Quentin Crisp Quotes
For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
Quotes to Explore
-
But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
-
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.
-
I don't care if people think I'm gay. I know I'm not, so it doesn't bother me.
-
If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
-
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.
-
Water for me is so essential, like swimming.
Nastassja Kinski
-
You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.
-
The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the 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.
-
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.
-
'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
-
Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
-
It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan.
-
My senior year of high school, I got into UCLA, but my family couldn't afford it.
-
I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
-
New York Newsday said I was stealing from the black man, and I was failing at it whereas Michael Bolton was succeeding. So fuck 'em.
-
If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.
-
An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
-
Making loans and fighting poverty are normally two of the least glamorous pursuits around, but put the two together and you have an economic innovation that has become not just popular but downright chic. The innovation - microfinance - involves making small loans to poor entrepreneurs, usually in developing countries.
-
Toughest decision was early in my presidency when I ordered 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan. As somebody who had run to end a large troop presence overseas.
-
For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
