Autistics Can Quotes & Sayings

Lights became so hot they melted mascara on women's faces in early television. — Johnny Olson

Theory and knowledge remain suspect, not because of inherent worthlessness, but because of their historic isolation from action. Without theoretical orientation, however, action is vulnerable to oversimplified and glib imitativeness-even mimicry-and to the use of the gimmick. — Erving Polster

Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff. — Cory Doctorow

The Scriptures categorically state that the problem with such people is not the absence of evidence; it is, rather, the suppression of it. The message of Jesus Christ shifts the charge of insufficiency from the volume of evidence to the intent of one's will. — Ravi Zacharias

Life is special when you reach out beyond yourself to be a true servant leader for others. — Ken Blanchard

I saw this bloke chatting up a cheetah. He was trying to pull a fast one. — Tim Vine

Vampires did this all the time, you remember. It was normal for them, it was their own unique take on resource conservation. They could have taught your kind a few things about restraint, if that absurd aversion to right-angles hadn't done them in at the dawn of civilization. Maybe they still can. They're back now, after all - raised from the grave with the voodoo of paleogenetics, stitched together from junk genes and fossil marrow steeped in the blood of sociopaths and high-functioning autistics. One of them commands this very mission. A handful of his genes live on in your own body so it too can rise from the dead, here at the edge of interstellar space. Nobody gets past Jupiter without becoming part vampire. — Peter Watts

When we stand the truth on its head we generally fail to notice that our head is not standing where it should be standing either. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The higher up you go, the more gentle you have to reach down to help other people succeed. — Rick Castro

My endeavors
Have ever come too short of my desires.
Yet filed with my abilities. — William Shakespeare

The beloved's innocence brutalizes the lover. As the singing of a mad person behind you on the train enrages you, its beautiful animal-like teeth shining amid black planes of paint. As Helen enrages history. Senza uscita. — Anne Carson

To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint! — Hannah More

Don't you draw the queen of diamonds, boy, she'll beat you if she's able.
You know the queen of hearts is always your best bet.
Now it seems to me some fine things have been laid upon your table,
But you only want the one that you can't get. — Eagles

Who wanted to be smiled at by the girl that trailed shadows like pets, conjured snakes and waited for Death, her bridegroom, to steal her from these walls? — Roshani Chokshi

Get the best people and train them well. — Scott McNealy

Organized labor still has privileges and legal immunities that even kings and governments lost years ago. — Roscoe Pound

Snow Cake is a lovely film. Really proud of that. We shot it in 21 days. I thought Sigourney was amazing in it. And very, very accurate. I think there was some element that thought she had pushed it too far. But not at all when you do the amount of homework she had done and spent the amount of time she did with adult autistics. She was right on the money. And I think Marc Evans is a terrific director. He's a sweet, open, honest man and a really good director of actors. — Alan Rickman

One of the hardest things for a person with autism to do is believe in themselves. But autistics have every right to be as proud as anyone. — Stuart Duncan

The Spirit is life. — Lailah Gifty Akita