Quentin Crisp Quotes

You see, astrology is like fortune-telling. If you can't get it right, you say, "Well, if Venus was doing something peculiar in the background, that would alter your prognostication--because, of course, astrology is rubbish.

Quentin Crisp

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• The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • People
  • Government
  • German

• I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to be that way. I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Small
  • Hate
  • Running

• I have a condition called Aspergers Syndrome, which is like a mild form of autism It means I don't interact properly in certain social situations.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Like
  • Social
  • Autism

• It is generally believed that it is the students who derive benefit by working under the guidance of a professor. In reality, the professor benefits equally by his association with gifted students working under him.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Reality
  • Him
  • Professor

• I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Character
  • Action
  • Drama

• I had a dream cast when Dan first went off and wrote 'Ghostbusters 3' by himself. It was so long ago that my dream cast was Ben Stiller, Chris Farley, and Chris Rock. That would have been cool. Now, a lot of time has passed, and there are a lot of young funny people.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Men are born privileged in the scale of things - I'm generalizing, but it's true. Women have to define themselves in the eyes of men. They have to fight for their rights, especially in a society that will pretend that there is no fight or no battle, that it's a cliche, that feminists are reactionary, all these things.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• For my money, when you're doing an on-camera performance, unless it's for something particularly stylised, you are, by and large, striving for naturalism.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Money
  • Doing
  • Performance

• Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Heart
  • Prayer
  • Tongue

• A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Men
  • Death
  • Strong

• I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.

  

  Larry David
  • Walking
  • Dying
  • Talking

• My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.

  

  Mackenzie Phillips
  • Time
  • School
  • Mother

• Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Art
  • Process
  • Potential

• If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Different
  • Past
  • Present

• I have all these rules for avoiding depression. One is going outside in the morning. I don't keep breakfast in the house, so that I have to go out first thing when I first wake up. And then I come back and shower.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • Up
  • House
  • Morning

• Sometimes in the middle of the night, I wake up with a song in my head, and I have to finish it so I can fall back asleep.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Song
  • Night

• I actually voted for Nader.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Actually
  • Voted

• I don't think there's a fan out there who hasn't had a family member or known someone personally who's been in the midst of divorce - perhaps not necessarily gotten the divorce or executed it, or perhaps they have - and still, in many cases, they found themselves back with the person that they were married to.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Family
  • Think
  • Divorce

• If he exalts himself, I humble him. If he humbles himself, I exalt him. And I go on contradicting him Until he understands That he is a monster that passes all understanding.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Humble
  • Passes
  • Exalts

• I think I quite desperately wanted to have that kind of special companionship [like marriage ] . . . a special relationship, yet I hid from it for many, many years and pretended to be cynical about it.

  

  David Bowie
  • Thinking
  • Special
  • Cynical

• We made happy sounds because we were upset... just trying to make a positive situation out of a negative one.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Trying
  • Happy
  • Positive

• I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Strong

• My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Husband

• You see, astrology is like fortune-telling. If you can't get it right, you say, "Well, if Venus was doing something peculiar in the background, that would alter your prognostication--because, of course, astrology is rubbish.

  

  Quentin Crisp