Quentin Crisp Quotes

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• I voted for Barack Obama.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Barack Obama
  • Barack
  • Obama

• There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Because
  • Canada
  • Incentive

• I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • People
  • Always
  • Down

• Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Right
  • Duty
  • Romanticism

• When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.

  

  Ralph Brown
  • World
  • Mind
  • Thought

• Freedom across the world is a result of many individuals working together.

  

  Dan Gable
  • World
  • Together
  • Freedom

• We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Power

• We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.

  

  Patricia Sun
  • Great
  • Children
  • Beauty

• Numerous academic studies have shown that amateur investors make poor traders - buying stocks for the wrong reasons, holding losers for too long, and acting on whims and emotions.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Long
  • Acting
  • Emotions

• I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • World
  • Years
  • Protection

• I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Feel
  • Opportunities

• When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Money
  • Giving

• My parents are not theatrical people, but my dad took me to the theater.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • People
  • Parents
  • Dad

• I really feel like I honed in on a sound and a style of writing that best fits me.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Writing
  • Style
  • Best

• I became, suddenly, not just a Muslim in faith. I became a Muslim in politics. Somebody whose politics were pre-defined by one interpretation of Islam.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Faith
  • Politics
  • Islam

• Metaphysics is a science.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Science
  • Metaphysics

• 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 don't like to feel like I'm in a club when I'm in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Song
  • Feel

• Many, I fear, would like glory, who have no wish for grace. They would [want to] have the wages, but not the work; the harvest, but not the labor; the reaping, but not the sowing; the reward, but not the battle. But it may not be.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Work
  • May
  • Fear

• In the '50s, critics used to say I had a 'dangerous' act.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Dangerous
  • Act
  • Used

• These thieves defend themselves by saying, 'I was there all the time, and the officials missed me.' Favorite excuses for missing surveillance checkpoints: jacket covered the number took off the shirt with the number hidden in a crowd.

  

  Joe Henderson
  • Time
  • Missing
  • Excuses

• The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Form
  • Sake
  • Reproach

• An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Missing
  • Form
  • Last