-
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
Author:
Oprah Winfrey
-
What I loved about 'Summer' was that they were these four bright kids with a wonderful future. In a way, she was the one with the brains, and then you have the beauty queen and the jock and the introvert.
Author:
Kevin Williamson
-
I didn't do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.
Author:
Vivienne Westwood
-
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.
Author:
Joan 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.
Author:
Joan 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.
Author:
Joan Vinge
-
The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.
Author:
Queen Victoria
-
Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously.
Author:
Kerry Thornley
-
I don't sing for anybody. I wouldn't sing for the Queen dear.
Author:
Joan Sutherland
-
A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx.
Author:
Saul Steinberg
-
The Bishop and Knight, in contradistinction to the Queen and Rook, are called Minor Pieces.
Author:
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.
Author:
Howard Staunton
-
The Queen is by much the most powerful of the forces.
Author:
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.
Author:
Howard Staunton
-
I had a Christian upbringing - it was all about sin and guilt. I was very happy just kissing people. I was like the make-out queen - not even second base.
Author:
Mira Sorvino
-
To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing.
Author:
Jill Scott
-
I met the Queen, the Pope, and we went all over Europe and Asia. I just wish I was older when I did all this. Then I could appreciate it more.
Author:
Rick Schroder
-
Do you really have to be the ice queen intellectual or the slut whore? Isn't there some way to be both?
Author:
Susan Sarandon
-
There's four biggies. There was Elizabeth I, George III, Victoria, and the current queen, who really dominated four eras.
Author:
Geoffrey Rush
-
I'll take being on Baywatch over being Prom Queen any day.
Author:
Brande Roderick
-
I've never had to pretend to be having sex with somebody. I'm like the queen of the foreplay dissolve.
Author:
Julia Roberts
-
Boy George is all England needs - another queen who can't dress.
Author:
Joan Rivers
-
I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf.
Author:
Parker Posey
-
Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense.
Author:
Charles Perrault
-
Sean's a better person when he's directing. He becomes a queen when he's an actor. And he's so unhappy when he's acting.
Author:
Robin Penn
-
It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.
Author:
Dolly Parton
-
The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.
Author:
Vanessa Paradis
-
I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college.
Author:
Gwyneth Paltrow
-
The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s.
Author:
Maureen O'Hara
-
Then I wanted the character to be feminine as opposed to effeminate. Because it's easy to be camp or queen. Anyone can do that. What's difficult is to play feminine.
Author:
Cillian Murphy
-
Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference.
Author:
Marc Morial
-
We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
Author:
Mary Montagu
-
I wasn't a cheerleader or the prom queen. I don't move through the world with a mirror in front of my face, and I've never been attracted to projects that had an emphasis on what I look like.
Author:
Michael Michele
-
When the whole point of Queen was to be original.
Author:
Freddie Mercury
-
We've gone overboard on every Queen album. But that's Queen.
Author:
Freddie Mercury
-
Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It's just a name. But it's regal, obviously, and -sounds splendid.
Author:
Freddie Mercury
-
You know, I designed the Queen crest. I simply combined all the creatures that represent our star signs-and I don't even believe in astrology.
Author:
Freddie Mercury
-
Will isn't a screaming queen - that's Jack's part. They needed someone to play the part for America. It's just not the same as Britain. To have a gay character as a lead is risky.
Author:
Eric McCormack
-
Joan Crawford is a movie queen. I had never met one before. I know now what I don't want to be.
Author:
Mercedes McCambridge
-
From the beginning of Queen there was such momentum that I never had any time to do anything else. My energy was 95% focused on the band.
Author:
Brian May
-
For a time I didn't want to answer any questions about Queen. I'd like to be viewed as something alive and relevant, not some fossil.
Author:
Brian May
-
At the moment the Queen stuff does sell really well, but there's no guarantee it'll go on forever.
Author:
Brian May
-
I was actually perfectly happy when I had no money, which lasted right up until we had a hit with Killer Queen, in 1974. I never wanted for anything.
Author:
Brian May
-
There are a lot of things in Queen albums that you don't expect; that's why we threw them in.
Author:
Brian May
-
The Queen is the only person who can put on a tiara with one hand, while walking down stairs.
Author:
Princess Margaret
-
My children are not royal; they just happen to have the Queen for their aunt.
Author:
Princess Margaret
-
I was homecoming queen. I was star of my basketball team.
Author:
Marla Maples
-
And much more am I sorrier for my good knights' loss than for the loss of my fair queen; for queens I might have enough, but such a fellowship of good knights shall never be together in no company.
Author:
Thomas Malory
-
Calling O'Hare an airport is like calling the Queen Elizabeth II a boat.
Author:
Andrew Malcolm
-
I guess you can tease me about being a drama queen, because that did heighten the drama.
Author:
Greg Louganis
-
I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.
Author:
John Lone
-
I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was dead and call the police. When she didn't, I would cry. I was always theatrical. I don't think any of my relatives are surprised.
Author:
Amy Lee
-
I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen.
Author:
Patti LaBelle
-
In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England loves her Queen, and has full motive to do so.
Author:
Lajos Kossuth
-
If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?
Author:
Oliver John
-
We know that Europe loves President Obama. He had adoring crowds. The press loves Obama. The question is how will this date end? Okay? The question is, to what end? Why do they love President Obama? They love his personal story, they love his wife. North Korea, China and Russia don't really care about Michelle's arms and, you know, whether they gave an iPod to the Queen, okay?
Author:
Laura Ingraham
-
The King and Queen made the rounds after the film. We were told how we were to respond, and we were in a semi circle in the lounge area of the cinema, they came around after the King, the Queen and both Princesses.
Author:
Kim Hunter
-
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
Author:
Victor Hugo
-
I have absolutely no difficulty myself with the playing of God Save the Queen in the presence of Her Majesty.
Author:
John Howard
-
What it means is that some of Charles' press secretaries have been better than others as some of the Queen's press secretaries have been better than others.
Author:
Anthony Holden
-
I love photo sessions. I'm alone, I'm the queen, everyone's taking care of me.
Author:
Eva Herzigova
-
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.
Author:
Jimi Hendrix
-
My friends and I make short films. We pretended to rob the Dairy Queen where our friend worked, but someone thought we were real thieves and called the cops! Soon, the cops burst in with guns drawn!
Author:
Josh Hartnett
-
I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.
Author:
Macy Gray
-
I once said the Queen of England could use some fashion advice.
Author:
Kathie Gifford
-
Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina.
Author:
Althea Gibson
-
Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special.
Author:
Antonia Fraser
-
After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell.
Author:
Antonia Fraser
-
I didn't get along with Lindsay Lohan on 'Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen', but you have to consider that we were 16-year-old girls. I haven't seen Lindsay since then, but I imagine she's grown and become a different person. I know I have.
Author:
Megan Fox
-
The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
Author:
E. Forster
-
I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
Author:
Elizabeth Elizabeth I
-
Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry.
Author:
Elizabeth Elizabeth I
-
I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people.
Author:
Elizabeth Elizabeth I
-
I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.
Author:
Elizabeth Elizabeth I
-
Of course we have Queen Elizabeth as head of state, but in many ways we are a kind of republic. We don't have royals in Australia, so it was kind of unusual to run into those kind of people. But aside from that it was quite ordinary.
Author:
Mary Donaldson
-
I've been the queen of dysfunction and made every mistake one can make.
Author:
Janice Dickinson
-
I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts but I don't see myself being queen of this country.
Author:
Princess Diana
-
Queen has taken the all of our time for last four or five years, you know.
Author:
John Deacon
-
Lot's of marriages don't last as long as Queen have been together.
Author:
John Deacon
-
And hail their queen, fair regent of the night.
Author:
Erasmus Darwin
-
God bless America. God save the Queen. God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia.
Author:
Russell Crowe
-
I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama.
Author:
Joan Collins
-
I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.
Author:
Gary Cherone
-
Sure, I'd take the responsibility of queen any day.
Author:
Charisma Carpenter
-
Tampa's crazy... The ladies in Tampa come in all flavors. I felt like I was at Dairy Queen.
Author:
Luther Campbell
-
I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.
Author:
Eddie Campbell
-
There's nothing secret about it. Everyone knows that I am waiting for my real parents, the king and queen, to come restore me to my rightful throne.
Author:
Meg Cabot
-
Singing for royalty is a dream of mine - I'd absolutely love to sing for the Queen at the Royal Variety Show. All the contestants are very good. I will just have to do my best and see what happens.
Author:
Susan Boyle
-
We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated.
Author:
Henry Bessemer
-
Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.
Author:
Richard Barnfield
-
The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation.
Author:
Roger Bacon
-
There's only one Elizabeth like me and that's the Queen.
Author:
Elizabeth Arden
-
I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.
Author:
Marie Antoinette
-
The Queen's intelligence network is a hell of a lot better than anyone's in this palace. Bar none. She knows everything. I don't know how she does it. And she sees everything.
Author:
Prince Andrew
-
Her friends say she is very funny. At a family dinner, she stood to go, and the footman very properly pulled her chair away. At that moment I asked her a question and she sat down again, except there was no chair. Everyone, including the Queen, laughed and laughed.
Author:
Prince Andrew
-
As we saw in the Queen's Speech, anti-social behaviour - a phenomenon that I believe to be a genuine worry that is also being fed by a lot of scare stories - is the political theme of the moment.
Author:
Kamal Ahmed
-
My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen - I love all of them. I love singing to them because they're all just great voices. I love listening to very obscure jazz.
Author:
Casey Abrams
-
There was a queen that was overthrown here. So I was affected by all of that and felt profoundly grateful for the opportunity to live in Hawaii, and I set out at once to try to fit in.
Author:
Neil Abercrombie
