#ms

A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied. ↗

— Dan Savage

#bullied #effeminate #expectations #expression #gender

Actual gay people can make many others feel uncomfortable and paranoid because they don't know and can't articulate what makes a person gay, and they worry that maybe they themselves are gay. ↗

— Dan Savage

#articulate #because #feel #gay #know

Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does it well and triumphs. ↗

— Dan Savage

#arms #choir #discourse #does #elevates

Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#bodies #hearing #informs #motion #sounding

Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#carries #carved #choice #hands #her

The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#exterior #himself #man #objects #organs

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers. ↗

— George Savile

#could #laws #lawyers #speak #themselves

Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms. ↗

— George Savile

#hath #long #low #malice #stature

Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#english #his #mastery #minds #mislead

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#anglo-saxon #any #death #fund #greater