Harry Hay Quotes

I knew that I was gay in every bone of my body. So I did the only thing I could do. I started the movement.

Harry Hay

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• No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.

  

  Fisher Ames
  • Language
  • Bible
  • Without

• I'm from Denver, and there is really nothing acting-wise to do there except for theater. I did everything I could get my hands on until I was able to make it to L.A.

  

  Madisen Beaty
  • Wise
  • Hands
  • Everything

• The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Witch
  • Trials
  • Muslim

• The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Want
  • End
  • India

• I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Funny
  • Air

• Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Actor
  • Regret
  • Opening

• We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Future
  • Looking
  • Everyone

• My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Love
  • America

• If you're working opposite an actor who can act, then all you have to do is listen and respond.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • You
  • Actor
  • Act

• I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Men
  • Why
  • Generation

• From the beginning of church history, music, writing, literature, and the greatest works of art all came from the church. To change the culture and make it a force for good, you have to be in it and be a part of it.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Good
  • Music
  • Writing

• I don't think that I could have survived in my family without a naughty sense of humor; yeah, absolutely. I think my brother and I both get our senses of humor from our parents. I mean, my mother was absolutely hilarious and foul. She had the most ridiculously off color sense of humor, so that was sort of what we grew up with.

  

  Rachael MacFarlane
  • Up
  • Family
  • She

• Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Great
  • True
  • Dreams

• I've noticed that the more I open up, the more I learn.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Up
  • Learn
  • More

• Sincere regret may be a faculty for paying attention to the future, for sensing a new tide where we missed a previous one, for experiencing timelessness with a grandchild where we neglected a boy of our own.

  

  David Whyte
  • May
  • Future
  • Attention

• You can love me or you can hate me.

  

  Dennis Rodman
  • Hate

• I love comic book movies, and Marvel Comics obviously are the best.

  

  Maria Menounos
  • Book

• I grew up 150-200 miles from any city. You simply didn't have much connection with the outside world. So my dreams were always to get out. It's a familiar kind of thing, I think, for anybody in a small town.

  

  Bobbie Ann Mason
  • Up
  • World
  • Small

• If beings knew, as I know, the results of giving & sharing, they would not eat without having given.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Results
  • Knew
  • Sharing

• Perfection is a theory. You cannot be a perfect human being, perfect artist. You cannot be a perfect husband, you cannot be a perfect father probably and probably I am not. But go through your daily routine with hope you will be a little better in all respects, and do something meaningful

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • Father
  • Perfect
  • Artist

• When they tried to draft me, I earned a college degree.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Education
  • College

• I remember on the pilot of 'Will and Grace' some executives from NBC saying to me, 'There are too many gay jokes.' I said, 'If not on this show, then what show?'

  

  James Burrows
  • Remember
  • Gay

• When humans work, they frequently become unaware of their own body, their own senses, are surprised to find that their wrists ache or their backs are sore or their friend has left the building. It's as close to an out-of-body experience as can be achieved short of fifty volts, a circle of warding, a pigeon's claw cut from an albino female of purest white feathers, or a lot of mushrooms.

  

  Catherine Webb
  • Body
  • Cutting
  • Building

• I knew that I was gay in every bone of my body. So I did the only thing I could do. I started the movement.

  

  Harry Hay
  • Body
  • Gay
  • Movement