Ti West Quotes

Whenever you see somebody's style you feel like you get to know them a little bit better by how they're dressed.

And when I talk about love, I'm talking about something that's great, though, brother. I'm talking about something that will sustain you.

Dating means two things; disillusionment or a racing heart.

Flattery will get you everywhere.

There's a certain pleasure of the life of the mind that cannot be denied. There's a certain pleasure about being around people who enact a playfulness when it comes to the world of ideas.

Words should be used as tools of communication and not as a substitute for action

It's not what you can do, but the way you do it that counts.

In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.

As a player all you can do is play within yourself, even in the context of a team sport.

I don't really want to go into my problems with the team at the time except to say that no one's ever had to pay me to play basketball.

I’ve never seen a better coach than Gregg Popovich.

Whenever you get deja vu that means you're on the right path. I get it, like, more than ten times a year.

Fur pillows are hard to actually sleep on.

If you ask me a question like what is your greatest accomplishment, it should be what I’m about to do

Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them.

Fur pillows are actually hard to sleep on.

In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?

To use is necessary. And if you can't be used, then you're useless.

This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country.

Once a secret society establishes itself within an open society, there is no end to the hideous mistrust it must cause.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

We believe in humility and integrity, the spirit of one people, bound together under God. We understand that the Constitution was written to control and regulate the government, not the people.

People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.

Art is not a luxury, but a necessity.

To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.

A rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it.

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.

Philosophy is in fact a quest for wisdom based in sophia; that quest for wisdom has everything to do with a love of wisdom.

I'm not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason for a black person to hold our president accountable for his actions.

If you view life as a gold rush, you're going to end up worshiping a golden calf.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

George W. Bush doesn't care about black people.

If you have power, you have to empower.

You want to be upper class, you want to be first class, but when the plane crash, everybody dead.

I made myself platinum, but I was born a dirty blonde.

I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them.

You know, if Michael Jordan can scream at the refs, me as Kanye West, as the Michael Jordan of music, can go and say, 'This is wrong.'

Everywhere bees go racing with the hours, / For every bee becomes a drunken lover, / Standing upon his head to sup the flowers.

We have the ability to approach our race like ants, or we have the ability to approach our race like crabs.

People say I've got a bad reputation. I think I've got the best reputation in the building.

Brains are an asset, if you hide them.

I see stuff from the future, and I'm such a futurist that I have to slow down and talk in the present.

Kiss and make up-but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.

Let men see what's coming to them, and women will get what's coming to them.

There are people who have figured out the exact, you know, Kanye West formula, the mix between "Graduation" and "808s," and were able to become more successful at it.

I speak two languages, Body and English.

I'm the type of rock star that likes to have a girlfriend, you know?

It takes two to get one in trouble.

Well, the end of another busy day. I can't wait till I get back to bed. If that don't work I'll try to sleep.