#handicap

When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers. ↗

— George McGovern

#handicap #i #most #painful #presence

Losing Michael Jackson is a handicap. It's the Lakers trying to win a championship without Kobe Bryant. ↗

— Tito Jackson

#championship #handicap #jackson #kobe #kobe bryant

I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music. ↗

— Edgard Varese

#am #any #conceive #electrical #handicapped

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#being #between #clear #considering #deficiency

I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#being #born #handicap #i #key

Writing about the indignities of old age: the daunting stairway to the restaurant restroom, the benefits of a wheelchair in airports and its disadvantages at cocktail parties, giving the user what he described as a child's-eye view of the party and a crotch-level view of the guests. Dying is a matter of slapstick and pratfalls. The aging process is not gradual or gentle. It rushes up, pushes you over and runs off laughing. No one should grow old who isn't ready to appear ridiculous. ↗

— John Mortimer

#dying #handicaps #age

A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped. ↗

— William Dunbar

#does #handicapped #know #lawyer #men

A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all. ↗

— Betty Friedan

#compete #copying #either #handicapped #handicaps

Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendous writers. ↗

— Jack Black

#department #face #great #handicapped #looks

I've been writing a lot, I've a few projects I'm trying to finance, I do some acting, I do some directing... Apart from that, if I could get lower that a ten handicap on my golf game I'd be thrilled. ↗

— Paul M. Glaser

#apart #been #could #directing #few