Dinah Washington famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There is only one heaven, one earth and one queen (me) Queen Elizabeth is an impostor.
-- Dinah Washington

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Those shows I did with Queen were pretty surreal. I was really excited and super-flattered, but intimidated at the same time.
Fruits fail and love dies and time ranges;Thou art fed with perpetual breath, and alive after infinite changes,And fresh from the kisses of death,Of langours rekindled and rallied, Of barren delights and unclean,Things monstrous and fruitless, a pallidAnd poisonous queen.
It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing.
Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.
I wouldnâ€™t trust the best fifteen minutes I ever lived to get me into heaven.
As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
For it is the same whether you take it that the Earth is in motion or the Sky. For, in both the cases, it does not affect the Astronomical Science. It is just for the Physicist to see if it is possible to refute it.
Iâ€™m not afraid of anything that might happen to me on this earth, because I know no matter what, nothing can take my spirit from me.

Dinah Washington famous quotes

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