A Quote by Don McLean

Helter skelter in a summer swelter.

Don McLean

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Don McLean
American - Musician
Born: October 2, 1945

'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

Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.

Emily Carr

Execution halts your breath, helter skelter spiral death.

Ozzy Osbourne

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

Karin Slaughter

Usually for the last play, everyone goes helter-skelter. They go to the wrong spots. They don't do the right thing.

John Stockton

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

Ouida

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

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

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

Charles de Lint

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

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

I've consumed true crime since first discovering 'Helter Skelter' by Vincent Bugliosi in a used bookstore at age 9 or 10 and staring in fascination and horror at the crime-scene photos in the middle.

Megan Abbott

I used to do things like white-water rafting, trekking and horse-riding safaris. Recently, though, I had the humiliation of having to turn away from a helter skelter. It's a very strange thing when you hit a certain age.

Sarah Alexander

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

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

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

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