Famous Quotes & Sayings

Temple Grandin

It's much more work for the mother of an autistic child to have a job, because working with an autistic child is such a hassle until they go to school.

Bob Turco

Monroe basketball is here. Some of these kids are young and this is a great experience. We may not win all the time, but we'll compete. We didn't bring home a trophy, but these kids will bring home so much more. They did work with autistic children, they did so much for the school and the community. . . . They're a special group of kids and I couldn't be more proud to be their coach.

Amanda Peloso

Through PALS I met these autistic kids and do things with them, like bowling or going to the movies.

Michelle Maxia

We also categorize toys for autistic and blind children.

Susan Williamson

Autistic children have a hard time making friends. In Molly's case, her lack of speech doesn't help. We would be encouraging people to talk to her and pet her dog.

Jim Adams

The thinking is that autistic kids have low absorption of nutrients, possibly because so many have inflammation of the digestive system. It just seems they need many more nutrients to get absorption at a decent level.

Kathy Monaghan

We felt extremely helpless. We knew no one else who had autistic kids.

Douglas Coupland

I connect fashion to other peoples' elegance, but not my own. I don't think I've ever felt elegant. I've felt appropriate, but never elegant, and I wonder what that must be like. I like it when other people are elegant - I prefer it - but I can't do it myself. I honestly think it's some form of autistic disorder.

Alan Watts

If we are not totally blind, what we are seeking is already here. This is it.

David Shapiro

Sometimes you are ahead of people and sometimes people have blind spots. They can't see the world and they can't see what they do.

Lucas Till

All I wanted was attention from girls when I was a kid. Then I got my braces off, and then there was too much attention, and I was also mad that they didn't pay attention to me in the first place. Then I was just like, I couldn't put on blinders and focus on one because there were too many options.

Walter Dean

The one thing you never say to a blind person is, 'Did you see that?'

Lesli Linka Glatter

When I went into film, it never occurred to me that I wouldn't be able to do whatever I wanted to do. Maybe that was a good thing in the beginning. I had blinders on, and I charged forward.

Demetri Martin

If I were blind, I'd wear a blindfold all the time.

Daniel Gilbert

Because your brain uses information from the areas around the blind spot to make a reasonable guess about what the blind spot would see if only it weren't blind, and then your brain fills in the scene with this information. That's right, it invents things, creates things, makes stuff up! It doesn't consult you about this, doesn't seek your approval. It just makes its best guess about the nature of the missing information and proceeds to fill in the scene...

William Shakespeare

Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.

John Banville

We writers are shy, nocturnal creatures. Push us into the light and the light blinds us.

Paul Johnson

There are a lot of different ways to categorize leaders. There are guys who are good football players who haven't done so well in the hall. There are some guys who do great in the hall who may not be very good football players.

Travie McCoy

With anything I do, it's hard to categorize it. With any project, I just go in and blindly start writing songs and then find out which way we want to go with it.

Joe Trohman

We really don't like the label thing at all. Everyone likes to categorize and simplify things. Why? Don't try to describe it, just listen to it for what it is.

Vivi Widyawati

There is no fair or effective way to categorize one's values or morality.

Sunil Reddy

Overall I'd categorize the number as generally in line. The guidance was slightly off, but it's nothing to get too alarmed or too excited about.

Jim Jenness

We are not into hype, but not to categorize 2005 as our strongest performance year since our turnaround would be too much of an understatement.

Kevin Spacey

I don't categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I don't judge; I just play them.

Steve Martin

I love comedy. That's what got me into the arts. I don't even know how to categorize myself anymore.

Ang Lee

You can never categorize or stereotype a region or a place. People fall in love, period. This is a universal story ... I just wanted to make a love story.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Our problem is that we go from toy to toy rather than from glory to glory.

Adam Savage

Firemen have the coolest toys ever!

Daniel Craig

There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.

Terri Bartlett

To say that toys make someone violent, I think, is absurd.

Fannie Flagg

By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave?

Jean Kerr

Oh, wouldn't it be wonderful if some manufacturer would make a toy as tough, as staunch, as hard to crack open as the carton it comes in!

Sonny Vaccaro

I've got a lot of toys to play with. I just turned 64, and I'm reinventing myself again.

Jason Mewes

I'm a big toy collector. I've been slowing down because my money's been tight, but I collect toys, too.

Nicola Formichetti

I'm half-Japanese, so I collect toys, like a Yayoi Kusama stuffed pumpkin.