Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vivienne Westwood

If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.

Vivienne Westwood

I didn't do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.

William Blake

When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded; The King dropped a tear in the Queen's ear, And all his pictures faded.

Kevin J. Anderson

I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too.

Kelly Osbourne

If I am going to be the future bloody Queen of England I'm going to wear that dress once because I'm giving up the rest of my life, all of my privacy. At least I can get a new dress every day!

Katy Perry

I can't be the candy queen forever.

Lily Tomlin

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

Terry Pratchett

All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums.

Shaquille O'Neal

I'm not worried about facing the Sacramento Queens. Write it down. Take a picture. I'm not going to talk about this all year. When I get back, there's going to be trouble.

Lady Gregory

Queen Victoria was loyal and true to the Pope; that is what I was told, and so is Edward the Seventh loyal and true, but he has got something contrary in his body.

Robert Jordan

It seems to me that kings and queens can be fools when they forget what they are and act like who they are, but they're worse when they only remember what they are and forget who.

Robert Jordan

And his paths shall be many, and who shall know his name, for he shall be beorn among us many times, in many guises, as he has been and ever will be, time without end. His coming shall be like the sharp edge of the plow, turning our lives in furrows form out of the places where we lie in our silence. The breaker of binds; the forger of chains. The maker of futures; the unshaper of destiny. -from Commentaries on the Prophecies of the Dragon, by Jurith Dorine, Right Hand to the Queen of Almoren, 742 AB, the Third Age

Robert Jordan

You have to understand, child. Everyone wants someone in their life, someone who cares for them, someone they can care for. Even a queen.

Robyn Hitchcock

Coming out's the hardest part, when you're Queen Elvis.

Robert E. Howard

Musings The little poets sing of little things: Hope, cheer, and faith, small queens and puppet kings; Lovers who kissed and then were made as one, And modest flowers waving in the sun. The mighty poets write in blood and tears And agony that, flame-like, bites and sears. They reach their mad blind hands into the night, To plumb abysses dead to human sight; To drag from gulfs where lunacy lies curled, Mad, monstrous nightmare shapes to blast the world. [click on the thumbnail by Jack "King" Kirby]

Walt Disney

We love to entertain kings and queens, but at Disneyland, everyone is a V.I.P.

Tina Fey

This requires a level of delusion/egomania usually reserved for popes and drag queens

Ronald Knox

Only those of us, I think, who were born under Queen Victoria know what it feels like to assume, without questioning, that England is permanently top nation, that foreigners do not matter, and that if the worst comes to the worst, Lord Salisbury will send a gunboat.

Sally Phillips

One year you go in for auditions, and everybody thinks you're the queen of comedy, and the next year, you're so 'yesterday,' and it's not because you've done anything, or your ability has changed; you haven't been in work because you've been putting on weight and then trying to lose it.

Simon Callow

I went to Queen's University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor.

Sheila Jackson Lee

I am a queen, and I demand to be treated like a queen.

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

Simone de Beauvoir

...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.

Rick Riordan

Aphrodite strikes again, huh? You're gonna be the best-dressed warrior in town, beauty queen.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Here 's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here 's to the widow of fifty; Here 's to the flaunting, extravagant queen, And here 's to the housewife that 's thrifty! Let the toast pass; Drink to the lass; I 'll warrant she 'll prove an excuse for the glass.

Steven Soderbergh

I just produced Criminal, this remake of Nine Queens, and one of the things that appealed to me about Nine Queens is that it was a performance piece, and that's the most fun.

Red Buttons

Christopher Columbus, who said to Queen Isabella, No, you got it wrong! The world is round. You're flat! Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

Queen Elizabeth, who said, Not now, I'm on the throne. Never got a dinner!

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.