Helen Quotes

• Press passes can't be that hard to come by if the White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the President.

  Ann Coulter

  White, House, President

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.17, Crown Forum

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• Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles will devour; Brightness falls from the air; Queens have died young and fair; Dust hath closed Helen's eye.

  Thomas Nashe

  Beauty, Beautiful, Queens

  1592 'A Litany in Time of Plague'.

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• No history of the world can be complete which does not mention Mary Helen Keller... whose overcoming of her blindness and deafness were arguably victories more important than those of Alexander the Great, because they have implications still for every living person.

  Theodore Zeldin

  Victory, Important, Overcoming

  "An Intimate History of Humanity". Book by Theodore Zeldin, 1994.

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• Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

  Erma Bombeck

  Success, Determination, Greatness

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• Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.74, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo, in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand, Ah! Psyche, from the regions which Are Holy Land!

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Beauty, Home, Hair

  "To Helen" l. 8 (1831)

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• What were all the world's alarms To mighty Paris when he found Sleep upon a golden bed That first dawn in Helen's arms?

  William Butler Yeats

  Sleep, Paris, Bed

  'Meditations in Time of Civil War 6: The Stare's Nest by my Window'

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• I'd like to think Helen very much understood what it was to be disadvantaged in the medical field. And that that was something that she never let dictate her choices.

  Mary Stuart Masterson

  Thinking, Choices, Fields

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• It annoys the hell out of me when people say, This is the kitchen, and this is the bathroom. What am I, Helen Keller? I mean, it's pretty obvious when you're in a kitchen and when you're not.

  A.M. Homes

  Mean, People, Kitchen

  A.M. Homes (2012). “Jack”, p.82, Granta Books

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• THE HEIR OF NIGHT by Helen Lowe is a richly told tale of strange magic, dark treachery and conflicting loyalties, set in a well realized world.

  Robin Hobb

  Loyalty, Dark, Night

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• I do sometimes worry about getting older and the fact that I am not going to be a model for ever...[But] The fact that Helen Mirren can look so great in swimwear is an amazing boost for all women.

  Kelly Brook

  Thinking, Worry, Getting Older

  "Kelly Brook talks bikinis, bodies and reckons having 'boob jobs and botox is really sad'" by James Robertson, www.mirror.co.uk. March 31, 2013.

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• Helen Lowe writes wonderful stories, yes, but her work also speaks with lyricism to deeper questions of how we treat each other.  With lovely prose that brings vivid life to her characters, she creates a universe with people we care about. This is an author with a gift for fantasy.

  Catherine Asaro

  Character, Writing, People

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• In the early years of the Roaring Twenties, American women not only won the right to vote but they also earned headlines along side their male counterparts during the Golden Age of American sports. Michael Bohn shares an engaging story of how two sports heroines, tennis player Helen Wills and swimmer Gertrude Ederle, helped embolden women to seek self-fulfillment by challenging the status quo.

  Donna de Varona

  Sports, Player, Two

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• I only debate with serious political youth formations. Not a group of the racist Helen Zille's garden boys.

  Julius Malema

  Boys, Garden, Political

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• What I really tried to do with Helen was make her show this sad side of her. She was married off at 16, was so young and living in this castle that can't leave because of how she looks, and married to a man she hates and three times her age.

  Diane Kruger

  Hate, Men, Age

  "Diane Kruger for “Troy”". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. May 6, 2004.

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• Bo Derek turned down the role of Helen Keller because
  she couldn't remember the lines.

  Joan Rivers

  Roles, Lines, Remember

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• Helen Hart is the only person I know with an autographed copy of the Bible.

  Jerry Lawler

  Wrestling, Wwe, Hart

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• And that may be [Helen Gurley] Brown’s most enlightened lesson: that sexual autonomy and fulfillment are inseparable from the autonomy and fulfillment that a woman gets from her career.

  Judith Thurman

  Careers, Lessons, May

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• Helen Crawfurd and the Women's Peace Crusade, made a march on the City Chambers, distributing an illegal leaflet in front of police and even to some of the police as well. The women forced their way into the building and the police had a really tough time trying to get them out. Word spread around that several of them had been arrested and this brought out new and very threatening demonstrations.

  Willie Gallacher

  Cities, Tough Times, Police

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• Helen of Troy, a hooker from Upstate New York. Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  New York, Dinner, Upstate New York

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• I like that Helen Mirren has been saying the next doctor should be a woman. I would like to go on record and say that the Queen should be played by a man!

  Steven Moffat

  Queens, Men, Doctors

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

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• Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal. All beauty alters and all life melts away; in short, everything passes with marvelous rapidity; beautiful Helen of Troy has become a toothless skull, then a handful of dust, then nothing.

  Eliphas Levi

  Beauty, Beautiful, Reflection

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• It was mainly to do with Helen Hunt, to be honest. That's what drew my attention to it. I was interested in the fact that she was going to be directing. I'd never met her but she projects a degree of intelligence and it was convincing t me that she'd be able to handle this sort of material very well.

  Colin Firth

  Degrees, Attention, Able

  "Then She Found Me - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• But where are you going to, Helen? Can you see? Do you know?-I believe; I have faith: I am going to God.-Where is God? What is God?-My maker and yours, who will never destroy what He created. I rely implicitly on His power, and confide wholly in His goodness: I count the hours till that eventful one arrives which shall restore me to Him, reveal Him to me.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Believe, Have Faith, Hours

  Charlotte Bronte (2004). “Jane Eyre”, p.38, Variocity

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• 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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