Top 97 Kinsey Quotes
#1. Warm lips met her shoulder where he placed a light kiss. "Doona be afraid of me. I'll always protect you."
Kinsey moved back against him, allowing her shoulder to rub against his bare chest. Heat radiated from him, cocooning her in everything Ryder.
Donna Grant
#2. And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their sexual acts was limiting themselves.
Bill Condon
#3. Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.
Bill Condon
#4. Expected a bit more skin, Almeida." She punctuated that with a pointed glance at the shorts area. The man had promised Speedos.
"Think Chicago's seen enough of me, don't you?"
Chicago might have, but Kinsey most definitely had not.
Kate Meader
#5. I know a little more about Kinsey than I know about sex because that is his subject not mine.
Bill Condon
#6. The truth is, I could no more dictate her nature than she could dictate mine. Kinsey's happy as she is and she doesn't need to be rescued, improved, or saved.
Sue Grafton
#7. And the Institute sent me a little film footage of Kinsey himself preparing to do an interview for television to talk about his work, so that was quite valuable for me.
Liam Neeson
#8. Books are like movies of the mind and it's better to leave Kinsey where she is.
Sue Grafton
#9. Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
Bill Condon
#10. Kinsey's quest was really for us all to be tolerant and accepting of each other.
Liam Neeson
#11. Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
Bill Condon
#12. I've never been a big fan of exercise. I just can't think of any other way to feel good. Kinsey Milhone
Sue Grafton
#13. panic inspires gross errors in judgement (Kinsey Millhone)
Sue Grafton
#14. My mom, the fabulous Bertie Kinsey, is an amazing seamstress. She quilts and sews and is so crafty. We call her the Southern Martha Stewart!
Angela Kinsey
#15. I'm not sure Kinsey has changed in these first twelve books. I think the reader learns more about her, but from Kinsey's perspective, only three years have passed while the rest of us have been getting older at a much faster clip.
Sue Grafton
#16. Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
Bill Condon
#17. 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
#18. Kinsey wanted Dellenback to film his own staff. There are three ways to read that sentence, all of them true.
Mary Roach
#19. One of the people that became a major source was Clarence Tripp who worked with Kinsey.
Bill Condon
#20. While I'm not a big fan of nature, its intractability amuses me to no end. (Kinsey Millhone)
Sue Grafton
#21. By being a waiter 100 percent, I think I was a lot like any other actor in New York. I had credits because I'd work lunches during the week, and then on a Wednesday would go be lucky enough to be in a movie like 'Kinsey.'
John Krasinski
#22. Kinsey was the kind of pretty that got under her skin. It was as if someone had put the girl next door and a vintage pin-up in a box, shook it, and Kinsey was what had tumbled out, blushing and mussed. Plus,
Alessandra Torre
#23. Personally, I'd rather grow old alone than in the company of anyone I've met so far. I don't experience myself as lonely, incomplete, or unfulfilled, but I don't talk about that much. It seems to piss people off
especially men. (Kinsey Millhone)
Sue Grafton
#24. I thought, well of course, Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that was a clue I hung onto. He loved young people, he absolutely loved them. And he loved teaching them and trying to help them.
Liam Neeson
#25. The Kinsey Institute says gay men have bigger sex organs. Hence the origin of gay pride.
Jay Leno
#26. For the record, I'd like to say that I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I have a chance to get even first
Kinsey Millhone, V is for Vengeance
Sue Grafton
#27. I do believe in the Kinsey scale, I think many of us fall in different places on the scale and I think it's for each one of us to decide where we are on the scale, it's not for someone else to decide for us.
Christopher Rice
#28. Kinsey Millhone is a female Sam Spade; a thorough professional, a loner, clear-headed and unsentimental.
Lucille Kallen
#29. Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
Bill Condon
#30. Personally I don't endorse the notion of mortality. It's fine for other folk, but I disapprove of the concept for me and my loved ones. Seems unfair that we're not allowed to vote on the matter and not one of us is excused. Who made up that rule? - Kinsey Millhone
Sue Grafton
#31. Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.
Sue Grafton
#32. I showered and shampooed. I even shaved the requisite legs and armpits just in case I fell in a swoon and one or the other was exposed to view. (Kinsey Millhone)
Sue Grafton
#33. Once upon a time, I'd come close to being killed in the big trash bin outside. This counts as nostalgia for someone like me (p. 317).
Kinsey Millhone in V is for Vengeance
Sue Grafton
#34. 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
#35. Parents should keep 'Eyes Wide Open' next to the 'Kinsey Report' on their shelves.
Paul Fleischman
#36. When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those.
Bill Condon
#37. If you change a character too much, the audience falls out of love with the character, but characters need to evolve and grow over the years.
Angela Kinsey
#38. Cheese crumbs spread before a pair of copulating rats will distract the female but not the male.
Alfred Kinsey
#39. I did an about-face and veered into the sandwich shop. What I ordered is none of your business, but it was really good.
Sue Grafton
#40. I'm sure, to many people, my life is not that exciting, but to me every day is an adventure.
Angela Kinsey
#41. My friend, Sue Ann, in college pulled me aside and said, 'Honey I love you but you have got to start waxing your eyebrows. They look wild!' So thank you, that kinda changed my life.
Angela Kinsey
#43. I didn't take the death-and-dismemberment talk very seriously. Where could you rent a chainsaw at this time of night?
Sue Grafton
#44. I hope my daughter knows that in our house we can make messes and have fun and we'll laugh through it. Granted I don't want her to trash the house, but we do make a lot of messes.
Angela Kinsey
#45. I grew up overseas in Indonesia, and my school had a great art, music, and theatre program.
Angela Kinsey
#46. What, Tough Girl's crying now? What a pansy," cracked Michael.
"Watch it, dude," Dylan said softly. "Don't fuck with her when she's crying.
Kinsey W. Holley
#48. 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
#49. Now that I'm a mom, I'm way more laid back. If you come into my house, don't look for a coaster. Forget it. There is not a piece of furniture in my house now that is too precious.
Angela Kinsey
#50. People from context cultures tend to view personal bonds and informal agreements as far more binding than any formal contract. People from content cultures don't believe the deal is finalized until everyone has signed on the dotted line. And therein lies the potential for conflict.
Carol Kinsey Goman
#51. I keep lip gloss everywhere. It always makes me feel like I am slightly put together.
Angela Kinsey
#52. Built into bad news is that sense of profound disbelief. The mind struggles to absorb the bare facts, defending itself against the larger implications.
Sue Grafton
#53. I don't want to live in a world where I could say to my daughter, 'There used to be turtles that swam in the ocean.'
Angela Kinsey
#54. 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
#55. I have a very normal life. I go to the grocery store, I go to Target. I don't have an assistant, I don't have an entourage.
Angela Kinsey
#57. The range of variation in the female far exceeds the range of variation in the male.
Alfred Kinsey
#58. We have the ability to rise up and take control of our lives, if only we stop to pay attention to the warning signs that we so often find ourselves excusing and ignoring.
Tori Kinsey
#60. Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice.
Angela Kinsey
#61. You can't save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don't appreciate your interfering with the drama they've created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they don't want to change.
Sue Grafton
#63. I can't watch iceskating because the whole time I think they're going to fall! I get so uncomfortable.
Angela Kinsey
#64. I got the wake-up call that no one is policing our oceans. I wondered, how can I do anything? What really can I do to make things better? There are some perks to being a celebrity. My job is to be funny once in a while, but it's my responsibility to make good use of it.
Angela Kinsey
#65. I think that the biggest beauty essential is as simple as a good, full night's sleep.
Angela Kinsey
#66. Art alone develops weaklings, science alone, monsters. Somewhere, somehow, we must combine the two.
Alfred Kinsey
#68. I bring my bike to work, and I make laps around our parking lot on my lunch break.
Angela Kinsey
#69. The critical lessons in life hold sway whether you like it or not.
Sue Grafton
#70. The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform.
Alfred Kinsey
#71. In the absence of my beloved and much-derided crime board,' she said, 'I've been reduced to writing things in my journal like some sort of medieval peasant.' She
T E Kinsey
#72. It didn't get much more patriotic than sex in a Chevy on the Fourth of July. God bless America.
Kate Meader
#73. Seriously, I will probably out-talk you if you come up to me because I'm a chatterbox.
Angela Kinsey
#74. George was an atheist, and so am I. But how I long now for an afterlife - a world of light or of deep dazzling darkness, where he and the others we've lost reside, unscathed, forever accessible - to have tea with, to talk nonsense with, to reinvent the world with
Justin Spring
#76. As a busy working mom I'm always pressed for time, so a quick and easy beauty routine is key!
Angela Kinsey
#77. Your audience is a lot smarter than you realize.
Angela Kinsey
#78. Maybe it was time to at least pretend to be a nicer person than i knew i was
Sue Grafton
#79. I have a special place in my heart for working moms - it's a constant pull on your heartstrings.
Angela Kinsey
#80. Cut down on your use of plastic shopping bags because many end up in the ocean.
Angela Kinsey
#81. Good does not attract evil but the opposite, it fights to shine light on darkness.
Tori Kinsey
#82. I think it's a tough road if you're a stay-at-home mom, a working mom, if you have a partner, if you don't. It's the best job in the world, and the toughest job in the world all at the same time.
Angela Kinsey
#83. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeonholes.
Alfred Kinsey
#84. I love hanging out at home with my kid. It's hard to get me to leave the house.
Angela Kinsey
#85. I wondered if I'd ever be nice enough to volunteer for anything. I was hoping not.
Sue Grafton
#86. 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
#87. I pictured a section of the ladies' auxiliary cookbook for Sudden Death Quick Snacks ... Using ingredients one could keep on the pantry shelf in the event of tragedy.
Sue Grafton
#88. I think we want our kids to grow up to be people who can think outside of the box, be creative and innovators, sort of the forward-thinkers of our future. I think a way to inspire that is through art and music.
Angela Kinsey
#89. Cats are more interesting, let's face it. Dogs are loveable and a bit boring.
Angela Kinsey
#90. Yes," Tanner nodded. "I have great appreciation for neoclassical architecture. The ten pillars in the portico give the building a remarkable feeling of dignity and charm."
Bethany lowered her eyes and stifled a giggle. When Tanner put on an act, he put it on well.
Carol Kinsey
#91. I think we've all worked with that person at the office who takes themselves and their job so seriously.
Angela Kinsey
#92. I know there are people who believe you should forgive and forget. For the record, I'd like to say I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I'm given the opportunity to get even first.
Sue Grafton
#93. The heterosexuality or homosexuality of many individuals is not an all-or-none proposition.
Alfred Kinsey
#94. We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe.
Alfred Kinsey
#95. My very sassy, older southern sister is very quick to point out that it's a luxury that my daughter gets to come to work with me. She does, and I have lunch with her every single day. My mom says I have 'high class problems.'
Angela Kinsey
#96. I think a lot of times we can get distracted and not be in the moment with people and be missing all the life happening in the moment.
Angela Kinsey
#97. 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
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