a Queen concert at the LA Forum, who asked: Can I tell my viewers that Michael Jackson is a Queen fan?

Freddie Mercury

I like people to go away from a Queen show feeling fully entertained, having had a good time.

Freddie Mercury

We've gone overboard on every Queen album. But that's Queen.

Francois Rabelais

Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.

Christian Dior

The only queen I ever dressed was Eva Perón.

Christian Louboutin

If I could do shoes for anyone, it would be a special project for the Queen of England.

Hans Christian Andersen

He found whole figures which represented a written word; but he never could manage to represent just the word he wanted - that word was 'eternity', and the Snow Queen had said, "If you can discover that figure, you shall be your own master, and I will make you a present of the whole world and a pair of new skates." But he could not find it out.

Hal Rothman

The outsiders have become kings and queens of the castle. It is a whole lot easier to sit outside the tent and throw firecrackers inside; it is much, much harder to sit inside the tent and govern not only your enemies, but your close friends as well.

Gordon B. Hinckley

God bless you, my beloved sisters, who stand as the queens in your home, that you may be happy with that happiness which comes of the knowledge that you are loved and honored and treasured.

Herbert Spencer

... those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded... Sad, indeed, is it to see how men occupy themselves with trivialities, and are indifferent to the grandest phenomena - care not to understand the architecture of the heavens, but are deeply interested in some contemptible controversy about the intrigues of Mary Queen of Scots!

Henry David Thoreau

Not secondary to the sun, she gives us his blaze again, Void of its flame, and sheds a softer day... In Heaven queen she is among the spheres; She, mistress-like, makes all things to be pure.

Jill Scott

To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing.

Jennifer Coolidge

Hair extensions and wigs are not the same thing. Wigs are for old ladies and drag queens. Extensions are for women who want longer hair. To be safe, never bring it up if you think a woman is wearing either. No good comes of it

Jhene Aiko

Females in our generation morals are just out the window. Materialistic things aren't life. I'd rather walk in the rain with a man who treats me like a queen than to ride in a Benz with a man who treats me like crap.

Harriet Martineau

A Queen, or a Prime Minister's secretary may be shot at in London, as we know; and probably there is no person eminent in literature or otherwise who has not been the object of some infirm brain or another. But in America the evil is sadly common.

Gough Whitlam

Ladies and gentlemen, well may we say 'God Save the Queen', because nothing will save the Governor-General. The proclamation you have just heard was countersigned Malcolm Fraser, who will go down in history as Kerr's cur.

Gough Whitlam

Well may we say 'God save the Queen', because nothing will save the Governor-General'.

Gillian Flynn

I had no sympathy for drama queens.

Jake Shimabukuro

Most people are awestruck when they see Lady Gaga and Bette Midler, but then the queen comes in.

Jackie Evancho

I would like to sing for the Pope. And the Queen, and at Simon Cowell's wedding.

Jim Jarmusch

When I hear the word 'independent' I reach for my revolver. At this point, what the hell does that mean? The English Patient is an independent film. Hootie and the Blowfish are alternative music. I'm the Queen of Denmark. I don't know what it means anymore.

Jesse Eisenberg

I grew up in Queens and New Jersey. I started doing children's theater when I was seven to get out of school because I didn't fit in.

Jim Butcher

All of those faeries and duels and mad queens and so on, and no one quoted old Billy Shakespeare. Not even once.