Quentin S. Crisp Quotes
I was in just the right generation to have taken feminism seriously by osmosis - also the generation when the breakdown of the family really began and for whom The Smiths were something new and essential.
Quentin S. Crisp
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
Walter Annenberg
Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
Callie Thorne
It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
Sam Shepard
The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.
Rachel Cusk
No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
Walter Kirn
I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits.
Fay Godwin
I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
Laura Mvula
Golf was my vehicle to competition, and I can't play if I can't compete.
Jack Nicklaus
There may be a long list of things to do, but really, there is just one thing on the list at any time. If you think of it like that, the whole world looks different and you can stay quite calm. Maybe everything will get done eventually and maybe not. You can always have hope.
Zoketsu Norman Fischer
I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
Wadada Leo Smith
I was excited to play Lil' Kim and I wanted to do the role justice. I worked really hard on that role, whether it was performing the rhymes, studying the dialect, her swagger and her stage performances. I wanted people to see my range and stretch my wings as an actress.
Naturi Naughton
3LW
I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'
Maeve Binchy
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
Samuel Johnson
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
Aeschylus
I worry about everything, which is silly because there's very little you can control anyway.
Maura Tierney
There is the cult of the actor and of the director, and there's even been the cult of the celebrity chef and gardener, but there has never been a cult of the screenwriter. But I'm happy about that because what I crave - in a completely venal way - is creative opportunities, not recognition.
Anthony McCarten
Sometimes it is harder for us to smile at those who live with us, the immediate members of our families, than it is to smile at those who are not so close to us. Let us never forget: love begins at home.
Mother Teresa
I was in just the right generation to have taken feminism seriously by osmosis - also the generation when the breakdown of the family really began and for whom The Smiths were something new and essential.
Quentin S. Crisp
