#cripple

I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#crippled #game #handicapped #i #i love

I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off. ↗

— Jim Dale

#applause #because #boy #burst #clap

I recently saw the movie about Ray Charles, and there's a scene where he falls down and the mother doesn't help him. She says, I don't want anyone to treat you like a cripple. I've fallen down before, and Molly will say, get up and just go. ↗

— Teri Garr

#anyone #before #charles #cripple #down

What good will a tax break do me if I'm crippled for life? ↗

— Alan Ladd

#crippled #good #i #life #me

...who is the hunchback in my comic opera, but me? I'm crippled on the inside and unable to make the gestures of love... ↗

— John Geddes

#crippled #hunchback #love #love

Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet. ↗

— Ernest Bramah

#although #cannot #conversation #cripple #elegant

The relationship I have to my fatherland is like that of mothers with crippled children: they love them all the more, the more crippled they are. Germany is the background of all my plans, the return to Germany. ↗

— Friedrich List

#children #crippled #fatherland #germany #i

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. ↗

— Russell Lynes

#cynicism #intellectual #intelligence #substitute

We should not use crippled children to sell hamburgers. Ever. ↗

— Phil Donahue

#crippled #ever #hamburgers #sell #should

Insecurity is just something that's there all the time. I've never been crippled by it. ↗

— Catherine Keener

#crippled #i #insecurity #just #never