Quotes About Limitation

We live inside our universe and cannot get a bird's-eye view of it from outside. And we cannot even see all of our universe. Distant parts of it are expanding away from us so fast that they are invisible; they go faster than the speed of light. Having bigger telescopes to see fainter stars will not help us here: invisible is truly invisible.

An evil fate has deprived me of the full use of my right hand, so that I am not able to play my compositions as I feel them. The trouble with my hand is that certain fingers have become so weak, probably through writing and playing too much at one time, that I can hardly use them.

My chops have always been sort of weak, because the right side of my body was paralyzed a little bit. It was very limiting. I have to design stuff I can play, and it took me a year and a half to figure out how to hold a guitar pick.

There's a bunch of places in the world I haven't been to, 'cause I can only be on a plane for a little bit. I'm like, 'How long is it to get there? Two days on a plane? What? No.'

Heights are a problem for me. I'm not a brave flier and I'd never jump out of a plane or do a bungee jump.

Disco music can only take you so far because it's plastic.

You don't play basketball for 20, 30 years. You only play, if you're lucky, 10 years. So that is my time.

I can't play football forever.

After I hurt the knee, football wasn't nearly as much fun. I was limited. But you make do with what you have. I adjusted some. I was lucky to play as long as I did, with the different kinds of injuries I got. I played with two severed hamstring muscles in my leg late in my career. I could barely run, other than to drop back to pass.

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.

I was always a decent hockey player, but I'd have never made the NHL.

I wanted to be a cowgirl... But, you know, it was pointed out to me that, you know, growing up in Brooklyn, there wasn't much opportunity... for cowgirlery.

I want to make something that is breathtaking. Of course, you can't make something that is always breathtaking, or you would never be able to breathe. You would collapse.

I am only limited by the amount of life I have left to capture the ideas I am already working on. Another problem is that I am not sure if I would rather create or collect art. Collecting art is another passion of mine.

Any colour - so long as it's black.

So the only things I was being allowed to audition for were small roles in comedies. It broke my heart. No one would see me for anything else. I knew, in order to open up my career, I had to leave or that's all I would ever be given.

I never did commercials. Not that I didn't want to, but because I can't. I am just so bad at it.

Now my complaint is there are only 18 hours to work in a day.

No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much other material to write about.

Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.

I wanted to conquer Hollywood. But I took one shot and that's it for me.

I can't conquer all the world at the same time.

It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance.

If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!