Queenie Buxton Quotes

I have this side of me that is a very European flamboyant; I won't say queenie, but it's borderline - could be perceived as homosexual. ~ Charlie Bewley

The fact is - nothing comes, at least nothing good. All has to be fetched. ~ Charles Buxton

He had felt safe with what he had confided. It had been the same with Queenie. You could say things in the car and know she had tucked them somewhere safe among her thoughts, and that she would not judge him for them, or hold it against him in years to come. He supposed that was what friendship was, and regretted all the years he had spent without it. ~ Rachel Joyce

Do you know what he told me after lying under a cliff for thirty six hours with two inches of his femur sticking out? He said: 'Queenie, I think I'm going to pass out and before I do, I'm going to give you a piece of advice' - God, I thought he was going to die and knew and was telling me what to do with his book - and he said quite solemnly: 'Queenie, always stick to Bach and the early Italians' - and passed out cold as a mackerel. And by God, it's not bad advice. ~ Walker Percy

With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable ~ Thomas Fowell Buxton

The longer I live, the more deeply am I convinced that that which makes the difference between one person and another-between the weak and the powerful, the great and the insignificant-is energy-invisible determination. ~ Charles Buxton

And everyone on earth knows if you have the respect of a cat it means your soul is worth being around. ~ Kira Jane Buxton

All the winged, even fungus gnats, know that you cannot fly if you're carrying too much weight with you. It's a well-known adage, actually: "The light of heart is free to fly. ~ Kira Jane Buxton

Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim. ~ Charles Buxton

The only way to engineer the future tomorrow is to have lived in it yesterday. ~ Bill Buxton

A creature can be heartbreakingly powerful and loving while also being a destroyer of worlds. ~ Kira Jane Buxton

To make pleasures pleasant shortens them. ~ Charles Buxton

In one family, every little plan or question is discussed amid bickering and irritation. In another, without the least effort, every discussion goes on amid perfect peace. This is just as easy, and infinitely more agreeable: only, in many homes it does not happen to be the family habit. ~ Charles Buxton

He hunched his shoulders and drove his feet harder, as if he wasn't so much walking to Queenie as away from himself. ~ Rachel Joyce

Our job is not to answer questions, its to ask the right questions ... that get us to the right answer. ~ Bill Buxton

Queenie: (trying to cheer him up) I'll come with you. We'll go somewhere - we'll go anywhere - see I ain't never gonna find anyone like -

Jacob: (bravely) There's loads like me.

Queenie: No... no...there's only one like you. ~ J.K. Rowling

I did some research on Little Lord Asshat," he said. It lacked any real heat, though. I'd overheard him earlier giving money to Queenie to buy Matthias "a razor, a toothbrush, and a fucking clue. ~ K.D. Edwards

It's a hard slog doing promotion, but its nothing compared to working in a factory packing meat pies or whatever. ~ Felix Buxton

There would be no more hot dog-eating contests or NASCAR or picnics in the park or Cheetos or America's Funniest Home Videos or revving truck engines or books or children laughing or fetch with a stick or i{hone updates or shopping or electrical jobs or songs or genius inventions or drunken dancing or Fireball whiskey or snow globes or wedding vows or ugly ties or Christmas hugs or...families ~ Kira Jane Buxton

This is why we all fight so hard. Not just for the vote, but for an equal opportunity in the world. A vote is a voice. I think you underestimate yourself, Queenie. This is your fight, same as it is mine. ~ Sharon Biggs Waller

One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel. ~ Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet

Annie Wilkes had her own interior set of rules; in her way she was strangely prim. She had made him drink water from a floor-bucket; had withheld his medication until he was in agony; had made him burn the only copy of his new novel; had hand-cuffed him and stuck a rag reeking of furniture polish in his mouth; but she would not take the money from his wallet. She brought it to him, the old scuffed Lord Buxton he'd had since college, and put it in his hands. All ~ Stephen King

All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them. ~ Charles Buxton

A successful career has been full of blunders. ~ Charles Buxton

There was a rocky valley between Buxton and Bakewell?divine as the vale of Tempe; you might have seen the gods there morning and eveningApollo and the sweet Muses of the Light? You enterprised a railroad?you blasted its rocks away? And, now, every fool in Buxton can be at Bakewell in half-an-hour, and every fool in Bakewell at Buxton. ~ John Ruskin

It must be nice, Queenie thought, to be one thing or another, to know where you belonged. ~ Michael Korda

Queenie Hennessy - "I am here to die."
Sister Mary Inconnue - "Pardon me but you are here to live until you die. There is a significant difference. ~ Rachel Joyce

America wasn't interested in the roots of house music because it was too black, it was too gay, it was all these things, and today it's made very sanitized and white. ~ Felix Buxton

Queenie: People are easiest to read when they're hurting. ~ J.K. Rowling

Talking to animals' isn't a matter of words used, it is a matter of your thoughts, your expression, and above all the tone of your voice. A harsh voice from me can make my cows jump in terror. I shouted at old Queenie once and she got such a shock that she fell down just as if she'd been shot ... ~ Barbara Woodhouse

Susannah Buxton, costume designer: These three dresses demonstrate well the different ways in which we brought the costumes together for the show. Mary's dress was made for her, Edith's was hired - it was previously used in the Merchant-Ivory production of A Room With A View - and Sybil's is an original Edwardian summer dress. ~ Jessica Fellowes

Blonde Queenie, the most beautiful girl ever to don witches' robes, is standing in a silk slip, supervising the mending of a dress on a dressmaker's dummy. Jacob is thunderstruck. ~ J.K. Rowling

Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows. ~ Charles Buxton

A beat as Queenie drinks the whole story out of Newt's head. She looks both intrigued and saddened. Newt continues to work, trying hard to pretend Queenie isn't reading his mind. ~ J.K. Rowling