Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

George Sand

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language is a prostitute queen who descends and rises to all roles. Disguises herself, arrays herself in fine apparel, hides her head and effaces herself; an advocate who has an answer for everything, who has always foreseen everything, and who assumes a thousand forms in order to be right. The most honorable of men is he who thinks best and acts best, but the most powerful is he who is best able to talk and write

Jerry Saltz

New Yorkers only cross water for visual culture if the water is an ocean. The East River throws us for a huge loop. If we started going to Queens and the Bronx for visual culture, many of our rent, space, and crowding problems would be over indefinitely.

Jean Chretien

When you're a mayor and you have a problem you blame the provincial government. If you are provincial government and you have a problem you blame the federal government. We don't blame the Queen any more, so once in a while we might blame the Americans.

James Caan

I remember at 16 years old, growing up in Queens, we were punks, but hey, when we went to the theater, we wore a shirt and tie! Similarly, I believe that to keep movie theaters in existence, they're gonna have to make 'em an event, have a couch, a table and drinks or something. Otherwise, there's no reason to get out of your bed!

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.

Fran Drescher

It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.

George Michael

Playing with Queen was the biggest moment of my career. It was like living a childhood fantasy.

G. Stanley Hall

This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking...

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.

Geoffrey Rush

There's four biggies. There was Elizabeth I, George III, Victoria, and the current queen, who really dominated four eras.

Geoffrey Chaucer

At the ches with me she (Fortune) gan to pleye; With her false draughts (pieces) dyvers/She staal on me, and took away my fers. And when I sawgh my fers awaye, Allas! I kouthe no lenger playe.

Gary Shteyngart

I have a great memory. And actually, I remember Russia in some ways better than I remember Queens.

Fred Allen

The S.S. Sierra was a ten-thousand-ton vessel. Today, lifeboats bigger than the Sierra are found on the Queen Mary and other luxury liners.

Christopher Buckley

I looked at Mum and realized -- twang! -- that she was telling an untruth. A big untruth. And I remember thinking in that instant how thrilling and grown-up it must be to say something so completely untrue, as opposed to the little amateur fibs I was already practiced at -- horrid little apprentice sinner that I was --like the ones about you'd already said your prayers or washed under the fingernails. Yes, I was impressed. I too must learn to say these gorgeous untruths. Imaginary kings and queens would be my houseguests when I was older.

Chris Jericho

Queen Elizabeth, she's the ultimate hypocrite!

Chris Jericho

Now you're the Queen of Hardcore, but movies don't count!

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