#paralyzed

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#creative-writing #life #meaningless #meaninglessness #modern-life

My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed. ↗

— Bill Toomey

#been #did #family #hand #knew

We are witnessing a slow, steady takeover of our true freedoms. We are becoming a socialist nation, and whoever can't see this is probably hoping it isn't true. If we permit Mr. Obama to take over all our industries, if we permit him to raise our taxes to support unconstitutional causes, then we will be in default. This great America will become a paralyzed nation. ↗

— Jon Voight

#become #becoming #causes #default #freedoms

I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block. ↗

— David Guterson

#became #block #i #paralyzed #writer

If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything. ↗

— Katharine Butler Hathaway

#anything #how #paralyzed #realize #time

When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#children #frightened #had #i #isolated

I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up. ↗

— Larry Flynt

#down #gray #gray davis #i #may

What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#capabilities #educational #faculties #happens #innate

But at the same time, I don't let myself regret things to the point that I'm paralyzed. ↗

— Moby

#myself #paralyzed #point #regret #same

We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour. ↗

— Amy Tan

#chords #concert #first #first time #get