Quentin Crisp Quotes

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

Quentin Crisp

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• Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • City
  • Diversity

• But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?

  

  Edgar Bergen
  • God
  • Know
  • Ever

• After 'Pitch Perfect,' I only want to be in sequels. No. 2 of whatever.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Want
  • Perfect
  • Whatever

• Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Truth
  • Enough
  • Belief

• I don't care if people think I'm gay. I know I'm not, so it doesn't bother me.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • People
  • Think
  • Care

• If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Reading
  • Listening
  • Gift

• Before, I could meet and greet all my fans one by one, but now, it's hard to remember all of their names. And my actions can sometimes cause misunderstandings. If I bow to one side, I've heard people from the other side ask why I didn't bow there.

  

  Park Bo-gum
  • People
  • Why
  • Remember

• Water for me is so essential, like swimming.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Me
  • Water
  • Swimming

• You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.

  

  Usher
  • You
  • Find
  • Sugar

• I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Forever

• Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you'll have much to live for.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Life
  • Live
  • Positive

• Typecasting is something I have to be careful with, since I play myself on Geek & Sundry so much on my weekly show 'The Flog.' That's why I did 'Dragon Age: Redemption' last year, so I could do something a little more dramatic and hard-edged.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Why
  • Age
  • Play

• I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Travel
  • Map
  • iPhone

• The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Society
  • Satisfied
  • Top

• For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Nice
  • Church
  • Jesus

• I think, looking back, there was a lot of fear of success in me. When you are successful, you have to keep it up... it requires you to be responsible, and I had been pretty irresponsible.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Success

• 'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • World
  • Writing
  • Guy

• Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Important
  • Game
  • Forever

• Finally, it was about how people treat one another. It was about human dignity. We forced the employers to treat us as equals, to sit down and talk to us about the work we do, how we do it, and what we get paid for it. And I believe that the principles for which we fought in 1934 are still true and still useful. Whether your job is pushing a four-wheeler, or programming a computer, I don't know of any way for working people to win basic economic justice and dignity except by being organized into a solid, democratic union.

  

  Harry Bridges
  • Treat
  • Another
  • Good People

• I think we're all sort of imprisoned by - or at least bound to - the choices we make... You want to say no at the right time and you want to say yes more sparingly.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Choices
  • Sort
  • Bound

• I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Pretty
  • Never
  • Looking

• I think there was something about being in a tough environment that gave me a certain drive.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Environment
  • Certain
  • Drive

• We're probably the happiest 1-6 team around. We showed a little life and got back to doing some of the things we need to do to be successful. We're not happy, but hopefully, we have something we can build off of.

  

  Dan Monson
  • Life
  • Team
  • Successful

• For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Change
  • Environment
  • Never