#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. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#accepted #aware #been #being #editors

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! ↗

— Anne Sullivan

#almighty #always #any #continue #emergency

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

— Laura Innes

#great #great job #i #i think #job

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. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#fun #his #know #man #mean

A friend told me about the casting notice for 'Queer Eye.' I was in Chicago and I had a contract with 'Esquire' magazine, so had been coming to New York City regularly and thought I'd catch a cheap flight, crash on a friend's sofa and do this hilarious audition that I had no chance of winning. ↗

— Ted Allen

#audition #been #casting #catch #chance

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

— Judith Butler

#feminist #gay #i #lesbian #queer

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. ↗

— Anne Frank

#book #firmly #hand #i #impresses

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. ↗

— John Galsworthy

#deprived #did #different #evolved #himself

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

— Nathan Lane

#british #charlie #doing #fan #folk

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. ↗

— Herman Melville

#call #certain #his #joke #life