Top 100 Straight People Quotes
#1. SOmetimes life isn't fair, and straight people are straight up crazy.
RuPaul
#3. I have gay friends, I support gay rights, I have nothing against the gay community, but when I see two guys kissing, I think it's gross. And, by the way, it's gross when 99% of straight people do it, too.
Artie Lange
#4. I think that gay people in some ways end up forming a very different sense of humour to straight people. We all go through similar things and it's a way of dealing with it.
Jason Sellards
#5. Americans know as much about Canada as straight people do about gays. Americans arrive at the border with skis in July, and straight people think that being gay is just a phase. A very long phase.
Scott Thompson
#8. I don't care what straight people do, I don't care what gay people do. I don't care what nobody do. That's they business. I just care about what I do. You know what I'm saying?
ASAP Rocky
#9. I just hate that gay role models are supposed to be just like straight people, as if even straight people are like that.
Paul Rudnick
#10. He didn't want to have to be the Gay Best Friend providing life lessons for liberal straight people. He just wanted to get laid.
FayJay
#11. I thinking gay and straight people use the same putters, it's not a matter of putters but a matter of hole selection.
Jon Stewart
#12. I don't even know. I'm just so sick of straight people who can't get their shit together.
Becky Albertalli
#13. The gay people know where I'm at. Straight people may not know where I'm at, but they find it kind of interesting when they show up and see what is sitting around them.
Lou Reed
#15. Walking through the West Village one night, he had a eureka moment: He would make a gay bar, but for straight people. It was a brilliant idea. Soon after, he opened the first T.G.I. Friday's on the Upper East Side.
Moira Weigel
#16. Hell, even the straight people have enough skeletons in their closet to fill a tomb. Everybody's too afraid of going to hell or getting made fun of to be honest about what they want and who they are, so they can't even really admit what they want to themselves.
Meredith Russo
#17. ...as a child, I was an avid reader. And despite reading hundreds of books about straight people, I did not grow up to embrace the heterosexual lifestyle. Similarly, someone who is heterosexual is not going to turn gay from reading a book that features a child being raised by two moms.
Leslea Newman
#18. Straight people," Alec declared. "Why can't they control themselves?
Cassandra Clare
#19. The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
Dan Savage
#20. I deliberately decided to write a kind of guide to leather bars for straight people, for people not into leather, so that people could see what it was all about.
Thom Gunn
#21. I can't marry my way into citizenship like straight people can. I can get married in the state of New York where I live, but because of the Defense of Marriage Act, the federal government, which hands out visas, won't recognize my marriage.
Jose Antonio Vargas
#22. A lot of straight people think I'm nuts.
Pia Zadora
#23. And I think gay people are just as good at watching their kids play hockey as straight people.
Tina Fey
#24. For the love of God! He howled. Could all of the straight people get out of the fucking closets, please? Gay men coming through!
Kat French
#25. In making Achilles and Patroclus lovers, I wasn't trying to speak for all gay men, just as when I write straight characters, I don't claim to speak for all straight people. My job as an author is to give voice to these very particular characters - these two men, in this time, and in this place
Madeline Miller
#26. It's ridiculous that people aren't allowed to love who they love, have families, and have the same life as straight people. It's infuriating.
Janina Gavankar
#27. I absolutely believe in assimilation. I don't believe I'm any different from straight people. My wants and needs are the same as theirs. I don't look at sexual orientation as that big of a deal. It's just an orientation.
Chaz Bono
#28. If time and space are curved where do all the straight people come from?
R.J. Scott
#29. The ability for employment benefits to be shared among spouses, the ability to move people who are dependent on visas for trailing spouses, all hinges on being able to deal with families of gay people in the same way that you deal with families of straight people. Otherwise, they can't move around.
Lloyd Blankfein
#30. I'm also the first straight woman to host this in 20 years, so, we finally made it, straight people.
Cecily Strong
#31. I went to my 30th high school reunion, and I could tell who was gay and who was straight because the gay people were like, 'Sarah, you've been doing so much,' and the straight people were like, 'So, Sarah, what have you been doing?
Sarah Schulman
#32. I don't get straight people, but I understand what they look like.
Duane Michals
#33. I grew up in a pretty gay world - my brother's gay and he's been married to a man for 20 years, which is like 60 in straight-people years.
Kevin Smith
#34. Give me another chance, one more chance, and I'll walk a line so straight people will think I've been possessed.
Nicole Williams
#35. The world I live in is not all white people, not all straight people, and it's not all people who have their acts together, either.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#36. Straight people say, 'You know you're just gay,' and gay people say, 'You know you're just gay.' There is such a thing as bisexual!
Andy Dick
#37. Maybe you bought this book because you love Sarah Palin and you want to find reasons to hate me. We've got that! I use all kinds of elitist words like "impervious" and "torpor," and I think gay people are just as good at watching their kids play hockey as straight people. Maybe
Tina Fey
#38. Most straight people, and many gay people, especially those who came of age more recently, don't understand how momentous and difficult coming out was to men and women of this generation. It seems so obvious now, so banal.
Christopher Bram
#39. Straight people have it so much easier. They don't understand. They can't. There's no such thing as openly straight.
Bill Konigsberg
#40. Straight people are the most pathetic of all. I've never seen such a miserable group of people in my life. They don't know anything about themselves
Sarah Schulman
#41. Gay unions, what is that about? I haven't been invited to any ceremonies, and I wouldn't go anyway. The idea that gay people have to mimic what obviously doesn't work for straight people any more ... I think is a bit tragic. I am looking forward to gay divorces.
Boy George
#42. It's called restraint, the part that wants to wander is always there, even for straight people. But commitment is commitment. Once I sign on the dotted line, I'll devote myself to that person only.
Jay Bell
#43. Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake
you know, to send the right message to kids.
Bill Maher
#44. Bush looked straight into the camera and said 'We must preserve the sanctity of marriage!' You know, straight people are doing such a fucking great job.
Greg Proops
#45. A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people.
Edmund White
#46. I know gay - gay people who aren't married who are better parents than some, you know, straight people I know who are married.
Denis Leary
#47. It's funny when I hear people complain - particularly about the most fabulous parts of being a designer, like when you're getting ready to work on a show. I don't even know that I'm tired. I could stay up for six days straight! No drugs, no coffee, no nothing. I'm just so excited.
Michael Kors
#48. When you believe that other people think highly of you, your level of self-acceptance and self-esteem goes straight up.
Brian Tracy
#49. I always encourage people to pay themselves first, so I really advocate setting up direct deposit for your paycheck and establishing an automatic transfer so that part of each paycheck goes straight into your savings account.
Alexa Von Tobel
#50. I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them.
Edie Falco
#51. It's about giving the people what they want. So many people have told me that they've made love to my records so what I've delivered this time is an album about sex. Pretty much every song has that theme. Straight no chasers, it's booty music!
Tyrese Gibson
#52. I mean that I think I find the psychology of people more interesting than politics. I think the psychology of politics is more interesting than straight politics.
Joan Cusack
#53. This is evangelicalism today: sensual, carnal, unconverted people that have just enough deceptive religion to drive them straight into Hell! Are you that kind of person? Or do you have new affections?
Paul Washer
#54. I'd like to set things straight, a few more people should be pulling their weight.
Aaron Tippin
#55. Most people underestimate eyes. They're infinite. You look someone straight in the eye and your whole soul can be sucked out in a nanosecond. Other people's eyes are limitless and that's what scares me.
Sophie Kinsella
#56. Drag shows are one of my favorite things in the world. As a straight man I love going to gay bars. People at gay bars just love to dance.
Steve Kazee
#57. We are a gentle angry people
We are a land of many colors
We are gay and straight together
We are a peaceful loving people
And we are singing, singing for our lives.
Holly Near
#58. People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something totally different from the slow way you read something if it's a tune; which to me a poem has to be.
Alice Oswald
#59. The people of Waziristan are so innocent they seem stupid and so straight forward the seem arrogant
Ghulam Qadir Khan Daur
#60. The last human of importance the American people have been able to keep in the working end of their brain is your own Chicago triggerman, Dillinger. After him they kind of lost hold on keeping who's who straight. So don't be surprised if they don't remember who Cabot Wright is, or if they do.
James Purdy
#61. I got rid of my teeth at a young age because I'm straight. Teeth are for gay people. That's why fairies come and get them.
Dana Snyder
#62. In the midst of meeting new people and making plans, I forgot that my plan is to walk straight into a battle that could claim my life. Right after I realized that my life was worth living.
Veronica Roth
#63. Unfortunately, a lot of people are stupid. They take drugs. They get drunk and do all the wrong things in life. I just played it straight.
Bobby Vinton
#64. I respect Chris Carrabba as a songwriter and I also respect his past. He's got this fierce, straight edge, kind of hardcore core. There's so many songs that people are connected to and they all came together in a kind of DIY way, which I really do respect.
Stephan Jenkins
#65. Life is not a straight line. It's a spiderweb that twists and tangles. We crawl along our strands until we touch the people who are meant to be in our lives. The strands can knot, as mine did with Lily's, but they don't break, and the unexpected paths are often the best ones.
Stephanie Knipper
#66. People think of my entire image as a kid who lives a straight and narrow life, so I can feel myself not being able to act comfortably. I've been thinking that I want to go through some different life experiences and have been learning a lot while living with my other members.
Seohyun
#67. The idea is to write so that people hear it, and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart." ~Maya Angelou
C.S. Lakin
#68. My website inspired me to create my book club and provides me with a creative outlet where I can write about things that interest me. It's a platform where I can present ideas or new ventures and get feedback straight from the people who mean the most to me.
Lauren Conrad
#69. Some people say I'm really ugly and anorexic; some say the only reason I'm on TV is because I'm pretty. I say to them: Get your slander straight. You are what you are, whether you're small or skinny or smart or dumb. Just do what you do.
Ann Coulter
#70. In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman.
Abel Hermant
#71. I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.
Tupac Shakur
#72. Like a lot of black people, I grew up straight po'. Wasn't no question about whether we was po', either. If you really wanted to know, all you had to do was look in our refrigerator.
Bernie Mac
#73. I came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight.
Adam Mansbach
#74. A lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight - and when they come out, they're gay.
Benjamin Carson
#75. I have nothing to complain about.. except maybe people wondering if a queen like me can be butch-it-up enough to play a convincing straight man.
Rupert Everett
#76. Above all, good leaders are open. They go up, down, and around their organization to reach people. They don't stick to the established channels. They're informal. They're straight with people. They make a religion out of being accessible. They never get bored telling their story.
Jack Welch
#77. Give little people a little power, and it goes straight to their ugly, little heads. -Foot talks about authority
Ray Palla
#78. When you people have a set up joke and the joke is set up straight and the words are just well written, I always say "C'mon, humans don't speak that way."
Will Gluck
#79. You have to prove that the Freberg way will sell their product better than if they just did straight advertising. Whenever I give a lecture or seminar, that's what I try to get across to people. I hear very few radio commercials that sound like I could have written them or that they got the idea.
Stan Freberg
#80. When I first appeared, people couldn't figure out whether I was gay, straight, black, white or whatever, and I loved that. I loved the fact it scares people.
Pink
#81. Nobody is really happy with what's on their head. People with straight hair want curly, people with curly want straight, and bald people want everyone to be blind.
Rita Rudner
#82. Being a mom is hard, but I don't want people to feel like they always have to go straight to the TV dinner or go to the fast food because you have a busy, hectic life.
Tia Mowry
#83. I still remember going to a smart restaurant in Los Angeles, and the maitre d' knew my name and showed me straight to a table even though we hadn't booked. I get stopped for autographs by people from Sweden on the tops of mountains.
Kevin Whately
#84. Drag is like breaking the fourth wall in theater where we're letting you know straight up that this is an illusion. People are attracted to that because they know it's the truth of who they are also. No one is who they think they are. That's why people are attracted to drag.
RuPaul
#85. When I was a little boy, Marvin Hagler was my idol. He got no respect for most of his career. His fighting style was straight ahead. He took every shot thrown at him, and he kept punching back 'til he won. I honestly feel that's how I am. I take big shots from people. But I keep going.
James Frey
#86. Ky smiles then, a smile I've never seen before. It's the kind of daring, reckless smile that could make people follow him straight into a firing, a flood.
Ally Condie
#87. I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers.
Max Beckmann
#88. What is it with you women? You come into out lives, you take everythin'! Throughtout the years you got little peces of me, of my very soul, and now? Now you got my damn straight razor! How am I supposed to kill people? How am I supposed to even shave? - Billy-Ray Sanguine
Derek Landy
#89. Vice President Biden is the real deal. He'll give it to you straight. He communicates in a way that I think connects with people at a real level.
Michael Nutter
#90. We see differences in people and seem to be afraid of people. The black or white or gay or straight - I don't necessarily look for differences but for similarities. We need to be looking out for each other.
James Blunt
#91. I studied psychology for a couple of years as a personal hobby, so you start learning about people and listening to your intuition, like when you you're feeling that people are not being entirely straight with you.
Afrojack
#92. Machiavelli, however, took his bearings from people as they are. He defined the political project as making the best of this flawed material. He knew (in words Kant would write almost three centuries later) that nothing straight would be made from the crooked timber of humanity.
George Will
#93. If you help load a cart you get a ride in it, as often as not. It gives him to think, how bad people are at loading carts. Men trying to walk straight ahead through a narrow gateway with a wide wooden chest. A simple rotation of the object solves a great many problems.
Hilary Mantel
#94. People expect us to be a straight up dance band but there are many more elements to our sound that you really get to see during our live show and hear on our record 'See The Light'.
Nomi Ruiz
#95. We don't want to give people straight answers. We'd rather they question things for themselves.
Deborah Curtis
#96. Everybody's got bills to pay. Sometimes you see people just go straight for the money, and that's disappointing.
Kevin Bacon
#97. Plenty of people think the same thing. All of them are teenagers, mentally if not physically. Only teenagers think boring is bad. Adults, gown men and women who've been around the block a few times, know that boring is a gift straight from God.
Tana French
#98. Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a policeman.
E.W. Howe
#99. It is important-even necessary-for us to become acutely aware of the fact that we can't trust ourselves. The only ones you can trust to some extent are people who really know that. We had better get this straight.
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
#100. Her heart's too hurt ... you frightened her. And she's such a straight lady
she sees shame where some of us just see people.
Margo Lanagan
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