#handicap

Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black. ↗

— Shirley Chisholm

#black #female #handicaps #many #more

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#always #any #creative #first #functioning

Prior to that I produced a couple of TV movies for CBS, but the truth of the matter is that I burned out for a couple of years. I didn't do anything for a while, apart from taking up golf, for which I got a four handicap. ↗

— Gil Gerard

#apart #burned #cbs #couple #four

People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

#act #acting #beauty #care #fairly

The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#ear #handicap #mind

Well, I'm a 14 handicap. Anyone who golfs knows what that means. ↗

— Ray Romano

#handicap #i #knows #means #well

Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success. ↗

— Erwin Rommel

#air #anyone #chances #command #complete

How can you fall in love at first sight when you can't even see? ↗

— Melinda Cross

#cross #darkness #eyes #handicapped #lion

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#being #between #clear #considering #deficiency

Writing about the indignities of old age: the daunting stairway to the restaurant restroom, the benefits of a wheelchair in airports and its disadvantages at cocktail parties, giving the user what he described as a child's-eye view of the party and a crotch-level view of the guests. Dying is a matter of slapstick and pratfalls. The aging process is not gradual or gentle. It rushes up, pushes you over and runs off laughing. No one should grow old who isn't ready to appear ridiculous. ↗

— John Mortimer

#dying #handicaps #age