Sayings About Being Lame

#1. The idea is that for ten minutes, we forget that we have feelings. And we forget about protecting ourselves or other people and we just say the truth. For ten minutes. And then we can go back to being lame.

John Green

#2. The worst, most insidious effect of censorship is that, in the end, it can deaden the imagination of the people. Where there is no debate, it is hard to go on remembering, every day, that there is a suppressed side to every argument.

Salman Rushdie

#3. If these the Times, then this must be the Man.
[Andrew Marvell on Oliver Cromwell]

Andrew Marvell

#4. Who says you only get one? If you're lucky, you will meet The One, The Two, The Three ... and so on.
Nesta

Cathy Hopkins

#5. I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop ... Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go, I have never yet encountered a mode of thinking that regarded itself as simply a changing fashion, and not as an infallible approach to the right culture.

Ellen Glasgow

#6. To me, beer tastes like piss. Maybe that's why I only enjoy it in the shower with my uncle.

Jarod Kintz

#7. My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana.

Beth Henley

#8. I'm certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything.

George Clooney

#9. Dude, you are not equating being on that lame-ass Star Search wannabe show with hosting American Bandstand, are you?

Keith R.A. DeCandido

#10. I just got sick of not being able to raise money for a movie - that's what happens, so I just made my own.

Campbell Scott

#11. Mostly because I've realized what a lame teenager I was. I was always home at the stroke of midnight; I didn't like drinking mash; I didn't have sex. I read books and had an inferiority complex because I was afraid to do all that other stuff. I don't know anything about being a badass punk rocker.

Karin Tidbeck

#12. I can see that everyone else is doing exactly what they wanted with the rest of their lives. They're all at the gate, pawing the dirt and ready to run, and I've already got a lame leg and am this close to being taken around back of the stable to be put out of my misery.

Sarah Dessen

#13. A human being too, is many things. Whatever makes up the air,the earth, the herbs, the stones is also part of our bodies. We must learn to be different, to feel and taste the manifold things that are us.

Lame Deer

#14. Colours are nature gone wild.

Raheel Farooq

#15. I'm struck by how pitiful and pointless this little container called me is, what a lame, shabby being I am. I feel like everything I've ever done in life has been a total waste.

Haruki Murakami

#16. As a little boy of 3 or 4, I became lame. Something was wrong with my right leg. There are pictures of me being pulled around in a little wagon. The doctors didn't know what to do. So my nanny took me to the miraculous Madonna at Sacro Monte in Varese, the priest blessed me, and I walked.

Gian Carlo Menotti

#17. I guess I could go and get a bunch of knives from the Kitchen aisles and throw them at the intruders. So lame. I wanted to wring my own neck for being so lame.

Emmy Laybourne

#18. 2) Members will attend events together as a group, including, but not limited to, Homecoming, Prom, parties, and other couply events, despite possibly being labeled as freaks and getting jealous looks from guys who wish we were their hot dates, but instead have to settle for some lame wannabe.

Elizabeth Eulberg

#19. Reach for the heavenly bliss.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. Better have men reproach you for being good, than have God damn you for being wicked. Be not laughed out of your religion. If a lame man laugh at you for walking upright, will you therefore limp?

Thomas Watson

#21. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed, and software has been treated as a form of speech ever since. So if software code is speech, Apple says the First Amendment also means the government can't tell Apple what to say.

Laura Sydell

#22. You have to really enjoy (being sexy). Not fake anything. Sexy is being in the moment, whether that means being coy or coming on hard. Faking is always lame and it never comes across the way you want it to.

Cameron Diaz

#23. The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.

Emily Greene Balch

#24. Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter ... the troublesom and modern bondage of Rimeing

John Milton

#25. A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.

Jodi Picoult

#26. If you looked in magazines ... you never see me in those out-on-the-town pages. I'm either at home playing with the kids or I'm working.

Billy Bob Thornton

#27. All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess. Look, being a lame flunky for a batshit crazy person isn't all that bad. Stay alive long enough and you may sneak your way to Washington!

Martin Van Buren

#28. We have a new joke on the reservation: 'What is cultural deprivation?' Answer: 'Being an upper-middle class white kid living in a split-level suburban home with a color TV.'

John Fire Lame Deer

#29. I remember my first standup act when I was seventeen; I did a really lame song about being flat chested. I was doing it in New York, and I remember Kevin Brennan, the guy I lost my virginity to, was like "That song doesn't make sense, you have tits."

Sarah Silverman