Helen Quotes - Page 2

• On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen's, where we were obliged to anchor.

  William Bligh

  Morning, Anchors, Two

  William Bligh (2012). “Mutiny on the Bounty”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• We are not the worst moments of our lives. Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking.

  Helen Prejean

  Death, Men, Worst

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• I got the O.B.E because I represent England outside of England more...but thinking of me as an actor, I haven't done all the classical theatre, all the great roles. Think of Helen Mirren and me. Helen, who I adore, is a friend - should be Dame. I am the rebel, the revolutionary on the side.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Thinking, Theatre, Roles

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Helen Keller was blind and deaf when she graduated from college with honors. So what's your problem?

  Charles Stanley

  College, Honor, Problem

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• Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we who turn them into ghosts or demons. Some kinds of fruitless preoccupations with the past can create such simulacra, and they can exercise power, like those heroes at Troy fighting for a phantom Helen.

  Iris Murdoch

  Hero, Divorce, Fighting

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Sea, The Sea”, p.296, Penguin

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• I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.

  E. M. Forster

  Believe, Caring, People

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.624, Delphi Classics

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• Love conquers all," Aphrodite promised. "Look at Helen and Paris. Did they let anything come between them?" "Didn't they start the Trojan War and get thousands of people killed?" "Pfft. That's not the point. Follow your heart.

  Rick Riordan

  True Love, War, Heart

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• Despite everything my mom and doctor and dad have said to me about blame, I can't stop thinking what I know. And I know that my aunt Helen would still be alive today if she just bought me one present like everybody else. She would be alive if I were born on a day that didn't snow.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Mom, Dad, Aunt

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• What's this outfit? You can't afford clothes? Are you wearing other peoples?" Helen Plum

  Janet Evanovich

  Clothes, Plums

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• In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.

  J. C. Watts

  Children, Oklahoma, Imagination

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• It's OK to sit in the Golden Globe room and look around and think, 'Oh, Helen Mirren's a loser tonight, so is Nicole Kidman. Meryl Streep lost tonight. Jessica Lange didn't win.' If you're gonna be in the company of losers, that's the company to be in.

  Sarah Paulson

  Winning, Thinking, Looks

  "‘American Horror Story’ Finale: Sarah Paulson Defends Lana Winters, Talks End Of ‘Asylum’ And More" by Jaimie Etkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 23, 2010.

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• People can't really place me. They're not really sure who I am. Sometimes they think I'm Helen Hunt. Sometimes they think I'm Laura Dern.

  Laura Linney

  Thinking, Who I Am, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Even Helen Keller, who was born blind and deaf, could see God. No doubt, in her silent darkness, every fragrant flower, every ray of the warm sun, every taste that touched her tongue told her that there was a God who created all things. Jodie Foster shouldn't therefore be surprised that people are surprised that she's an atheist.

  Ray Comfort

  Atheist, Flower, People

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• She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the grave; and has been a diver in deep seas, and keeps their fallen day about her; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants, and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes, and lives only in the delicacy with which it has molded the changing lineaments, and tinged the eyelids and the hands.

  Walter Pater

  Mother, Rocks, Hands

  Studies in the History of the Renaissance "Leonardo da Vinci" (1873)

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• I'm going to come back to West Virginia when this is over. There's something ancient and deeply-rooted in my soul. I like to think that I have left my ghost up one of those hollows, and I'll never really be able to leave for good until I find it. And I don't want to look for it, because I might find it and have to leave." - from a letter to his mother Helen Pancake that Breece wrote in Charlottesville, where he was studying writing.

  Breece D'J Pancake

  Mother, Writing, Thinking

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• I saw stars like Helen Hayes, Maurice Evans, Tallulah Bankhead and Cornelia Otis Skinner. It was enchanting. I knew that was the world I wanted to be in.

  Sada Thompson

  Stars, World, Saws

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• I think Helen of Troy must have been pretty hot. She got two countries going crazy for 10 years over her.

  Colin Quinn

  Country, Crazy, Thinking

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• She is an office girl, her name is Betty. Her favorite group is Helen Reddy.

  Frank Zappa

  Girl, Names, Office

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• Irene-" "Don't call me that." "You were the princess Irene the first time we met." "It means 'peace'," Attolia said. "What name could be more inappropriate?" "That I be named Helen?" Eddis suggested. The hard lines in Attolia's face eased, and she smiled. Eddis was a far cry from the woman whose beauty had started a war.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  War, Princess, Mean

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• When I was driving home, I just thought about the word 'special'. And I thought the last person who said that about me was my Aunt Helen. I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think everyone is special in their own way. I really do.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Grateful, Home, Aunt

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• When we were all getting ready to leave, I walked up to my grandfather and gave him a hug and kiss on the cheek. He wiped my lip print off with his palm and gave me a look. He doesn't like the boys in the family to touch him. But I'm very glad that I did it anyway in case he dies. I never got to do that with my Aunt Helen.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Kissing, Aunt, Boys

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• All women are not Helen, I know that, but have Helen in their hearts.

  William Carlos Williams

  Heart, Knows

  William Carlos Williams (1994). “Asphodel, that Greeny Flower & Other Love Poems”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

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• Coldplay songs deliver an amorphous, irrefutable interpretation of how being in love is supposed to feel, and people find themselves wanting that feeling for real. They want men to adore them like Lloyd Dobler would, and they want women to think like Aimee Mann, and they expect all their arguments to sound like Sam Malone and Diane Chambers. They think everything will work out perfectly in the end (just like it did for Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones and Nick Hornby's Rob Fleming), and they don't stop believing because Journey's Steve Perry insists we should never do that.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Song, Real, Believe

  Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Ramses had always been fond of Helen, in his peculiar fashion, but if he had looked at me as he was looking at her, I would have sent for a constable.

  Barbara Mertz

  Fashion, Peculiar, Ifs

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• Helen Mirren is someone that I have really admired ever since I saw her in Excalibur. That was the first thing I said to her. "I loved you as Morgan Le Fay."

  Nicolas Cage

  Saws, Firsts, I Loved You

  "Nicolas Cage Interview - NATIONAL TREASURE: Book of Secrets". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. December 19, 2007.

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