Quentin Crisp Quotes

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.

Quentin Crisp

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: December 25, 1908 - November 21, 1999

Topics

LiveTimeUniverseFindHumanSide

There's a lot of ways to win a belt, but taking it from a champion is very important to me.

Andre Ward

MeWinChampionImportantBeltVery

The saving love of God is his doing whatever must be done, at great cost to himself, and for the least deserving, so that he might enthrall them with what will make them supremely happy forever, namely, himself.

John Piper

LoveGodGreatHappyDoingDone

Telling lies does not work in advertising.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

WorkAdvertisingLiesTellingDoes

You can talk about anything if you go about it the right way, which is never malicious.

Rodney Carrington

YouGoWayTalkNeverRight

If you are the heel, and if you are doing your job right, you are most hated.

Roddy Piper

JobDoingYouRightYourMost

I've engineered my life so that my only value in this world is in my writing, which is really dangerous, because if it's a failure, then my life is meaningless.

Josh Tillman

LifeFailureValueWritingWorld

Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there.

Anne McCaffrey

LiveMindProblemsAliveLivingUs

It is possible to be different and still be all right. There can be two - or more - answers to the same question, and all can be right.

Anne Wilson Schaef

Be DifferentPossibleQuestionRight

Having a memoir and a retrospective of your work running almost simultaneously when you're still alive does feel a bit posthumous.

Anthony Browne

WorkFeelYouAliveMemoirAlmost

I was directing as a kid in movies, and that was always my strongest interest. When I was under contract at Universal, I conned an editing room out of them and spent my money to rent a camera and shoot film and make some movies.

Tim Matheson

MoneyCameraMoviesEditingKidOut

Under Thatcher, who ruled us with an iron rod, great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very colourful and progressive.

Noel Gallagher

GreatArtAmazingMusiciansHouse

'The White Album' is a record I can go back to time and time again, and always find something different that I never noticed or appreciated before.

Mark Hoppus

TimeBackFindWhiteI CanGo

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