Quentin Crisp Quotes

I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!

Quentin Crisp

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• You take so much on as a therapist: you just sit there and listen to people talk with you, and you're trying to help people, and it can be draining.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • People
  • Trying
  • Help

• Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Good
  • God
  • Men

• Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Story
  • Economics
  • Narrative

• Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • People
  • Work
  • Women

• When I first heard about Twittering, I thought it was the most disgusting thing I'd ever heard of in my life. It's like the devil: the idea that your personal life is there for everybody.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Life
  • Thought
  • My Life

• I believe that pop culture is just, like, so ready for 'Watchmen.' We tried so hard to ride that wave between satire and reality, and all the things that make you still care about the character, but you don't miss the commentary about them.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Believe
  • Character
  • Reality

• I spent a couple of years not doing any music or anything, just here in Hawaii trying to get healthy and adjust to the new regimen I was setting up for myself.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Up
  • Music
  • Trying

• I do love being solo because I can have more of my own creative input to every aspect of my career.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Love
  • Career
  • Creative

• You should also appreciate the goodness around you, and surround yourself with positive people.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Positive
  • Yourself

• Being part of a team helped me so much. I know the fact that there was a man in the room with me all those years made the medicine go down. I had made the companies money. I didn't have to start, like a lot of women, from ground zero. My path was not the same as a woman starting out by herself.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Women
  • Money
  • Team

• You always try to fight someone from another country. But having said that, the public knows, everybody knows, when there's two Mexicans in the ring, there will be a war.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Country
  • War
  • Fight

• I do read a lot. I read more than I watch movies.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • Movies
  • More
  • Watch

• When you are culture, you're forever young, like Snoop. When you're on that level, it's just contributing to the gangsta.

  

  D.R.A.M.
  • Culture
  • You
  • Forever

• I don't really want to have any part of getting guilty people off.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • People
  • Want
  • Guilty

• I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.

  

  Aamir Khan
  • Success
  • Learned
  • Give

• I had tried to get focused on other things. But I always ended up back in the same place, and it wasn't making me happy. I needed to get the focus back.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Me

• Olympics is everyone's dream.

  

  Gagan Narang
  • Dream
  • Everyone
  • Olympics

• The act of writing itself distracts the thoughts, and what is read twice is commonly better remembered than what is transcribed.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Writing
  • Thoughts

• First, anyone who seriously intends to become a philosopher must 'once in his life' withdraw into himself and attempt, within himself, to overthrow and build anew all the sciences that, up to then, he has been accepting.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Life
  • Up

• When you're talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you'd better train every part of your body!

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Fighting
  • Baby

• It's an honor to win a Grammy, of course.

  

  Jon Gordon Langseth Jr.
  • Honor

• When I see things, I speak my mind. But I'm a quiet leader, if anything.

  

  Chris Copeland
  • Mind
  • Speak
  • Leader

• That really improves security and reduces management cost.

  

  Bob Muglia
  • Management
  • Security
  • Cost

• I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!

  

  Quentin Crisp