Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lily Tomlin

The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.

Suzy Kassem

To be successful, one has to be one of three bees: the queen bee, the hardest working bee, or the bee that does not fit in.

Tony Benn

It is obvious I shall have to abandon my hopes of getting the Queen's head off the stamps.

Tony Benn

If the Queen can reject the advice of a minister on a little thing like a postage stamp, what would happen if she rejected the advice of the Prime Minister on a major matter? If the Crown personally can reject advice, then, of course, the whole democratic facade turns out to be false

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I can’t chitchat and make breakfast at the same time. You could help, you know, instead of standing there like the Queen of England. Although you’re a lot better-looking.

Stephen Frears

It never crossed my mind to make a film about Muhammad Ali or the Queen or any of them! They just come out of the blue.

Suzanne Shaw

I'd really like to find out if the queen burps or trumps.

Taylor Dane

I love drag queens... they perform me better than I ever could myself.

Ray Romano

The first time I played golf was in Flushing Meadows, Queens, when I was about 16 or 17. They had an 18-hole pitch-and-putt. My buddies and I would hop the fence and sneak on and play.

Rick Riordan

Oh, don't mind me! Just the queen of the heavens, dying over here!

Tamora Pierce

it's your own fault for encouraging him..., you know. Now he thinks he's a human being. Neal of Queens cove

Tamora Pierce

Tortall and the Queens Riders!

Tabatha Coffey

I first learned how to do hair from drag queens. I learned eyelashes are the key to life, because they make everyone look fabulous.

Rupert Everett

These awful middle-class queens - which is what the gay movement has become - are so tiresome. It's all Abercrombie & Fitch and strollers.

Rupert Everett

I have nothing to complain about.. except maybe people wondering if a queen like me can be butch-it-up enough to play a convincing straight man.

Tom Robbins

Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses.

Vanessa Paradis

The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.

V. S. Pritchett

Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.

Usain Bolt

If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.

Tasha Alexander

The Heretic Queen is historical fiction at its best. Michelle Moran seamlessly incorporates accurate details into a story full of suspense, intrigue, and tenderness that's impossible to put down until you've reached the last page. An absolute triumph!

Stephen King

Did you know that Dairy Queen ice cream is mostly bubbles?

Thomas Hardy

Everybody must be managed. Queens must be managed. Kings must be managed, for men want managing almost as much as women, and that's saying a good deal.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Queen Mary had a way of interrupting tattle about elopements, duels, and play debts, by asking the tattlers, very quietly yet significantly, whether they had ever read her favorite sermon--Dr. Tillotson on Evil Speaking.

Victoria Hanley

Those two are carved from the same tree." the queen said. By the same blade." The high king answered and offered her his arm in splendid dignity

Victoria Justice

To even be called the 'teen queen' is crazy.

Victoria Moran

There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.

Victor Hugo

You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.

Victor Hugo

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

Rick Owens

I am a middle-aged opera queen in loafers that makes out I am a 16 year old death metal skater... It's all fake! My hair is fake, my body is fake and my teeth are kind of fake

Thomas Hood

How widely its agencies vary,- To save, to ruin, to curse, to bless,- As even its minted coins express, Now stamp'd with the image of Good Queen Bess, And now of a Bloody Mary.

Robert Anton Wilson

The most important truths always appear first as blasphemies or obscenities. That's why every great innovator is persecuted. And the sacraments look obscene, too, to an outsider. The eucharist is just sublimated cannibalism, to the unawakened. When the Pope kisses the feet of the laity, he looks like an old toe-queen to some people. The rites of Pan look like a suburban orgy.

Richard M. Nixon

When I spoke at the St. Lawrence Seaway ceremonies in 1969, I borrowed some words from the monument there which I had joined Queen Elizabeth in dedicating just 10 years before. That monument, as its inscription puts it, 'bears witness to the common purpose of two nations whose frontiers are the frontiers of friendship, whose ways are the ways of freedom, whose works are the works of peace'.

Ray Winstone

I'm probably not very funny. The scripts just don't come in, or the ones that do aren't that good. I suppose I'm just an old drama queen, really.