Quentin Crisp
Related QUENTIN CRISP QUENTIN CRISP What will make you a star is in you SOTONYE ANGA JEFFREY FRY BILL MAHER DEYTH BANGER ALAN MOORE We're not as arrogant as they think we are. And I don't think they have a chip on their shoulder as ... JAMIE MORRIS Not as many as they should. More of them are distracted by what's on TV or what catches their ear. JEFF RAINEY I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel l... JOHN DENVER MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed! I ARE It should not be surprised by seeing in our weird world that the people for enjoying own bread can a... ANUJ SOMANY Everyone out there is using you for their entertainment and what you mostly need is to be entertainm... SUPERNA BATHEJA C. JOYBELL C. EDMUND BURKE MEISTER ECKHART WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY RICHARD BRANSON People are on the go so much more these days. People aren't home as much as they used to be. They wa... MARK TEPE They do not so much as hesitate in their actions, and I realize they cannot see my slick dark coat i... LAURA VANARENDONK BAUGH I'm not unhappy, for the most part, although I do think there is a certain emptiness and meaningless... M.E. THOMAS All white people are born with a singular mission in life in order to pass from regular whitehood in... CHRISTIAN LANDER This is the same establishment that all those who want, or rather aspire to, to be literary figures ... ABIGAIL GEORGE Words are sometimes sensitive instruments of precision with which delicate operations may be perform... HELEN MERELL LYND For many people, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. We are grateful to have so many business ... BILL MILLIKEN So many of our friends, families and fans lost their homes, not to mention their livelihoods, so we ... FRED LEBLANC It's not so much the law as the sociology of the board. By and large, most people expect they are go... JOEL SELIGMAN GEORGE R.R. MARTIN JOHN STUART MILL Sometimes, too, when their spiritual masters, such as confessors and superiors, do not approve of th... SAN JUAN DE LA CRUZ One thing that happens because adults are uncomfortable is we use a lot of euphemisms. Those can jus... NORA GELPERIN DIANE ACKERMAN LUCY STONE DAVE BARRY SUNDAY ADELAJA There's so much complexity that in a sense the people confused by the benefit are the ones who are t... ROBERT HAYES BOOTH TARKINGTON Surely, our greatest parental hope is that our children attain a state of righteousness. It is the o... GLENN I. LATHAM VICTOR HUGO There is a clear need to have qualified people acting as agents because it is a guarantee that the p... GIORGIO MARCHETTI Only fools wait, and only tools bait. CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ... DWIGHT W. HAYES What we're seeing here is a laying bare of the political process without the euphemisms, without the... DAVID MORRISON ROMOLA GARAI W. H. AUDEN HARUKI MURAKAMI Quite a number of writers comment on the decidedly human character of the fairies, but it must be ob... LEWIS SPENCE GURU NANAK JOHN RUSKIN JOHN RUSKIN JOHN HURT I try not to dwell on that. Criticism goes with all sorts of things in life. I don't think about tha... PAT QUINN They had applied their doubts to the very head that had introduced doubt as a tool for advancing kno... RUSSELL SHORTO IMMANUEL KANT DEYTH BANGER PETER GELDERLOOS MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA ANTHONY T. HINCKS F. SIONIL JOSE ROBERTSON DAVIES SARAH J. MAAS They are looking at me to be a utility guy. On some nights, be a four or five, or on some nights be ... JAMIE HEWARD They have not forgotten the Mysteries,' she said, ‘they have found them too difficult. They want a... MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY RAINER MARIA RILKE DEYTH BANGER MARTHA BECK GEORGE ELIOT I think that it's hard for vain people to be funny. I think you can look any way you want as lon... TARAN KILLAM I do not believe in a universal religion any more than I believe in a universal language. My feeling... GEORGE A. MOORE GRANDMA MOSES TERRY WOGAN JON RONSON Some guys, when they get into coaching they're just dying to be a head coach, ... I was not as much ... LANCE REYNOLDS (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON BRIAN LITTRELL Our parents are not the only people on this planet, and we should not base our life choices on what ... LUKASZ LANIECKI JERRY RICE Unlike a lot of retailers, they are somewhat limited in what they can offer. I just don't think they... MICHAEL SCHROEDER BARRY MCCAFFREY MAUREEN FORRESTER SHERWIN B. NULAND The airlines are not flying as much, so they're not burning as much fuel, and the bankrupt airlines ... GLENN BURKE PAUL JOHNSON Some people lie and never tell the truth so won't hurt the person they love.
Some people lie and the... VANDA M Is constructive criticism really constructive? Not really. You can't make a child better by pointing... H. NORMAN WRIGHT RONY ABOVITZ (Chelsea) is powerful, disciplined, well-organized and they have got so many match-winners. If you d... ALAN CURBISHLEY I think they rely on me so much to have the ball. So their confidence is not as high as it should be... JASMINE WHITBY PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS JAMES ALLEN ANNE WOJCICKI ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL DON DELILLO JASON MRAZ Planting a tree is like having a baby SOTONYE ANGA SARAH REES BRENNAN DIANE SETTERFIELD I think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a re... SONNY ROLLINS
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QUENTIN S. CRISP The pictures are indisputable, ... they don't show that she wasn't a regular kid. JONATHAN CRISP Treading lightly with the water we've got and waiting for more will ensure that there's plenty when ... DALE CRISP Our rover might not last that long. JOY CRISP I was a little disappointed in the West Lincoln match. We lost a few matches in which we were ahead. MARK CRISP This is an unusual event in that it's lasted so long and that it's occurred at such a unique time, b... DALE CRISP They've adhered to the restrictions well. We just need them to continue that patience and to continu... DALE CRISP We're actually more in a deficit than we were at the height of the drought when the lake was at its ... DALE CRISP The images provide measurements of surface features and are allowing us to assess the slopes more ca... JOY CRISP It looks like a loose rock that is blacker and rougher than the material of Home Plate and so we wan... JOY CRISP When you look at this image you can really say that Spirit has found some interesting stuff. JOY CRISP Putting all the clues together -- the mineral, chemical and textural clues -- we have found good evi... JOY CRISP We're interested in finding out whether that bright rim material is the same as the outcrop rock or ... JOY CRISP It really depends on the specific mission and whether you know enough to give those smarts. It certa... JOY CRISP For a very long time now I've been saying to young women, 'You can have it all, but not all ... QUENTIN BRYCE I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Au... QUENTIN BRYCE Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been imperilled by the wo... QUENTIN BRYCE The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of... 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Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be sa... 
Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne. 
You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them. 
And she's always writing a book. It's always the same book. Slander. Treason. How many euphemisms ca... 
The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony....
No matter how powerful our political and religious leaders think they are, they are as dust before t... 
Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of... 
We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said ... 
Today, young girls measure the quality of their beauty based upon its entertainment value. The more ... 
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarrelin... 
People should not worry as much about what they do but rather about what they are. If they and their... 
We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young fo... 
Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they ... 
History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... 
The form of association, however, which if mankind continue to improve, must be expected in the end ... 
Devising a vocabulary for gardening is like devising a vocabulary for sex. There are the correct Lat... 
Women are in bondage; their clothes are a great hindrance to their engaging in any business which wi... 
Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated ... 
People lost many years of their lives as a result of procrastination, they lacked the ability to rul... 
Some day the laws of glamour must be discovered, because they are so important that the world would ... 
So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation, which, in the face... 
I try not to live in the future too much; that can make you crazy as an actor. There are so many peo... 
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for... 
Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense ... 
They go to holy places for a bath, Their minds are impure and bodies are like thieves; If by bath th... 
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for... 
The things that I've enjoyed most are not really science fiction. They are not much fun to make ... 
Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and ... 
Cops aren't really your friends, they are trying to be your friends but they are not.... 
We must realistically accept that revolution is a social war, not because we like war, but because w... 
Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a ba... 
People who are two faced, usually forget which mask they are wearing at some point in their life. 
Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They ... 
The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men ... 
You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. 
Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For ... 
Save your ass, give my ass.... what a friend you are... 
There are several ways to mess up your life by fighting to make your calendar age match your felt ag... 
I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, a... 
Now that I am ninety-five years old, looking back over the years, I have seen many changes taking pl... 
'Senior Citizen' and 'Silver Surfer' are the new euphemisms. Unless you're a fem... 
A tiny little baby!' says Tam. 'People look at me like I'm an animal. People who don't know me judge... 
I really believe that's one of the many reasons that God had put me right in the middle of the Backs... 
There are a lot of young players here right now, and these guys are going to eventually learn as the... 
Young people may think that they are only experimenting, but, as this study shows, they are really g... 
Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they... 
Cancer cells are fixed at an age where they are still too young to have learned the rules of the soc... 
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In our industry, there are so many competing companies and games, and they have people constantly ou... 
The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some... 
Many times they would lynch someone by a railroad track so that passing trains would see and pass th... 
People are used to dealing with risk. You are told if you smoke, you are at higher risk of lung canc... 
It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there do... 
People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furth... 
I think especially with the Internet and the amount of reality shows that are going on, there's ... 
I think more people are going to continue reading YA as well as reading other books because they hav... 
People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh... 
Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are. 
Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don&... 
I steal from every movie ever made. 
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