Top 1200 Queen Of England Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

I like people to go away from a Queen show feeling fully entertained, having had a good time.

When I'm singing I'm always trying to get to the highest point possible. I'd fly to the top of Buckingham Palace to sing to the queen.

Becoming a YA author was actually a very lucky accident. When I wrote the 'Queen of Everything,' I thought it was a book for adults.

[The] great fairy Science, who is likely to be queen of all the fairies for many a year to come, can only do you good, and never do you harm.

I started off in the leisure industry and now I find myself as the DIY queen - I'm not quite sure how that happened!

In England everything is liberalised. Within certain boundaries and rules everybody can do what he likes. Maybe London's society has a different tempo, a different dynamic. London is fast, productive, creative but it is not England. If you want to transfer that to football, you could say: in the four big English clubs and maybe in the one or two behind them there is a top level. Everything that comes after that rather mirrors English society. It's honest, fair and hard, sometimes also fast, but not always so perfect.

If people are so obsessed with Freddie that they can't bear to see Queen without him, they should stay home and listen to the records.

Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective.

I decided early on that I was going to put on my crown and rule my world by acting right and treating myself like a queen.

I am a man who happens to play women's parts. And I'm not a drag queen. I'd like to think that I'm several levels above that.

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

Becoming a YA author was actually a very lucky accident. When I wrote the Queen of Everything, I thought it was a book for adults.

We have a queen-size bed and the dog sleeps in the middle. John and I are sort of these little quotation marks on either corner.

My family is my biggest support system. They played an important role in transforming me from the girl-next-door to a beauty queen.

I'm not a 'strong warrior queen' like people think. I spend most of my day cooking and doing things with my sons.

I would love to grab roles like the ones my mom did in 'Oppol' or the role Kangana Ranaut played in 'Queen.'

Siamese Cats have a way of staring at you. Those who have walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will know the expression.

I wrote a lot of 'Red Queen' wrapped in a blanket, cramped up while watching the snow come down.

My introduction to the Queen was disconcerting, to say the least. 'This is Gyles Brandreth,' said the Duke of Edinburgh cheerily. 'Apparently, he's writing about you.'

I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen.

Death is not a checkmate…it is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen.

She comes by night, in fearsome flight, in garments black as pitch, the queen of doom upon her broom, the wild and wicked witch.

Most American adults know what a drag queen is, but as they're portrayed in films like 'Dressed to Kill' and 'Silence of the Lambs.'

For my art GCSE, I did a screen print of the Queen's head that was basically an Andy Warhol rip-off, but I didn't realise.

You've got a degree in philosophy; so you think you're cleverer than me. But I'm not just some drama queen. Cause it's where you're at, not where you've been.

It's the UK: We have to get beyond that imperialist state. I think that kind of imperialist, hierarchical, elitist state has made it easier to basically shaft everybody in the country, which it's been doing for the last thirty years. It has also sort of made it more difficult for England to fulfill its destiny, which in my mind is creating a multi-ethnic, multicultural society that is truly at the head of that post-imperial commonwealth ideal. I think that that's what England should be and that that's the kind of nation we should be.

I solemnly swear that I will bear true and faithful allegiance to the Queen when she pays her income tax.

A King and Queen can comfort the people in times of grief, and provide a nationalist camaraderie. That is the gift that royalty can give back.

...Bananach sits on your throne, has declared herself Dark Queen." "She WHAT!?" Niall- or perhaps Irial-asked.

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.

I still dream that it was you. No matter how many times I've looked, in my dreams it's always been you who were meant to be my queen.

There are so many fabulous heroine-oriented projects happening in Mumbai, whether it's 'Kahaani,' 'Bobby Jasoos,' 'Queen' or 'Mardaani.'

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.

I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.

Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.

I'm a drag queen. I want colors that get attention. The world does not need another palette with eight tans and a blue.

History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.

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

The terms "idiot" and "lunatic" were acceptable diagnostic terms in England up until 1959. "Imbecile" and "feeble-minded person" were, likewise, listed as official categories in the 1913 Mental Deficiency Act. England has always lagged a bit behind in discarding outdated terms for the disadvantaged. When I was there in 1980, it was still possible to shop for used clothing at the local Spastic Shop. That is, compared to the United States, where it takes, oh, about twenty-five minutes for a diagnostic euphemism to become a conversational faux pas.

I always said if I played a drag queen, I'd want to create a template with the realness they talk about in 'Paris Is Burning.'

Some people said my acting was a cross between Euell Gibbons, Rodney Allen Rippy and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.

"God save our gracious Queen": Why would we invoke a non-specific deity to bail out these unelected spongers?

I'm not the average girl from your video and I ain't built like a supermodel but I learned to love myself unconditionally because i am a queen

Is the Church of England an Anglican church? The church did not start in Canterbury, the church did not start in Rome. Whether Canterbury is Anglican or not is immaterial. We are Anglicans. They are the Church of England.

Being a small boy it's very daunting seeing the Queen around and not really quite knowing what to talk about.

Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.

The Queen was really thrilled that we'd had a little girl, and when we came back here to Kensington, she was one of her first visitors.

The Queen Elizabeth II provides vast amounts of entertainment for an age that has forgotten how to amuse itself unaided.

We are just continually surprised and obviously happy that the interest in Queen and Freddie keeps alive. It's a constant source of pleasure for ourselves.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Chemistry dissolves the goddess in the alembic, Venus, the white queen, the universal matrix, Down to the molecular hexagons and carbon-chains.

The queen of crime, Agatha Christie, was always more concerned about the clockwork cleverness of the plot, never the investigator.

I've been working every year since I started acting, and I got many awards before I won the Oscar for 'The Queen.'

I'm always nice and then people are happy to hang out with me! There's no point being a sassy diva queen.

These are truly special days we live in - where a clown in a gown can make her very own drag queen revenge-comedy.

Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously.

One thing I've always loved and rated me dad for is that, because of him, I've never seen the Queen's Christmas speech.

You don't really have to say much when your headline is 'Drag Queen Robs Burger King.' Sometimes comedy writes itself.

'Queen' is an interesting film, and I have always been motivated by roles that help alleviate women empowerment in some form.

Anyone who tries to diss me in comparison to Queen, it just renders all their criticisms completely futile. That's quite pleasurable.