Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives.
DAN SAVAGE My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate,...
DAN SAVAGE Actual gay people can make many others feel uncomfortable and paranoid because they don't know a...
DAN SAVAGE The successes of the LGBT civil rights movement and the more prominent role openly gay people are pl...
DAN SAVAGE Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up.
DAN SAVAGE I don't think it's the responsibility of gays and lesbians to reinvent the family.
DAN SAVAGE Mother's Day is a torment if your mother is dead. Valentine's Day is a torment if you don...
DAN SAVAGE I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big c...
DAN SAVAGE Like it or not children are being raised by gay and lesbian parents all over America - as many as 10...
DAN SAVAGE One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to...
DAN SAVAGE The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civ...
DAN SAVAGE No, I'm not good looking.
DAN SAVAGE Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy...
DAN SAVAGE Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse...
DAN SAVAGE Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.
DAN SAVAGE A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effemin...
DAN SAVAGE The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fi...
DAN SAVAGE Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect f...
DAN SAVAGE Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But ...
DAN SAVAGE School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kinder...
DAN SAVAGE Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
DAN SAVAGE I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life that's worth living, on...
DAN SAVAGE I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploit...
DAN SAVAGE Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read...
DAN SAVAGE I have a thick skin, but I have a heart.
DAN SAVAGE One person simply can’t be all things to another person – sexually or otherwise—and unmet need...
DAN SAVAGE I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom...
DAN SAVAGE There's going to be some places where you're treated with respect and dignity and some places where ...
DAN SAVAGE It's like wearing ill-fitting garments, ... They don't quite fit.
DAN SAVAGE At that point, I had 50,000 to 80,000 words written about the house. Instead, it became a sequel to ...
DAN SAVAGE One hundred years, ... America will be last. America's always last. Great Britain did away with slav...
DAN SAVAGE So to D.J. it didn't make any sense that his two dads, both boys, would contemplate marrying each ot...
DAN SAVAGE How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that wa...
DAN SAVAGE I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.
DAN SAVAGE I felt sad for D.J.,
DAN SAVAGE I wanted to write about the idea of a multi-generational household because Americans don't live like...
DAN SAVAGE Our people have been so important to us. We thought it was important to help them find their next jo...
DAN SAVAGE You're here to share mementos of a failed relationship and tell your sad story. This is our ninth on...
DAN SAVAGE It would be as if a print advertiser said 'Gee, The Wall Street Journal reaches all business people ...
DAN SAVAGE Men were never expected to be monogamous.
DAN SAVAGE The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never...
DAN SAVAGE I do think people should get married,
DAN SAVAGE To keep the peace, I do show things to my family before they come out, ... It's like a 'heads up, he...
DAN SAVAGE They're used to it, ... It isn't the first time I've written about my family history or dragged ever...
DAN SAVAGE It hasn't changed the way we live or relate to each other, ... But there is this intangible, hard-to...
DAN SAVAGE [Savage speaks of another example, which he did not include in the book, in which he became suddenly...
DAN SAVAGE One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, fr...
DAN SAVAGE I don't think people should do things that make them miserable. And if being an in-shape, sober, mon...
DAN SAVAGE We lose sleep over that. But I think Michael J. Fox [who played ultra-conservative kid Alex Keaton i...
DAN SAVAGE How can two gay guys be in favor of legal same-sex marriage and huge fans of the traditional family ...
DAN SAVAGE Straight people are everywhere!
DAN SAVAGE You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're...
DAN SAVAGE I'm an agnosto-theist.
DAN SAVAGE I'm allergic to dogs, so I couldn't even adopt what gay men typically adopt when they have t...
DAN SAVAGE I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.
DAN SAVAGE But it doesn't matter what you're doing, it matters how you're doing it.
DAN SAVAGE A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacit...
DAN SAVAGE How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when tha...
DAN SAVAGE I wanted to be a priest when I was a kid.
DAN SAVAGE See, I'm a subverter at heart.
DAN SAVAGE I believe it's in the best interests of a child to be in a stable environment.
DAN SAVAGE In an open adoption agreement, you agree to a minimum number of visits - a floor, not a ceiling. It&...
DAN SAVAGE If what you want is a life where your homosexuality is not an issue, move, as many have done.
DAN SAVAGE To be gay is nothing to be proud of. It's in how you are gay that you have something to be proud...
DAN SAVAGE When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your str...
DAN SAVAGE I don't write about my life in my column.
DAN SAVAGE I get letters every year from women who think Valentine's Day is an empty exercise, but are iron...
DAN SAVAGE When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some open...
DAN SAVAGE So I don't feel particularly wealthy-but, you know, I pay my taxes and I know that I am.
DAN SAVAGE I think the 'South Park' guys are brilliant.
DAN SAVAGE I treat people who write me the way my friends and I all treat each other when we go to each other f...
DAN SAVAGE There are so many people out there with less shame talking about their problems.
DAN SAVAGE A lot of people are living their lives online in much more public ways with Facebook and Twitter.
DAN SAVAGE To be a straight person and discover you're infertile is almost like discovering you're not ...
DAN SAVAGE I am not an idiot, and I'm not a Pollyanna sort of kumbaya type.
DAN SAVAGE When I was a kid, and I was odd, the default assumption was that I was odd, not that I was gay. Now ...
DAN SAVAGE You know, my problem is I can't say no to people, especially people who want to write me checks ...
DAN SAVAGE Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some Rom...
DAN SAVAGE The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness...
DAN SAVAGE I've been loving music all my life.
RANDY SAVAGE Being a wrestler is like walking on the treadmill of life. You get off it and it just keeps going.
RANDY SAVAGE There are no tough guys in wrestling.
RANDY SAVAGE From wrestling to my hip-hop thing, I've just been able to do so much and meet so many crazy cha...
RANDY SAVAGE I used to hate old-timers who didn't praise the younger wrestlers, but you've got to pass th...
RANDY SAVAGE Every sport has its own cast of characters.
RANDY SAVAGE I would suggest maintaining a life and a career outside the Industry. This is a fickle business and ...
FRED SAVAGE I reject your reality and substitute my own.
ADAM SAVAGE Failure is always an option.
ADAM SAVAGE I arrived at ILM during the final push to finish Episode I, and it was like going to heaven. A shop ...
ADAM SAVAGE That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exporte...
ADAM SAVAGE In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a "failed experiment." Any test that yiel...
ADAM SAVAGE I wouldn't say Jamie is a evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil, and I'm not sure he's a genius
ADAM SAVAGE Growing up in New York, I was sort of shocked when I realized that my children are Californians. The...
ADAM SAVAGE We're not leaving here without Buster, man. Leave no crash-test dummy behind!
ADAM SAVAGE New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. There ...
ADAM SAVAGE I go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day. So my wife's experi...
ADAM SAVAGE The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until t...
ADAM SAVAGE I knew I loved you before I met you
I think I dreamed you into life
I knew I loved you bef...
SAVAGE GARDEN If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never...
ADAM SAVAGE I reject your reality and substitute it for my own.
ADAM SAVAGE I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take ...
ADAM SAVAGE Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for ...
ADAM SAVAGE Driving with one foot on the accelerator and the other on the brake is likely to get you nowhere, bu...
TERRY SAVAGE It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of ...
ADAM SAVAGE I don't own designer clothes, or a sports car, or a huge house, but I am seeing the world, exper...
ROZ SAVAGE I think Kellie Martin, Reese Witherspoon and Claire Danes represent the future for women in film, an...
FRED SAVAGE A lot of people say the sitcom is dead. I think they're right to some extent, in that the shows they...
BEN SAVAGE Brandon's not Nashville, where you have people recording on every corner, but there are a lot of opp...
BEN SAVAGE I also began hearing the lyrics. A friend suggested I talk to a producer,
BEN SAVAGE A lot of the problems teenagers go through, it's better for them to go through them on their own. If...
BEN SAVAGE I'm inspired by music. Sometimes more than I want to be.
BEN SAVAGE The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one. One worth clinging to. But you don'...
ADAM SAVAGE I'm always going to be making costumes. It's one of the ways I relax my brain. In addition t...
ADAM SAVAGE Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to mak...
RICHARD SAVAGE Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my...
ADAM SAVAGE I was the child at school in second-hand or handmade clothes and, as I grew older, I craved material...
ROZ SAVAGE I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou s...
FRED SAVAGE Technology is usually there to let some process go on hidden in the background. For us on 'MythB...
ADAM SAVAGE Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting. Breaking something big into its constituent ...
ADAM SAVAGE Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too l...
ADAM SAVAGE I've learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.
ADAM SAVAGE There's no excuse. Some guys seemed flat and some guys had it.
BRIAN SAVAGE It definitely got the team up and going. When they scored that first one, the [fans] sort of got dow...
BRIAN SAVAGE I think our power play played really well, especially in the second period when we needed some big g...
BRIAN SAVAGE I finally got some bounces to go my way.
BRIAN SAVAGE We were part of the mentoring program with NASA and JPL. We were introduced to the technology and we...
BRIAN SAVAGE He made so many things happen while he was playing.
BRIAN SAVAGE He made some unbelievable saves. Especially on the power play.
BRIAN SAVAGE If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.
BEN SAVAGE We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do i...
ADAM SAVAGE Jamie doesn't like to do anything hastily, and I like to do everything incredibly hastily. So th...
ADAM SAVAGE What's ill-got scarce to a third heir descends, Nor wrongful booty meets with prosperous ends. ...
RICHARD SAVAGE He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.
RICHARD SAVAGE We are worried because there is an abundance of fuel and wind and heat.
MARK SAVAGE From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their ...
ADAM SAVAGE If we?re unable to get the variance to conduct educational programs in the rural district, then (Sho...
JACK SAVAGE Firemen have the coolest toys ever!
ADAM SAVAGE I always think everything is going to last forever, but nothing ever does. In fact nothing exists lo...
SAM SAVAGE Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics...
ADAM SAVAGE I think it is important to maintain a sense of self and confidence, not letting either falter for th...
FRED SAVAGE I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.
ADAM SAVAGE I usually like to throw on some flip flops and go to a really nice lunch in Venice, or Santa Monica,...
BEN SAVAGE He doesn't make a lot of racket. It's not like they're going to be there forever.
PHIL SAVAGE Ocean rowing is very much what you make it. Rowing technique is pretty irrelevant on the ocean. It&#...
ROZ SAVAGE Jamie's gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a f...
ADAM SAVAGE I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he&#...
ADAM SAVAGE These girls are an overall loose group and they have a lot of fun together. They work hard and play ...
CHRIS SAVAGE I am not Pele or Maradona
ROBBIE SAVAGE In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don't start, it's either the fuel system or the e...
ADAM SAVAGE Lists are how I parse and manage the world.
ADAM SAVAGE Remember kids, I have life insurance.
ADAM SAVAGE I wish she weren’t so noisy, but I’m willing to endure the noise to have her with me.
SHAY SAVAGE My mate is really, really weird.

She is also absolutely covered in brown, mushy clay.
SHAY SAVAGE Beh reaches up and touches my cheek.
“Love,” she whispers.

“Luffs!” I respon...
SHAY SAVAGE She may be strange; she may not know how to make baskets, and she may be very noisy, but she is my m...
SHAY SAVAGE I don't care if she ever makes a basket that can hold grain, but I want her to be here with me. I wa...
SHAY SAVAGE In the darkness of the cave, there is a light inside her eyes that makes my heart beat faster. I kno...
SHAY SAVAGE I wonder what I will do if she doesn't wake up, and I don't have an answer. As I lie back down next ...
SHAY SAVAGE What we're being told is the potency is greater than ice. That's a little concerning. It's going to ...
ROB SAVAGE I think all of those things, but certainly the booze really brought out the really unreasonable side...
RICK SAVAGE Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of...
TOM SAVAGE If we move two or three spots, that would be one thing, but I can't see us moving into the top five....
PHIL SAVAGE We can capitalize on the feeling that people have about the Browns with a solid draft.
PHIL SAVAGE We could pick him, we could pass him or we could wait for the phone to ring.
PHIL SAVAGE There are other ways to get up there to get him.
PHIL SAVAGE Anytime you give up a future No. 1, it really takes away from the following year.
PHIL SAVAGE To make a quantum leap from No. 12 to four or five, you are giving away your draft. Plus, the money ...
PHIL SAVAGE He may ultimately be the safest pick in the draft. This guy's a football player. I suspect he'll go ...
PHIL SAVAGE We talked to him, visited with him. We felt good about it. It was positive and we're going to go thr...
PHIL SAVAGE We offer business training in marketing, finance, business start-up, intellectual property, manufact...
WES SAVAGE He's going to be a very good left tackle in this league. He might be a dominating pass protector, bu...
PHIL SAVAGE Each driver does three [public relations] advances a year and it's just random. He's the defending w...
TOM SAVAGE You don't want to get caught with your pants down in the draft.
PHIL SAVAGE Our goal is to insure that everyone in the county has a safe and happy New Year's Eve. The county, w...
SUSAN SAVAGE Could it happen? It's infinitesimal. You cannot determine whether or not that happened. The fact is,...
MARK SAVAGE I don't know if Kevin Arnold could even conceive of the Crumbs.
FRED SAVAGE You couldn't pay me to go back,
FRED SAVAGE It's hard to sleep at night because I'm still wondering where my mother is.
FRED SAVAGE You keep your Power Glove off of her. ... The Wizard
FRED SAVAGE Marco really kind of honors these characters ... they are not just these made-up fictitious people, ...
FRED SAVAGE I'm certainly not doing a Marco impersonation and I don't think that's what he wanted. For me, Marco...
FRED SAVAGE Every ingredient is potentially fatal.
ROB SAVAGE With some of my previous relationships, they never really felt right even from the beginning but I p...
RICK SAVAGE Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and...
RICK SAVAGE Chasing the sensation. Whether it was drugs or sex or whatever. Those things had become my main focu...
RICK SAVAGE You know, even though you have a limb severed, the signals keep running down the nerves so I still g...
RICK SAVAGE Just the same way I'd say a prayer before going onstage, taking that even further and using the drum...
RICK SAVAGE So you kind of know that anytime we want, we could do a tour without even an album to promote, which...
RICK SAVAGE I prefer the rather old and battered, things with character, to the brand new.
RICK SAVAGE We are more than paying our own way toward sheriff services.
RICK SAVAGE I think at that time I obviously wasn't aware of what I really needed. But conversely, my wanting to...
RICK SAVAGE I think it was a wake up call for everybody. Yeah, they could see that I had a weakness and a tenden...
RICK SAVAGE But I think that the most important thing was to really stop drinking.
RICK SAVAGE If we had loads of money as a family, things would be different and they'd come to visit more and I'...
RICK SAVAGE I have never been one for the over-the-top.
RICK SAVAGE There's so much that has been before the human race, and just contemplating that and then the earlie...
RICK SAVAGE But it's funny that now I'm in such a happy situation, I look more objectively at my own past and se...
RICK SAVAGE Yes, of course that's true but you know, the irony of all that is that before the accident, I'd pret...
RICK SAVAGE We're probably doing better business than we thought we would do especially considering the disappoi...
RICK SAVAGE It was great to do something different, so mixing it all about keeps things fresh.
RICK SAVAGE