Alfred Kinsey Quotes

#1. No census was taken of the number of gay men and lesbians who entered the military. But if Alfred Kinsey's wartime surveys were accurate and applied as much to the military as to the civilian population, at least 650,000 and as many as 1.6 million male soldiers were homosexual.

Allan Berube

#2. Well, from an acting point of view, I bear no relation, I don't look like Alfred Kinsey at all, but I thought somewhere in my artist's soul, my actor's soul, I could capture something of the spirit of the man.

Liam Neeson

#3. This is what I call participation in the world of ideas. That is what art-making is.

Bill T. Jones

#4. Art alone develops weaklings, science alone, monsters. Somewhere, somehow, we must combine the two.

Alfred Kinsey

#5. Love is the absence of judgment.

Dalai Lama XIV

#6. the over-under, is just another example of how the bookmakers are always looking for more options to give the guesser an opportunity

Amarillo Slim Preston

#7. By the very nature of his art, which depends on invention and innovation, a story teller must depart from the beaten track and, having done so, occasionally startle and disagree with some of his associates. Healthy disagreement we must have.

Preston Sturges

#8. The range of variation in the female far exceeds the range of variation in the male.

Alfred Kinsey

#9. Praise is nothing that accumulates. Praise is a sequence, especially if you've toiled for a long time. Praise does not pile up. So in a way, you can't get too much. I don't consider it to be a quantity that you can measure by volume.

Christoph Waltz

#10. There is a tendency to consider anything in human behavior that is unusual, not well known, or not well understood, as neurotic, psychopathic, immature, perverse, or the expression of some other sort of psychologic disturbance.

Alfred Kinsey

#11. Cheese crumbs spread before a pair of copulating rats will distract the female but not the male.

Alfred Kinsey

#12. Persuasion is a strong but subdued outrider.

Harold Bloom

#13. Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white.

Alfred Kinsey

#14. I wasn't aware of it at the time, but I was a big favorite with the Mafia.

Brenda Lee

#15. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeonholes.

Alfred Kinsey

#16. Struggles make you stronger and the changes make you wiser and happiness has its own way of taking its sweet time. Life isn't always lovely, but it's a beautiful ride.

Gary Allan

#17. Few males achieve any real freedom in their sexual relations even with their wives. Few males realise how badly inhibited they are on these matters.

Alfred Kinsey

#18. We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe.

Alfred Kinsey

#19. The heterosexuality or homosexuality of many individuals is not an all-or-none proposition.

Alfred Kinsey

#20. We see nothing but good and hope in a richer, freer, more contented European commonalty. But we have our own dreams and our own task. We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not comprised. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed.

Winston Churchill

#21. The male's difficulties in his sexual relations after marriage include a lack of facility, of ease, or of suavity in establishing rapport in a sexual situation.

Alfred Kinsey

#22. From the evening I was saved, I began to live a new life, for the life of the eternal God had entered into me.

Watchman Nee

#23. I abandon before I can be abandoned. Sometimes that's been a good thing,

Tarryn Fisher

#24. Willa?"
"Yes"
"It's morning and I still love you.

Sarah Addison Allen

#25. On email and the first instance of spam: This is not for advertising! This is for serious work!

Vinton Cerf

#26. The prime motivation in making almost any film is success, because film is the art form of the 20th century.

Charlton Heston

#27. We need to get rid of the 16th amendment, and return to the original system that funds government with a variety of tariffs and duties.

Alan Keyes

#28. The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform.

Alfred Kinsey