Famous Quotes & Sayings

Helen Mirren

It's great to be queen!

Helen Mirren

I couldn't handle the rules the Queen has to live by at all, and very few of us could. It's a golden cage, really. You're never alone in that role - you are always surrounded by security.

Henry James

You think too much.' 'I suppose I do; but I can’t help it, my mind is so terribly active. When I give myself, I give myself. I pay the penalty in my headaches, my famous headaches--a perfect circlet of pain! But I carry it as a queen carries her crown.

Henry Fielding

Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business. To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk; And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.

Helen Fielding

I will not get upset over men, but instead be poised and cool ice-queen.

Jonathan Sacks

Jews have deep respect for the Queen and the royal family. We say a prayer for them every Sabbath in synagogue. We recite a special blessing on seeing the Queen.

Jonathan Sacks

We do not always appreciate the role the Queen has played in one of the most significant changes in the past 60 years: the transformation of Britain into a multi-ethnic, multi-faith society. No one does interfaith better than the Royal family, and it starts with the Queen herself.

Michael Buble

For me I look at a group like Queen or AC/DC or the Beastie Boys. There was melody within what they did. There was a certain style with what they did. I think it is coming back.

Malcolm Muggeridge

I think Queen Elisabeth II is a charming woman.

Malcolm Muggeridge

I believe that the visit of the Queen to the United States is an admirable occasion to produce an historical, truthful, sincere, genuine analysis of how the British Monarchy evolved into its present situation.

Mahatma Gandhi

Woman is, by habit or nature, queen of the household. She is not designed to organize on a large scale.

Harvey Fierstein

I guess a drag queen's like an oil painting: You gotta stand back from it to get the full effect.

Harvey Fierstein

There are easier things in life than being a drag queen. But I ain't got no choice. Try as I may, I just can't walk in flats.

Joan D. Vinge

And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large.

Joan D. Vinge

The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as well as choices unexpectedly forced on them by things beyond their control.

Joan D. Vinge

As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently involve past societies as well as present day ones.

Jimmy Breslin

The auditorium, named after a dead Queens politician is windowless in honor of the secrecy in which he lived and, probably, the bank vaults he frequented.

Jimmy Breslin

Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood.

Jimi Hendrix

When I played God Bless The Queen, I was wondering if they was gonna dig us, then quite naturally I'd go on and try to get it together.

Jimi Hendrix

Anger he smiles, towering in shiny metallic purple armor. Queen Jealousy, envy waits behind him, her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground.

Emmanuelle Beart

I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom.

John Howard

I have absolutely no difficulty myself with the playing of God Save the Queen in the presence of Her Majesty.

Serena Williams

If I'm winning, I have to act like I'm not bored. If it's A tough match, I have to act like I'm having A good time. I'm a drama queen.

Seamus Heaney

I've nothing against the Queen personally: I had lunch at the Palace once upon a time.

Savielly Tartakower

A Queen's sacrifice, even when fairly obvious, always rejoices the heart of the chess-lover.

Michelle Moran

Sometimes, it is not the kings and queen who make for the most fascinating history but the shadowy souls who happen to be in the right place at the right time.

Sienna Miller

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

John Henrik Clarke

I have walked majestically with kings and queens and presidents and other heads of states.

John Oliver

Whatever the occasion, [the Queen] has a face which demonstrably says 'I don't give a royal s**t.'

John Oliver

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 Aubrey

This Earle of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so abashed and ashamed that he went to Travell, 7 yeares. On his returne the Queen welcomed him home, and sayd, My Lord, I had forgott the Fart.

Joan Rivers

Boy George is all England needs - another queen who can't dress.

Jimmy Wales

The more time I spent on the site the more I came to think of Wales as some kind of Queen Ant, letting the vast colony go about its work, at the centre of a system where the knowledge of the community is infinitely larger than the sum of experience of all its individuals.