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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
Quentin CrispQuentin Crisp In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
Quentin CrispQuentin Crisp Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
Quentin CrispQuentin Crisp The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
Quentin CrispQuentin Crisp I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
Quentin CrispQuentin Crisp As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.
Quentin CrispQuentin Crisp Happiness is the only thing I understand.
Quentin CrispQuentin Crisp When I was young, we thought that Oscar Wilde was a great nobleman who had thrown his life away for love. Nothing could be less true. He slept with East Enders who were procured for him by Lord Alfred Douglas.
Quentin CrispQuentin Crisp Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
Quentin CrispQuentin Crisp While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it’s vastly overrated, it’s frequently unnecessary, and it’s messy), it is greatly to be preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion.
Quentin CrispQuentin Crisp It’s no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, ‘Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.’ By then, pigs will be your style.
Quentin CrispQuentin Crisp I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
Quentin CrispQuentin Crisp Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
Quentin CrispQuentin Crisp If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
Quentin CrispQuentin Crisp I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
Quentin CrispQuentin Crisp The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Quentin CrispQuentin Crisp
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Thoughts on a tapestry. Colour or black and white. A brush, a pen, A flash of light. Ideas flowing soon, about to take flight.
Gerard GleesonGerard Gleeson Like deep water, she was silent. His lips tasted of salt. He was both addicting and bitter all at once.
MoomerMoomer Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone else heart.
Alexander KandovAlexander Kandov And I would lie on your chest for hours and dream about the world in your arms but your thoughts were in another world.
Ani ShahverdyanAni Shahverdyan Your smile and your laughter lit my whole world.
Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki Often all we can do is breathe, even that can be hard sometimes.
Julia Kellogg HenryJulia Kellogg Henry I am addicted to your madness drunk on your toxic love. Infect me with your poison, lets make storms rage above.
Laura Natoli-KearneyLaura Natoli-Kearney The more you fail, recover, and improve, the better you are as a person.
Laura CleggLaura Clegg
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Expect me to continue what I’ve been doing, which is trying to take over the world.
Kevin HartKevin Hart As far as songwriters, I’ve always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks I don’t think there’s been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.
Lou HoltzLou Holtz I’ve always been multi-cultural myself. I’m not black and I’m not white and I’m not pink and I’m not green. Eartha Kitt has no color, and that is how barriers are broken.
Eartha KittEartha Kitt All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinPierre Teilhard de Chardin All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class – which wasn’t such a bad deal.
Sylvia EarleSylvia Earle It’s been our goal as a program to always give our players the best opportunity to be successful, whether it’s personally, academically, or athletically.
Nick SabanNick Saban All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.
Lou HoltzLou Holtz
