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Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles will devour; Brightness falls from the air; Queens have died young and fair; Dust hath closed Helen's eye.

Thomas Nashe

We wrote our names in Egyptian and did scrolls. We made self-portraits as queens or pharaohs.

Michael Lane

Queens is the new Baxter.

David Wain

The Queens delegation felt very strongly.

David Weprin

We can treat our patients like kings and queens.

Randy Le

They love their jobs, and they love the creative excitement that comes from working there. But when you're sharing an apartment in Queens with four other people because you're getting 3 to 4 percent annual raises on a $25,000 salary, it's not a great thing.

Laurence Kirshbaum

Everyone was in stitches at the Queen's speech. It was such a lovely, affectionate tribute.

Jilly Cooper

You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean.

Cyndi Lauper

The auditorium, named after a dead Queens politician is windowless in honor of the secrecy in which he lived and, probably, the bank vaults he frequented.

Jimmy Breslin

We couldn't open with a harder game. I think you can count on one hand the number of games that St. John's will have lost in the Big East in Queens in New York in the last 10 years.

Bobby Clark

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.

Terry Pratchett

We're excited to bring two quality options to students and parents in Queens.

Kelly Devers

The mobile wireless network also gives clinicians a number of other tools, for example we have a virtual medical library on-line in partnership with Queen's University.

Paul Mcauley

Nobody asked where the photo came from, because no one thought of this as anything more than a picture of Brooklyn and Queens.

Stu Loeser

[The event is being called] Killen Appreciation Day, ... It's an old-fashioned Mississippi homecoming. It's held for sports figures and beauty queens. Why not political prisoners?

Richard Barrett

I read for the part of Elizabeth, the virgin queen. I thought they said they were looking for a virgin from Queens. Whatever, the only virgin in my house is the olive oil.

Fran Drescher

They are the queens of knowing how to sell. They do it all and do a great job.

Cindy Whitlock

We're just disappointed that the Jets made representations to us of their interest in staying here that may not, in fact, be the case if they are genuinely still interested in pursuing a stadium deal in Queens.

Carl Goldberg

We're treated like kings and queens. We never have to get up; we have all these great servers. We don't have to worry about parking; there's plenty of parking.

Ruth Smith

I think the people of Queens really have a friend in the office of Borough President. It certainly is something she wants to do and it makes her happy. I don't see her slowing down anytime soon.

Joan Suter

It's who they are. They're going to get that kind of respect. Yeah, they get treated like queens. They deserve it.

Art Doten

She was both beautiful and a member of one of the 'first families' of San Antonio — two qualities by which queens are still measured.

Jack Maguire

If I can't get rid of him, my Plan B was making my hand, which was a fairly good call (with 14 outs -- nine diamonds to make the flush, minus the 5 of diamonds that would make four of a kind for Helppi, plus three non-diamond queens and three non-diamond 7s to make the straight).

Amir Vahedi

We will now look for similar ways in which Queens residents can join in the national relief effort to help entire cities in need.

Joseph Bruno

He sits at the kitchen table, which is the only authentic way to touch down at home in Queens.

Francis X. Clines

From Harlem to Queens, New York City has always been at the center of the jazz music evolution. This festival will further establish New York City as the premier destination for experiencing live jazz music.

Cristyne L. Nicholas

By casting Queens College students, you have to keep in mind their schedule.

Tiana Fernandez

We have seen increased mosquito activity in parts of the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island.

Thomas Frieden

The gods of men are sillier than their kings and queens, and emptier and more powerless.

Maxwell L. Anderson

Staten Island didn't seem as dense as Queens and Brooklyn, even though they say it is being overpopulated and overdeveloped. We didn't get that sense at all. Then Glenn said, 'I think I love Staten Island.' It was the most hilarious thing.

Melina Gontha

There was a band called the National Youth of Orchestra who did a version of Queen's 'We Will Rock You,' ... They were good. It was different.

Sean Cummings

I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.

Laura Kightlinger

He never counted the favors he did or where he would cash in his chips. He has all these people who know him – heads of state, kings and queens, heads of corporations. He doesn't have a contact file. Muhammad ... didn't want something in return.

Lonnie Ali

This whole thing is taking on a life of its own. I talked to [elected officials] over in Queens, and they're loving this, because they feel like the circumstances are driving the Jets over there.

George Zoffinger

Queens of the Stone Age: A Stone Unturned.

Josh Homme

I'd love to do a show in Vegas with drag queens. The tackier the better.

Catherine Zeta Jones

As I have often said, whenever a disaster occurs anywhere in the world, there are relatives grieving in Queens, ... It appears that most of the organizations involved in relief efforts are currently asking for monetary donations.

Helen Marshall

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.

Sir Thomas Malory

In the big picture, I think it's a good thing [for Murray]. He obviously had a lot of hype going into Wimbledon after his Queen's effort, and I think it's a good thing to go back to basics a little bit and win three tough qualifying matches.

Mark Philippoussis

It was $20,000 for running eighth in the Australian Cup and I thought I'd run him and go to the Queen's Cup next week.

Robbie Laing

But it's in a central part of Las Vegas. I could find something in Queens Ridge or some place like that, but the lots are small. What intrigued me about this place was the size of the lot.

Nico Santucci

We want to get to the point where we can afford to hire someone to run it ... By 2007 we hope to set up the Art Market again even bigger and better than before. I have every anticipation that this will be a very exciting opportunity for us. Eventually we would like to have it not just along Queens Way but along Settlers Landing Road, because it is going to become a more pedestrian-friendly street.

Gaynette Larue

The Queen's thoughts will have been with her daughter.

Jennie Bond

The Queen's coming to our house today, so that's quite nice, she was there last night but now she's coming to have a chat with us.

John Devitt