Dukes Quotes - Page 2

No difference exists between American and European manners. A proletarian from Chicago can be just as Philistine as an English duke.

[Prince] could very well be the Duke Ellington of Rock 'n' Roll.

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.

The reason he [Duke Kahanamouku] didn't like me was that I liked him too much.

I don't see myself as legendary. If you want a legend, talk about someone like Duke Kahanamoku.

Down with Dukes of Hazzard!

My teachers are Duke Ellington and nature.

A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.

I would watch 'The Dukes of Hazzard' on loop. At one point I had 30 televisions in my bedroom and I would watch it over and over.

The Duke [John Wayne] was a massive figure. He looked like a heavy piece of hauled lumber, and it didn't seem like any man could stand shoulder to shoulder with him.

When the Duke [W.J.C. Scott-Bentinck] died, his heirs found all of the aboveground rooms devoid of furnishings except for one chamber in the middle of which sat the Duke's commode. The main hall was mysteriously floor less. Most of the rooms were painted pink. The one upstairs room in which the Duke had resided was packed to the ceiling with hundreds of green boxes, each of which contained a single dark brown wig. This was, in short, a man worth getting to know.

I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.

LEONATO Neighbours, you are tedious. DOGBERRY It pleases your worship to say so, but we are the poor duke's officers; but truly, for mine own part, if I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in my heart to bestow it all of your worship.

Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords?

Well, at the very beginning of the Amboy Dukes, I was doing background but I never sang my own songs. I would sing them for the guys to show them how I wanted the songs to go, but I always had lead vocalists.

You mean to say he became mad deliberately?' ...Nothing is more likely,' said the duke.

I really wanted to make sure that if we set Duke up, that he's set up the right way and he's his own hero for the right reasons.

The Duke of Clarence . . . a prisoner in the Tower, was secretly put to death and drowned in a barrel of Malmesey wine.

They don't hang dukes, darling. He'd be let off by reason of insanity. Everyone knows the upper classes are batty.

Perhaps you'd care for a synonym bun," suggested the duke.

Oh dear, all those words again," thought Milo as he climbed into the wagon with Tock and the cabinet members. "How are you going to make it move? It doesn't have a--" "Be very quiet," advised the duke, "for it goes without saying.

[I wanted] to play the clarinet well so I could be in Duke Ellington's band, but that's now impossible.

Duke Ellington had a song, "What Am I Here For?" - this is what being pro-life is.

Don't cry pretty girl. Who you are is why you're so good at everything. You won't let yourself be otherwise. And thats what fascinates me." Duke- Lament

It's been a lifetime of trying to have less beef. Beef comes very naturally to me. I was born with my dukes up, but that's not always necessary anymore. I have to retrain myself.