Top 252 Helen Of Troy Quotes & Sayings

He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was to blame. He forgot the intensity of their talk, the charm that had been lent him by sincerity, the magic of Oniton under darkness and of the whispering river. Helen loved the absolute. Leonard had been ruined absolutely, and had appeared to her as a man apart, isolated from the world. A real man, who cared for adventure and beauty, who desired to live decently and pay his way, who could have travelled more gloriously through life than the Juggernaut car that was crushing him.

Troy Aikman is one of my best friends.

All women are not Helen, I know that, but have Helen in their hearts.

In some ways I grew up in the public library in Troy, Michigan.

Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism cannot explain and has tried to destroy. Through stars like Taylor, we sense the world-disordering impact of legendary women like Delilah, Salome, and Helen of Troy. Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary clich?. But the femme fatale expresses women's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all men's relations with women.

The story of a passionate woman in a stale marriage is as old as Helen of Troy.

Troy Aikman has always felt like a Dallas Cowboy to me.

Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we who turn them into ghosts or demons. Some kinds of fruitless preoccupations with the past can create such simulacra, and they can exercise power, like those heroes at Troy fighting for a phantom Helen.

Helen Hart is the only person I know with an autographed copy of the Bible.

[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.

Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides.]

Helen Hunt is terrific, and I got to do a couple of guest spots with Helen and Paul Reiser on 'Mad About You.'

Who would have known of Hector, if Troy had been happy? The road to valor is built by adversity.

Struck in the wet mire Four thousand leagues from the ninth buried city I thought of Troy, what we had built her for.

Helen Hart is so old, she remembers when the Dead Sea was sick.

She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the grave; and has been a diver in deep seas, and keeps their fallen day about her; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants, and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes, and lives only in the delicacy with which it has molded the changing lineaments, and tinged the eyelids and the hands.

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

What's this outfit? You can't afford clothes? Are you wearing other peoples?" Helen Plum

We are not the worst moments of our lives. Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking.

I love 'Troy.' I love Brad Pitt's character - when he went to Troy, he just ran over it. Then this particular scene where they made this big old horse or something out of wood, and they hid inside the wood.

The story of Ilium, the ancient city of Troy, has always gripped me.

I remember one time that I was filming a scene in whych my character rides through Troy on a chariot. I just looked around at this incredible set thinking 'This is the life'.

If Helen of Troy could have been seen eating peppermints out of a paper bag, it is highly probable that her admirers would have been an entirely different class.It is the thing you are found doing while the horde looks on that you shall be loved for - or ignored.

I think Helen of Troy must have been pretty hot. She got two countries going crazy for 10 years over her.

As soon as men began to write, they made Helen of Troy their subject; for close on three thousand years she has been both the embodiment of absolute female beauty and a reminder of the terrible power that beauty can wield... But who was she?

The soldier takes pride in saluting his Captain, The devotee proffers a knee to his Lord, Some back a mare thrown from a thoroughbred, Troy backed its Helen, Troy died and adored; Great nations blossom above, A slave bows down to a slave.

The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot.

I got the O.B.E because I represent England outside of England more...but thinking of me as an actor, I haven't done all the classical theatre, all the great roles. Think of Helen Mirren and me. Helen, who I adore, is a friend - should be Dame. I am the rebel, the revolutionary on the side.

My mum's really the only person who still calls me Helen, and that's not often. She tends to call me 'love,' so when she does say 'Helen' it can take me a while to respond.

The Greeks got into Troy by trying, my pretties; everything's done by trying.

I wrote my first play as extra credit for my fourth grade English class. 'Can Helen Stop Smoking' was a satire on the ill effects of cigarette smoking. My friend Vicki Haugabrook played as Helen and I directed the show. At the time, my brother Vince was leading the campaign to get our grandmother to quit.

Troy Walters and I coached together.

My numbers are better than Troy Aikman, but he has Super Bowl rings and he's played with Hall of Famers as well.

When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.'

Troy Daniels is pretty good dresser.

Bo Derek turned down the role of Helen Keller because she couldn't remember the lines.

To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo, in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand, Ah! Psyche, from the regions which Are Holy Land!

The Greeks have snatched up their spears. They have pointed the helms of their ships Toward the bulwarks of Troy.

To hear that someone right around the other side of the world actually knows who Troy Deeney is, is quite surreal.

I think we should all have a private audience with Helen Mirren.

Helen Keller was blind and deaf when she graduated from college with honors. So what's your problem?

I saw the Fall of Troy! World War Five! I was pushing boxes at the Boston Tea Party! Now I'm gonna die in a dungeon.... [disgustedly] in Cardiff!

She kind of reminds one of Helen. There's something very similar about Elizabeth Perkins.

Helen of Troy, a hooker from Upstate New York. Never got a dinner!

Move over, Helen of Troy; Jenny Trout is going to wage a war on good health and fit bodies!

Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal. All beauty alters and all life melts away; in short, everything passes with marvelous rapidity; beautiful Helen of Troy has become a toothless skull, then a handful of dust, then nothing.

When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.

Let me tell you, Alex. He's a crook. He's based here in Miami. He's a nasty piece of work." "He's mexican" Troy added.

Few writers can rival Helen Fielding when it comes to fully capturing the modern woman.

I think of guys like Troy Polamalu. These are guys who didn't see much action in the regular season, but when it came postseason time, they made their plays. That's ultimately how they got their names. Ed Reed. Troy Polamalu. Ty Law. Asante Samuel.

I love the Cowboys in the early 90s. That was their heyday, winning all those Super bowls. Troy Aikman was a person I looked up to.

Everywhere I go, people think I'm Helen Hunt.

Sing in me, muse, of arms and a man, who first from the shores of Troy.

Troy Polamalu was a fascinating player, and that made him.

Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.

I love the Bronze Age - the age of the Trojan Wars and Helen of Troy. Contrary to what people think, Troy was a very sophisticated society and they used ostrich eggs - which have surprisingly tough shells - to store perfumed oils.

I always break it down I am three different people. I'm Troy Deeney the footballer, I'm daddy who the kids get to see and I'm Troy which a few of my mates get to see.

Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine.

There are four great events in history, the siege of Troy, the life and crucifixion of Christ, the exile of Krishna in Brindaban and the colloquy on the field of Kurukshetra. The siege of Troy created Hellas, the exile in Brindaban created devotional religion, (for before there was only meditation and worship), Christ from his cross humanized Europe, the colloquy at Kurukshetra will yet liberate humanity.

As a woman, you can be funny and 50, but you can't do much else - unless you're Helen Mirren!