Quentin Crisp Quotes

That's the only sense in which I've been lucky: I have the kind of face to which cosmetics could be applied.

Quentin Crisp

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• Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.

  

  Ed Smith
  • War
  • Reality
  • End

• My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Good
  • Job
  • Think

• When I worked at Microsoft, I got to go and visit a bunch of different companies. Probably a hundred different companies a year. You'd see all the different ways they'd work. The guys who did Ventura Publisher one day, and then United Airlines the next. You'd see the 12 guys in Texas doing Doom, and then you'd go see Aetna life insurance.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Life
  • Work
  • Different

• I don't want to over-promise and under-deliver.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Want
  • Promise

• One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Work
  • Own
  • Work Hard

• Who said that being Latino is to be a stereotype? Characters are stereotypes when making plans or without shades. I do not believe in the picture or model established in the movies.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Believe
  • Picture
  • Model

• I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Change
  • Stress
  • Meaning

• What's brilliant about the United States system of government is separation of power. Not only the executive, legislative, judicial branches, but also the independence of the military from civilians, an independent media and press, an independent central bank.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Power
  • Government
  • Military

• Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Time
  • Dog
  • Pet

• Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Audience
  • See
  • Blue

• Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • God
  • Business
  • Attention

• Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.

  

  Beck
  • Art
  • Mother
  • Nature

• Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Want
  • Imagination
  • Nothing

• I took the whole college prep trajectory, and then in my senior year of high school, I decided that performing was something that I had always done as a kid, and I loved it... I said, 'This makes people happy when I do this, I feel good, I get to pretend and explore other areas and learn so much'.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • People
  • Good
  • School

• I do have an outsider's complex of getting made fun of. I was made fun of as a kid, and I don't have the stomach for it.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Fun
  • Kid
  • Outsider

• Be mobile at all times, even if it causes you suffering or feelings of loneliness. Unless you're willing to do that, you're never going to get the bigger rewards.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Never
  • Suffering
  • Loneliness

• Cultural values are, in themselves, neutral as well as universal, and so much depends on how individuals or ethnic groups use them. Values are influenced by so many factors such as geography, climate, religion, the economy and technology.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Technology
  • Religion
  • Values

• Aircraft are always going to be something that terrorists are interested in because you bring down an airliner, you have drawn the world's attention.

  

  Jack Keane
  • World
  • Attention
  • Always

• 'I knew if I came out, there was a possibility I would lose my career. But I didn't do it for my career, I did it for me to live my truth,' she says. 'I thought, 'I don't want to live and have any shame whatsoever.' I should be proud of who I am, and I don't care if people approve or not. It is who I am.'

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • People
  • Live
  • She

• Loosening control of your life into Gods hands brings an overwhelming sense of peace and confidence.

  

  Dan Ellis
  • Control
  • Confidence
  • Overwhelming

• I don’t believe, however, that every fiction we orchestrate is good. I cling to those that are painful, those that arise from a profound crisis of all our illusions. I love unreal things when they show signs of firsthand knowledge of the terror, and hence an awareness that they are unreal, that they will not hold up for long against the collisions. Human beings are extremely violent animals, and the violence they are always ready to use in order to impose their own eternal, salvific life vest, while shattering those of others, is frightening.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Knowledge
  • Crisis
  • Terror

• My first instrument was the piano; I played in the church, and before that I sang in church. I didn't learn the guitar until I was 24 years old.

  

  Chuck Brown
  • Church

• Designers love subtle cues, because subtlety is one of the traits of sophisticated design. But Web users are generally in such a hurry that they routinely miss subtle cues.

  

  Steve Krug
  • Designers
  • Users
  • Cues

• That's the only sense in which I've been lucky: I have the kind of face to which cosmetics could be applied.

  

  Quentin Crisp