Arthur Helps Quotes

We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.

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• My wife said to me... you never understood what we were going through back home, did you? And I didn't. And I have to confess that.

  

  Oliver North
  • Home
  • Wife
  • Understood

• The love of Louis XVI for mechanical works is well known. He had a little workshop at Versailles where he amused himself making locks, assisted by Francois Gamain, to whom he was much attached and with whom he spent many hours in projecting and executing mechanical contrivances.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Works
  • Known
  • Locks

• A man is known by the silence he keeps.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Man
  • Silence
  • Known

• I mix talents and friendship, which is not very professional, but it's my way of thinking. So I love Azzedine Alaia, because I've known him for 30 years, and he's making my dresses most of the time.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Time
  • Professional
  • Friendship

• I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Always
  • Understood
  • Machine

• I make things of my own that aren't that glam, but I'm not known for that, which has always been a bit of a frustration for me.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Me
  • Always
  • Things

• I'm not driven by being understood.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Being
  • Understood
  • Driven

• Traditional television as we have known it will make love to the Internet and have a child. That child will be the future. It's already happening, and it's hot!

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Future
  • Child
  • Known

• I've known Pinchas Zukerman since he was a teenager.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Teenager
  • Known
  • Since

• I personally never thought that 'Dallas' would resurrect itself because I didn't think anybody knew how to do it. And it was proven to me on the few attempts that were made. The movie that was going to be done, I read that script, it was atrocious. It was just awful. And I just didn't think anybody understood it anymore.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Movie
  • Understood
  • Script

• Love is only known by him who hopelessly persists in love.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Love
  • Known
  • Persists

• It's hard being such a powerful woman in the business. I'm known for not always being warm and fuzzy, because you'll just get bulldozed over.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Business
  • Powerful
  • Hard

• The first generations of Comanches in captivity never really understood the concept of wealth, of private property. The central truth of their lives was the past, the dimming memory of the wild, ecstatic freedom of the plains, of the days when Comanche warriors in black buffalo headdresses rode unchallenged from Kansas to northern Mexico, of a world without property or boundaries. What Quanah had that the rest of his tribe in the later years did not was that most American of human traits: boundless optimism.

  

  S. C. Gwynne
  • World
  • Truth
  • American

• I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Mother
  • Couple

• You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Never
  • Ambition
  • Poor

• The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • True
  • Artist
  • Known

• I was known for throwing knives.

  

  D'arcy Wretzky The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Known
  • Knives
  • Throwing

• The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Sick
  • Dying
  • Sin

• I maintain that any writer of a book is fully authorised in attaching any meaning he likes to a word or phrase he intends to use. If I find an author saying, at the beginning of his book, "Let it be understood that by the word 'black' I shall always mean 'white,' and by the word 'white' I shall always mean 'black,'" I meekly accept his ruling, however injudicious I think it.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Black
  • Author
  • White

• I don't want the horse to get trained, because training the horse is absolutely finite. But if you get the horse to where he operates as if to be your legs, an extension of you, you've far-exceeded that whole training notion.

  

  Buck Brannaman
  • Horse
  • Extension
  • Training notion

• The selfish man cuts away the sand from under his own feet, he digs his own grave; and every time, from the beginning of the world until now, God Almighty pushes him into the grave and covers him up.

  

  Charles Henry Fowler
  • World
  • Cutting
  • Selfish

• I guess the wildcard here is Terrence Malick. He supervised me while I was writing the script for Beautiful Country, and he is a genius, although not always easy to follow. What I learned from him is that the narrative can be tracked through all kinds of scenes, that the strong narrative thread is not always the one that is most obvious. Creating narrative with Malick was a bit like chasing a butterfly through a jungle. This approach to narrative is fun and complicated, something that makes the process of writing constantly interesting to this writer.

  

  Sabina Murray
  • Writing
  • Country
  • Fun

• A great road trip. To come back in Cleveland to win that series and get these two ... no excuses, but it's been a long road trip for just five games. It's huge going 4-1. Cleveland has a great team and Tampa Bay is playing better. But we pitched well and scored some runs. We're starting to jell together.

  

  Brad Wilkerson
  • Team
  • Games
  • Excuses

• We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.

  

  Arthur Helps
  • Understood
  • Known