Quentin Crisp Quotes

Every day someone notices me and waves to me, or stops and speaks to me, or asks me for an autograph, or photographs me.

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• A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Famous
  • Quiet

• Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Security
  • Rich
  • More

• My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Dad

• We benefit tremendously from the E.U. Britain does very well in getting back E.U. money for the amount it puts in.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Money
  • Back
  • Well

• The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • Question

• Não tenho ambições nem desejosSer poeta não é uma ambição minhaÉ a minha maneira de estar sozinho.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with 'expressing' myself with obscure creative impressions.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Laughter

• Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever: But, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an œconomy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure that he may speak it the longer.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • May
  • Truth
  • Exercise

• Sometimes I'm scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath

• What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening-all bunk. No guarantees of anything, not even the guarantee that life isn't one big joke.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Life
  • Future
  • Wall

• I'm for decency - period. I'm for anything and everything that bodes love and consideration for my fellow man. But when lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday - cash me out.

  

  Frank Sinatra
  • Service
  • Period
  • Sunday

• Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?

  

  John Adams
  • Free
  • Catholic

• Space is really domain expansion.

  

  Dylan Taylor
  • Space

• For me, it's about not being too aware of what you look like because if you are, you're trying too hard and I don't think that actually makes you look good... I've known from very early on that I don't look perfect.

  

  Clemence Poesy
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Perfect

• People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.

  

  Bill Laswell
  • People
  • Music

• Let's be real: more often than not, Hollywood does not have three-dimensional characters for women to play.

  

  Phoebe Robinson
  • Women
  • Real

• I've always been happy playing in Kansas City.

  

  Billy Butler
  • Happy
  • City

• The biggest lie in the world is in answer to the question, 'How are you?' People usually say, 'I'm fine,' but that's mostly bull. Everyone wants to display being perfect. They tell themselves and their friends, 'I drive this car, I own this house, I'm fine.' People ball up into these tight wads of repression.

  

  Brittany Howard
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• There's a bunch of stuff I want to learn. Instead of waiting around on set all day, I'd rather be learning something cool.

  

  Jason Momoa
  • Learning
  • Cool
  • Waiting

• As a linguist, I see the arbitrariness of strictures editors force on me as a writer.

  

  John McWhorter

• You cannot avoid mortality. But you can choose your way of meeting it. And that is the most that any man can hope for.Live well, my son.

  

  David Gerrold
  • Live
  • Hope
  • Son

• Like Musa you too will be saved from the Sea. Just look through it and see Him. Then the illusion will crumble and you'll be left with the only Reality: Him.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Reality
  • Sea

• Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and better suited to provoke than to prevent deformities.

  

  Maria Montessori
  • Soul

• Every day someone notices me and waves to me, or stops and speaks to me, or asks me for an autograph, or photographs me.

  

  Quentin Crisp
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