Swilley Disability Quotes & Sayings

You know those days when you get the mean reds?"
"Same as the blues?"
"No," she said slowly. "No, the blues are because you're getting fat or maybe it's been raining too long. You're sad, that's all. But the mean reds are horrible. You're afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don't know what you're afraid of ... — Truman Capote

But even an ordinary secretary or a housewife or a teenager can, within their own small ways, turn on a small light in a dark room. — Miep Gies

Why don't you give up drinking?"
"Because I don't choose. It doesn't matter what a man does if he's ready to take the consequences. Well, I'm ready to take the consequences. You talk glibly of giving up drinking, but it's the only thing I've got left now. What do you think life would be to me without it? Can you understand the happiness I get out of my absinthe? I yearn for it; and when I drink it I savour every drop, and afterwards I feel my soul swimming in ineffable happiness. It disgusts you. You are a puritan and in your heart you despise sensual pleasures. Sensual pleasures are the most violent and the most exquisite. I am a man blessed with vivid senses, and I have indulged them with all my soul. I have to pay the penalty now, and I am ready to pay. — W. Somerset Maugham

I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif. — Elizabeth George

It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. — Ira Glass

The laws of science do not distinguish between the past and the future. — Stephen Hawking

Children pick up words as pigeons peas And utter them again as God shall please. — John Ray

I'll make some inquiries, but I won't do it for you. I'll do it because Frannie would want me to."
"You love her, don't you?"
"Go to hell."
Jack laughed. "You're too late with that command, mate. I've been there since I was born. — Lorraine Heath

The way we have to measure progress is not, "Is there ever going to be an incident of racism in the country?" It's, "How does the majority of our country respond?" — Barack Obama

I think by the age of about nine I recognized that there were a lot of different religions, and it was an accident I happened to be born into one of them. If I had been born somewhere else, I would have had a different one. Which is a pretty good lesson, actually. Everyone should learn that. — Richard Dawkins