FocusAbility - Information for an annual exhibition to raise disability awareness.
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Disability Resources Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Disability Resources
"See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Disability Resources The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Disability Resources
"Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Disability Resources Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Disability Resources
The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Disability Resources I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Disability Resources
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Disability Resources "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Disability Resources
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Disability Resources The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Disability Resources
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Disability Resources "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Disability Resources
Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Disability Resources "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Disability Resources
"Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Disability Resources You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Disability Resources
All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Disability Resources Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Disability Resources
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Disability Resources An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Disability Resources
