Win The Life

Her old Grannie and subject must be the first to kiss her hand. - Queen Mary

 

My parents were in short street, so they had to go abroad to economize. - Queen Mary

 

There's only one thing I never did and wish I had done: climbed over a fence. - Queen Mary

 

When I die India will be found engraved on my heart. - Queen Mary

 

You are a member of the British royal family. We are never tired, and we all love hospitals.- Queen Mary

He said not 'Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be dis-eased'; but he said, 'Thou shalt not be overcome.- Julian of Norwich

 

A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx.-Saul Steinberg

 

After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell.-Antonia Fraser

 

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

 

And hail their queen, fair regent of the night.-Erasmus Darwin

 

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.-Thomas Malory

 

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.-Joan D. 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.-Joan D. Vinge

 

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.-Kamal Ahmed

 

At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that.-Anita Roddick

 

At the moment the Queen stuff does sell really well, but there's no guarantee it'll go on forever.-Brian May

 

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.-Howard Staunton

 

Boy George is all England needs - another queen who can't dress.-Joan Rivers

 

But, of course, she didn't mean that she was going to retire from public life and only when the Queen removed her HRH some years later did she actually drop a hundred charities and just kept five.-Anthony Holden

 

Calling O'Hare an airport is like calling the Queen Elizabeth II a boat.-Andrew H. Malcolm

 

Do you really have to be the ice queen intellectual or the slut whore? Isn't there some way to be both?-Susan Sarandon

 

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.-Brian May

 

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.-Brian May

 

God bless America. God save the Queen. God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia.-Russell Crowe

 

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.-Prince Andrew

 

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

 

I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.-John Lone

 

I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college.-Gwyneth Paltrow

 

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.-Elizabeth I

 

I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf.-Parker Posey

 

I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts but I don't see myself being queen of this country.-Princess Diana

 

I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.-Macy Gray

 

I'll take being on Baywatch over being Prom Queen any day.-Brande Roderick

 

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.-Patti LaBelle

 

I've been the queen of dysfunction and made every mistake one can make.-Janice Dickinson

 

I've never had to pretend to be having sex with somebody. I'm like the queen of the foreplay dissolve.-Julia Roberts

 

If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?-Oliver St. John

 

In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater queen for life.-Michael Musto

 

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.-Lajos Kossuth

 

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.-Dolly Parton

 

It's great to be queen!-Helen Mirren

 

Joan Crawford is a movie queen. I had never met one before. I know now what I don't want to be.-Mercedes McCambridge

 

Lot's of marriages don't last as long as Queen have been together.-John Deacon

 

Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special.-Antonia Fraser

 

Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.-Richard Barnfield

 

My children are not royal; they just happen to have the Queen for their aunt.-Princess Margaret

 

The Queen is the only person who can put on a tiara with one hand, while walking down stairs.-Princess Margaret

 

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.-Howard Staunton

 

The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s.-Maureen O'Hara

 

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.-Prince Andrew

 

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.-Roger Bacon

 

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.-Cillian Murphy

 

There are a lot of things in Queen albums that you don't expect; that's why we threw them in.-Brian May

 

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.-Neil Abercrombie

 

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

 

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.-Meg Cabot

 

There's only one Elizabeth like me and that's the Queen.-Elizabeth Arden

 

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.-Queen Elizabeth II

 

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.-Oprah Winfrey

 

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.-Elizabeth I

 

To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing.-Jill Scott

 

We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.-Mary Wortley Montagu

 

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.-Henry Bessemer

 

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?-Laura Ingraham

 

We're all the same. We all want the same thing in life. Everybody going around like ants and we all want the same thing. And it's not one queen. It's not one queen with the wings.-Andrea Corr

 

We've gone overboard on every Queen album. But that's Queen.-Freddie Mercury