Males famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.
-- Adam Lambert -
All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin. It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down. A vertical stroke: the male who penetrates her.
-- Adolf Loos -
Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.
-- Adrienne Rich -
My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.
-- Alastair Campbell -
The triangle pointing downward is a female symbol corresponding to the yoni and the upward pointing triangle is the male, the lingam ... When the two triangles are interlaced, it represents the union of the active and passive forces in nature; it represents the male and female elements.
-- Albert Mackey -
Male sexual response is far brisker and more automatic. It is triggered easily by things - like putting a quarter in a vending machine.
-- Alex Comfort -
If my boyfriend finds me sexy, then I don't need that kind of male attention from anyone else.
-- Alexa Chung -
I suppose he'll just have to do," she amended. "You'll have to suffer in silence with your male model...I feel for you." "Oh, stop it, Molly.
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
The range of variation in the female far exceeds the range of variation in the male.
-- Alfred Kinsey -
Cheese crumbs spread before a pair of copulating rats will distract the female but not the male.
-- Alfred Kinsey -
Few males achieve any real freedom in their sexual relations even with their wives. Few males realise how badly inhibited they are on these matters.
-- Alfred Kinsey -
It is amazing to observe how many psychologists and psychiatrists have accepted this sort of propaganda, and have come to believe that homosexual males and females are discretely different from persons who respond to natural stimuli. Instead of using these terms as substantives which stand for persons, or even as adjectives to describe persons, they may better be used to describe the nature of the overt sexual relations, or of the stimuli to which an individual erotically responds.
-- Alfred Kinsey -
Feminism requires precisely what patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power
-- Andrea Dworkin -
One can know everything and still be unable to accept the fact that sex and murder are fused in the male consciousness, so that the one without the imminent possibly of the other is unthinkable and impossible.
-- Andrea Dworkin -
...In every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom.
-- Andrea Dworkin -
You know, you go home and you try on a new mascara, and I guess a male CEO can't do that.
-- Andrea Jung -
Satan delights in homosexual perversion because it not only exists outside of marriage, but it also defiles God' very image reflected as male and female.
-- Andrew Comiskey -
The image of God, then, involves gender identity and complementarity. God created gender in duality as male and female.
-- Andrew Comiskey -
I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works.
-- Ann Beattie -
You know, right now, they say - I don't know who says this, but somebody told me - there's three male roles to every female role. And I guess I'd work on evening that up. Making great roles for women. It's just such a huge challenge
-- Anna Faris -
Hollywood studio executives don't recognize the value of female performers as much as male performers.
-- Anna Faris -
I am still fully committed to male-female equality.
-- Anne-Marie Slaughter -
What Women's Lib might achieve if their 'consciousness raising' - or in plain English, brainwashing- campaign succeeds is a society whose members have identical roles but are perpetually at war with themselves; a society of males made neurotic by suppressed masculinity, of females made miserable by having masculine roles thrust upon them that contradict their feminine impulses.
-- Arianna Huffington -
I'm not sure I even need a lover, male or female. Sometimes I think I'd settle for five good friends.
-- Armistead Maupin -
Forgiveness is hard for me, man. It is for most American-Western males. It's a sign of weakness.
-- Art Alexakis -
The proper method of playing mixed doubles is to swipe the ball accidentally and straight at the woman opponent as hard and as accurately as possible. Male players must not only retain equanimity on their side of the net, but create dissension on the other.
-- Art Hoppe -
When Glenda Jackson reveals that she has never been in a relationship with a man in which he hasn't raised his fists to her, I don't know whether this tells us more about the contemporary male or about Glenda Jackson.
-- Auberon Waugh -
The Holy Koran tells us, 'O mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another.'
-- Barack Obama -
From a biological viewpoint, patriarchal religion denied women the natural rights of every other mammalian female: the right to choose her stud, to control the circumstances of her mating, to occupy and govern her own nest, or to refuse all males when preoccupied with the important business of raising her young.
-- Barbara G. Walker -
Male genitals are still called "the tree of life" by the Arabs, and a cross was one of the oldest diagrammatic images of male genitals.
-- Barbara G. Walker -
Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
-- Barbara Walters -
Reviewing the literature on love I noticed how few writers, male or female, talk about the impact of patriarchy, the way in which male domination of women and children stands in the ways of love.
-- Bell Hooks -
I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he had solitude to read. Unfortunately, tragically, like so many young black males, that solitude only came in prison.
-- Bell Hooks -
Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?
-- Bell Hooks -
Imagine living in a world where there is no domination, where females and males are not alike or even always equal, but where a vision of mutuality is the ethos shaping our interaction.
-- Bell Hooks -
Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.
-- Bella Abzug -
Every male in the world thinks he's an excellent driver. Every copper who's ever had to pick an eyeball out of a puddle knows that most of them are kidding themselves.
-- Ben Aaronovitch -
I hope it won't come as a surprise to anyone that a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys.
-- Ben Stein -
Clearly it's not easy for women in modern society, no matter where they live. We still have to go the extra mile to prove that we are equal to men. we have to work longer hours and make more sacrifices. And we must emotionally protect ourselves from unfair, often vicious attacks made on us via the male members of our family.
-- Benazir Bhutto -
the new mystique is that women can have it all. There's a whole new generation of women today, flogging themselves to compete for success according to the male model - in a work world structured for men with wives to handle the details of life.
-- Betty Friedan -
Three women walk into a pub and say, `Hooray, we've colonised a male-dominated joke format'
-- Bill Bailey -
The male image has been so pulled down by situation comedy in the last 15 years, it is frightening. I don't like what has happened to the American male.
-- Bill Bixby -
Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.
-- Bjork -
Like the lion tears the flesh off a man, so can a woman who passes herself off as a male.
-- Bob Dylan -
I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist.
-- Boris Johnson -
I was into comics because these were my real male role models, even though at the time, I didn't know it.
-- Brian Michael Bendis -
Male female slave or free; peaceful or disorderly; maybe you and he will not agree; but you need him to show you new ways to see.
-- Bruce Cockburn -
I'll pit my God against your god any day, I say to the Calvinists. It's not their god I'm praying to.... The God I'm praying to is neither male nor female. My God is the one who exists apart from all of men's agendas, the God who takes you away when there is no possible place you can go.
-- Brunonia Barry -
There is not many tenors in the male category and that makes me stick out.
-- Bryan White -
Thus we have now for many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such as the beard) disagreeable to nearly all the females—and there is more in that than you might suppose.
-- C. S. Lewis -
A male feminist is one of the most glorious end-products of evolution.
-- Caitlin Moran -
There's only so much you can do with a male voice in dance music.
-- Calvin Harris -
I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there.
-- Camille Claudel -
The unhappy truth is that male homosexuality will never be fully accepted by the heterosexual majority, who are obeying the dictates not of bigoted society or religion but of procreative nature.
-- Camille Paglia -
For me, the Profumo affair symbolizes the evanescence of male government compared to women's cosmic power.
-- Camille Paglia -
The mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms.
-- Camille Paglia -
The capitalist distribution network, a complex chain of factory, transport, warehouse and retail outlet, is one of the greatest male accomplishments in the history of culture.
-- Camille Paglia -
It is not male hatred of women but male fear of women that is the great universal.
-- Camille Paglia -
You could be going to have supper with someone who happens to be male, and all of a sudden he is your boyfriend of nine months... and I am cheating on my existing boyfriend.
-- Caprice Bourret -
In my lifetime I have murdered 21 human beings, I have committed thousands of burglaries, robberies, larcenies, arson's and, last but not least, I have committed sodomy on more than 1,000 male human beings. For all these things I am not in the least bit sorry.
-- Carl Panzram -
It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal
-- Carol Ann Duffy -
For a woman, a son offers the best chance to know the mysterious male existence.
-- Carol Klein -
If we do not mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well?
-- Carol P. Christ -
Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male?
-- Carol P. Christ -
You can always tell when someone's lying to you, because they're male...
-- Caroline Rhea -
Male friends do not always face each other; they stand side by side, facing the world.
-- Carolyn Heilbrun -
What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.
-- Catharine MacKinnon -
Women and men are divided by gender, made into the sexes as we know them, by the social requirements of heterosexuality, which institutionalizes male sexual dominance and female sexual submission.
-- Catharine MacKinnon -
I happen to have worked with male directors who don't understand women at all. Not at all. I'm flabbergasted by their ignorance.
-- Catherine McCormack -
I'd love to see more equal representation of female and male cartoonists on the comics page.
-- Cathy Guisewite -
A YA heroine does not have to pick up a weapon nor wear men's clothing to be equal to her male counterparts.
-- Celine Kiernan -
I had to keep from laughing when a male relative of mine became concerned about how often I danced.
-- Cesar Romero -
When the sexes differ in beauty, in the power of singing, or in producing what I have called instrumental music, it is almost invariably the male which excels the female.
-- Charles Darwin -
I'm a romantic and will only marry for love where there's respect and compatibility. I'd like to be with someone if the right person came along. I really like male company. I like the male mind.
-- Cherie Lunghi -
For a woman to be a lesbian in a male-supremacist, capitalist, misogynist, racist, homophobic, imperialist culture, such as that of North America, is an act of resistance.
-- Cheryl Clarke -
If you see anyone from about sixteen to sixty-five and they're male, shoot 'em. Kill every male you see.
-- Chris Kyle -
I claim that every woman in this century and in our culture sphere who has ventured into male-dominated institutions - 'literature' and 'aesthetics' are such institutions - must have experienced the desire for self-destruction.
-- Christa Wolf -
Most males do not mature, they simply grow taller.
-- Christina Dodd -
I'm concerned that boys have become politically incorrect, that we are a society in the process of turning against its male children.
-- Christina Hoff Sommers -
America's demographic shift was obvious to everyone in the 2010 Census - but Republicans stubbornly rejected math, facts, and polls to their electoral peril. While Republicans tailored their platform by and for the pale stale and male, among us, Obama and Democrats are embracing America's diverse mosaic.
-- Christine Pelosi -
Ever since I discovered that my god given male member was going to give me no peace, I decided to give it no rest in return.
-- Christopher Hitchens -
That s the problem I ve been choosing male names. You are a she! [To Saphira, while trying to choose her name.]
-- Christopher Paolini -
Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
I want[ed] to make a show of really big pictures, because you see male artists doing it all the time. It just seemed like such a big egotistical thing. I thought, 'I don't know that many women that really do that.... Damn it, I'm gonna do that-make this really big picture.'
-- Cindy Sherman -
The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible.
-- Clara Zetkin -
Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.
-- Clare Boothe Luce -
His legs remembered the correct position for squatting down with toys. He played. He fit the round male studs into the round female grooves. He got some thinking done as he hunkered down on his fallen-sleep legs.
-- Colson Whitehead -
If I see a chick playing guitar, I'm drawn to that band immediately. I want to know everything, even if it's completely electronic. But you have to really get my attention if you're male. I can't help it. It's part of my nature.
-- Courtney Love -
It's fantastic that Congress has an increasing number of women. Experts call an increasingly female presence in a previously male space 'the Bruce Jenner effect.'
-- Craig Ferguson -
An 83-year-old male prostitute was arrested. Police say he only charged $20 an hour, but for most of that time, he just talked about his grandkids.
-- Craig Ferguson -
I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors
-- Curtis Sittenfeld -
Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.
-- Curtis Sittenfeld -
In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.
-- Cyril Connolly -
A geek is a person, male or female, with an abiding, obsessive, self-effacing, even self-destroying love for something besides status
-- D. B. Weiss -
This monopoly over language is one of the means by which males have ensured their own primacy, and consequently have ensured the invisibility or 'other' nature of females ...
-- Dale Spender -
It’s been a secret too long, but I’m actually a straight male.
-- Darren Criss -
Lovely Arra Sails, nectar to all males, how I'd like to spear you like a whaler spears a whale!
-- Darren Shan -
The only creature less fashionable in academia than the stereotypical 'dead white male,' is the dead white male on horseback.
-- David Hackett Fischer
