Windbag Helena Quotes & Sayings

I would rather do things that I really love with people that I love working with, and to be able to extend that and go and play, it's great. I feel very fortunate. — Nigel Godrich

How to define a name, may not only be an inquiry of considerable difficulty and intricacy, but may involve considerations going deep into the nature of the things which are denoted by the name. Such, for instance, are the inquiries which form the subjects of the most important of Plato's Dialogues; as, "What is rhetoric?" the topic of the Gorgias, or, "What is justice?" that of the Republic. Such, also, is the question scornfully asked by Pilate, "What is truth?" and the fundamental question with speculative moralists in all ages, "What is virtue? — John Stuart Mill

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance. — Bell Hooks

I had a woman up here last week to look at my feet, and when she gave me the bill you'd of thought she had my appendicitus out. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Look at me! I'm sweet and lovable! — Donald Rumsfeld

There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones. — William Penn

How well you do in life shouldn't depend on how well your parents did. — Robert D. Putnam

(existing's tricky:but to live's a gift) — E. E. Cummings

I suppose people who graduate from very selective and expensive colleges, and receive immense reinforcement from colleagues who preceded them there, develop an inflated sense of their ability to effectively manage things, especially complex things. Many of these young, bright people cannot believe that our creaking and foundering systems won't yield to their managerial tinkering, and the net effect must be to turn them into very cynical careerists with nothing left but personal ladder-climbing and wealth accumulation ... The political left in America makes up in cynical cowardly avarice for all the mendacious stupidity on the political right, so we end up at this moment in history with a perfect blend of every bad impulse in human nature and none of the virtues. — James Howard Kunstler

What has been said does not simply belong to us. — Josef Albers

You become what you want to be, by consistently being what you want to become each day. — Richard G. Scott

Beware of anyone who claims to be neutral, for they always have an agenda. — Douglas Wilson

I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued 'Hamilton,' but I couldn't write a book, because there's no applause at the end of writing a book. — Lin-Manuel Miranda

For thus the royal mandate ran, When first the human race began, "The social, friendly honest man, Whate'er he be, Tis he fulfils great Nature's plan, And none but he!" — Robert Burns

Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that ... may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials. — William J. Brennan