Duke Quotes

163 Duke quotes by 123 unique authors

Germany is probably the richest country in Western Europe. Yet they wouldn't take any television with Duke and Ella, their reaction being that people weren't… — Norman Granz
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the carriage… — Karen Hawkins
A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington. — David Amram
I was once naïve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with a self-deprecating shrug… — A. N. Wilson
In 1867, George Campbell, Duke of Argyll, had published The Reign of Law, a book that Darwin found deeply annoying. A supporter of Richard Owen,… — Jonathan Clements
Oh, my dear Kepler, how I wish that we could have one hearty laugh together. Here, at Padua, is the principal professor of philosophy, whom… — Galileo Galilei
...he went into the sitting room, put on a Duke Ellington record he had bought after seeing Gene Hackman sitting on the overnight bus in… — Jo Nesbo
There's no other state, none, that's as connected to their basketball program as this one. Because those other states have other programs. Michigan has Michigan… — John Calipari
A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life. — Frank Ocean
The message of David Duke, is this, basically: Big government, anti-big government, get out of my pocketbook, cut my taxes, put welfare people back to… — Dan Quayle
It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a… — Abbey Lincoln
Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautiful woman, no doubt very… — Morley Safer
When you're kept by a patron you don't have to duke it out in the media marketplace for dollars and for readers. In some ways… — David Talbot
In Rio Bravo when Duke makes love to Feathers, the scene dissolves to the next morning where we see him putting on his vest and… — Angie Dickinson
I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a… — Mose Allison
To get elected as a Democrat, it`s hard to be from the city. It`s hard to be a graduate of Duke University. — Howard Fineman
A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might: Guid faith, he maunna fa'… — Robert Burns
My teachers are Duke Ellington and nature. — Toru Takemitsu
I especially like Duke Ellington jazz, which is a little more... I lived in New York for a while. I lived in Harlem for a… — Charlie Day
I was able to get through the field and get this Lowe's ProServices Chevy up front. Those last few restarts I was able to hang… — Jimmie Johnson
The duke contents himself mainly with attempting to rule the world and other suchlike nonsense. When one is guiding the patterns of the social universe,… — Gail Carriger
The same animal which hath the honour to have some part of his flesh eaten at the table of a duke, may perhaps be degraded… — Henry Fielding
When I was a teenager I would lock myself in the bathroom for hours, bouffanting my hair like Patty Duke and trying to recreate Barbra… — Beth Ditto
I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone. — Steve Lacy
Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke. — Hunter S. Thompson

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