Harry Hay Quotes
Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.
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It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.
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My parents are high school sweethearts.
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If you're smart and you care about life, you'll take driving seriously.
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So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
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Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.
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You can never get enough of what you don't want.
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For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the edges of human experience, to the edges of themselves and then, asking certain questions - about love, what does it mean to love? What's beauty? What is true beauty? What does it mean to be insane - crazy?
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In France, I found there is a lot of attention to the little details and to the quality of life.
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It is a changing world with changing opportunities.
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There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.
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When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.
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Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression.
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Educators shouldn't be afraid of cliches. You know why? Because kids don't know most of them! They're a new audience. And they're inspired by cliches.
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When I created Quirke, he was 6ft 6in and blond. But then a woman reader wrote to me and said, 'Why do you keep saying his hair is blond? It's not. It's brown.' I wrote back to her and told her that, of course, she was right. So I darkened his hair and now that he's being played by Gabriel Byrne; with each successive book he gets a bit smaller and smaller.
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A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
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A 'farm' today means 100,000 chickens in a space the size of a Motel 6 shower stall.
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Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.
