Words matter. These are the best Crutch Quotes from famous people such as Claire Forlani, Keith Barry, Karl Kraus, James Baldwin, Tom King, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I look at smoking as a crutch, and as an actor I would like strip away as many crutches as possible.
You see guys going up to girls in bars and saying, ‘Oh, can I show you a trick?’ It’s a tool. I find it kind of sad; it breaks my heart a little bit. They should try to use their own personalities. It sort of smacks of using magic as a crutch, which is not what it should be.
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
I’ve said this before, but I don’t like putting captions in my comic books. I feel, for me, they become a crutch, a way to ignore the essential fact that our medium is a visual medium, and the greatest pleasures to be derived from comics are how stories can be told with pictures.
When I switched to screenplays – ’cause I had done musicals and plays – the first assignment in film school was, you have to write a silent film. And it’s tremendously helpful to learn how to do that because dialogue can be a crutch. If you can master a silent film, you’re golden.
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where’s the harm? September 11th changed all that.
Reality is just a crutch for people who can’t cope with drugs.
Technology can become a crutch. Sometimes it’s there just to hide behind when you’re shy of what you’re trying to say.
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.
Anything you rely on can become a crutch. And disabled or not, when you rely on something, that is what will cripple you.
I never used gender as my crutch. Many women don’t use gender as a crutch.
I started saying, ‘I don’t want to be crazy anymore.’ I need to make some changes. And the first thing I started doing was just got all the men out of my life, because that was a big problem for me. That was a crutch, if you will. You know, trying to define yourself through other people or men, in particular.
Insomniacs tend to fall into two general categories – those who give up and those who don’t. I don’t. I refuse to admit defeat by turning on the light. I will not try to read or watch a movie, thank you. Productivity is a crutch of the weak.
Insomniacs tend to fall into two general categories – those who give up and those who don’t. I don’t. I refuse to admit defeat by turning on the light. I will not try to read or watch a movie, thank you. Productivity is a crutch of the weak.
A lot of the problems teenagers go through, it’s better for them to go through them on their own. If you always have a crutch, you don’t learn anything.
When you sample something, you’re using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that’s already great, that’s already stood the test of time, that’s already special. When you’re trying to do it all from scratch, you’re writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
If you always have a crutch, you don’t learn anything.
Injuries happen every season. We can’t rely on that being a crutch. It’s up to all of us to do our best to fill those voids as coaches and players.
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.
Racial humor was about 35% of my act when I first started. But I realized that it was a crutch. What brought it home was when another comedian said to me, ‘If you changed color tomorrow, you wouldn’t have any material.’ He meant it as a put-down, but I took it as a challenge.
If I want to be truthfully honest, I think, dealing with the stress of the situations that I’ve been going through, medicating with anything, I think, is dangerous because it becomes a crutch.
Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There’s nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
I really took filmmaking very seriously… It was an honor and then a crutch also, because at a young age, I was like, I guess I’m a serious filmmaker. I never set out to be a serious filmmaker. I just set out to make movies.
If you always have a crutch, you don’t learn anything.
Fitness really was my crutch.
To assume that someone’s views are invariably influenced or shaped by his or her partner is lazy. It is an intellectual crutch we grope for when we do not have an effective counter to someone’s argument.
To assume that someone’s views are invariably influenced or shaped by his or her partner is lazy. It is an intellectual crutch we grope for when we do not have an effective counter to someone’s argument.
If I want to be truthfully honest, I think, dealing with the stress of the situations that I’ve been going through, medicating with anything, I think, is dangerous because it becomes a crutch.
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people’s business.
I try not to rely on pop culture references as a crutch for jokes, because then, I think, that’s when the timelessness quality is lost.
A liberal will cut off your leg so he can hand you a crutch.
My color’s not a crutch. See, funny crosses a lot of color barriers.
It’s terrible, a crutch, isn’t it?
Anything you rely on can become a crutch. And disabled or not, when you rely on something, that is what will cripple you.
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.
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
We might depend on each other a bit too much and use that as a crutch, but it’s not entirely a bad thing.
Being on one crutch to no crutches is a huge difference.
If I want to put makeup on, then, cool, I’ll do that. But it’s not going to be my crutch.
You can do all kinds of things with your instrument outside of its surface purpose. My bass is my crutch, but the best crutch I could have.
When you say ‘diversity,’ the term has been denigrated over the years because it has been used as a crutch.
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
Racial humor was about 35% of my act when I first started. But I realized that it was a crutch. What brought it home was when another comedian said to me, ‘If you changed color tomorrow, you wouldn’t have any material.’ He meant it as a put-down, but I took it as a challenge.
Fitness really was my crutch.
It is definitely somewhat a crutch of feeling that you have to please others in order to be accepted.
Many times, I thought the sat-phone was just a hindrance because it can become a crutch. You can call someone in Australia or Europe and talk about what you’re going through, but it doesn’t actually help. Sat-phones and GPS can’t show you where the grass or the wells are.
I started saying, ‘I don’t want to be crazy anymore.’ I need to make some changes. And the first thing I started doing was just got all the men out of my life, because that was a big problem for me. That was a crutch, if you will. You know, trying to define yourself through other people or men, in particular.
Injuries happen every season. We can’t rely on that being a crutch. It’s up to all of us to do our best to fill those voids as coaches and players.
I’ve never talked to our guys about being young. That’s an easy crutch to fall on. You really just have to come in and build the spirit up of your team by working them everyday, showing them examples of what they’ve done and reinforce their work.
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.
Many times, I thought the sat-phone was just a hindrance because it can become a crutch. You can call someone in Australia or Europe and talk about what you’re going through, but it doesn’t actually help. Sat-phones and GPS can’t show you where the grass or the wells are.
You see guys going up to girls in bars and saying, ‘Oh, can I show you a trick?’ It’s a tool. I find it kind of sad; it breaks my heart a little bit. They should try to use their own personalities. It sort of smacks of using magic as a crutch, which is not what it should be.
Some people never do become a success and then start looking for a crutch.
You learn to laugh at yourself, and you also lean on comedy as a crutch to kind of take the edge off because comedians often are self-deprecating, and they cross lines that they shouldn’t. Stuff like that brings a smile to my face every once in a while when needed.
I really took filmmaking very seriously… It was an honor and then a crutch also, because at a young age, I was like, I guess I’m a serious filmmaker. I never set out to be a serious filmmaker. I just set out to make movies.
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