#crippled

Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty. ↗

— Holly Black

#crippled #flaws #beauty

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#carriers #civilization #crippled #dumb #history

I'm viewed as this weird, crippled character. But you got to take your lumps. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#crippled #got #i #lumps #take

Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence. ↗

— Alice Walker

#blog #crippled #generations #i #i do

So much of art-making is about reducing things to the essentials, so I don't feel particularly crippled by this. I don't want it to look natural because then I would be making a documentary film. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#because #crippled #documentary #documentary film #essentials

In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance. ↗

— Louise Brooks

#crippled #dance #dreams #i #i am

The attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 completely crippled our Pacific Fleet. ↗

— Jerry Costello

#completely #crippled #fleet #harbor #our

Hollywood does not write parts for people like me, an elderly gentleman, and when they find out you're crippled, forget about it. No, I'll never work again. ↗

— Ricardo Montalban

#again #crippled #does #elderly #find

Being by the nature of my upbringing, all my energies having been directed to one channel of activity, crippled from other activities and made helpless even to live. ↗

— Isaac Rosenberg

#activity #been #being #channel #crippled

No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#genius #idea #resist