Q Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with Q. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Queen can't work like any normal group. They utilise each others' talents to the fullest. A lot of the band's ideas are revolutionary, a lot of the style is revolutionary.”
“Queen doesn’t act as the game starts. She moves at the right time with strategy. Checkmate!”
“Queen Elizabeth of England is the real fashion icon of the century. And she has a sense of humor.”
“Queen Elizabeth, she's the ultimate hypocrite!”
“Queen Elizabeth, who said, Not now, I'm on the throne. Never got a dinner!”
“Queen gave music a purpose in life and death.”
“Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, and therefore she had a good end.”
“Queen had its time and place, and at the moment I'm not concentrating on that era.”
“Queen Katherine, whose boys have all died, takes it patiently: that is to say, she suffers.”
Source: Wolf Hall
“Queen Latifah used to help me out with my kids, because while we were all out on tour - Public Enemy, Naughty By Nature, Queen Latifah, Heavy D - when Public Enemy went onstage, I didn't have anybody solid to watch my kids. So, Latifah would help me out.”
“Queen Mab created this crown to keep her descendants in power,' Cardan says. 'But vows should never be to a crown. They should be to a ruler. And they should be of your own free will. I am your king, and beside me stands my queen. But it is your choice whether or not to follow us. Your will shall be your own.'
And with his bare hands, he cracks the Blood Crown in two. It breaks like a child's toy, as though in his hands it was never made of metal at all, brittle as a wishbone.
I think that I gasp, but it is possible that I scream.”
Source: The Queen of Nothing
“Queen Mahapajapati was not like other women in the palace. She frequently told Yasodhara that women possessed as much wisdom and strength as men and needed to shoulder the responsibilities of society also. While women did possess a special ability to create warmth and happiness in their families, there was no reason for them to remain only in the kitchen or in the palace. Gotami found in her daughter-in-law a woman with whom she could share true friendship, for like herself, Yasodhara was thoughtful and independent. Not only did the queen offer Yasodhara her approval, but she worked alongside Yasodhara as well.”
“Queen Marie of Romania, who once wrote: 'We are hardly ever arbiters of our own Fate: We must move, do, live, according to our several duties and our
own desires and wishes have to be fitted in with what we can do more often than what we desire to do'.”
Source: Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria
“Queen Mary had a way of interrupting tattle about elopements, duels, and play debts, by asking the tattlers, very quietly yet significantly, whether they had ever read her favorite sermon--Dr. Tillotson on Evil Speaking.”
“QUEEN OF 339 SOLDIERS
The Scorpion Queen. Oh great Queen of the Desert.
Amidst your throne are 339 Soldiers
Your smiles are like lightning, piercing through the soul of men. How your enemies are crushed.
You are love. You are danger in the lock.
Let your enemies feel your wrath for beauty is your throne.
The water that flourishes in the desert.
Intelligent like the sun and proud like the moon.
Sex is only for the pleasure your soul and those who betray you will feel the sting of your venom.
Oh daughter of desert, may your reign be long.
Poem by Victor Vote for Peace Obot
©️2021 by VVF”
“QUEEN OF THE SAND
"Oh father, behold the desert queen" and I looked and I saw an inscription but age deprived my understanding.
My daughter cried out, "Oh father, King of the Desert, behold she who bears my name". Then I realise it was Zara Muhammad The Queen of the Sand. The mercy of princesses. The sons delight and the father's pride.
Oh daughter of Arab, what bringeth thou thee to the Kingdom were daughters are enthroned, where women rule, and where the sons of men marvel at the beauty of the stars.
The Sand Queen replied, "It the glory every daughter of the Sand has spoken of brought me this far" "What glory, oh Adored Zara?" I asked and she roared with voice of a bird rejoicing over showers of seeds and she said "You my Lord and King, for your beauty has reached the ends of the world"
It was then I realise that this poem was written not only for Zara Muhammed but also for Zara Vote and Victor Vote.
Greetings of great Great Zara, Queen of the Sand.
Poem by Victor Vote for Zara Muhammed”
“Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls.”
“Queen songs are not about the life of a rock star - they tend to be about the lives of normal people, which is why I think the songs connect so much. We're very lucky that they seemingly connect with every generation.”
“Queen songs tend to be about very personal things: personal dreams and personal ambitions.”
“Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.”
“Queen Victoria was loyal and true to the Pope; that is what I was told, and so is Edward the Seventh loyal and true, but he has got something contrary in his body.”
Source: The Essential Lady Gregory Collection
“Queen Victoria, one of our more frumpy Queen's. They're all frumpy aren't they? Because it's a bad idea when cousin's marry.”
“Queen's University flies the flag for the arts in Northern Ireland and beyond.”
“QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“Queenie Hennessy - "I am here to die."
Sister Mary Inconnue - "Pardon me but you are here to live until you die. There is a significant difference.”
Source: The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
“Queenie preps for the morning, simple enough. Two huge Crock-Pots of oatmeal, jars of jam, honey, and brown sugar. She cuts up fruit. In the morning, she'll scramble several dozen eggs and toast several loaves of bread. Baking it from scratch crosses her mind--- she's always loved the meditation of kneading dough--- but only momentarily. She has no way of knowing how many will show. Simple is best until she gets the hang of things.
Lunch prep is even simpler. Sandwiches, PB&J, turkey, ham and cheese. She goes light on the mayo. It's hard to use jarred mayo, and even harder not to doctor it up with pesto or cranberry preserves. No arugula. No brie or caramelized onions. Simple, simple, simple.
Between breakfast and lunch, she plans to put up a pot of vegetable soup, so she gets to work on the mise en place for that. Store-bought stock, at least for now. Again, until she gets the hang of things. Dinner is lasagna, easy enough to put together and prebake; lasagna is always better for being allowed to sit overnight in the fridge. She hopes she's made enough of everything; sending people home hungry doesn't just go against her mission statement, it goes against every chef nerve in her body.
Not a chef. In this kitchen, never. She's a cook now. A soup kitchen cook making nutritious food for people in need. Her mission statement. Her balance.”
Source: Didn't You Use to Be Queenie B?
“Queenliness is next to Godliness”
“Queens is famous throughout the world for diversity and tolerance. But really it's what we have in common that makes our neighborhoods work, our students succeed, and our families able to care for children and grandparents as they can.”
“Queens, New York. The most ethnically diverse region not just in the United States, but on the entire planet... In Queens, you will find Korean kids who sound like black kids. Italians who sound like Puerto Ricans. Puerto Ricans who sound like Italians. Third-generation Irish who sound like old Jews. That's Queens. Not a melting pot, not even a tossed salad, but an all-you-can-eat, mix-and-match buffet.”
Source: The Devil in Silver
“Queens you must always be: queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and your sons, queens of higher mystery to the world beyond. . . . But alas, you are too often idle and careless queens, grasping at majesty in the least things, while you abdicate it in the greatest.”
“Queequeg explained to me that his world was very different from ours. However, one thing he learned quickly, was that within all groups of people there are kind men and there are unkind men.”
Source: Moby Dick
“Queequeg no care what god made him shark,' said the savage, agonizingly lifting his hand up and down; "wedder Fejee god or Nantucket god; but de god wat made shark must be one dam Ingin.”
“Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.”
Source: Moby Dick
“Queer, as an identity label, differs from its use in the second strand of queer data, which examines the queering of research methods.”
Source: Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action
“Queer creatures, females," mused Mr. Standen, shaking his head. "Fellow's only got to be a rake to have 'em all dangling after him. Silly, really, because it stands to reason---- Well never mind that!”
Source: Cotillion
“Queer data is more than using data to tell stories about the lives and experiences of LGBTQ individuals: the presentation of the data is also an opportunity for LGBTQ people to see themselves reflected, although this mirror image is never a truly accurate representation.”
Source: Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action
“Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a form of service journalism. To be successful, I think it has to be a combination of a good story, it has to be funny, and it also needs to be packed with useful information.”
“Queer femme4femme desire is a balance of being careful and being daring. We take our time. We laugh about how we both lean towards being bottoms and subs. We laugh at ourselves for saying we are switches. We pretend to be tops and argue about who is going to carry whose bag. Let me get that. No, let me get that.”
Source: Fucking Girls
“Queer folks are like wolves," Julian told him. "We travel in packs."
(p. 125)”
Source: Cemetery Boys
“Queer, how I misinterpreted the designations of doom.”
Source: Lolita
“Queer how that was always cropping up. Here she was highly respectable, married, mother of a small boy, and, in spite of all that, knowing all that, these people took one look at her and immediately got that now-I-wonder look. Apparently it was an automatic reaction of white people—if a girl was colored and fairly young, why, it stood to reason she had to be a prostitute. If not that—at least sleeping with her would be just a simple matter, for all one had to do was make the request. In fact, white men wouldn't even have to do the asking because the girl would ask them on sight.
She grew angrier as she thought about it. Of course, none of them could know about your grandmother who had brought you up, she said to herself. And ever since you were big enough to remember the things that people said to you, had said over and over, just like a clock ticking, 'Lutie, baby, don't you never let no white man put his hands on you. They ain't never willin' to let a black woman alone. Seems like they all got a itch and a urge to sleep with 'em. Don't you never let any of 'em touch you.'
Something that was said so often and with such gravity it had become a part of you, just like breathing, and you would have preferred crawling in bed with a rattlesnake to getting in bed with a white man. Mrs. Chandler's friends and her mother couldn't possibly know that, couldn't possibly imagine that you might have a distrust and a dislike of white men far deeper than the distrust these white women had of you. Or know that, after hearing their estimation of you, nothing in the world could ever force you to be even friendly with a white man.
And again she thought of the barrier between her and these people. The funny part of it was she was willing to trust them and their motives without questioning, but the instant they saw the color of her skin they knew what she must be like; they were so confident about what she must be like they didn't need to know her personally in order to verify their estimate.”
Source: The Street
“Queer' not as being about who you're having sex with (that can be a dimension of it); but 'queer' as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and that has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live.”
“Queer people anywhere are responsible for queer people everywhere.”
Source: The New Queer Conscience
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Source: A Queer Kind of Hallelujah
“Queer Theory is about liberation from the normal, especially where it comes to norms of gender and sexuality. This is because it regards the very existence of categories of sex, gender and sexuality to be oppressive. Because queer Theory derives directly from postmodernism, it is radically skeptical that these categories are based in any biological reality. It thus ignores biology nearly completely (or places it downstream of socialization) and focuses upon them as social constructions perpetuated in language.”
Source: Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
“Queer Theory is dominated by the problematizing of discourse - how things are spoken about - the deconstruction of categories and a profound skepticism of science.”
“Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality. Put another way, we are not yet queer, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality. We have never been queer, yet queerness exists for us as an ideality that can be distilled from the past and used to imagine a future. The future is queerness's domain. (p. 1)”
Source: Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity
“Queerness is reclamation. It is powerful and subversive and fierce and undeniably holy. Yes. It is.
But to have a lived experience of queerness is also to hold an intimate knowledge of othering.
It is to hold rejection, fear, or violence in your body - whether historical or actual or potential - at all times because of nothing more than who the soft animal of our good queer bodies bends toward loving.”
“Queerness," then, is not a sexual orientation, but rather a radical political project, and a form of revolutionary activism.”
Source: Cis White Gay: The Making of a Gender Heretic
“Quegli uomini erano come dei bambini, ma forse gli uomini non smettevano mai di esserlo, il loro tempo a disposizione era talmente breve rispetto a quello della montagna e degli alberi che la popolavano, da impedirgli di maturare completamente.”
Source: L'albero