“Being a functioning alcoholic is kind of like being a paraplegic lap dancer: You can do it, just not as well as the others, really.” WellsKindCan DoDancerYou Can Do ItLapAlcoholicsDrunkennessParaplegics Author:Robin Williams
“By the 1970s, the American woman was being called 'liberated' or 'superwoman' while the American man was being called 'baby killer' if he fought in Vietnam, 'traitor' if he protested, or 'apathetic' if he did neither. Even men who came home paraplegics were literally spit on.” IfsMenHomeBabyVietnamKillersLiberatedSpitTraitorAmerican WomanApatheticSuperwomanSuper WomanParaplegics Book:The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex
“I would rather be physically disabled obviously than mentally. I would rather be paraplegic than nuts. And it is a terrifying prospect and actually the longer we live the more likely it is that that's how we will go and that's a very painful thing to contemplate.” PainfulNutsContemplatingDisabledPainful ThingsPhysically DisabledParaplegics Author:Ian Mcewan
“Ham smiled. "Cett's going to be furious." Elend shrugged. "He's a paraplegic. What's he going to do? Bite us?” BitesFuriousHamParaplegics Book:Mistborn Trilogy Source: Mistborn Trilogy
“Never do anything for a student that he he is capable of doing for himself. If you do you, you'll make him an educational cripple...a pedagogical paraplegic.” IfsPowerfulTeacherStudentsCapableEducationalCripplesParaplegics Author:Howard G. Hendricks
“Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people anyway. For years I've regarded his existence as a monument to all the rancid genes and broken chromosomes that corrupt the possibilities of the American Dream; he was a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad. The Nixon I remembered was absolutely humorless; I couldn't imagine him laughing at anything except maybe a paraplegic who wanted to vote Democratic but couldn't quite reach the lever on the voting machine.” PeopleMenYearsSoulDreamWantedExistenceLaughingImagineStylePossibilityBrokenIntegrityMachinesVoteDemocraticMy FavoriteConvictionRememberedPoisonVotingGenesAmerican DreamMonumentFoulCaricaturesLeversToadsHyenasParaplegics Author:Hunter S. Thompson