Duke Quotes

163 Duke quotes by 123 unique authors

The reality is our season prepared us so well that if we have to play Duke in the second game, we've done that three times… — Unknown Author
There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought… — Boris Vian
My inspiration comes from the message Duke Ellington gave - you are unique, be yourself, put out that thing that is you, then use your… — Kenny Burrell
The only place where David Duke and I are alike is we are both wizards under the sheets. — Edwin Edwards
I'm the Duke of Riverside. I build things here and pretty much keep the peace, and discourage certain behaviors. If you think all that has… — Ellen Kushner
I Hated Duke. I Felt Like They Only Recruited Black Players That Were Uncle Toms. — Jalen Rose
For me, Duke was personal. I hated Duke. And I hated everything I felt Duke stood for. Schools like Duke didn't recruit players like me.… — Jalen Rose
The poor old Duke [of Wellington]! What shall I say of him? To be sure he was born in Ireland, but being born in a… — Daniel O'Connell
Every issue, the characters and I duke it out. They usually win. — Brian K. Vaughan
There's no appreciation for the giants [of jazz]; there's never been a major film on Duke Ellington , never a major film on Louis Armstrong.… — Randy Weston
When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause. — Ruth Brown
The reason he [Duke Kahanamouku] didn't like me was that I liked him too much. — Unknown Author
At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks too Duke Ellington. — Miles Davis
The Duke and Swing represent affirmation in the face of adversity. — Wynton Marsalis
The Duke of Buckingham gave me once a short but severe character of the two brothers. It was the more severe, because it was true:… — Gilbert Burnet
My favorite NBA team are the houston rockets and favorite college team are the duke blue devils. — Dante Hall
The parson knows enough who knows a Duke. — William Cowper
If I were to put on Barbra Streisand and Duke Ellington, one might say the combination isn't good. — Norman Granz
But what exceeds all wonders, I have discovered four new planets and observed their proper and particular motions, different among themselves and from the motions… — Galileo Galilei
A Duke couldn't have the arse hanging out of his trousers when meeting foreign diplomats. Actually even plain old Sam Vimes never had the arse… — Terry Pratchett
I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all. I scribbled all my opinions on the margins of… — Winston Churchill
I was sick of the way my lyrics had been extrapolated, their meanings subverted into polemics and that I had been anointed as the Big… — Bob Dylan
You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only built in the… — Cab Calloway
A policeman in plain clothes is a man; in his uniform he is ten. Clothes and title are the most potent thing, the most formidable… — Mark Twain
The guy you see on the screen isn’t really me. I’m Duke Morrison, and I never was and never will be a film personality like… — John Wayne

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