Quentin S. Crisp Quotes

I really think [William] Burroughs was onto something here, when he said, "Dreams are a biologic necessity and your lifeline into space."

Quentin S. Crisp

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• The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Love
  • Faith
  • For Her

• My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Attention
  • Desire
  • Bored

• I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Know
  • Car
  • Everyone

• And for the first time in a long time, I'm playing along somebody that has that same energy and fire and plays pretty much the same way I do. So, that was just nice to say.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Time
  • Long
  • Pretty

• I think I'm very old-fashioned.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Think
  • Very
  • Old-fashioned

• I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I've given everything that I've got.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • People
  • Hope
  • Career

• You've got to take the bitter with the sour.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • You
  • Bitter
  • Sour

• The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • American
  • Spirit
  • Intelligence

• I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back.

  

  Larry King
  • Hope
  • Want
  • Me

• I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Good
  • Political
  • Boy

• Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Animals
  • Planet
  • Companions

• Birth was the death of him.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Death
  • Birth
  • Him

• Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.

  

  Flula Borg
  • Strong
  • Sometimes
  • Exercise

• Healing yourself is connected with healing others.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Yourself
  • Healing
  • Moving On

• I don't know how television or radio is going to survive without newspapers because that's where they get all their news. It's going to be hopeless.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Television
  • News
  • Survive

• I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it's very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn't: 'Oh, you're making fun of me right now.' And I wasn't!

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you're still kind of half in the relationship with them, but you're single, and it takes a while to feel solid in yourself again.

  

  Sam Palladio
  • Up
  • Relationship
  • Single

• Preach or proselytize for Christianity in much of the Islamic world, and you are a candidate for martyrdom. Practice freedom of speech in Xi Jinping's China, and you can wind up in a cell.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Up
  • World
  • Freedom

• I never, ever read the comments below an article on the Web. People are mean. I'm a human being.

  

  Katori Hall
  • People

• Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Sometimes
  • Knows
  • Names

• When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• I used to eat because food tastes so good. I love food, it's one of the best things on this planet. But I changed the way I was thinking. I started asking myself, 'Hey, am I eating because it tastes good? Or because I really need some more? Am I really still hungry?'

  

  Jordin Sparks
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Food

• I recognise a distinction between dream life and real life, between appearances and actualities. I confess to an over-powering desire to know whether I am asleep or awake--whether the environment and laws which affect me are external and permanent, or the transitory products of my own brain.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Real
  • Dream

• I really think [William] Burroughs was onto something here, when he said, "Dreams are a biologic necessity and your lifeline into space."

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Thinking
  • Dream
  • Space