Quentin Crisp Birthday Quotes

#1. I look back over my shoulder and feel the presence of an intense young girl and then a volatile and disturbed young woman, both with high dreams and restless, romantic aspirations

Kay Redfield Jamison

#2. Shakespeare is one of the reasons I've stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words ... I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.

Al Pacino

#3. Women candidates have two unique problems. They have trouble raising money and being taken seriously by the media.

Maureen Reagan

#4. Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#5. Life is like a game of limbo in reverse. The bar keeps rising higher and we need to keep rising to the occasion.

Ryan Lilly

#6. Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

Hal Boyle

#7. Teachers always promise that students are in a "safe place," but most of us figure out that's a lie pretty fast. My very first fire drill was all the confirmation I needed that the worst can happen anywhere, anytime.

Brian K. Vaughan

#8. Taoism is not a religion, although perhaps it has been made into one by some people. Lao Tsu's way of life occurs in any spiritual philosophy.

Frederick Lenz

#9. Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly developed form of order.

Jane Jacobs

#10. Chaucer followed Nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her.

John Dryden