Quentin Crisp Quotes
Another friend began to say, 'Well, Quentin has a problem of adjusting himself to society and he...' This sentence was never finished. The ballet teacher expostulated, 'I don't agree. Quentin does exactly as he pleases. The rest of us have to adapt ourselves to him.'
Quentin Crisp
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
Dale Carnegie
If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
Barry McCaffrey
There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
Hamish Bowles
I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just writing down what's happening in front of me.
Victoria Aveyard
I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.
Octavia Spencer
When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.
Natalie Cole
The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
I cannot believe that I get a tour bus. I've been traveling in a van for 15 years. I used to look at people who were on buses and be like, 'Whoa, man, some day.'
Rachel Platten
As President Obama clearly said just a few months ago, China must play by the international rules, the international trading system from which they've benefited so much.
Gary Locke
The most important thing that I've figured out is that things work out the way they're supposed to. We try to have all this control and fashion things the way we want, but everything happens for a reason, and in the end it works out the way it's supposed to.
Randy Couture
My whole family can talk. They are all car salesmen. They are all funny.
P. J. O'Rourke
I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.
Zhang Ziyi
To be honest, I've always been really interested in the role of the host, whether it's our kind of Billy Crystal-style traditional awards show host or when you have someone like Louis C.K. or a more edgy stand-up comedian do their take on a hosting role.
Andy Biersack
Black Veil Brides
The passion has never left me. I live as two people - myself, Dan Fante, and Bruno Dante or Mickey Di Salvo, or whoever I say I am in one of my books. I can tap that Bruno character any time I need to. He lives inside me like a quiet, simmering pool of magma. Years ago I stopped feeding him with booze and he was kind enough to stop trying to kill me. That's our truce.
Dan Fante
The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.
James Connolly
Who ordained that a few should have the land of Britain as a perquisite, who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth?
David Lloyd George
It slows down grocery shopping, because so many women at the store watch the show. I always end up talking to two or three people every time I go to Ralphs. It's fun.
James Denton
Another friend began to say, 'Well, Quentin has a problem of adjusting himself to society and he...' This sentence was never finished. The ballet teacher expostulated, 'I don't agree. Quentin does exactly as he pleases. The rest of us have to adapt ourselves to him.'
Quentin Crisp
