Top 98 Crispin Quotes
#1. Why do you bother, Crispin? You married a fighter, so stop trying to convince her that the sidelines suit her better.
Jeaniene Frost
#2. And what are you doing with a bloody cat, Charles? Some sort of mascot four our dear Reaper here?"
"Not another word," Spade snapped, getting into the car and seating the carrier on his lap.
"Ian, trust me
don't," Crispin said
Jeaniene Frost
#3. Ian," Bones drew out warningly.
He waved a hand. "Stop growling, Crispin. I'm well over my former attraction to your wife, but the point remains that I'm stunning."
With that, he got out of the car and sauntered off with his open shirt flapping behind him like twin mini capes.
Jeaniene Frost
#4. Crispin Hershey!" Lady Suze holds up both hands as if I'm the sun god Ra. "Your event was totes amazeballs! As they say.
David Mitchell
#5. I always imagine that if I met Dr. Seuss, he would be very similar to Crispin Glover.
Jim Gaffigan
#6. Rotten, dirty, back-slapping, wine-quaffing, haemorrhoid-hosting, goat-shagging, fart-sniffing, Crispin-loving, gold-snatching bastards!!!
Aaron D'Este
#7. Most people think I'm Danny Glover's son when they meet me. So when they ask, I say 'No, I'm Crispin Glover's son.' Then we stare at each other for a long time.
Donald Glover
#8. Malachi Smith. Crispin Jones. Suzette Boudrot. Claude Le Breton." Matthew paused as Ransome searched the ledger's entries for the names. "You should have kept them in chronological order instead of alphabetical. That's how I remember them." Ransome
Deborah Harkness
#9. Crispin Glover is unusual, but not as unusual as he sometimes presents himself. We got along nicely.
Thomas F. Wilson
#10. Her scream of utter horror and fright was a sound that no one in the chamber would ever forget.
~Crispin.~
J.L. Clayton
#11. Just what I predicted," he smiled. "Run, little sheep. Run. For soon, the big bad wolf will have you right where you belong," Crispin whispered as he manifested out of the school.
~Crispin~
J.L. Clayton
#12. Since you and Crispin are now finished and I have a few hours to kill, how about that shag?" he asked with heavy irony.
"Bite me," I sighed, gathering up the pages.
He winked. "Of course. My second-favorite thing to do in bed.
Jeaniene Frost
#13. From From the Journal of Crispin
There is a monotonous babbling in our dreams
That makes them our dependent heirs, the heirs
Of dreamers buried in our sleep, and not
The oncoming fantasies of better birth.
Wallace Stevens
#14. Book learning and accomplishment in the world mean nothing if you do not have compassion, Crispin.
Marguerite Poland
#15. I learned much from Crispin, though a lot of the things he went on about passed over my head. But he was one of those teachers who, by a kind of osmosis, helped you discover the quantity of areas in your life in which you are still so ignorant as not to have even considered forming a wrong opinion.
Miguel Syjuco
#16. The United States has it's own propaganda, but it's very effective because people don't realize that it's propaganda. And it's subtle, but it's actually a much stronger propaganda machine than the Nazis had but it's funded in a different way.
Crispin Glover
#17. I don't tell clients what to do. I don't even really tell them what the future is.
Jessa Crispin
#18. It is always easier to find your sense of value by demeaning another's value. It is easier to define yourself as 'not that,' rather than do an actual accounting of your own qualities and put them on the scale.
Jessa Crispin
#19. Nora Barnacle is not a very interesting person." So said Richard Ellmann, author of the definitive James Joyce biography, to Brenda Maddox, author of the only Nora Barnacle biography, who quoted him to me.
Jessa Crispin
#20. All that blood and ... stuff. Me, I'll take intelligent cowardice over foolhardy bravery any day
A.C. Crispin
#21. Don't you see, Lynn? We have to help ... or else we won't have learned a thing.
A.C. Crispin
#22. A wild appreciation of men and women ... who passionately and fearlessly and recklessly redefine romance ... The passionate creatures who refuse to play it safe and settle down now have an intelligent, like-minded advocate.
Jessa Crispin
#23. You would think, in an ideal world, that if you were in a really good film and did a really good job, whether it was a big film or not, you would get hired a lot; but that is not my experience.
Crispin Glover
#24. I think American literature is in a tedious place, horrible place. I can't even engage with it.
Jessa Crispin
#25. There's this resistance to actually talking to people who are smarter than you about things and I don't know why that is.
Jessa Crispin
#26. Women still get angry at me. I mean, men go after me sometimes, but most of the bad responses come from women.
Jessa Crispin
#27. American culture never necessarily made sense to me, but they should warn you: leaving comes with a huge sense of alienation that never goes away.
Jessa Crispin
#28. I like to eat and the only thing I've ever been addicted to in my life is sugar.
Crispin Glover
#29. I don't think you can write an experience as you're having it without being an idiot.
Jessa Crispin
#30. Once a culture becomes entirely advertising friendly, it seizes to be a culture at all.
Mark Crispin Miller
#31. Media manipulation in the U.S. today is more efficient than it was in Nazi Germany, because here we have the pretense that we are getting all the information we want. That misconception prevents people from even looking for the truth.
Mark Crispin Miller
#32. As long as Nature is seen as something outside ourselves; frontiered and foreign, separate, it is lost both to us and in us. It follows that to achieve a society in harmony with Nature, we must be guided by respect for it.
Crispin Tickell
#33. I have yet to get sued. My father thinks I should get liability insurance.
Jessa Crispin
#34. The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries.
Mark Crispin Miller
#35. It's like, you can't have any fun, and if you do have fun, if you do your own thing, you're considered crazy and should be in a mental institution. Now, that's what I find creepy. I'm eccentric. I am not messed up.
Crispin Glover
#36. Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite.
Crispin Glover
#37. Go to a place and just send out emails. That's my entire life. I go to countries and I ask, "Who would I know who lives here?" Not even do I know, but who exists and is on the planet.
Jessa Crispin
#38. I like European and South American literature, but mostly I read nonfiction.
Jessa Crispin
#39. Whether children have first amendment rights is a vexed legal question, but what is not in question is that they someday will. Constraining them from expressing their views is no preparation for exercising those rights.
Crispin Sartwell
#40. Most of what I do is for creative people - writers and painters and photographers - trying to work through creative problems.
Jessa Crispin
#41. [A] science fiction story is one which presupposes a technology, or an effect of technology, or a disturbance in the natural order, such as humanity, up to the time of writing, has not in actual fact, experienced.
Edmund Crispin
#42. But here's a little secret: man cannot live on rationality alone.
Jessa Crispin
#43. People, not methodologies or tools, make projects successful.
Lisa Crispin
#44. A geek by definition is somebody who eats live animals. I?ve never eaten live animals.
Crispin Glover
#46. R means under 18 accompanied by an adult. Therefore all corporately funded films in the US must be made with the concept that those under the age of 18 are able to view the film. This means all corporately funded films in the US are made for the eyes of children.
Crispin Hellion Glover
#47. I still have a reputation as an eccentric. But the fact is that audiences probably mix up my roles with me as a person.
Crispin Glover
#48. Maximilian Kolbe : (1894-1941), what an amazing life! A role model to me and to millions of people around the world. He wanted to be one of the greatest saints in the world. I want to be "A gift from God to Mankind", the meaning of my first name : Teddy.
Teddy Crispin
#49. I do like things that are not necessarily a reflection of what is considered the right thing by this culture. Somehow, promoting that status quo I find uninteresting.
Crispin Glover
#50. All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today.
Mark Crispin Miller
#51. Talk to people who know more than you. I feel like we're in this stupid sea of opinion, like "My opinion is valid because it's mine and I have it."
Jessa Crispin
#52. I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.
Crispin Glover
#53. I kept asking myself if I felt different, if I was different. The answer was always yes. I was no longer nothing ...
How odd, I thought; it had taken my mother's death, Father Quinel's murder, and the desire of others to kill me to claim a life of my own.
Avi
#55. What's Love, if not this folly of a wider space, taking us to an innermost Love.
Teddy Crispin
#56. A good thing to live by is to go after what truly interests you.
Crispin Glover
#57. This is the way dissent is handled in feminist realms: a contrary opinion or argument is actually an attack. This stems from the belief that your truth is the only truth, that your sense of trauma and oppression does not need to be examined or questioned. In
Jessa Crispin
#58. Unrelieved black set off her pale skin and exquisite bone structure. Her
A.C. Crispin
#59. I was twenty-one when I was hired by Planned Parenthood. It was my first work experience outside of either temping or working for my father at his store.
Jessa Crispin
#60. I have a really good life and I really like it.
Jessa Crispin
#61. I wish other people would write about loneliness more. It's hard to remember that it's not personal. We live in a world that is built to make people lonely ... It's difficult to remember that your loneliness is not really about you and everyone has it.
Jessa Crispin
#62. Men exist on the planet. We have to deal with them at some point.
Jessa Crispin
#64. I mean, many times your creative problem is accidentally your personal problem, but it's not quite the same.
Jessa Crispin
#65. People watch movies - and it's vague ideas, it's vague notions, but people pick up on these things, that they are supposed to think certain ways or that they're not supposed to think, basically, and they don't.
Crispin Glover
#66. None but the most blindly credulous will imaging the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. It is true that the ancient and noble city of Oxford is, of all the towns of England, the likeliest progenitor of unlikely events and persons. But there are limits.
Edmund Crispin
#67. Obedient to her captain's will, The Black Pearl followed her dark angel over the azure water; as fast as the wind, as free as the men who sailed her. it was almost as though she knew she was a legend in the making, destined for adventures both great and terrible...
A.C. Crispin
#68. No - other men's eye's don't do anything for me, I'm afraid. Sulu grinned.
A.C. Crispin
#69. I knew my motivations for going to each place and what I was looking for. If I don't do that then I generally don't write about my travels.
Jessa Crispin
#70. My belief that the publishing industry is run by prigs and cowards dates back to many years before I even had the idea for the book.
Jessa Crispin
#71. The artistic temperament is too often only an alibi for lack of responsibility ...
Edmund Crispin
#72. Caring about a person is like praying to a doughnut in the darkness.
Crispin Best
#73. Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.
Mark Crispin Miller
#74. But there's a difference between having artistic interests and being psychotic. That's more than a fine line of differentiation, and I do see that a bit too much.
Crispin Glover
#75. Discretion," said Fen with great complacency, "is my middle name."
"I dare say. But very few people use their middle names.
Edmund Crispin
#76. Once you leave, you're no longer of that country, but you are never actually of the country that you go to, and if you go back, you're not anywhere. You never belong to anything.
Jessa Crispin
#77. I don't think that I can be settled and I don't think that I would ever want to be.
Jessa Crispin
#78. You don't have to go to New York and you don't have to go to LA or London. Go somewhere cheap. Go somewhere with free art museums and then just go to art museums.
Jessa Crispin
#79. As soon as anybody puts anything on film, it automatically has a point of view, and it's somebody else's point of view, and it's impossible for it to be yours.
Crispin Glover
#80. Feminism now seems to be defined as success is defined: as being as good at capitalism as men are. I feel very estranged from it.
Jessa Crispin
#81. In the past, I've never tried to discount or stop what people are saying because on some levels I find it interesting.
Crispin Glover
#83. For me, listening to Beethoven and Tchaikovsky in particular, there's an emotional aspect - very different kinds of emotional aspects from those two composers, nonetheless, very strong emotional aspects from both of those composers.
Crispin Glover
#84. I don't behave the way people necessarily want me to, but I tried behaving that other way for a short period of time and it didn't take.
Jessa Crispin
#86. Just send the emails and talk to people. Spend all your money on nail polish and opera tickets.
Jessa Crispin
#87. Remember that on any world the wind eventually wears away the stone, because the stone can only crumble; the wind can change.
A.C. Crispin
#88. I understand maybe some people are more impressionable than my hard, cynical self, but maybe they need to figure out how to be less of that.
Jessa Crispin
#89. You'll never get rid of me, either ... No matter which side of the grave we're on. I'll haunt you, chase you all around eternity, whatever it takes, but it's you and me until the stars burn out.
Jeaniene Frost
#90. Eccentric doesn't bother me. "Eccentric" being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's okay.
Crispin Hellion Glover
#91. Ireland's just a place ... people go there all the time.
Crispin Glover
#93. As the popularity of science-fiction increases, so inevitably does the volume of clownish imprecation against it.
Edmund Crispin
#94. I would slay myself on the altar of boredom if given the chance.
Jessa Crispin
#95. I started out as an actor but now I act to fund my own productions. I've managed to separate my mindset.
Crispin Glover
#97. Having told the truth for years as a first-rate reporter, Jason Leopold now comes completely clean about himself and also sheds light on his imperiled profession. A riveting account of just how hard the truth can be.
Mark Crispin Miller
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