Quentin Crisp Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
-
Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
-
I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
-
I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
-
The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
-
Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
-
As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and public places vibrant and healthy.
-
All of my main characters have been under 30.
-
I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
-
When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
-
I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.
-
I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.
-
We, as entrepreneurs, can be held responsible for our actions every single day, not every election cycle.
-
I'm a really bad liar.
-
I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
-
I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.
-
Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
-
There are 3.5 million Americans in Puerto Rico. So, just like we're quick to go everywhere else and help, we expect that same of America for Puerto Rico. These are U.S. citizens!
-
If we cannot agree, then at least we ought to move on.
-
Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
-
Europe is a much more complex historical, cultural, and geographical concept than is envisaged in the reduced approach by the European Union.
-
When Larry Wright won the Pulitzer for The Looming Tower we all strutted around for weeks, until some sourpuss among us noted that it was actually Larry, and not the rest of us, who won the prize.
-
I've always been that person: If it gets into my head, I've got to do it until I get it perfect - a perfectionist's attitude.
-
Mass-murderers are simply people who have had ENOUGH.
