Isador Akios Quotes & Sayings

Strangely, the subsequent AIDS works that have become iconic in our culture rarely mention the movement, or the engaged community of lovers, but both formations were inseparable from the crisis itself. Now, looking back, I fear that the story of the isolated helpless homosexual was one far more palatable to the corporations who control the reward system in the arts.The more truthful story of the American mass - abandoning families, criminal governments, indifferent neighbors - is too uncomfortable and inconvenient to recall. The story of how gay people who were despised, had no rights, and carried the burden of a terrible disease came together to force the country to change against its will, is apparently too implicating to tell. Fake tales of individual heterosexuals heroically overcoming their prejudices to rescue helpless dying men with AIDS was a lot more appealing to the powers that be, but not at all true. — Sarah Schulman

After I talk to so many people who are so unhappy about their weight and so depressed that they don't see any rainbows in their life, after I talk to about 30 of those, then I try to walk away and pet my dog, just do something that makes me happy. — Richard Simmons

Forget mama; if the butler ain't happy, ain't nobody happy. — Linda Bridey

New Zealand was colonised initially by those Australians who had the initiative to escape. — Robert Muldoon

What are you doing with the child?" I inquired cautiously.
"I'm teachin' young James here the fine art of not pissing on his feet," he explained. — Diana Gabaldon

From suffering to suffering, he had gradually arrived at the conviction that life is a war; and that in this war he was the conquered. — Victor Hugo

Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations. — Pat Brown

I wouldn't approach the issue of judging in the way the president does. Judges can't rely on what's in their heart. They don't determine the law. Congress makes the law. The job of a judge is to apply the law. — Sonia Sotomayor

Yes. I wish to be with you until the breath leaves my body, until the last stars burn out, and the earth falls into the dying sun. — Jordan L. Hawk

I'm against redefining marriage historically 5,000 years ... because then it'll be re-defined. What if it's between a brother and a sister? — Rick Warren

I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book. — Will Self

There are days in retirement that are the waking equivalent of a dreamless sleep, if you know what I mean. — Robert Breault

Those who escape hell however never talk about it and nothing much bothers them after that — Charles Bukowski

If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48. — Margaret Thatcher