Queer Quotes

These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word "queer" is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

Queer Eye is a makeover show, meant to help our straight brethren.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.

A boy's appetite grows very fast, and in a few moments the queer, empty feeling had become hunger, and the hunger grew bigger and bigger, until soon he was as ravenous as a bear.

Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.

The successes of the LGBT civil rights movement and the more prominent role openly gay people are playing in the public eye has actually turned up the temperature in middle schools and high schools for queer kids.

Frankly, if people aren't going to cast me because I'm queer, than I don't want to work with them.

No, Queer Eye has a book coming out before mine, in the Spring of 2004, in which each of us has a section and we do a brief overview of our subject area.

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.

America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.

When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.

When Queer Eye hit, the church told my mom they were praying for me. She said, God loves him too. And I support him 100 percent.

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.

I think they do a great job on Queer as Folk.

I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist.

When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.

Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a form of service journalism. To be successful, I think it has to be a combination of a good story, it has to be funny, and it also needs to be packed with useful information.

I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory.

All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.

When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to.

For myself, Queer Eye feeds more to my heart and my soul than as a platform for a career.

California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.

It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!

It is a queer thing, but imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones.

Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.

The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.