Kinsey Quotes & Sayings

The male's difficulties in his sexual relations after marriage include a lack of facility, of ease, or of suavity in establishing rapport in a sexual situation. — Alfred Kinsey

I have a very normal life. I go to the grocery store, I go to Target. I don't have an assistant, I don't have an entourage. — Angela Kinsey

The very general occurrence of the homosexual in ancient Greece, and its wide occurrence today in some cultures in which such activity is not taboo suggests that the capacity of an individual to respond erotically to any sort of stimulus, whether it is provided by another person of the same or opposite sex, is basic in the species. — Alfred Kinsey

Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church. — Bill Condon

Kinsey wanted Dellenback to film his own staff. There are three ways to read that sentence, all of them true. — Mary Roach

The critical lessons in life hold sway whether you like it or not. — Sue Grafton

The Kinsey Institute says gay men have bigger sex organs. Hence the origin of gay pride. — Jay Leno

Expected a bit more skin, Almeida." She punctuated that with a pointed glance at the shorts area. The man had promised Speedos.
"Think Chicago's seen enough of me, don't you?"
Chicago might have, but Kinsey most definitely had not. — Kate Meader

Good does not attract evil but the opposite, it fights to shine light on darkness. — Tori Kinsey

You can't save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don't appreciate your interfering with the drama they've created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they don't want to change. — Sue Grafton

I showered and shampooed. I even shaved the requisite legs and armpits just in case I fell in a swoon and one or the other was exposed to view. (Kinsey Millhone) — Sue Grafton

I think that the biggest beauty essential is as simple as a good, full night's sleep. — Angela Kinsey

Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality. — Bill Condon

The truth is, I could no more dictate her nature than she could dictate mine. Kinsey's happy as she is and she doesn't need to be rescued, improved, or saved. — Sue Grafton

Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is. — Bill Condon

People from context cultures tend to view personal bonds and informal agreements as far more binding than any formal contract. People from content cultures don't believe the deal is finalized until everyone has signed on the dotted line. And therein lies the potential for conflict. — Carol Kinsey Goman

No, 'F/X 2' was a job. I enjoyed doing it but that was definitely a job. I wrote that, I didn't direct it but 'Candyman' and the earlier horror movies I made, I was completely into horror and suspense and always have been. It's informed everything I've done, even the way scenes are shot in 'Kinsey and 'Gods and Monsters.' — Bill Condon

Parents should keep 'Eyes Wide Open' next to the 'Kinsey Report' on their shelves. — Paul Fleischman

It is ordinarily said that criminal law is designed to protect property and to protect persons, and if society's only interest in controlling sex behavior were to protect persons, then the criminal codes concerned with assault and battery should provide adequate protection. The fact that there is a body of sex laws which is apart from the laws protecting persons is evidence of their distinct function, namely that of protecting custom. — Alfred Kinsey

Art alone develops weaklings, science alone, monsters. Somewhere, somehow, we must combine the two. — Alfred Kinsey

It didn't get much more patriotic than sex in a Chevy on the Fourth of July. God bless America. — Kate Meader

I wondered if I'd ever be nice enough to volunteer for anything. I was hoping not. — Sue Grafton

Kinsey was the kind of pretty that got under her skin. It was as if someone had put the girl next door and a vintage pin-up in a box, shook it, and Kinsey was what had tumbled out, blushing and mussed. Plus, — Alessandra Torre

I didn't take the death-and-dismemberment talk very seriously. Where could you rent a chainsaw at this time of night? — Sue Grafton

Since it all appeared so scientific, and we wanted to hear it, Kinsey's pseudo-science became foundational for the sexual revolution, used both in courts and classrooms to push a limitless sexual revolution that began in the 1960s and through which we are still living. This revolution will not be over until it has overthrown all sexual boundaries, which means that it will not be complete until it extinguishes all opposition, the greatest of which is Christianity. Once again, we see atheism at the root of rebellion. — Benjamin Wiker

What, Tough Girl's crying now? What a pansy," cracked Michael.
"Watch it, dude," Dylan said softly. "Don't fuck with her when she's crying. — Kinsey W. Holley

Well, from an acting point of view, I bear no relation, I don't look like Alfred Kinsey at all, but I thought somewhere in my artist's soul, my actor's soul, I could capture something of the spirit of the man. — Liam Neeson

I thought, well of course, Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that was a clue I hung onto. He loved young people, he absolutely loved them. And he loved teaching them and trying to help them. — Liam Neeson

Human beings are distinguished by a capacity for experience as well as by their behavior, and homosexuality is as much a matter ofemotion as of genital manipulation ... As we each examine our own sense of identity we realize how much more complex is the question of homosexuality than a mere Kinsey-like computation of orgasms. — Dennis Altman

I know there are people who believe you should forgive and forget. For the record, I'd like to say I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I'm given the opportunity to get even first. — Sue Grafton

Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. — 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

By being a waiter 100 percent, I think I was a lot like any other actor in New York. I had credits because I'd work lunches during the week, and then on a Wednesday would go be lucky enough to be in a movie like 'Kinsey.' — John Krasinski

In the absence of my beloved and much-derided crime board,' she said, 'I've been reduced to writing things in my journal like some sort of medieval peasant.' She — T E Kinsey

Here's the thing; I'm not in shape. — Angela Kinsey

panic inspires gross errors in judgement (Kinsey Millhone) — Sue Grafton

If all persons with any trace of homosexual history, or those who were predominantly homosexual, were eliminated from the population today, there is no reason for believing that the incidence of the homosexual in the next generation would be materially reduced. The homosexual has been a significant part of human sexual activity since the dawn of history, primarily because it is an expression of capacities that are basic in the human animal. — Alfred Kinsey

Now that I'm a mom, I'm way more laid back. If you come into my house, don't look for a coaster. Forget it. There is not a piece of furniture in my house now that is too precious. — Angela Kinsey

My mouth was dry as cotton and my head hurt like hell. I tried to lift it, and the effort left me shaken and nauseated. I satisfied myself with just shifting my eyes around. I thought of all the books I'd read, all the mysteries. Spencer wouldn't have ended up this way. Neither would Kinsey Milhone. Or Henry O. Or Stephanie Plum, Well, yeah, maybe Stephanie Plum. — Charlaine Harris

I have so many messy moments. — Angela Kinsey

I love 'House' - I love 'House' so much. — Angela Kinsey

George was an atheist, and so am I. But how I long now for an afterlife - a world of light or of deep dazzling darkness, where he and the others we've lost reside, unscathed, forever accessible - to have tea with, to talk nonsense with, to reinvent the world with — Justin Spring

I think a lot of times we can get distracted and not be in the moment with people and be missing all the life happening in the moment. — Angela Kinsey

I don't want to live in a world where I could say to my daughter, 'There used to be turtles that swam in the ocean.' — Angela Kinsey

I know a little more about Kinsey than I know about sex because that is his subject not mine. — Bill Condon

Cats are more interesting, let's face it. Dogs are loveable and a bit boring. — Angela Kinsey

One of the people that became a major source was Clarence Tripp who worked with Kinsey. — Bill Condon

I think we want our kids to grow up to be people who can think outside of the box, be creative and innovators, sort of the forward-thinkers of our future. I think a way to inspire that is through art and music. — Angela Kinsey

I pictured a section of the ladies' auxiliary cookbook for Sudden Death Quick Snacks ... Using ingredients one could keep on the pantry shelf in the event of tragedy. — Sue Grafton

I keep lip gloss everywhere. It always makes me feel like I am slightly put together. — Angela Kinsey

Your audience is a lot smarter than you realize. — Angela Kinsey

Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution. — Bill Condon

The heterosexuality or homosexuality of many individuals is not an all-or-none proposition. — Alfred Kinsey

Kate Winslet is my girl crush. — Angela Kinsey

After over six hundred hours of listening, John knew two more things: That the most profound truth lay in the labyrinths that coiled behind a green door in the interviewee's mind the very second that Alfred Kinsey said, "Tell me about your fantasies"; and, two, that with the proper information and the correct stimuli he could get carefully chosen people to break through those doors and act out their fantasies, past moral strictures and the boundaries of conscience, taking him past his already absolute knowledge of mankind's unutterable stupidity into a new night realm that he as yet was incapable of imagining. Because the night was there to be plundered; and only someone above its laws could exact its bounty and survive. — James Ellroy

If you change a character too much, the audience falls out of love with the character, but characters need to evolve and grow over the years. — Angela Kinsey

I did an about-face and veered into the sandwich shop. What I ordered is none of your business, but it was really good. — Sue Grafton

The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform. — Alfred Kinsey

Seriously, I will probably out-talk you if you come up to me because I'm a chatterbox. — Angela Kinsey

Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice. — Angela Kinsey

There is a tendency to consider anything in human behavior that is unusual, not well known, or not well understood, as neurotic, psychopathic, immature, perverse, or the expression of some other sort of psychologic disturbance. — Alfred Kinsey

Kinsey Millhone is a female Sam Spade; a thorough professional, a loner, clear-headed and unsentimental. — Lucille Kallen

Eddie gave a long suffering sigh as he bent down to pick up his bedazzled bag. "Glory be, why do I debase myself with ignoramuses like you? The Kinsey scale is a very basic way of measuring where you fit in terms of hetero versus homo." he pulled his coat on and held his hands out at a distance, fingers straight, like he was measuring a fish. "Imagine a line. At one side you have hetero, at the other you have homo. And then there is everything in the middle. It's not actually that basic. In fact it's far more complicated, but I don't have time to tell you now since I need to walk home before I get any drunker. — Micaela Vee

Cheese crumbs spread before a pair of copulating rats will distract the female but not the male. — Alfred Kinsey

My mom, the fabulous Bertie Kinsey, is an amazing seamstress. She quilts and sews and is so crafty. We call her the Southern Martha Stewart! — Angela Kinsey

My very sassy, older southern sister is very quick to point out that it's a luxury that my daughter gets to come to work with me. She does, and I have lunch with her every single day. My mom says I have 'high class problems.' — Angela Kinsey

Kinsey's quest was really for us all to be tolerant and accepting of each other. — Liam Neeson

For the record, I'd like to say that I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I have a chance to get even first
Kinsey Millhone, V is for Vengeance — Sue Grafton

I keep my sisters on speed dial. — Angela Kinsey

Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar. — Sue Grafton

I'm sure, to many people, my life is not that exciting, but to me every day is an adventure. — Angela Kinsey

If biologists so often forget the most universal of all biologic principles [variation], it is not surprising that men and women in general expect their fellows to think and behave according to the pattern that may fit the law-maker, or the imaginary ideals for which the legislation was fashioned, but which are ill-shaped for all real individuals who try to live under them. — Alfred Kinsey

I hope my daughter knows that in our house we can make messes and have fun and we'll laugh through it. Granted I don't want her to trash the house, but we do make a lot of messes. — Angela Kinsey

My friend, Sue Ann, in college pulled me aside and said, 'Honey I love you but you have got to start waxing your eyebrows. They look wild!' So thank you, that kinda changed my life. — Angela Kinsey

Personally I don't endorse the notion of mortality. It's fine for other folk, but I disapprove of the concept for me and my loved ones. Seems unfair that we're not allowed to vote on the matter and not one of us is excused. Who made up that rule? - Kinsey Millhone — Sue Grafton

We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe. — Alfred Kinsey

Once upon a time, I'd come close to being killed in the big trash bin outside. This counts as nostalgia for someone like me (p. 317).
Kinsey Millhone in V is for Vengeance — Sue Grafton

I love hanging out at home with my kid. It's hard to get me to leave the house. — Angela Kinsey

And the Institute sent me a little film footage of Kinsey himself preparing to do an interview for television to talk about his work, so that was quite valuable for me. — Liam Neeson

I think it's a tough road if you're a stay-at-home mom, a working mom, if you have a partner, if you don't. It's the best job in the world, and the toughest job in the world all at the same time. — Angela Kinsey

Warm lips met her shoulder where he placed a light kiss. "Doona be afraid of me. I'll always protect you."
Kinsey moved back against him, allowing her shoulder to rub against his bare chest. Heat radiated from him, cocooning her in everything Ryder. — Donna Grant

I got the wake-up call that no one is policing our oceans. I wondered, how can I do anything? What really can I do to make things better? There are some perks to being a celebrity. My job is to be funny once in a while, but it's my responsibility to make good use of it. — Angela Kinsey

As a busy working mom I'm always pressed for time, so a quick and easy beauty routine is key! — Angela Kinsey

Like the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School, postmodernism seeks to institutionalize dishonesty as a legitimate school of thought. The idea of truth as the ultimate goal of the intellectual is discarded. In its place, scholars are asked to pursue political objectives
so long as those political objectives are the 'correct' ones. Postmodernism is not fringe within the community of scholars. It is central. This tells us a great deal about the life of the mind today. Peruse any university course catalogue, and you find names like Foucault, Derrida, and Barthes. Scour the footnotes of scholarly books and journals and a similar story unfolds. With the primacy of philosophies
postmodernism, Critical Theory, and even the right-leaning Straussianism
that exalt dishonesty in the service of supposedly noble causes, is it at all surprising that liars like Alfred Kinsey, Rigoberta Menchu, Alger Hiss, and Margaret Sanger have achieved a venerated status among the intellectuals? — Daniel J. Flynn

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

Maybe it was time to at least pretend to be a nicer person than i knew i was — Sue Grafton

I'm not sure Kinsey has changed in these first twelve books. I think the reader learns more about her, but from Kinsey's perspective, only three years have passed while the rest of us have been getting older at a much faster clip. — Sue Grafton

The range of variation in the female far exceeds the range of variation in the male. — Alfred Kinsey

I can't watch iceskating because the whole time I think they're going to fall! I get so uncomfortable. — Angela Kinsey

Built into bad news is that sense of profound disbelief. The mind struggles to absorb the bare facts, defending itself against the larger implications. — Sue Grafton

I grew up overseas in Indonesia, and my school had a great art, music, and theatre program. — Angela Kinsey

I have a special place in my heart for working moms - it's a constant pull on your heartstrings. — Angela Kinsey

Cut down on your use of plastic shopping bags because many end up in the ocean. — Angela Kinsey

I've never been a big fan of exercise. I just can't think of any other way to feel good. Kinsey Milhone — Sue Grafton

Personally, I'd rather grow old alone than in the company of anyone I've met so far. I don't experience myself as lonely, incomplete, or unfulfilled, but I don't talk about that much. It seems to piss people off
especially men. (Kinsey Millhone) — Sue Grafton

Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeonholes. — Alfred Kinsey

Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion. — Bill Condon

I do believe in the Kinsey scale, I think many of us fall in different places on the scale and I think it's for each one of us to decide where we are on the scale, it's not for someone else to decide for us. — Christopher Rice

No census was taken of the number of gay men and lesbians who entered the military. But if Alfred Kinsey's wartime surveys were accurate and applied as much to the military as to the civilian population, at least 650,000 and as many as 1.6 million male soldiers were homosexual. — Allan Berube

When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those. — Bill Condon