The goal for all blind skiers is more freedom. You don't have to see where you're going, as long as you go. In skiing, you ski wit...h your legs and not with your eyes. In life, you experience things with your mind and your body. And if you're lacking one of the five senses, you adapt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo- a...nd heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now an allegory is but a translation of abstract notions into a picture-language, which is itself nothing but an abstraction from ...objects of the senses; the principal being more worthless even than its phantom proxy, both alike unsubstantial, and the former shapeless to boot. On the other hand, a symbol is characterized by a translucence of the special in the individual, or of the general in the special, or of the universal in the general; above all though the translucense of the eternal through and in the temporal. It always partakes of the reality which it renders intelligible; and while it enunciates the whole, abides itself as a living part in that unity of which it is the representative.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang f...rom a boot-lace.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we should swap a good library for a second-rate stump speech and not ask for boot, it would be thoroughly in tune with our hear...ts. For deep within each of us lies politics. It is our football, baseball, and tennis rolled into one. We enjoy it; we will hitch up and drive for miles in order to hear and applaud the vitriolic phrases of a candidate we have already reckoned we'll vote against.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There were metal detectors on the staff-room doors and Hernandez usually had a drawer full of push-daggers, nunchuks, stun-guns, k...nucks, boot-knives, and whatever else the detectors had picked up. Like Friday morning at a South Miami high school.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Competition can be a very intense experience and a very rewarding one, or it can be enormously destructive. External pressure, whe...ther it's exerted by a coach, a school, a ski club, or a country, is what can make it a negative thing. When they use you to satisfy their need to succeed, when they impose their value system on you, then competition isn't personally rewarding anymore.... You're either a winner or a loser.... There's no way in my mind that you can divide humanity into those two categories.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Smoking ... is downright dangerous. Most people who smoke will eventually contract a fatal disease and die. But they don't brag ab...out it, do they? Most people who ski, play professional football or drive race cars, will not die--at least not in the act--and yet they are the ones with the glamorous images, the expensive equipment and the mythic proportions. Why this should be I cannot say, unless it is simply that the average American does not know a daredevil when he sees one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »