Sam > Sam's Quotes

“We can't bear it when things are displayed at their brightest, fullest rainbow colours. We can't bear it, but, when it's gone, we love it, because it's suddenly safe, it can't come back or change. It can't rise up stronger.”
― Pete Burns, Freak Unique: My Autobiography

“When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“There's a point that comes in everybody's life when you have to stop denying the things that make you different and start to accept what you've been given - even if what you've been given is embarrassing, ugly, and prone to drooling involuntarily.”
― Ryan O'Connell, I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves

“I want to learn and continue to learn. It's the only way to stay alive.”
― Craig Ferguson, Riding the Elephant: A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and Observations

“My own belief is that two adults are allowed to love who they want, and if you don't agree with that, you are a narrow-minded shitfuck and we can't be friends.”
― Craig Ferguson, Riding the Elephant: A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and Observations

“My superpower is that I think everyone is my friend, and that’s the way I treated them. I brought them right down to my level and acted like we already had a bond, and we established one. It works every time, even with people who might not normally accept someone like me.

I think being gay is a fun fact about me. It’s like any other bit of biographical trivia: I’m from Pennsylvania, I have five siblings, I get Brazilian blowouts, and I’m gay. They’re all fun facts. (The fun fact of being gay might influence the fun fact of getting the blowouts, but who’s to say?)

When I treat being gay like that, it doesn’t keep me from talking to someone at a party, having a good time with them, or even establishing a friendship. And it doesn’t keep them from associating with me. Fun facts have a way of doing that.”
― Adam Rippon, Beautiful on the Outside

“I approached it with an intensity that burned brighter than me waiting for Britney Spears to post something on her Instagram story. Anything: a picture of corn, a runway walk, a picture of her in the gym where you can see her collection of tiny furniture—I live for it all.”
― Adam Rippon, Beautiful on the Outside

“I mean, am I wrong? Everyone IS a little bit gay.”
― Adam Rippon, Beautiful on the Outside

“Even when hate isn't directed explicitly towards you, you can feel it in the air, like some corrosive mist that you can't wash off.”
― Adam Rippon, Beautiful on the Outside

“To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“It must be depressing to have your sole purpose in the universe be pointing out other people's mistakes. Am I right, Internet trolls, gossip columnists, and clergymen?”
― Craig Ferguson, Riding the Elephant: A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and Observations

“There it was, out at last, and if it seems like nothing very much, I can only say that it took a long time to say it, to be able to say it, and none of the journey was easy.”
― Merle Miller, On Being Different: What It Means to Be a Homosexual

“I’m afraid I’ll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I’m afraid I’ll be abandoned like a movie playing in an empty theater.”
― Tablo

“There go more italics! But a few italics really do relieve your feelings.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars

“School is, if nothing else, a place where the sensitive go to be misunderstood.”
― Jacqueline Novak, How to Weep in Public: Feeble Offerings on Depression from One Who Knows

“When the First Lady is a he--and the President is me
It's a switch--it's a twist--it's a change
Still these things would shock most people
But I don't really know why,
For the world is full of changes--who knows this more than I!”
― Christine Jorgensen

“Never once, in all those acres of newsprint, had I been asked about my faiths and beliefs, both of which had played important roles in my life. What I slept in, apparently, was considered more important than what I believed in.”
― Christine Jorgensen, Christine Jorgensen: A Personal Autobiography

“I don't believe that I could stop loving someone without retaining some sort of fondness for him. He was, by then, a part of my past, but I know he will always own that small part of me which I gave to him and which he did not know existed.”
― Christine Jorgensen, Christine Jorgensen: A Personal Autobiography

“It kills me
that I see nothing but you when I close my eyes,
but everything but you when I open them.”
― Tablo, Blonote

“I don't need anyone's opinion. I've got my own.”
― Christine Jorgensen, Christine Jorgensen: A Personal Autobiography

“There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness and death.”
― Fran Lebowitz, Metropolitan Life

“The Earth remains round
but we're doing everything
we can to make it flat”
― Tablo, Blonote

“I loved you like I was belting out the notes.
But to you it was all a hum.”
― Tablo, Blonote

“Well, the Theatre's certainly not what it was.”
― T.S. Eliot, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

“After you die, I believe you begin dreaming; and that’s what heaven is—dreaming everyone’s saying nice things…saying you’re handsome and manly and admiring your hair. But I think I’d know it was only a dream, Charlie. I’d spend infinity telling myself lies and knowing it. My God, that’d be hell.”
― Charles Dyer, Staircase

“There’s something a bit peculiar in every one of us, and I think that when you reflect everybody’s secret fantasy they get a bit worried and try to hide you in the cupboard, really.”
― Pete Burns

“If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there”
― George Harrison

“K is for kingdom. And this here? This is mine.”
― Lil Nas X, C Is for Country

“Y is for y’all. We’ve got love for everybody, no matter who you are, where you’re from, what you look like.”
― Lil Nas X, C Is for Country