Helen Keller Quotes

I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never have expected the strength to overcome them.

Helen Keller

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• It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • You
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• As to which is cuter, a puppy or a baby, I'm going to say that probably depends less on the particular puppy and more on the baby. I've seen pictures of me as an infant and consider myself lucky that nobody ever offered my parents the opportunity to trade me for a beagle.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Parents
  • Opportunity
  • Myself

• The press like to talk to actors. They mustn't be surprised when actors talk back to them.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Like
  • Back
  • Talk

• Kids listen to everything on the Internet.

  

  David Guetta
  • Kids

• That's a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us.

  

  Meg Wheatley
  • Work
  • Live
  • Together

• They see us interacting with people, they see us doing serious interviews, they see us having fun, and when you're conversing with someone, you get a much clearer impression of who that person is than if they are just reading into a news piece.

  

  Katie Couric
  • People
  • Fun
  • Reading

• The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.

  

  Joe Biden
  • American
  • Society
  • September

• I'm a big road trip guy. I'm the guy who gets in the RV and drives across country. And when you do that, you really get to see small-town America.

  

  Mekhi Phifer
  • Country
  • America
  • Guy

• When all else fails, fresh tactics!

  

  John Travolta
  • Failure
  • Failing
  • Tactics

• Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril

  

  Andrew Motion
  • Heart
  • Power
  • Emotional

• Am I a fruitcake? I don't know. Perception is reality, so if I sit here and say, "I'm not a fruitcake, I'm a lemon cake," it doesn't matter. What you see me as in your world is what I am; it doesn't matter what I am - do you know what I mean? To me, I know what my real problems are - and they're certainly not about cake. And that's just the way it is.

  

  Macy Gray
  • World
  • Real
  • Reality

• Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• My mother says to me, when I'm making a new movie, she says, "Oh, is Steve Buscemi in it?" I'd say, "Yeah." And she, "Oh, then it's going to be a good one." I swear to God, she says that every time. And when I say Steve's not in it, she says, "Oh."

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Time
  • Good
  • God

• In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.

  

  Marlo Thomas
  • Time
  • Education
  • Fighting

• I know of only three people who really understand money. A professor at another university. One of my students. And a rather junior clerk at the Bank of England.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • People

• Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Building
  • Stronger
  • Accidents

• If limitation spawns creativity, is the limitless resource of the Internet a good thing?

  

  Alec Soth
  • Creativity
  • Internet
  • Limitation

• I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never have expected the strength to overcome them.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Overcoming
  • Expected
  • Accidents