Top 100 Quotes About Helms
#1. The murmurs of many a famous river on the other side of the globe reach even to us here, as to more distant dwellers on its banks;many a poet's stream, floating the helms and shields of heroes on its bosom.
Henry David Thoreau
#2. Small events and choices determine the direction of our lives just as small helms determine the directions of great ships.
M. Russell Ballard
#3. [On Senator Jesse Helms] I think he ought to be worried about what's going on in the Good Lord's mind, because if there is retributive justice, he'll get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will.
Nina Totenberg
#4. While liberals appeared to be safely in power, feminists could perhaps afford the luxury of defining Larry Flynt or Roman Polanski as Enemy Number One. Now that we have to cope with Jerry Falwell and Jesse Helms, a rethinking of priorities seems in order.
Ellen Willis
#5. Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye, In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones Appear and disappear in the blue depth of the sky With all their ancient faces like rain- beaten stones, And all their helms of silver hovering.
William Butler Yeats
#6. Jesse Helms has never been an invincible man.
Harvey Gantt
#7. The Greeks have snatched up their spears.
They have pointed the helms of their ships
Toward the bulwarks of Troy.
Hilda Doolittle
#8. Jesse Helms wants me to move to the right, Lowell Weiker wants me to move to the left, and Teddy Kennedy wants me to move back to California.
Ronald Reagan
#9. I actually defeated an incumbent Republican senator who was part of the Jesse Helm's political machine in North Carolina, the result of which is I'm now the senior senator from North Carolina instead of Jesse Helms, which is a very good thing for this country.
John Edwards
#10. Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily in the business of making controversial art.
Jane Alexander
#11. Just because I like to suck cock doesn't make me any less American than Jesse Helms.
Allen Ginsberg
#12. The great sadness," Helms said in an oral history recorded for the LBJ Library, "was our ignorance - or innocence, if you like - which led us to mis-assess, not comprehend, and make a lot of wrong decisions.
Tim Weiner
#13. They wanted to audition people for the Middle East correspondent on 'The Daily Show.' They wanted to hire somebody ethnic for that slot. Helms had left, Cordry had left, and they felt that they needed an ethnic face. So, I went in and auditioned, and I got the job.
Aasif Mandvi
#14. I just get the feeling that if Jesse Helms was in charge of art in America, you'd go into a museum and see nothing but prints of dogs playing cards.
Elayne Boosler
#15. I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.
William Weld
#16. People may have their opinions about Senator Helms, but he was highly effective and he took care of his constituency. I learned all those lessons from him, and I bring a great deal to the table because of that.
David Rouzer
#17. I was the only person of color in the Senate, and my colleagues were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Trent Lott.
Carol Moseley Braun
#18. Sometimes you just create a joke out of thin air in the editing room. So I'm really glad I've had that experience. It gives me a little more confidence in front of the camera.
Ed Helms
#19. Compromise, hell! That's what has happened to us all down the line
and that's the very cause of our woes. If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time?
Jesse Helms
#20. Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock. Jingle bells swing and jingle bells ring. Snowing and blowing up bushels of fun. Now the jingle hop has begun.
Bobby Helms
#21. In subsequent years the groups you named had important roles in educating people about the real issues in Washington and Raleigh, and within the Democratic Party.
Jesse Helms
#22. We have to be a state where business is welcome and jobs are created. We have to demand value for what is spent and we need to continue to resist a lottery.
Jesse Helms
#23. My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme's 'More Than Words' at one of our football pep rallies in a desperate attempt to look cool. For a while, I wore pink Converse All Stars because I thought it made me seem daring and irreverent.
Ed Helms
#24. The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the UN.
Jesse Helms
#25. The nation must to a degree take it on faith that we, too, are honorable men devoted to her service.
Richard Helms
#26. Within my own lifetime, I have seen the most ferocious assaults on Christian faith and morals; first on the part of the intellectual community, and then on the part of the government ... the federal government has not even tried to conceal its hostility to religion.
Jesse Helms
#27. Why build a zoo when we can just put up a fence around Chapel Hill?
Jesse Helms
#28. I want our young people to believe as we did that there is no goal too high to reach if they are willing to work.
Jesse Helms
#29. It has been said that a rolling stone gathers no moss. I would add that sometimes a rolling stone also gathers no verifiable facts or even the tiniest morsels of journalistic integrity.
Ed Helms
#30. It's incredibly fun to play someone that you don't like. It exorcises your own demons in a way. It's cathartic. We all have things that we don't like about ourselves, little things. And I get to amplify those things and put them out there. It's fun and it has a cleansing effect.
Ed Helms
#31. Mother said to me that the angels must have been watching over me when I found you, and that's the way I feel.
Glenda Helms
#32. Nothing is impossible. The word actually says it itself: "I'm possible!"
--Sherill Harvey (from Pinterest)
E.Michael Helms
#33. When you're playing a fictional character reacting to the real world, it's incredibly difficult and confusing and kind of messes with your values a bit.
Ed Helms
#34. I loved the show Lost, in part because the writers were so nimble in how they would take things from previous episodes, that probably weren't created with any intent towards a larger narrative, and they would get woven into narratives in a really elegant and exciting way.
Ed Helms
#35. With the tiger you're always on edge, and you always have to keep your distance. The monkey is far less threatening so you're more relaxed around the monkey, and I think that's actually hazardous.
Ed Helms
#36. Homosexuals are weak, morally sick wretches.
Jesse Helms
#37. Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.
Jesse Helms
#39. As an actor, you can really play the intensity and gravity and seriousness of the moment, and just rely on the circumstances being funny. The joke is kind of the situation you're in, or the way you're reacting to something, as opposed to the characters just saying something witty.
Ed Helms
#40. Our constituency aren't the type of people to be on the Internet.
Jesse Helms
#41. Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade school classes that teach our children that CANNIBALISM, WIFE-SWAPPING, and the MURDER of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior.
Jesse Helms
#42. Extended metaphor is like a carton of milk without an expiration date.
Jesse Helms
#43. This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.
Ed Helms
#45. It's kind of hard to win most elections on anti-family, immorality, and Satan-worship.
Ed Helms
#46. It was my angry, Dickensian novel, I suppose. It was cathartic - I expended a lot of frustration on that one.
Richard Helms
#47. I happen to think singing is hilarious, especially when it pops out at the wrong time.
Ed Helms
#48. When you try hard at everything you do, even when it feels foolish to do so, you're opening up doors and possibilities you might not be seeing in the moment.
Ed Helms
#49. All I know is that D'Aubuisson is a free enterprise man and deeply religious.
Jesse Helms
#50. I cannot stress this enough - if you try to install an HDTV in a non-HDTV compatible house, you may tear the space-time continuum.
Ed Helms
#51. You take a vacation to a place like Thailand and you're ready for the excitement of something new and foreign. But when you're working 14-hour days, all you want is something familiar to ground you. And there's just nothing there.
Ed Helms
#52. The challenge is always before us. Whenever we lose sight of the principles that mattered to our founders we run into trouble.
Jesse Helms
#53. I told personal stories the way [Bill] Cosby would spin a yarn for ten minutes. I think in hindsight it works better as a long story than as a condensed monologue.
Ed Helms
#54. February is a month of months, and there is one special day: Valentine's Day on the 14th. I know it's still a ways off, but I just can't wait. Janice, if you're watching, will you make me the happiest man in the world and get out of my apartment?
Ed Helms
#55. We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support.
Jesse Helms
#56. Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into the wrong hands.
Jesse Helms
#58. I was with some Vietnamese recently, and some of them were smoking two cigarettes at the same time. That's the kind of customers we need!
Jesse Helms
#59. Working on The Daily Show, I co-produced all those field segments, and that's another huge thing.I probably did more than 100 field segments.
Ed Helms
#60. As a hobbyist, there's something about miniature anything that captures my imagination.
Ed Helms
#61. Who among us wouldn't rush out and buy a Pepsi if we thought it would make the Osborne's disappear?
Ed Helms
#62. I feel like I'm worried about my later years in life because I feel like I'm using up so much good karma right now. There's going to be some sort of karmic backlash somewhere down the road.
Ed Helms
#63. The melodies were melodies that anybody could sing or hum or whistle. And the words were just about that simple. I think the stories Hank told in his song fit so many people. Nearly everybody in the audience acted as if Hank were singin to them alone.
Don Helms
#64. I don't care what the New York Times says about me, and no one I care about cares what the New York Times says about me.
Jesse Helms
#65. The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study.
Jesse Helms
#66. This also turned out to be negative, so there is no material in the Central Intelligence Agency, either in the records or in the mind of any of the individuals, that there was any contact had or even contemplated with him.
Richard M. Helms
#67. I'm kind of embarrassed by how quickly I adjusted to L.A. I really love it. It's so pleasant.
Ed Helms
#68. I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.
Ed Helms
#70. White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want Negroes working beside you, your wife and your daughters, in your mills and factories? Frank Graham favors mingling of the races.
Jesse Helms
#71. I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family.
Jesse Helms
#72. A zen couch potato is a person who contemplates the nature of televised existence.
Richard Helms
#73. What I am suggesting is hard work and it can be slow work, but the rewards are well worth it.
Jesse Helms
#74. There was no Congressional Club for my first campaign. There was no organized state group of Young Republicans, but there was a dedicated core of young people who volunteered to do anything my campaign needed.
Jesse Helms
#75. I've always been into toys and kits and models. I'm kind of a toy nerd.
Ed Helms
#76. I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
Ed Helms
#77. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe. And I think that's a really dangerous, limiting mindset.
Ed Helms
#78. It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative.
Jesse Helms
#79. The smile on your lips brings the summer sunshine, the tears in your eyes bring the rain. I feel your touch, you warm embrace, and I'm in heaven again.
Bobby Helms
#80. Getting any movie made is just like trying to push a giant boulder up a mountain, and there's so many moving parts. Obviously, there's the creative side, and then there's the logistical side, and they're both colossal.
Ed Helms
#81. I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.
Ed Helms
#82. I think that music at inappropriate times with inappropriate volumes can be the funniest thing ever.
Ed Helms
#83. All I knew is that I loved movies and comedy and TV, and I wanted to perform. I made a bunch of shorts and movies in college, and that was always fun too. I directed some plays in college. It was taking it all in and trying to immerse myself in as much of it as possible.
Ed Helms
#84. The Lord did not make me impossible of error. All I've had to offer you is the total dedication in serving you as best I know how. And I've always leveled with you, and always will, knowing full well that everyone will not agree with me.
Jesse Helms
#85. This is an area where North Carolina does excel. I have known more colorful North Carolina political figures than I have colorless ones.
Jesse Helms
#86. I do not intend to allow the Senate to rubber-stamp the president's plan to reward the Chinese Communists.
Jesse Helms
#87. The real problem is arranging that experience in a way that tells a story, which is just incredible enough to be interesting, but credible enough to be believed.
Richard Helms
#88. He crushes his lips to mine. My face is already wet from tears, but the kiss isn't sweet and romantic. At that moment, it feels like a kiss of life or death. It is carnal and harsh. I will never forget this kiss.
Lauren Helms
#89. [I read news] because no one's going to tell me what they really think of something.
Ed Helms
#90. April is tax month. If you are having trouble filing your taxes, then you should hire an accountant. They'll give you the same advice that they've given hundreds of corporations - taxes are for douche bags.
Ed Helms
#91. This bill attempts to make sure that President Clinton is not allowed to do by Executive Order what Congress has declined to enact in the past two congressional sessions namely, to treat homosexuals as a special class protected under various titles of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Jesse Helms
#92. Don't be afraid of fear. Because it sharpens you, it challenges you, it makes you stronger; and when you run away from fear, you also run away from the opportunity to be your best possible self.
Ed Helms
#93. If God had wanted us to use the metric system, Jesus would have had 10 apostles.
Jesse Helms
#94. One of the most difficult things a pilot must learn is to be patient with the weather.
David Helms
#95. he was an awesome marine as a person he is a scam i know he try to scam me out 4800 but he didn't get nothing
Nathaniel R. Helms
#96. America must be the moral leader. It is not enough to have power. Power must be used to protect freedom and give all people hope for the opportunity to see the fruit of their own labor.
Jesse Helms
#97. People who grew up in New York City or Los Angeles tend not to even understand what goes on in the rest of the country. I'm really glad to have grown up in an environment where I actually was kind of a weirdo because I was obsessed with comedy and movies and stuff.
Ed Helms
#98. I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them.
Ed Helms
#99. To rob the Negro of his reputation of thinking through a problem in his own fashion is about the same as trying to pretend that he doesn't have a natural instinct for rhythm and for singing and dancing.
Jesse Helms
#100. It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment.
Jesse Helms
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