David Helfgott Quotes

#1. Nobody puts baby in a corner. Nobody.

Rachel Van Dyken

#2. Exercise of the muscles keeps the body in health, and exercise of the brain brings peace of mind.

John Lubbock

#3. You don't lie to your own doctor. You don't lie to your own attorney, and you don't lie to your employees.

Gordon Bethune

#4. Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.

Hari Kunzru

#5. These reviews of David's performances come from my father's collection of David's clippings, which he certainly never burned as is depicted in Shine. After he died Leslie kept the clippings, and then passed them on to David. I made myself some copies years later.

Margaret Helfgott

#6. I don't want to rust out, I'd rather wear out.

Fritz Hollings

#7. But, gee," the other nurse says, "what on earth would MAKE a man want to do something like disrupt the ward for, Miss Ratched? What possible motive ... ?"
"You seem to forget, MISS Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.

Ken Kesey

#8. I thought it was just a picture of madness. But that wasn't. It was a message, it has to be, those words are too specific.

Scott Frost