Queer Lady Quotes

#1. I said, "I need to hear something that's going to save my life."
Re: Selecting songs from a jukebox.

Michael Chabon

#2. In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#3. During these weeks there was a quality about Miss Amelia that many people noticed. She laughed often, with a deep ringing laugh, and her whistling had a sassy, tunefull trickery. She was forever trying out her strength, lifting up heavy objects or poking her tough biceps with her finger.

Carson McCullers

#4. There were many times when logic was of no comfort.

Patricia Highsmith

#5. Don't you think that queer? That a common coarse-featured woman might drink morphia and be sent to gaol for it, while I am saved and sent to visit her - and all because I am a lady?

Sarah Waters

#6. I am perfectly qualified to give you an injection. You're not going to tell me you're afraid of a little prick?"
"I wouldn't call you that ...

Anthony Horowitz

#7. She had never thought about her name much before, but when he said it, it was as if she were hearing it for the first time - the hard T, the caress of the double S, the way it seemed to end on a breath.

Cassandra Clare

#8. Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that isthe essence of ourbeing.None candefine its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries.

Vannevar Bush

#9. Let's not allow the voice of the people to be overwhelmed by the siren song of those who opposed regulation, who demanded that government should stand aside and let finance and business run the show.

David Blunkett

#10. But know this America: we will meet them

Barack Obama

#11. Even my players aren't players.

Casey Stengel

#12. As her lungs pumped and her head cleared, she wondered if all the effort she'd put into blotting out the pain had deadened her ability to feel pleasure, too. What a shame. What a loss.

Susan Donovan

#13. It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.

Vin Diesel

#14. The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones.

Lou Holtz

#15. Human feelings are queer things
I am much happier
black-leading the stove's
making the beds and sweeping the floors at home, than I should be living like a fine lady anywhere else.

Charlotte Bronte

#16. As we are now engaged in this contest, all my wishes, all my desires and all the energies of my hand and heart will be given to the cause of my state. Whether we have the right of secession or revolution, I want to see my state triumphant.

Jubal Early

#17. Even catholics have hail marys. Jews only have guilt.

Matthue Roth

#18. I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in.

Ice Cube