Crutches – Quotes

I don’t use the

I don’t use the big video screens that a lot of other artists use because personally, I think it’s kind of a crutch. I think sometimes it’s like watching television as opposed to really getting involved with what is happening onstage and the people in your section. Eric Church

The road to Lourdes

The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg. Emile Zola

It is noticeable how

It is noticeable how intuitively in age we go back with strange fondness to all that is fresh in the earliest dawn of youth. If we never cared for little children before, we delight to see them roll in the grass over which we hobble on crutches. The grandsire turns wearily from his middle-aged, careworn … Read more

All my life I

All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun’s cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction, without the crutches of other people. Edna O’Brien

And so I ask

And so I ask myself: ‘Where are your dreams?’ And I shake my head and mutter: ‘How the years go by!’ And I ask myself again: ‘What have you done with those years? Where have you buried your best moments? Have you really lived? Look,’ I say to myself, ‘how cold it is becoming all … Read more

There is a grand

There is a grand fearlessness in faith. He who in his heart of hearts reverences the good, the true, the holy–that is, reverences God–does not tremble at the apparent success of attacks upon the outworks of faith. They may shake those who rest on those outworks–they do not move him whose soul reposes on the … Read more

Right and proof are

Right and proof are two crutches for everything bent and crooked that limps along. Franz Grillparzer

Don’t listen to anyone

Don’t listen to anyone who tells you that you can’t do this or that. That’s nonsense. Make up your mind, you’ll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you … Read more

[Robin Stewart] was your

[Robin Stewart] was your man. True for you, you had withdrawn the crutch from his sight, but still it should have been there in your hand, ready for him. For you are a leader-don’t you know it? I don’t, surely, need to tell you?-And that is what leadership means. It means fortifying the fainthearted and … Read more