Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Thorogood

When I walk the streets, kings and queens step aside, every woman I meet, they all stay satisfied.

George R. R. Martin

And the mystery knight should defeat all challengers and name the wolf maid the queen of love and beauty.

George R. R. Martin

Weese," she would whisper, first of all. "Dunsen, Chiswyck, Polliver, Raff the Sweetling. The Tickler and the Hound. Ser Gregor, Ser Armory, Ser Ilyn, Ser Meryn, King Joffrey, Queen Cersei." - Arya Stark, A Clash of Kings

Hunter S. Thompson

I think it might be better to have the President sort of like the King of England - or the Queen - and have the real business of the presidency conducted by ... a city manager-type, a Prime Minister, somebody who's directly answerable to Congress, rather than a person who moves all his friends into the White House and does whatever he wants for four years.

Howard Staunton

The Queen is by much the most powerful of the forces.

Howard Staunton

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

The Bishop and Knight, in contradistinction to the Queen and Rook, are called Minor Pieces.

Howard Staunton

The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game she is hardly so valuable as two Rooks.

Elton John

I love drag queens and I love going to see them perform because those people have got so much character and bravery. Such balls! I love people with balls.

Elton John

You can call me a fat, balding, talentless old queen who can't sing, but you can't tell lies about me.

Horace Walpole

In the drawing room [of the Queen's palace] hung a Venus and Cupid by Michaelangelo, in which, instead of a bit of drapery, the painter has placed Cupid's foot between Venus's thighs. Queen Caroline asked General Guise, an old connoisseur, if it was not a very fine piece? He replied "Madam, the painter was a fool, for he has placed the foot where the hand should be.

Homer

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

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.

J. R. R. Tolkien

It was an evil doom that set her in his path. For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house of queens. And yet I know not how I should speak of her. When I first looked on her and perceived her unhappiness, it seemed to me that I saw a white flower standing straight and proud, shapely as a lily and yet knew that it was hard, as if wrought by elf-wrights out of steel. (Aragorn talking of Eowyn, in the Houses of Healing)

Izaak Walton

It is agreed by most men, that the Eele is a most daintie fish; the Romans have esteemed her the Helena of their feasts, and some The Queen of pleasure.

Franz Grillparzer

Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the workers produce honey, the same way is the one who sits on the throne an equal only to himself, and no one's companion.

Jeaniene Frost

He looked glad to be on his way and made a beeline for the exit. Just as he was out the door, however, he stuck his head back in. “I don’t mind foreigners. God save the queen!” he squeaked, and ran. Bones arched a brow. I sighed. “Didn’t hear that part? Never mind. Don’t ask.

Jeaniene Frost

I don't mind foreigners. God save the queen!" he squeaked and ran.

Jennifer Hudson

My ultimate film role would be to play the queen of soul, Aretha Franklin.

Jeff Cooper

The rifle is the queen of weapons and its effective use is one of the greatest satisfactions available to man.

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.