Queer Icon Quotes

#1. I am being stalked across the Web. And why is this happening? Pretty simple: It's huge business.

Gary Kovacs

#2. We can never understand. We can only try, fumbling our way through the tunneled places, reaching for light.

Lauren Oliver

#3. You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it.

Sharon Creech

#4. The fall or scrapping of a cultural world puts us all into the same archetypal cesspool, engendering nostalgia for earlier conditions.

Marshall McLuhan

#5. Blake is a ready-made patron saint for those wanting to elevate their marginality, dissent, and queerness into strength. The relative futility of Blake's battle during his lifetime make him all the more attractive. In the intertextual heritage of queer art, Blake has become an honorary icon.

Andrew Elfenbein

#6. Wisdom comes from education and experience - not from age.

Debasish Mridha

#7. I may be old fashioned, but I am right.

Max Beerbohm

#8. SEX is designed for people who like overcoming obstacles.

Philip Larkin

#9. The voice on the telephone seemed to be sharp and peremptory, but I didn't hear too well what it said, partly because I was only half awake and partly because I was holding the receiver upside down

Raymond Chandler

#10. I saw a painting once where the artist had actually done that
signed his work in blood ... When I saw that, I thought it was as if the man who had painted the picture wanted to say to me, Well, you did ask what this actually cost.

Neil Bartlett

#11. Digital information, for every type of storage, is unfounded. If everything is on a hard drive and the hard drive freezes up, your whole photography collection could just go away. We can still look at printed photographs of our grandparents. We can physically hold them in our hands and look at it.

Gus Van Sant

#12. I've been accused of lacking compassion. But that just shows I'm not without compassion.

Vince Lombardi

#13. Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.

Vikas Swarup

#14. Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable givens.

Albert Einstein

#15. Isn't it interesting that most people don't like to share what they know or have? Imagine a world where doctors, teachers and scientists did the same to you.

Robin Sacredfire

#16. Our first time will be what you want, what you fantasize about. I'm going to take you, right here, right now.

Aleatha Romig