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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.

Jim Leach

GreatShoesYourselfLearnYouRead

So many women waited until later to get married and then even later after they got married to have children. And then they have problems, and it takes them five, six, seven years to have children.

Joan Lunden

WomenChildrenProblemsYearsGet

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.

John C. Calhoun

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If the story's interesting and it's a compelling script, I'd be thrilled to be a part of it.

Andre Braugher

StoryInterestingPartCompelling

I've been able to carve out spaces for myself. At Sundance, I'm in the mountains - my property is private. I get on a horse and ride for three, four hours. Sometimes five. I get lost. But when I'm in, I'm in.

Robert Redford

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I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.

Anna Chlumsky

MyselfPeopleOnlyWhoSurround

Go into the auto mechanic, you've got to know computers to be able to work on the cars.

Ann McLane Kuster

WorkComputersMechanicYouGoKnow

I feel most alive, most electric with faith, breath, and courage, when I think of God as a current that runs through all that is. Not by will or by choice. Not as a benediction but because there are laws even God must obey.

Tracy K. Smith

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I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.

Tom Stoppard

WorkFreedomDictatorshipWantJail

Because you've done the horrible jobs, it gives you an even grittier determination to succeed.

Rob James-Collier

DeterminationSucceedYouDoneEven

Alibaba model is the model that I am supporting in China, in India, and even in Japan.

Masayoshi Son

I AmIndiaChinaJapanModelEven

More eyes on the court is better than just two eyes. There's always a time for one voice. But when the guys are working, I believe in those guys working and making the players better. Hands-on.

Jason Kidd

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