Queen Quotes - page 22

People sometimes think of 'queen' as a title that's shrouded with protocol and formality, and for that reason sometimes people are not easily saying what they want to say. They're reluctant to express their opinions, and I kind of find that frustrating because I want to know what people really, really think. (Queen Rania of Jordan)
My lifetime role model and hero is Freddie Mercury of Queen. View quote
Psy
Queen and Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and Guns N' Roses - I had a huge rock-band mania. I play a little bit of drums. View quote
Psy
The Queen is the ultimate dictator. View quote
Morrissey
If you were a king up there on your throne would you be wise enough to let me go? For this queen you think you own Wants to be a hunter again wants to see the world alone again to take a chance on life again so let me go. View quote
Dido
It was a saying of an ancient philosopher, which I find some of our writers have ascribed to Queen Elizabeth, who perhaps might have taken occasion to repeat it, that a good face is a letter of recommendation. View quote
Joseph Addison
She's ma lady love, she is ma dove, ma baby love, She's no gal for sittin' down to dream, She's de only queen Laguna knows; I know she likes me, I know she likes me Bekase she says so; She is de Lily of Laguna, she is ma Lily and ma Rose. View quote
Leslie Stuart
It's a petty thing, but I wouldn't join the Scouts when I was a kid, 'cause you had to swear allegiance to the queen. I'm just not a royalist. I think it's idiotic, a hereditary principle. View quote
Elvis Costello
When I was a child, I used to think that rabbits were gnomes, and that if I held my breath and stayed quite still, I should see the fairy queen. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
... her queen danced like a flame in the wind, and the mercurial king like the weight at the center of the earth... View quote
Megan Whalen Turner
You're awake," he said. "Phresine is not," pointed out the queen. "Oh?" "You gave her lethium." "She gave it to me first. (Megan Whalen Turner)
She was the stone-faced queen, then and ever after. She had needed the mask to rule, and she had been glad to have it. She wondered if Eugenides was glad of his. View quote
Megan Whalen Turner
The queen!" someone shouted in alarm, and the King erupted like a wild animal caught in a snare. View quote
Megan Whalen Turner
The queen was settling on the edge of the bed, ungainly with hesitation and at the same time exquisite in her grace, like a heron landing in a treetop. View quote
Megan Whalen Turner
In the afternoon, the king and queen sat to hear the business of their kingdom. At least, the queen sat to hear the business; Costis was still not sure what the king was doing. View quote
Megan Whalen Turner
Unable to guess the answer, she asked, "Who am I, that you should love me?" "You are My Queen," said Eugenides. She sat perfectly still, looking at him without moving as his words dropped like water into dry earth. "Do you believe me?" he asked. "Yes," she answered. "Do you love me?" "Yes." "I love you." And she believed him. View quote
Megan Whalen Turner
I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic. View quote
Carrie Underwood
A cry went up in the airy solitude of the high plains: 'Let's Murder the moonlight!' Some ran to nearby cascades; gigantic wheels were raised, and turbines transformed the rushing waters into magnetic pulses that rushed up wires, up high poles, up to shining, humming globes. So it was that three hundred electric moons canceled with their rays of blinding mineral whiteness the ancient green queen of loves. View quote
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
I'm not the Queen. I'm not a huge superstar; I don't get paparazzi around me. View quote
Fiona Apple
I worked in television; I'm the Failed Pilot Queen, I've done so many television shows, pilots, theater ... when you do it for so long, I'm telling you, you get to the point where it becomes varied because you take what's available for a number of reasons. It's just an occupational hazard. View quote
Viola Davis
A woman with romance in her life lived as grandly as a queen, because her heart was treasured. (Nora Roberts)
I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth. View quote
Macy Gray
And hail their queen, fair regent of the night. View quote
Erasmus Darwin
If I could really paint! A month ago I was so sure of what I wanted. Inside me I saw it out there, walked around with it like a queen, and was blissful. Now the veils have fallen again, gray veils, hiding the whole idea of me. I stand like a beggar at the door, shivering in the cold, pleading to be let in. It is hard to move patiently, step by step, when one is young and demanding... I walk along the boulevards [Paris] and crowds of people pass by and something inside me cries out, 'I still have such beautiful things before me. None of you, not one, has such things. View quote
Paula Modersohn-Becker
We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts. View quote
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu