Quentin Crisp Quotes

I now know that if you describe things as better as they are, you are considered to be romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you are called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you are called a satirist.

Quentin Crisp

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• I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Life
  • Up
  • Art

• Of course I get hurt.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Hurt
  • Get
  • Course

• Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Reality
  • Never
  • Plans

• You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Time
  • Music
  • Interesting

• It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Family
  • Bad
  • Difficult

• I like to stand right in front of my opponent. I think it makes for an exciting fight.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Think
  • Fight
  • Stand

• The message from the Technion when I was a student was: 'You will be so good that when you graduate, everyone will want to hire you.'

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Good
  • Want
  • Student

• I had written my master's thesis on Ezra Pound on 'The Cantos.' And don't ask me about it. I don't remember anything about it.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Master

• As policymakers, we need to foster an environment that allows U.S.-based innovators and entrepreneurs to compete and to flourish. Excessive regulations and bureaucratic red tape dramatically increase the cost of doing business and create uncertainty for companies.

  

  Ralph Hall
  • Business
  • Environment
  • Red

• All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Great
  • Today
  • Old

• There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Stop
  • Police
  • Wishes

• Zionism is a revolutionary process. And in a revolution, you must be ready not to think too much about sentiments or human weaknesses.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Think
  • Revolution
  • Process

• We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Simple
  • Musicians

• I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Hope
  • House
  • Die

• In North Korea, grass is a vegetable eaten by the people, and they've got nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles. So, something more stringent than what's been done to North Korea is going to have to work; otherwise, a military strike is the only option.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Reading
  • Enjoy
  • Behind

• For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Night
  • Girl
  • Mom

• The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. It's a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections - and it's hidden inside an old palace in the old city of Barcelona.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • City
  • Library
  • Greatest

• Living according to the basic gospel principles will bring power, strength, and spiritual self-reliance into the lives of all Latter-day Saints.

  

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf
  • Power
  • Spiritual

• I'm not a trained musician. When folks talk about 'Well, you go to this or that' - the tenor, or the third part - I don't really know what they're talking about.

  

  Emmylou Harris

• I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects.

  

  John Burns
  • Done
  • Experience
  • High

• Yes, I think I am a realist. Because I make what I see. It's only the problem of seeing it. If you can imagine a thing, conjure it up in space - then you can make it, and tout de suite you're a realist. The universe is real but you can't see it. You have to imagine it. Once you imagine it, you can be realistic about reproducing it.

  

  Alexander Calder
  • Up
  • Real
  • Space

• I would love to get into feature films; I'm willing to do an action flick, I'm willing to do a romantic comedy.

  

  Kelli Berglund
  • Action
  • Comedy
  • Romantic

• I now know that if you describe things as better as they are, you are considered to be romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you are called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you are called a satirist.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Romantic
  • Realist