Stephen Hawking Quotes

I feel bad for people in wheelchairs and people who have to use crutches.

If we see someone in a wheelchair, we assume they cannot walk. It may be that they can walk three, four, five steps. That, to them, means they can walk.

Just because I am wheelchair-bound doesn't mean I don't get around.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.

I am not the paraplegic seated permanently in his chair or the able-bodied person on her feet. Identity for a hemiplegic is a shifty thing.

Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!

The flesh and bone leg is just beautiful. It's elegant. You know, when it's working, it's incredible. But if it's not working, well, you know, your life is certainly far from over.

It finally became clear to me that they had no hopes of my ever walking again.

Feeling invisible definitely makes you want to become visible sometimes.

Part of what I do, after feeling invisible for a long time, is make an effort not to be invisible any more.

It would be nice to wake up and be able to walk to the bathroom. But even when I was 20 and at the Paris Opera, I had to crawl down the stairs; it is only when I start to work and stretch that my body begins to recover again.

I was told that I would be in a wheelchair for the rest of my life.

Silence equals nonexistence. If I don't raise my voice, it's like I never existed.

Being confined to a wheelchair doesn't bother me as my mind is free to roam the universe, but it felt wonderful to be weightless.

The independence once represented by the car has been replaced by cell phones and social networks, which are now at the forefront of people's expression of freedom and access. Once a symbol of 'coming of age,' many drivers are waiting longer to get their licenses.

When I'm in drag, I don't always want to be spoken to, but I love being looked at. Nobody puts that much work into how they look to be ignored.

I don't want to hang around in a wheelchair in a nursing home. I don't. I don't want to be like that.

It's hard to be what you can't see.

I couldn't pedal a bike as a child, so I had a donkey instead. I loved the power and freedom it had.

You take for granted that you can walk. You do it every day, and then suddenly you can't walk, and you have to remember, 'How did I get out of this chair and start walking in the first place?'

It used to be that, whenever I walked around without my old piercings, that I was very rarely recognized - it wasn't a common thing; I could be somewhat incognito.

To be human is to be visible.

I'm comfortable not using my vision.

I was born blind in Sapangbato in Angeles City.

You know, some people think since I can't move I am a vegetable. Wrong. Just picture yourself as you are, just always sitting down and if you need something a hot babe takes care of you. I am exaggerating a little, but this is how I see it.