Quentin Crisp Quotes

Bit by bit, I was becoming the almost acceptable face of homosexuality.

Quentin Crisp

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• When all are wrong, everyone is right.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Right
  • Wrong
  • Everyone

• Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!

  

  Orville Wright
  • Years
  • Discover
  • Secrets

• Our best thoughts come from others.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Best
  • Thoughts
  • Come

• My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Science
  • Action
  • Environmental

• Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Position
  • Arts
  • Lillian Gish

• You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Character
  • Learn
  • Human

• I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Think
  • Light
  • Me

• The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Together

• I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Up
  • Like
  • Technique

• Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Know
  • Heartbeat
  • Clumsy

• I know this will blow your mind, but most people would probably never ever get it, but I listen to classical music when nobody else is around. It calms me down and I can get into this, like, deep thinking mode, you know, because there's really no lyrics to it, so you're not following something that - that you're listening to a story.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• There's no such thing as 'too much TV,' unless we're all spending more and not watching more.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • More
  • Watching
  • Too Much

• I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Tennis
  • Court
  • Only

• I wouldn't say I'm a phenomenon, just a great athlete.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Great
  • Athlete
  • Say

• The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Good
  • Always
  • Human

• Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.

  

  Nas
  • Music
  • Words
  • Couple

• It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Journey
  • Expected
  • Farther

• If I fall, pick up the flag, kiss it, and keep on going.

  

  Omar Torrijos Herrera
  • Up
  • Fall
  • Kiss

• For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • Me
  • Young

• Profit per se is not my motive.

  

  Chris Hughes

• The subject does not belong to the world, but it is a limit of the world. (5.632)

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • World

• The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.

  

  James Allen
  • God
  • Thoughts
  • Farmer

• In the words of Madame Leota in the film The Haunted Mansion, 'You try, you fail, you try, you fail, but the only true failure is when you stop trying

  

  Carrie Fletcher
  • Trying
  • Stop
  • Failure

• Bit by bit, I was becoming the almost acceptable face of homosexuality.

  

  Quentin Crisp