#ill

I think these last 10 years have seen just a huge shift in the psyche of this country as regards gay people. I think AIDS had a lot to do with it. So many families who really believed they'd 'never met one' were suddenly confronted with their sons becoming ill, and friends of sons. I think that brought a lot of it into the open. ↗

— Janis Ian

#becoming #believed #brought #confronted #country

Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#both #built #collapse #come #home

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours. ↗

— Eric Idle

#break #corner #cry #go #hours

Don't count out other amazing programming like Frontline. You will still find more hours of in-depth news programming, investigative journalism and analysis on PBS than on any other outlet. ↗

— Gwen Ifill

#analysis #any #count #find #hours

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. ↗

— James Thurber

#glow #illuminates #kinds #light #obscures

Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#around #california #cold #day #i

I go home and don't get treated any differently. People have known me all my life and are interested and very supportive but because they have known me forever I don't get any diva treatment. My mum still tells me off if I haven't loaded the dishwasher for her. ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

#because #differently #dishwasher #diva #forever

When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#been #blank #blank page #filled #first

We know that Europe loves President Obama. He had adoring crowds. The press loves Obama. The question is how will this date end? Okay? The question is, to what end? Why do they love President Obama? They love his personal story, they love his wife. North Korea, China and Russia don't really care about Michelle's arms and, you know, whether they gave an iPod to the Queen, okay? ↗

— Laura Ingraham

#adoring #arms #care #china #crowds

I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties are now being called into question. ↗

— Daniel Inouye

#ago #arab #being #called #hope