Paralytics Quotes

#1. I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis. I am not an enemy of the Catholics, as I am not an enemy of the tuberculars, the myopic or the paralytics; you cannot be an enemy of the sick, only their good friend in order to help them cure themselves.

Diego Rivera

#2. Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.

Andre Gide

#3. Imagine a man who doesn't believe in anything, hope for anything, doesn't love anyone. This is a description of a dead or paralyzed soul. This happens from great grief, or from an unhappy upbringing when parents make from their children's souls paralytics.

Simon Soloveychik

#4. but everyone knew there was no controlling Eli Barreto. The idiot had been born with hell in his veins.

Mariana Zapata

#5. If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor, then stop saying that you want a country based on Christian values. Because you don't!

Jimmy Carter

#6. It seems that danger assigns to public voices the responsibility of a rhythm, as if in metrical units there is a coherence we can use to balance whatever senseless and furious event is about to come rushing around our heads.

Don DeLillo

#7. Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.

Benjamin Franklin

#8. I'd like to have mass appeal, but not at the expense of what I am and what I do best.

Stephanie Mills

#9. Feminism is about friends and sisters and community.

Gloria Steinem

#10. My Google existence is probably larger than a lot of people's.

Douglas Coupland

#11. Batman knew what it was like to trip balls without seriously losing his shit, and that savoir faire added another layer to his outlaw sexiness and alluring aura of decadence and wealth.

Grant Morrison

#12. My wife says I'm making a noise like a stranded whale. I think I have a major snoring problem.

Rex Hunt

#13. What you do is look at yourself and find your own way to address the fact that the times have changed and that you have to pay attention. You can't be a designer and say, "Oh, this is timeless".

Paula Scher

#14. I had heard the wind from the mountains calling me last night, telling me it was my time to go, and I woke up, knowing what to do.

V.C. Andrews

#15. This is Bourbon Street, isn't it? Where's the freakin' bourbon?

Eliza Freed

#16. I don't write anything if I'm not agreeable and liking it. I'm not one of these slavers who wads up paper. It comes or it doesn't.

Padgett Powell