Disability Studies Quotes

#1. My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader.

David McCullough

#2. The child's toys and the old man's reasons are the fruits of two seasons.

William Blake

#3. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Robert Frost

#4. I try not to tune in to politics until it's two or three months before the election. Till then, it's like watching preseason football.

Trey Parker

#5. The multiverse model offers an elegantly postmodern solution to character stasis in a market-driven serial publishing system which privileges constancy over major change.

Jose Alaniz

#6. I'm probably just an obnoxious little bollocks. Who cares?

Michael O'Leary

#7. Chic Murray once told me he fell in the street, and a woman said to him, Did you fall? He said, No, I'm tryin' to break a bar of chocolate in my back pocket.

Billy Connolly

#8. It knew these things the same way a dog knows well the heart of the man it loves and understands it in better ways than the man could ever hope.

Lance Weller

#9. She's had so little love, Jesse thought, I will drown her in it for the rest of her life.

LaVyrle Spencer

#10. The stereotype of the supercrip, in the eyes of its critics, represents a sort of overachieving, overdetermined self-enfreakment that distracts from the lived daily reality of most disabled people.

Jose Alaniz

#11. Why was everyone dying? They had all been so alive just yesterday.

Yoko Ogawa

#12. Sympathy once more reveals its limits when faced with madness.

Jose Alaniz

#13. [In "The Night Gwen Stacy Died"], death took on an existential quality -- the beloved, innocent but weak Gwen is merely a victim, the casualty of a war between superpowered rivals -- and as such the episode proved a turning point int eh genre's depiction of mortality.

Jose Alaniz

#14. The word of a cat is not to be relied upon.

Robin Hobb

#15. If I had been prime minister, I would have offered apologies to the Dutch Jewish community without hesitation. This would refer both to our government's attitude during the Second World War and to the very late postwar discovery that the restitution process had been poorly conceived.

Els Borst

#16. Real love, she always said, knew no bounds. It wasn't hindered by space or time. It couldn't be weakened by death. Real love started in your heart and went straight through infinity.

Jus Accardo

#17. There were no horns sticking out of his head or third eye in between his two gorgeous blue ones. There were only the most kissable lips, set on a perfectly sculpted face, telling me that he would do anything to protect me.

L.J. Kentowski

#18. I have a lot of Japanese friends: I grew up in Vancouver, and there's this huge Japanese population over there.

Grimes