Quentin Crisp Quotes

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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• I try to get in people's heads. My job is to get the ball, so if I'm talking trash to an O-lineman or quarterback or receiver, and they start thinking about me, that's good, because they aren't thinking about the game anymore.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • People
  • Good
  • Thinking

• When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.

  

  Naomi Benaron
  • Hope
  • Want
  • Running

• Building codes are a good thing. People who throw rocks at inspectors are being naive. It's a lot like police officers; we want them around unless they stop us for a ticket. It's the same with inspectors.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • People
  • Good
  • Stop

• I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Good
  • Sun
  • Lying

• I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Bad

• When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • People
  • Good
  • Happy

• Every woman looks good in a flamenco dress.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Good
  • Woman
  • Dress

• Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.

  

  B. J. Novak
  • Good
  • You
  • Know

• My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Good
  • Family
  • Father

• I think that what's been holding composers back a great deal is that they feel they must have a new style every year. This, in my case, would be hopeless. In fact, it is said that I have no style at all, but that doesn't matter. I just go on doing, as they say, my thing. I believe this takes a certain courage.

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Style

• The good reviews that people have told me about through the years haven't really helped me do my job. So it's kind of like, if your hair turns out right you want to go out, you don't just want to stay in and look in the mirror. That's kind of what reading a review is like to me; it's like reveling in something that's just one night.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • Good
  • Job

• Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.

  

  Valerie June
  • Good
  • Way
  • Like

• Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Good
  • Parents
  • Baseball

• People ask me, 'Is 3D a good medium for horror movies?' I think it's the perfect thing for horror movies because it really puts you into it.

  

  Tania Raymonde
  • People
  • Good
  • Perfect

• I don't have one role that I want to play. I guess... I want to be a producer. I want to be an activist. I want to be proactive in bringing about work for men, women, boys, girls, everybody who is good at what they do and deserve a shot at it.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Good
  • Work
  • Men

• I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Good
  • Know
  • Movies

• My first impression when I made it through was 'Good, because I'm going to prove to you that I deserve to be here', because they told me that sometimes I lack confidence in my performance and sometimes I'm not as consistent as they'd like me to be.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • Good
  • Me
  • Confidence

• It's fun to be an actor and dress up, but I'm happy being me and just loving accepting my personal style.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Fun

• Acting doesn't feel good. It's not comfortable to feel all this stuff, it's not.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Good
  • Acting
  • Feel Good

• As you can imagine I'm disappointed as anything that I was not selected to be the presidential running mate. And I find it continually appalling that it would be a radical thing to have a woman on the ticket.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Running
  • Woman
  • Find

• If some people think, "Why am I eating a dead bird soaked in poop?" I think if some people get disgusted by that, it's all to the good. Their coronary arteries will be healthier.

  

  Neal Barnard
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that's cool.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Book
  • Day
  • Passion

• It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Good
  • Running
  • Style