The Virgin Queen Quotes

#1. That's the thing - you do a job like 'Shameless,' and suddenly that's why you can get a job like 'The Virgin Queen', not because of all the classical theatre you've done. But we can be very snippy about television. It's absolutely the most potent and powerful form of storytelling we have.

Anne-Marie Duff

#2. My mom smiled at me. Her smile kind of hugged me.

R.J. Palacio

#3. Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom

Gustave Flaubert

#4. I do not ask much, only Total Power

Umberto Eco

#5. God inspired in the heart of the pure Virgin Mary His own intense love for humility ... It was this humility which attracted to her the countless graces which rendered her worthy to be the Mother of God, Queen of heaven and earth.

John Eudes

#6. Drinking really cold beer is like slapping yourself in the face with an ice pick.

Michael Jackson

#7. She had experienced the pleasures of virgin and prostitute, of slave and queen, albeit more slave than queen.

Paulo Coelho

#8. If you don't want to be a victim, don't act like one.

Ally Carter

#9. No definite science
without trial & error.

Toba Beta

#10. The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.

Felix Adler

#11. How does one become butterfly?' Pooh asked pensively.
'You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar,' Piglet replied.
'You mean to die?' asked Pooh.
'Yes and no,' he answered. 'What looks like you will die, but what's really you will live on.

A.A. Milne

#12. Reap, reap the grain and gather
The sweet grapes from the vine;
Our Lord's mother is weeping,
She hath nor bread nor wine;
She is weeping. The Queen of Heaven,
She hath nor bread nor wine.

Adelaide Crapsey

#13. I'm a twenty-four year-old virgin with a broken vagina. I can't even give that shit away.

Roxy Queen

#14. Galleries are frightening places, places of evaluation, of judgement.

Margaret Atwood

#15. The winter's a little bit daunting in Montana.

Phil Jackson

#16. Sometimes societies become too stupid to survive. A nation that takes Barack Obama's current rhetorical flourishes seriously is certainly well advanced along that dismal path.

Mark Steyn

#17. It's a date, isn't it," she realized. "Praise to the Virgin Scribe, I have a date!"
Trez laughed, the sound a rumble in his broad chest. "You'd better believe you do. And I'ma treat you like a queen. My queen." ~Trez

'The Shadows' page 205

J.R. Ward

#18. If it were worth while to argue a paradox, one might maintain that nature regards the female as the essential, the male as the superfluity of her world. Perhaps the best starting-point for study of the Virgin would be a practical acquaintance with bees, and especially with queen bees.

Henry Adams

#19. As I pressed the doorbell button it popped off the wall and hung by two colored cords. Obviously it didn't work, so I knocked.

Elle Klass

#20. [I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.

Elizabeth I

#21. She felt as if she were imprisoned in a vault heaped with priceless treasures - an ever-growing hoard that threatened to crush the life out of her. There was no way out, either. The vault was impenetrable and she was far too deeply buried beneath a mountain of time to attract anyone's attention.

Michael Ende

#22. It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.

Quincy Jones

#23. If you've got a coach that overlooks the problems, then you've got problems.

Tom Benson