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

• Comedy is a comfortable yet challenging place for me. I will always feel an inner pressure to do my best and to improve.

  

  Eddie McClintock
  • Me
  • Comedy
  • Feel

• If you're a real hip-hop fan and a real street music fan, and you just love good music, you're gonna play it from top to bottom, and you're gonna get the concept, you're gonna get the story of my life, you're gonna be entertained, you're gonna dance you're gonna feel emotion, you're gonna get the truth, whether you like it or hate it.

  

  Nipsey Hussle
  • Feels
  • Story
  • Street

• When I was very young, I wanted to be a girl. I was jealous that girls got to be princesses and wear skirts. It tormented me. When I was 6, I even heard that you could change your sex, and I was very intrigued until the moment I realized that if I changed into a girl, I would be an ugly girl, and this is the last thing I wanted to be.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Girl
  • Change
  • Sex

• Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Change
  • Day

• When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Inspiration
  • Voice
  • Empowerment

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

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Change
  • Environment
  • Never