Quotes About Retarded

There's a classic story I tell about when I did the Man Show about the retarded conversations that you have with the executive producers and the network.

I've been told that I'm incompetent, socially retarded, maladjusted. I still know that I couldn't function in reality. Los Angeles is a good place for me.

People with Williams Syndrome are "hypersocial," and do not see danger in the faces of people who may be threats.43 They also tend to be mildly retarded and to suffer from other physical complications.

But my intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.

I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.

I remember distinctly the retarded, inexorable grind of the gravel under the iron tires, a sound that seemed to declare some irreversible process in which we were trapped, as though we were coffee beans dropped in a coffee grinder as big as the world.

traction (stretching) is easier during exhalation, but lumbar traction (stretching) is eased by inhalation and retarded by exhalation.

The only time I commit to conspiracy theories is when something way retarded happens. Like Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone.

Albanians don't get dyslexia. It's a disease Americans invented so they won't have to admit their kids are retarded.

Revenge is for children and the emotionally retarded.

Nothing has more retarded the advancement of learning than the disposition of vulgar minds to ridicule and vilify what they cannot comprehend.

It was because all we wanted was each other's constant love and attention and for no one else to receive that love and attention, which is a selfish and difficult place to be in a relationship. We were emotionally retarded, and that was the best we could do at the time.

A lot of the main characters in horror movies are outsiders as well, so that outsider syndrome reverberates within horror fans and geeky collectors. It's kind of a rallying call that brings fans and collectors together who are a little socially retarded, maybe.

The only time I commit to conspiracy theories is when something way retarded happens. Like Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone.

Some people, I think they're called racists, say America is not ready for a black president. But, I know America to be a forward-thinking country, right, because otherwise, you know, would you have let that retarded cowboy fella be president for eight years? We were very impressed. We thought it was nice of you to let him have a go, because, in England, he wouldn't be trusted with a pair of scissors.

Being socially retarded is like being mentally retarded, it arouses in others disgust and pity and the desire to torment and reform.

Canada is a sweet country. It is like your retarded cousin you see at Thanksgiving and sort of pat him on the head. You know, he's nice, but you don't take him seriously. That is Canada.

My intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.

Nothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as ... [the] instinctive parsimony of the human mind in matters where time is concerned.

If the president finds time to help the mentally retarded, what are you doing that's so important? [Written underneath:] Working to get them out of Washington.

For Sheila, a key question was: Did the boys force Leslie to perform these acts or did she go along willingly? The matter of consent is a critical issue in most rape cases, except when the victim is so badly beaten that there can be no question that force was used. When victim and assailant know each other, the consent question can be difficult to answer. In this case, involving a supposedly retarded girl, it would even be more so.

If I could have gotten my nose close enough I would have inhaled leaded gasoline until I was retarded.

We should not import a retarded political Islamic society into our country.

Full employment—very full employment; long, weary, back-breaking employment—is characteristic of precisely the nations that are most retarded industrially.