Helen Keller Quotes

Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!

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• 'Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Great
  • Movie
  • You

• I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.

  

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
  • Believe
  • America
  • City

• I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.

  

  Fatty Arbuckle
  • Children
  • Hands
  • Reward

• I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Remember
  • Think
  • Name

• I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Country

• One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.

  

  Majora Carter
  • Up
  • Community
  • Respect

• I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Men
  • Art
  • Fashion

• Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Time
  • Long
  • Taken

• I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. And she is an awesome mom. When you are Latina, it is all about family, and to see that she prioritizes family and her career at the same time is really nice.

  

  Becky G
  • World
  • Music
  • Family

• I'm not stuck in Strikeforce. I'm happy to be with them. It's where I started, and they've been great to me.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Me

• Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

  

  Mae West
  • Office
  • Reward
  • Box

• When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Time
  • God
  • Strong

• I love to be in front of big galleries.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Big
  • Front
  • Galleries

• I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Education
  • College
  • Wrestling

• I have heard of people dying from prostate cancer, and they are the unlucky ones, the people who didn't know they had got it, and it went on the rampage.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Know
  • Dying

• In Toledo, people grow out. Out to the suburbs. Out to the parts of America where the economy is more vigorous. And all too often, out to 48-inch waistbands.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • America
  • Grow

• I am smarter because I stayed in school, and I am a better football player.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • School
  • Football
  • Player

• That's the Indian in me - you must put spices on everything. As a kid, whenever we got sick, my mom would take milk and put turmeric in it. That was our medicine. That was the cure-all. Some people turn to Robitussin.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Mom
  • Sick

• I recently saw HBO's 'Getting On,' and I was like, 'That's awesome.' I love that tone. It's a great show.

  

  Danielle Schneider
  • Great
  • Awesome

• Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern French prose. The typewriter makes for lucidity, but I am not sure that it encourages subtlety.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Long
  • Crafts
  • Typewriters

• All the angels in the whole universe care about you; and if God wants to dispatch them all, He can do it.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • God
  • Want
  • Universe

• I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying.

  

  Petrarch
  • Myself
  • Speed
  • Drive

• Owning a bookstore was right up there with acting in life goals, but other than swaggering around the store, I'm not much use.

  

  Jeffrey Tambor
  • Life
  • Up
  • Goals

• Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!

  

  Helen Keller
  • Life
  • Dessert