Helen Quotes

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

Success, Fame, Confuse

My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.
J. C. Watts

Everything, Young, Poor

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, Black, Thought

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

Sometimes, Place, Sure

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

Age, Sad, Living

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

Crazy, Two, Pretty

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

God, Doubt, Sun

There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music.
Carlisle Floyd

Music, Society, Wife

She kind of reminds one of Helen. There's something very similar about Elizabeth Perkins.
Paul Reiser

She, Elizabeth, Reminds

I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.
Anne Sullivan Macy

Life, Education, Teacher

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

Medical, Her, She

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

Lost, Win, Loser

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, Two, Company

I'd like to do Harvey again. I did it two years ago with Helen Hayes in New York. It was a joy. I was so glad to do it again because I never thought I did it right the first time.
James Stewart

Time, Thought, Two

In the '50s Morris Louis and I were not known, David Smith and Helen Frankenthaler were not much known.
Kenneth Noland

Known, Louis, David

No one will ever argue that someone could have played Helen Keller better than Patty Duke. It was an incredibly demanding role and I don't think anyone can argue that it was a false performance.
Richard Masur

Someone, Anyone, Played

I wrote my first play as extra credit for my fourth grade English class. 'Can Helen Stop Smoking' was a satire on the ill effects of cigarette smoking. My friend Vicki Haugabrook played as Helen and I directed the show. At the time, my brother Vince was leading the campaign to get our grandmother to quit.
T'Keyah Crystal Keymah

Time, Friend, Play

Helen Mirren is like the sexiest woman on the planet to me. She is. Just the way she goes about everything.
Barry Watson

Woman, Everything, She

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