#ripple

My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples. some rises and falls. But that's it. Almost nothing. Nothing born of nothing. I'd loved and been loved, but I had nothing to show. It was a singularly plain, featureless landscape. I felt like I was in a video game. A surrogate Pacman, crunching blindly through a labyrinth of dotted lines. The only certainty was my death. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#death #falling #featureless #labyrinth #nothing

My life isn't that dramatic. My dad really loves me, he just can't talk on the phone. He's too crippled and shy, and that's almost harder. He's there and he loves me, and I try and try and try, it's just impossible to have a relationship. ↗

— Joey Lauren Adams

#crippled #dad #dramatic #harder #i

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

— Phil Donahue

#crippled #ever #hamburgers #sell #should

Every decision that they take has enormous consequences, and ripple out from the White House. ↗

— Sidney Blumenthal

#decision #enormous #every #house #out

Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#despair #gaiety #often #over #reckless

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 was raised by a lady that was crippled all her life but she did everything for me and she raised me. She washed our clothes, cooked our food, she did everything for us. I don't think I ever heard her complain a day in her life. She taught me responsibility towards my brother and sisters and the community. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#clothes #community #complain #cooked #crippled

If one student is unable to get online, it cripples that student's team and puts the whole course in jeopardy. ↗

— John Gallagher

#cripples #get #jeopardy #online #puts

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