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. With 'Girls' ... I feel like there's an impulse to try to make it look better or neater or more perfect, and when I watch theater, television, movies, it's always the imperfection I'm always more attracted to.

Adam Driver

#3. Sensual pleasures are the whip natural selection uses to control us, to keep us in the thrall of its warped values system.

Robert Wright

#4. A great novel is worth one thousand films.

Oscar Hijuelos

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

Umberto Eco

#6. I loved being admired by Richard. It was the kind of admiration that mattered to me. I felt adored, worshipped.

Elizabeth Taylor

#7. 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

#8. The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.

Martha Graham

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

Paulo Coelho

#10. We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word.

Origen

#11. I begin by assembling notes on characters. Large swaths of the plot become clear to me as I do this.

James Ellroy

#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. When things don't go your way, never forget who you are, and always remember the bigger picture.

Bill Rancic

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

Roxy Queen

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. The first album I bought was the Spice Girls, ha ha.

Rita Ora

#18. [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

#19. Use the fear; feed the anger.

Teri Terry