Helen Keller Quotes

What if in my waking hours a sound should ring through the silent halls of hearing? ... Would the bow and string tension of life snap? Would the heart over weighted with sudden joy stop beating for very excess of happiness?

Helen Keller

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• Joy
• Hours
• Silent
• Tension

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• I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Harmony
  • Florida
  • Rocket

• So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • People
  • Long
  • Country

• All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Hollywood
  • Corrupts

• With every film that you do, you're always so nervous. You feel exposed because you know people will see this eventually. You sort of have to put all that out of your head. What will be will be. But it's nerve wracking.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Know
  • Always

• My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Experience
  • Hope
  • Education

• Those who have the power and should be the most responsible are often the least responsible.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Power
  • Should
  • Responsible

• One of the ways I stuck out was I was a very passionate reader. There was probably a cyclical nature to that; the more I felt like an outcast, the more I sought refuge in books, and the more I sought refuge in books, the more it made me not speak the same language as my peers.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Nature
  • Language
  • Same

• I just read and read and read. ... I have always enjoyed reading.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Reading

• Why give you answers you wont believe?Well, answers I don't believe would be a step forward.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Believe
  • Why

• Extortion, snortin, supportin abortion, pathological liar, blowin shit out of proportion, the looniest, zaniest, spontaneous, sporadic, impulsive thinker, compulsive drinker, addict, half animal, half man, dumpin your dead body inside of a fuckin trash can, with more holes than an Afghan

  

  Eminem
  • Animal
  • Liar

• …Novello should be extremely grateful that his innubile daughter was being taken off his hands by a Tasca.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Taken
  • Daughter

• We need a president with tremendous intelligence, smarts, cunning, strength and stamina.

  

  Donald Trump
  • President
  • Intelligence
  • Cunning

• The novel that an author writes is often not the novel that the reader reads, and most of the 'messages' in a novel are put there by the reader. There's nothing wrong with that, of course. That's how literature functions.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Literature
  • Author

• Something about being projected on a 70 foot screen makes you more attractive and appealing to the opposite sex, which is pretty scary.

  

  Jason Biggs
  • Pretty
  • Sex
  • Scary

• Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past.

  

  James Montgomery
  • Past

• If I'm in a hurry, I will have the South Beach Ricotta Muffins. Some mornings, I'll just have turkey bacon and scrambled eggs.

  

  Jessie James Decker
  • Beach

• The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.

  

  Christopher Lasch

• My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama.

  

  Fred Allen
  • Uncle

• If a mind is just a few pounds of blood, urea, and electricity, how does it manage to contemplate itself, worry about its soul, do time-and-motion studies, admire the shy hooves of a goat, know that it will die, enjoy all the grand and lesser mayhems of the heart ?

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Soul

• We've come full circle but the best remains the heart of the city, the greatest center of the greatest city, our Acropolis, where our Christmas tree is lighted.

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • Heart
  • City
  • Tree

• So deep and meaningful is the joy and the enthusiasm that is born in one's mind and heart by human love and helpfulness that it has the power to motivate for a lifetime. . . . You don't have to be a doctor to say or do that which puts light in a human eye or joy on a human face. Simply practice Jesus' commandment that we love one another. Go out and do something for somebody. These are the things that make happy people. Here is the one never-failing source of the joy and enthusiasm we are talking about.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Joy
  • Born
  • Meaningful

• The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Country
  • Feeling
  • Literature

• What if in my waking hours a sound should ring through the silent halls of hearing? ... Would the bow and string tension of life snap? Would the heart over weighted with sudden joy stop beating for very excess of happiness?

  

  Helen Keller
  • Heart
  • Joy
  • Hours