Helen Thomas Quotes

People will never know how hard it is to get information, especially if it's locked up behind official doors where, if politicians had their way, they'd stamp 'top secret' on the color of the walls.

Helen Thomas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 4, 1920 - July 20, 2013

Topics

RespectDoingWashingtonWhyOffice

No one goes into standup to make money. The frustration and rejection are just too much.

Jim Gaffigan

MoneyFrustrationRejectionToo Much

Deed, not words shall speak me.

John Fletcher

WordsMeSpeakShallDeed

I know electric knives are excellent for carving turkeys that have had their bones removed and been forced into a mold to shape them. Please note that those turkeys are called hams.

John Hodgman

KnowShapeBonesCarvingBeenMold

Zoos have always fascinated me. What child hasn't wondered what would happen if all the animals escaped from the zoo? Or what would happen if they got caught in an enclosure?

Matthew Reilly

ChildMeAnimalsZooAlwaysHappen

If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'

Jeff Foxworthy

FamilyWorldStartRoyaltyYouKnow

When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.

John Phillips Marquand

LifeLiveTimePastWritingPresent

Beautiful women get in Hollywood's door quickest and then are shut out when their beauty no longer measures up to whatever it is that Hollywood or audiences decide is beautiful enough; once they're inside, their choices are limited by the same beauty that won them their entree.

Steve Erickson

BeautyWomenBeautifulDoorChoices

Once you start to play together, vibing off each other in the scene, it's not just the notes - it's the music. The script might be the notes playing, but we're making it music.

Stephen Henderson

MusicTogetherStartYouPlayNotes

Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.

Roger Ebert

ThinkAttentionMoviesMoreI Think

Without a doubt, absolutely, a woman will be a president, and probably sooner rather than later. I am excited about that, and if what I did serves as a steppingstone for another woman down the course, I am very grateful to have had that chance.

Michele Bachmann

GratefulWomanI AmChanceDoubt

The ballet world I don't think is an art form that is quick to change or to adjust or evolve.

Misty Copeland

ChangeArtWorldThinkQuickAdjust

There's a lot of pressure that comes from the mainstream stuff, and already people who have been saying - people who don't know any better - have been saying things to me like, 'You should really think about neosoul. You'd definitely be more successful in that.' But that's not my expression.

Lizz Wright

PeopleMeSayingThinkBetterYou

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