Helter Skelter Quotes

#1. Spirituality is a mixed-up, topsy-turvy, helter-skelter godliness that turns our lives into an upside-down toboggan ride of unexpected turns, surprise bumps and bone shattering crashes ... a life ruined by a Jesus who loves us right into his arms.

Mike Yaconelli

#2. I always liked that about bands like the Beatles. They could be so touching at one moment and then 'Helter Skelter' the next.

Robin Zander

#3. The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.

Charles De Lint

#4. I've always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved 'Helter Skelter' and books like that.

Karin Slaughter

#5. All that helter-skelter about strings and memories was only relevant in the dark. It was light out now and time to put away childish things.

Benjamin Brindise

#6. The boy who initiated me into smack, who I will call Tim, was at that time eighteen years old, and came from Castlemilk. His life was a helter-skelter ride of drug-fuelled binges.

Stephen Richards

#7. Pixie, kobold, elf, and sprite,
All are on their rounds tonight;
In the wan moon's silver ray,
Thrives their helter-skelter play.

Joel Benton

#8. Are you hep to what the Beatles are saying? ... Dig it, they're telling it like it is. They know what's happening in the city; blackie is getting ready. They put the revolution to music ... it's 'Helter-Skelter.' Helter-Skelter is coming down.

Charles Manson

#9. I know that this operation will be sort of helter-skelter. But the First Marine Division is going to win the war by landing at Inchon.

Douglas MacArthur

#10. Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust.

Rebecca West

#11. Before 'Veronica Mars,' I was not, and probably am still not, much of a crime reader. My mom left out a copy of 'Helter Skelter' when I was 10, and I secretly read it, and then I spent all my teenage years afraid of hippies. I kept away from crime books for, like, ten years.

Rob Thomas

#12. Roecker sure is a romantic about certain things, like art and music, though you might not know it from watching Live Freaky! Die Freaky!, his claymation musical retelling of the Helter Skelter Charlie Manson saga.

John Roecker

#13. 'Helter-Skelter' was the motive for the murders. Manson borrowed that term from a Beatles song on the 'White Album.' In England, helter-skelter is a playground ride. To Manson, helter-skelter meant a war between whites and blacks that the Beatles were in favor of.

Vincent Bugliosi

#14. How can children bombarded from birth by noise, frenetic schedules, and the helter-skelter caretaking of a fast-paced adult world learn to analyze, reflect, ponder? How can they use quiet inner conversation to build personal realities, sharpen and extend their visual reasoning?

Jane M. Healy

#15. Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.

Emily Carr

#16. I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise.

Paul McCartney

#17. Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.

Ouida

#18. Execution halts your breath, helter skelter spiral death.

Ozzy Osbourne

#19. Some fighter's waist a lot of their energy. Wait for your opportunity and when it comes, avail yourself of it. The idea of boring in and throwing punches helter skelter without reason doesn't amount to a row of pins. Every time you miss a swing it is worse than being hit.

Jack Johnson

#20. And eventually, he (Charles Manson) testified to an empty court, as Bugliosi had convinced the presiding judge Older, that Manson's hypnotic powers might convince the jury he was innocent.

Nikolas Schreck

#21. Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.

Samuel Johnson

#22. Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.

Louisa May Alcott

#23. I'm overwhelmed with sadness for everything that was lost, and filled with anger toward the people who took it away. My people-or at least, my old people. I don't know who I am anymore, or where I belong.
That's not totally true ... I know I belong with Alex.

Lauren Oliver

#24. The food was bad but the conversation was vigorous as they sat and talked about many of the campers

Meg Wolitzer

#25. 'Superbad' was such a personal movie.

Bill Hader

#26. Being vegan for me is a cleaner way of not participating in practices that don't align with my values.

Cory Booker

#27. But who is Aslan? Do you know him?"
"Well-he knows me," said Edmund. "He is the great Lion, the son of the Emperor-beyond-the-Sea, who saved me and saved Narnia.

C.S. Lewis

#28. Capitalism is the way of the devil and exploitation. If you really want to look at things through the eyes of Jesus Christ
who I think was the first socialist
only socialism can really create a genuine society.

Hugo Chavez

#29. You can make sure your kids make their beds and hang up their clothes and put their dishes in the dishwasher when you're the one calling the shots. So, parenting alone, for me anyway, I think is almost easier, being single.

Jane Kaczmarek

#30. There's a powerful transformative effect when you surround yourself with like-minded people. Peer pressure is a great thing when it helps you accomplish your goals instead of distracting you from them.

Po Bronson

#31. To articulate who I hope will pick up this book and take a read: I imagine it being those who find themselves living in the tension between intellectual pursuit and passionate action. Neither

Bruce Reyes-Chow