Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vera Farmiga

You dont have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.

Robert Reich

A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important.

Rob James-Collier

It's hard being gay in Edwardian times.

Richard Dawkins

When we talk about genes for anything, like a gene for being gay or a gene for being aggressive or something of that sort, that a gene for anything may not have been a gene for that thing under different environmental conditions.

Russell Brand

It would have been convenient to be gay. Just because of the grooming, the narcissism, stuff like that. But I have this kind of roaring heterosexuality. Traditional, uncomplicated heterosexuality, an almost cliched Robin Askwith thing.

Russell Brand

People have always said, are you gay? I've had a lot of that. But it's just not in me. I really like women a lot; I'm repulsed by men sexually.

Thomas Starr King

The fact is, that of all God's gifts to the sight of man, color, is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn. We speak rashly of gay color and sad color, for color cannot at once be good and gay. All good color is in some degree pensive, the loveliest is melancholy, and the purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.

Ricky Martin

I used to look at gay men and think, 'I'm not like that, I don't want to be like that, that's not me.'

Ricky Martin

The homosexual community wants me to be gay. The heterosexual community wants me to be straight. Every [writer] thinks, I'm the journalist who's going to make him talk. I pray for them. I pray that they get a life and stop living mine!

Rebecca Miller

We all have to embrace the idea not to be worried about there being other women in the room. Gay men work with such solidarity.

Richard Pryor

I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people.

Richard Rodriguez

After the second chapter of Days of Obligation, which is about the death of a friend of mine from AIDS, was published in Harper's, I got this rather angry letter from a gay-and-lesbian group that was organizing a protest against the magazine. It was the same old problem: political groups have almost no sense of irony.

Richard Rodriguez

I've once gotten in trouble with certain gay activists because I'm not gay enough! I am a morose homosexual. I'm melancholy. Gay is the last adjective I would use to describe myself. The idea of being gay, like a little sparkler, never occurs to me. So if you ask me if I'm gay, I say no.

Trevor Noah

In an American context, let's say gay rights or marriage policy - that's a progressive thing. I understand that in an American context.

Sandra Day O'Connor

How dare you make my life a felony.

Roseanne Barr

I thank God for creating gay men. Because if it wasn't for them, us fat women would have no one to dance with.

Rod Parsley

Gay sexuality inevitably involves brutal physical abusiveness and the unnatural imposition of alien substances into internal organs, orally and anally, that inevitably suppress the immune system and heighten susceptibility to disease.

Robert Towne

People who can't think of anything else but whether the person you love is indented or convex should be doomed not to think of anything else but that, and so miss the other ninety-five percent of life.

Robert Scheer

At least 3% of the signers of the Constitution must have been gay, since that's the low estimate for any population sample. It was probably higher, given that they were a pretty talented bunch and wore wigs.

Robert Plant

No, I've never thought that I was gay. And that's not something you think. It's something you know.

Sandra Bernhard

I'm trying to appeal to the disenfranchised everybody, not just specifically gay.

Sandra Bernhard

I don't need to be redundant to the gay community about what's wrong and what isn't happening for them.

Sandra Bernhard

I've become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don't like the position.

William Butler Yeats

I have heard that hysterical women say They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow, Of poets that are always gay

Wilhelm von Humboldt

The mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the charm of fancy, which brings in its bosom, no doubt, as many vain fears as idle hopes, but lends much oftener to the illusions it calls up a gay flattering hue than one which inspires terror.

Walter Scott

All live by seeming. The beggar begs with it, and the gay courtier Gains land and title, rank and rule, by seeming; The clergy scorn it not, and the bold soldier Will eke with it his service.--All admit it, All practise it; and he who is content With showing what he is, shall have small credit In church, or camp, or state.--So wags the world.

Walter Scott

We often praise the evening clouds, And tints so gay and bold, But seldom think upon our God, Who tinged these clouds with gold.

Vinnie Jones

To get on in Hollywood, you've gotta be a bit gay and a bit Jewish, and I'm saving up to be Jewish.

Warren Farrell

Black men, Indian men, and gay men have all have something in common: They do not provide an economic security blanket for women.

Zachary Quinto

Again, as a gay man I look at that and say there's a hopelessness that surrounds it, but as a human being I look at it and say 'Why? Where's this disparity coming from, and why can't we as a culture and society dig deeper to examine that?' We're terrified of facing ourselves.

Zac Efron

Honestly, if the worst these people can say about me is that I'm gay, then I think I'll be fine. I can handle it.

Zac Efron

I don’t like to live in fear about things like rumors and backlash to begin with -- that’s the way I was raised -- but I just can’t see what’s so wrong about being gay.

Yoweri Museveni

We do not accept the Western way of thinking that there are two ways of life. At the same time, the police (here) are not chasing gays. In Africa, sexuality is something very private, even for heterosexuals. Heterosexuals are not parading! But gays want to behave like exhibitionists.