(15 quotes found)
“Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.”
Carrie P. Snow
“Isn't it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years”
Willa Sibert Cather
“It is a queer thing, but imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones.”
Dorothy Dix
“`How pleasant to know Mr Lear!' / Who has written such volumes of stuff ! / Some think him ill-tempered and queer, / But a few think him pleasant enough.”
Edward Lear
“We were 'here, queer and weren't gonna take it anymore' and all that.”
Paul Barwick
“Though I believe it sinful to be queer, it has at least saved me from becoming a pillar of the establishment”
W. H. Auden
“Fag, queer and homo is the single biggest epithet put-down in every high school in Connecticut. ... Do you know what it's like to be in the closet? It's a living hell.”
David Knapp
“Were it not for the presence of the unwashed and the half-educated, the formless, queer and incomplete, the unreasonable and absurd, the infinite shapes of the delightful human tadpole, the horizon would not wear so wide a grin.”
Frank Moore Colby
“It's a one-shot thing we got going over here. You know I ain't queer.”
Ennis Del Mar
“A strange, a perverted creed that has a queer attraction both for the most primitive and for the most sophisticated societies.”
Harold Macmillan
