Ti West Quotes

Don't let talent get in way of team performance. Great players do what's outstanding for team, not what makes them stand out

I've been outta my mind a long time.

Courage is being true to yourself, true to a sense of integrity.

Not seeing is half-believing.

To err is human, but it feels divine.

Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.

Bravery and courage is walking into pain and knowing that something better is on the other side

But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung.

The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.

When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.

I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.

Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.

I hate when I'm on a flight and I wake up with a water bottle next to me like oh great now I gotta be responsible for this water bottle.

Beauty is but skin deep, ugly to the bone. And when beauty fades away, ugly claims its own.

I've been in more laps than a napkin.

JUDGE: Are you trying to show contempt for this court? MAE WEST: I was doin' my best to hide it.

I'm never at my worst because even at my lowest, its a learning experience. It's something that I'll bounce ideas off. I can take negatives and flip them to positives at all times.

The curve is more powerful than the sword.

Love is like a booger, you pick and pick at it. Then when you get it you wonder how to get rid of it.

I use too much of my brain and need to let some of it rest.

I just think that when my confidence meets other people's insecurity, that equals Kanye's arrogant.

You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it.

Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.

Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity.

The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically.

Don't let a man put anything over on you except an umbrella.

Living well eliminates the need for revenge.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.

My definition of genius is not being that person the actual human is a genius, but it's a person that just allows God to work through them.

Me and my girl split the buffet at KFC.

Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

Let the music defuse all the tension.

Is it better to be extremely ambitious, or rather modest? Probably the latter is safer; but I hate safety, and would rather fail gloriously than dingily succeed.

I would say my determination is way higher than my smartness.

I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism--the idolatry of the 20th century.

This isn't champagne anymore. We went through the champagne a long time ago. This is serious stuff. The days of champagne are long gone.

The best way to hold a man is in your arms.

The best way to behave is to misbehave.

So I hope that there are people out there laughing. Laugh loud, please. Laugh until your lungs give out because I will have the last laugh.

If you know you're the best it only makes sense for you to surround yourself with the best.

We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.

I've been saying how I feel at the wrong time.

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!

When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.

You are never too old to become younger!

Beulah, peel me a grape

I remember being a student and I would go every Friday to the Louvre and stay for ages, just walking around.

The Christian life was never meant to be lived alone. Together we're a body. A family. The people of God.

I like my clothes tight enough to show I'm a woman, but loose enough to show I'm a lady.