Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert Herdt

On one hand there is no association between mental illness and homosexuality. On the other hand, we also know that gays and lesbians have higher levels of stress problems.

Matt Williams

People judge gays before they meet them. They're really good, as you can see.

Edmund White

Originally I was opposed to gay assimilation and targeted gay marriage as just another effort on the part of gays to resemble their straight neighbours.

Edmund White

AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.

Damon Romine

These representations on reality television have really broadened people's perceptions of gays and lesbians.

Rick Garcia

I know that he has said things in the past that have been offensive to some groups of people - gays, in particular to Jews. But I think that the invitation from the Nation of Islam to Jews and to gays may be a step in the right direction. I took it as such.

Barack Obama

I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they've got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

David McCullough

My wife, the star I steer by.

Dave Barry

As you get older; you've probably noticed that you tend to forget things. You'll be talking with somebody at a party, and you'll know that you know this person, but no matter how hard you try, you can't remember his or her name. This can be very embarassing, especially if he or she turns out to be your spouse.

Caitlin Flanagan

Marriage remains the most efficient engine of disenchantment yet invented.

Cary Grant

When I'm married I want to be single, and when I'm single I want to be married.

Condoleezza Rice

The potential marriage of weapons of mass destruction with terrorism is everyone's nightmare.

William Shakespeare

As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor.

Aisha Tyler

Marriage isn't a carnival ride.

Bob Newhart

I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much.

David Reuben

A marriage is like a long trip in a tiny row boat: if one passenger starts to rock the boat, the other has to steady it, otherwise, they will go to the bottom together.

Norman Finkelstein

I am opposed to any state with an ethnic character, not only to Israel.

Rory Bremner

It's no wonder the Tory Party opposed identity cards, since so many of them struggle to find an identity at all.

Kate Winslet

I think heartbreak is something that you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget.

Kate Winslet

I think there's a lot of pressure on young people to really be the thing that everyone is telling them that they are, opposed to discovering it for themselves.

John Roberts

Yes, I was in an administration that was opposed to quotas, ... Opposition to quotas is not the same thing as opposition to affirmative action.

John Boyne

I am opposed to war, to killing people, to any kind of hatred and violence.

Erwin McManus

I think we are all trying to figure out what it means to be the Church as opposed to just doing church.

Geoffrey Nice

The prosecution is completely opposed to any question of severance of the indictments.

Nuno Bettencourt

As opposed to touring for three years and then going into the studio and writing an album, I think this record is representative of a lot of everyday people.

Fran Townsend

When we were preparing the president's speech we had originally picked a different plot to try and declassify to talk about.

Cheech Marin

The word 'Chicano' was originally a derisive term from Mexicans to other Mexicans living in the United States.

John Romano

One will get more than what they originally bargained for, I guess.

Donald Rupe

It was originally more like a concert. We've turned it into a theatrical production.

Julie Regan

We were originally scheduled to present it, but we need more time. We're still writing it.

Andy Weir

I originally wrote 'The Martian' as a free serial novel, posting one chapter at a time to my website.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

I originally started off as a healer before I came to Hollywood.

Ray Stevens

I originally passed on 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head' in 1969, so they gave it to B.J. Thomas.

Jason Aldean

The only person that anybody's ever said I resemble is a young Elvis. It used to happen a lot more when I was younger, and more when I don't wear a hat.

Bill Uttley

This won't resemble anything that is in Hilliard now.

Tiffany Moulton

Everything you'd find in a floral arrangement, we have something to resemble it in fruit.

Cheyenne Jackson

Nobody is ever just a straight up protagonist or antagonist - everybody's morally ambiguous.

Matt Lauer

Making sure you're on the straight and narrow?

Douglas Alexander

I think politicians who suggest they are uninterested in the support of newspapers are not being straight with people.

Kathleen McCarthy

When you see it straight on, it collapses into a straight line. And from the side, it will look voluminous.

Ang Lee

I find it hard to deliver straightforward things.

Carol Berg

Write. Write. Write. Learn how to revise. No story is perfect straight from the keyboard.

Pierce Brosnan

I can still run in a straight line, and I can still throw a punch.

Rochelle Cancienne

We can't get a straight answer. There's just a lot of unknowns right now.

Ron Polk

A lot of things need to go right to win 14 straight times. But I think a lot of it isn't because we've been lucky. A lot of it has been because we've been pretty good.

Niaz Siddiqui

I think it was a targeted attack, and we are investigating.

Mark Williams

That's targeted as one of our big projects.

Bill Golden

It's scaled down in terms of the days, but I think it's more targeted now.