#paralyzed

We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour. ↗

— Amy Tan

#chords #concert #first #first time #get

I guess you're happy if you have some kind of balance in you. I'm a human being. I have days when I feel paralyzed, days when I feel like a slug. Then I have days when I have good energy, I've read the newspaper and I've done different things. ↗

— Frances Conroy

#being #days #different #different things #done

The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#being #big #day #decision-making #excuses

I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head. ↗

— George C. Wallace

#i #legs #many #more #myself

Some people are walking around with full use of their bodies and they're more paralyzed than I am. ↗

— Christopher Reeve

#around #bodies #full #i #i am

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#creative-writing #life #meaningless #meaninglessness #modern-life

My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed. ↗

— Bill Toomey

#been #did #family #hand #knew

When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#children #frightened #had #i #isolated

I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up. ↗

— Larry Flynt

#down #gray #gray davis #i #may