These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word "queer" is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.
~By Derek Jarman ~
But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
Then, certainly, to be a Christian is to love God above all, and our neighbour as ourselves.
~By Elias Hicks ~
I am a fighter. I believe in that which is right, and the truth is, I have been the Lone Ranger for the past thirty years and I will not give up the fight. I love my public and I'll fight for you. I'll continue to make personal appearances for my thousands of fans.
~By Clayton Moore ~
Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.
~By Richard Whately ~
Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
~By Jacques Maritain ~
I've always said that one night, I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere, I'm standing on grass, and it's raining, and I'm with the person I love, and I know I'm at the very point I've been dreaming of getting to.
~By Drew Barrymore ~
He saw us play a few times in fact. I did this song called I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes, and Jimi loved it. He paid me a huge compliment when he told me that he was thinking of doing something similar himself!
~By Alvin Lee ~
People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.
~By Raoul Vaneigem ~
It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
One of my favorite things is mayonnaise and I have to tell you that. I love mayonnaise, but I don't eat it any more. If I do I put light mayonnaise on it, which I know is still not good but it's a lot better than the other one and I don't eat it that much.
~By Mike Ditka ~
I didn't fall in love with acting until I did a few films. Now, I couldn't live without it.
~By Geraldine Chaplin ~
One, I love the creativity. I love the ability to create a capital structure that is appropriate for a company, no matter what field it happens to be in.
~By Henry Kravis ~
I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
~By Sidonie Gabrielle Colette ~
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
~By Plato ~
This art of acting is a process I love very much. It's an unbelievably fulfilling experience for me and I look forward to building upon my art in the years to come.
~By Greg Akcelrod ~
Great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.
~By Helen Hunt Jackson ~
I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.
~By Margaret Thatcher ~
I love being someone I'm not for a period of time. I love every minute of being in someone else's skin.
~By Jessica Biel ~
When I was 14 years old, I was a huge fan of the Velvets, the Stooges and the Modern Lovers. They are my three favourite bands. I never get sick of 'em.
~By Evan Dando ~
There was a sense of all the things that go on on the street, particularly in New York, that you are just completely unaware of, that that conversation could be happening at any time. I loved the instability of the camera. It's just an unstable world.
~By Jennifer Beals ~
There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
The picture has made its million back in four months; I have been overwhelmed by letters, hundreds of them, literally, begging me in my next production not to swing over the shallow trash of mother love, father love, sister love, brother love.
~By Erich von Stroheim ~
By nature, men love newfangledness.
~By Geoffrey Chaucer ~
The heart that has truly loved never forgets But as truly loves on to the close.
~By Thomas Moore ~
To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.
~By Lane Kirkland ~
I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.
~By Ed Bradley ~
My star was kind of fading towards the end of the '60s and suddenly I got this call from Fellini, who just appeared to kind of love me!
~By Terence Stamp ~
We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.
~By Peter De Vries ~
The script was always the most important thing to me and I loved the script. For one thing, I've always admired trees. I just worship them. Think what trees have witnessed, what history, such as living through the Civil War, yet they still survive.
~By Kim Novak ~
Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
~By Theodore Roethke ~
It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!
~By May Sarton ~
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
~By Robert Frost ~
Well, I love having kids. But I have the advantage of having a lot of help, a real hands-on husband and small children whom I can easily manipulate.
~By Jane Kaczmarek ~
It was a struggle treating Claude Rains as my lover, but we were friendly. It was no great love affair.
~By Gloria Stuart ~
What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer is the test of love.
~By Brooke Foss Westcott ~
There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.
~By Boris Vian ~
What's natural and right is to go with the energy of how it all has to work together. What's natural and right is interconnectedness, not individualism. What is natural and right is respect for the system, not killing the system. What's natural and right is love.
~By Susan Powter ~
I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.
~By Adam Jones ~
I love to play; a stage is a safe place for me to be. It's not that way for most folks, but I'd be lost without it.
~By Rick Danko ~
The whole family is tight. We all really love each other.
~By Kieran Culkin ~
I have to say. I kind of love all that stuff - those physical challenges. I guess there will come a time when I'll get sick of it but at this stage, I just like it all.
~By Richard Roxburgh ~
I'd love to see more women working as directors and producers.
~By Ida Lupino ~
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.
~By James Herriot ~
As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.
~By Budd Schulberg ~
At heart, this job is about continuing to make great theatre for the people of Sheffield - a city I've known and loved since childhood.
~By Samuel West ~
My other family is Fleetwood Mac. I don't need the money, but there's an emotional need for me to go on the road again. There's a love there; we're a band of brothers.
~By Stevie Nicks ~
Marriage: love, honor, and negotiate.
~By Joe Moore ~
I picked up the Joss Stone album, Josh Groban, and the new Norah Jones. I love, love, love Norah.
~By Deborah Cox ~
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
~By Henry Drummond ~
I think what it takes to succeed remains the same. You have to have a real love of your sport to carry you through all the bad times, you still want to go ski even when things aren't working. You must have a commitment to work hard and to never give up.
~By Nancy Greene ~
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.
~By Victoria Woodhull ~
The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
~By Kate Capshaw ~
Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
~By Nathaniel Hawthorne ~
It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.
~By Bela Lugosi ~
Every woman in her late 20s goes through a period where she just doesn't believe love is out there anymore, but it is. And I think the minute you stop looking for it is when it comes for you.
~By Kristen Bell ~
I love playing different characters all the time, so I'm concentrating on doing other stuff.
~By Monica Keena ~
I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it.
~By Jodie Foster ~
He could not die when trees were green, for he loved the time too well.
~By John Clare ~
I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.
~By Robertson Davies ~
You can't trust a promise someone makes while they're drunk, in love, hungry, or running for office.
~By Joe Moore ~
I am going to sing lesbian love songs and support gay rights no matter what. The rest is public relations.
~By Jasmine Guy ~
At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France.
~By Karen Armstrong ~
Two people can make love but that isn't necessarily love.
~By Greta Scacchi ~
Certain songs by hearing the rhythm, it tells you that is either a love song or you might be heartbroken or the songs give you the vibes and you just know that certain songs are militant that you have to write.
~By Dennis Brown ~
I love playing in Fantomas, which is very strict in terms of composition.
~By Trevor Dunn ~
Having played an angel for so long, you can imagine that I've been asked to endorse any number of causes over the years. Obviously I have to limit my participation with any charity, so I decided to really concentrate on my love of children.
~By Roma Downey ~
Nobody could understand why a guy would love his guitar, then all of a sudden turn around and try to destroy it. Jimi was just different.
~By Bobby Womack ~
The success of I Love Lucy is something that happens only once in a lifetime, if you are fortunate enough to have it happen at all.
~By Desi Arnaz ~
At Cardozo, study of law is part of a larger culture. You can get a law degree and make a good living, but it is best that you do that having studied the discipline for its own inherent merit, because you love studying.
~By Norman Lamm ~
Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
~By George Jean Nathan ~
As far as more recognition goes, I am happy with the amount of love and respect I have received from other artists and the public. Of course, I would love more, and think I deserve it.
~By Suzi Quatro ~
I loved movies and went to see every movie I could in Finland.
~By Renny Harlin ~
How do you build a relationship when you've hardly shared a word but suddenly share a child? How do you love a daughter you don't see for nearly two years? When does she become your daughter? How does she become your daughter?
~By Boris Becker ~
Peter Boyle on Everybody Loves Raymond is more of an insane Dad.
~By Kurtwood Smith ~
I love Gibsons, and Nationals, too. There's something magical about them.
~By Mark Knopfler ~
With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
~By Daisaku Ikeda ~
Maybe I should quit the business. There's no one left for me to love. Mama's dead. Mr. Burns couldn't care less about me. What's left?
~By Bobby Darin ~
I think, first of all, you need to love what you're doing, and then this helps in the comedian for its part in everything-but the moment you enjoy what you're doing, you try to express yourself, to find your way, and every time is different, of course.
~By Cecilia Bartoli ~
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
~By Walter Benjamin ~
Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.
~By Alan Rickman ~
Lionel Richie, love song, OK, thank you very much, good-bye. And all of a sudden I realized that, in my career, what has made my career has always been the surprises.
~By Lionel Richie ~
I loved the idea of Travolta sitting on the kid's swing, pining away for his girlfriend.
~By Randal Kleiser ~
If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.
~By Yakov Smirnoff ~
Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
~By Abraham Maslow ~
I could ask the Phillies to keep me on to add to my statistics, but my love for the game won't let me do that.
~By Mike Schmidt ~
I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.
~By Billy Connolly ~
I love to sing and I do think that my strength as a singer is... I think I have a voice that is certainly sufficient under most any circumstances... but I think my strength is that I really am an actor and I really do have to own what I am saying.
~By Gregory Harrison ~
I've always loved groups like U2 and Coldplay.
~By Richard Marx ~
As I walk around, I have met 70-year-old women who live on the Upper West Side who love the show. And I met a couple in Kansas - a couple of truck drivers who drove around together - who loved it. It's popular all over the place and definitely in the gay community.
~By Lee Tergesen ~
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
Our Lord did not try to alter circumstances. He submitted to them. They shaped his life and eventually brought him to Calvary. I believe we miss opportunities and lovely secrets our Lord is waiting to teach us by not taking what comes.
~By Mother Maribel ~
Not that I've always loved the movie when they finally come out, or if they ever come out-because many of them don't come out-but I've gotten to work with really good story editors and stuff like that.
~By John Sayles ~
Certainly, it's very easy to fall in love with cash. If you're going to make all your decisions based on cash, you're going to have a pretty naffy career.
~By Mark Ruffalo ~
You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving.
~By Ted Olson ~
I love to be directed. They can trust me and go.
~By Jeff Goldblum ~
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