Paraplegics Quotes

• By the 1970s, the American woman was being called 'liberated' or 'superwoman' while the American man was being called 'baby killer' if he fought in Vietnam, 'traitor' if he protested, or 'apathetic' if he did neither. Even men who came home paraplegics were literally spit on.

  Warren Farrell

  Baby, Home, Men

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Being a functioning alcoholic is kind of like being a paraplegic lap dancer: You can do it, just not as well as the others, really.

  Robin Williams

  Dancer, Lap, Kind

  "Robin Williams: Weapons of Self Destruction". TV Special, December 6, 2009.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• In "Virginia Woolf" I had a thing which the grips called the paraplegic which was a wheelchair thing that I had made up years before where I could stand on this bicycle-like device and be pushed down the hall, and then step off it with a handheld camera.

  Haskell Wexler

  Virginia, Years, Cameras

  "Remembering Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I would rather be physically disabled obviously than mentally. I would rather be paraplegic than nuts. And it is a terrifying prospect and actually the longer we live the more likely it is that that's how we will go and that's a very painful thing to contemplate.

  Ian Mcewan

  Nuts, Painful, Contemplating

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ham smiled. "Cett's going to be furious." Elend shrugged. "He's a paraplegic. What's he going to do? Bite us?

  Brandon Sanderson

  Ham, Furious, Bites

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.1940, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Never do anything for a student that he he is capable of doing for himself. If you do you, you'll make him an educational cripple...a pedagogical paraplegic.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Teacher, Powerful, Educational

  77 Copy quote

• Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people anyway. For years I've regarded his existence as a monument to all the rancid genes and broken chromosomes that corrupt the possibilities of the American Dream; he was a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad. The Nixon I remembered was absolutely humorless; I couldn't imagine him laughing at anything except maybe a paraplegic who wanted to vote Democratic but couldn't quite reach the lever on the voting machine.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Dream, Integrity, Men

  "Pageant" Magazine, July 1968.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source