Joe Orton Quotes

Geraldine: At least give me back my clothes. I feel naked without them.

Joe Orton

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• If you see a player out in public having dinner, chances are he's with his boring money manager or some boring rich guy he hopes to design a golf course for.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Money
  • Guy
  • Player

• Web GIS allows us to take our systems of record - our traditional server and desktop technologies - and integrate them, bringing them together into a system of systems.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Together
  • System
  • Take

• When I first started working, I was very aware of the fact that I'd been to university and studied Russian and French and not acting. So when I started working, I'd started working quite young, I felt like it was important to treat myself kind of like an apprentice and do as many different types of things as I could.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Different
  • Important
  • Myself

• As a working mother, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself. As a stay-at-home mother, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself. As a twenty something with no job prospects or life partner in sight, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Life
  • Home
  • Job

• I have to be working, doing things. That's the way I grew up and the way I was taught.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Up
  • Way
  • Doing

• I vicariously lived the life of an independent producer from the time I was four years old. And what was always important was writing, writing, writing.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• Cursing is highly effective in person - someone kicks his car in rage, forgetting he's wearing flip-flops, flames pour from his mouth, and it's impressive. But you see it in print, and it's just ugly.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Car
  • See
  • Ugly

• No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Live
  • Country
  • Society

• Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Truths
  • Wearing
  • Cologne

• You've got keep your head up, keep fighting, and do the best you can.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Up
  • You
  • Best

• God was feeling sardonic the day He created the Universe. So it's rather up to at least one man every few centuries to pop up and come just as close to making him swallow his laughter as possible.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Up
  • God
  • Feeling

• We chased our pleasures here, Dug our treasures there, But can you still recall The time we cried? Break on through to the other side!

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Time

• Surely they knew that the very idea of the future came in an American box - complete with instructions for assembling a Constitution, a MacDonald's hamburger franchise, a row of Marriot hotels and a First Amendment.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • American
  • Future

• The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeletons of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.

  

  Arthur Koestler
  • Life
  • Science
  • Progress

• People wonder if there is a relationship between my lack of sight and the way I sing. But there's no connection.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Wonder

• Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today.

  

  Frederick Soddy
  • May
  • Today
  • Perfect

• The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture.

  

  Donald Judd
  • Attitude

• My mother was the daughter of a poor schoolteacher - well, that's a tautology - a country schoolteacher.

  

  Peter Carey
  • Country
  • Mother
  • Daughter

• When the rich and well-established, who should be generous, are instead spiteful and cruel, they make their behavior wretched and base in spite of their wealth and position. When the intellectually brilliant, who should be reserved, instead show off, they are ignorant and foolish in their weakness in spite of their brilliance.

  

  Zicheng Hong
  • Brilliant
  • Foolish
  • Ignorant

• In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.

  

  Pierre de Coubertin

• Women have a faith in themselves that is unpragmatic and in each other that's just emotional and f - ing strong. Both of those characters are criticized for being weak, for being subject to a man, but I think that that's a really bold and natural thing that we all want.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Women

• Me, as a human, I never want to take away another human being's choices or lifestyles or anything.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • Choices

• Geraldine: At least give me back my clothes. I feel naked without them.

  

  Joe Orton