Queen Elizabeth II Quotes

[On the 1982 intruder into her bedroom:] I realized immediately that it wasn't a servant because they don't slam doors.

Queen Elizabeth II

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• I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.

  

  Samantha Power
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• 'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

  

  E. T. Bell
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• For me, seeing the target and not seeing the target doesn't make any difference.

  

  Im Dong-Hyun
  • Me
  • Difference
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• My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

  

  Abbie Cornish
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• Only amazing designers think of the truly new.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Think
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• I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.

  

  Ogden Nash
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• For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Different
  • Country
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• I enjoy music wherever it's coming from.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Enjoy
  • Coming

• I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • People
  • Women
  • Down

• I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • Life
  • Trying
  • My Life

• I think positive. I always think we're going to score. Two minutes is a lot of time if you have timeouts and you're throwing every down. You have to make the right decisions. I've always had great receivers, which helps. It's not just me doing it.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Time
  • Great
  • Positive

• The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther King. It was thousands and thousands - millions, I should say - of people taking risks, becoming leaders in their community.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Community
  • Couple

• My father was a tailor. He worked from seven o'clock in the morning until seven at night. At least when he got home, my mother always cooked him a very good dinner. Lots of potatoes, I remember; he used to knock them down like a dose of salts. He needed it, after a 12-hour day.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Good
  • Home
  • Remember

• I think maybe because I do other things and they mean as much to me as movie acting, it takes the onus off me. It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • World
  • Job
  • Movie

• In my own spiritual journey, I became a swami on the Hindu path of Bhakti. In the Hindu tradition, a swami is a monk who forgoes regular family life for the purpose of making the whole world his family and channels his full energy into spiritual practice, devotion to God and service to humanity.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Life
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• I have no message.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Message

• There are a few elements - especially platinum and palladium - that have the amazing ability to absorb up to 900 times their own volume in hydrogen gas. To get a sense of the scale there, that's roughly equivalent to a 250-pound man swallowing something the size of a dozen African bull elephants and not gaining an inch on his waistline.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Up
  • Man
  • Amazing

• I knew it was gonna go out. It was just a question of it being fair or foul. The wind must have carried it 15 feet toward the foul pole. I just stood there and watched. I didn't want to miss seeing it go out.

  

  Carlton Fisk
  • Want
  • Question
  • Wind

• I've been connected to the most culturally important albums of the past four years, the most influential artists of the past ten years. You have like, Steve Jobs, Walt Disney, Henry Ford, Howard Hughes, Nicolas Ghesquière, Anna Wintour, David Stern.

  

  Kanye West
  • Important
  • Past
  • Disney

• Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier's servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes to have his admirers. Even philosophers wish for them. Those who write against vanity want to have the glory of having written well; and those who read it desire the glory of having read it. I who write this have perhaps this desire, and perhaps those who will read it.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Desire
  • Soldier
  • Glory

• A house is kind of scary.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • House
  • Kind
  • Scary

• I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

  

  Bill Mauldin
  • Law

• God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason. He requires neither premise nor consequences; nor even the simple form of a proposition. His knowledge is purely intuitive. He beholds equally what is and what will be. All truths are to Him as one idea, as all places are but one point, and all times one moment.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • God
  • Men
  • Knowledge

• [On the 1982 intruder into her bedroom:] I realized immediately that it wasn't a servant because they don't slam doors.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II