Quentin Crisp Quotes

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Quentin Crisp

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• Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Space
  • Violence
  • Architecture

• A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Work
  • Power
  • Soul

• I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Up
  • Different
  • Song

• I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Republican
  • Conservative

• If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Chance

• I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • God
  • Nature
  • Environment

• Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem, and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex, in parenting, in every important aspect of existence - and how high he or she is likely to rise. The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Important
  • Love
  • Person

• The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.

  

  Watt Key
  • Faith
  • Voice
  • Fool

• I don't like denial. I don't like repression.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Like
  • Denial
  • Repression

• I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Father
  • Hate
  • Support

• I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Me
  • Never
  • Everybody Else

• I do get recognized, more and more every day.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • More

• Every single administration in American political history has put cronies and pals and donors into political positions. But normally those people become the ambassador to Liechtenstein or the deputy undersecretary of commerce.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • People
  • American
  • History

• It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 years on this planet, and what I'm saying to myself is, 'What do I want to leave here?'

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • God
  • Day
  • End

• Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Work
  • Beginning
  • Computers

• I was working for a Swedish TV show - I'm Swedish - who basically did kind of spectacular stories. It was almost like CBS '60 Minutes,' but a Swedish version where we actually did travel quite a lot. After a while, I realized that travel is the most fun part of this, so why not do it for a longer time and just go off and explore?

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Time
  • Why
  • Fun

• If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Why
  • Truth
  • Trouble

• Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Sex
  • Dying
  • Generation

• People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twists in our DNA that make us unique. America is exceptional because we were founded upon the notion that everyone should be free to pursue life, liberty, and happiness.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Life
  • America

• We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Age
  • Old
  • Youth

• I'm a pretty cliche actor in that I hate watching myself on film.

  

  Hamish Linklater
  • Pretty
  • Hate
  • Myself

• I was doing a tour of the 'Batman' live stage production, and I challenged the cast to join me to run. One time, we were running in Switzerland just before Christmas, and it was heavy snow. Another time, we were running down the Seine in Paris on Christmas Day, and we all had Santa hats on.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Time
  • Live
  • Running

• He had one uniform practice, and a very bad one it was, during the time of family worship, and just three or four seconds before the conclusion of the prayer, he started to his feet, and ran barking round the apartment like a crazed beast.

  

  James Hogg
  • Time
  • Family
  • Bad

• The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Problem