#helms

The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America. ↗

— William Least Heat-Moon

#go #i #me #now #out

I was the only person of color in the Senate, and my colleagues were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Trent Lott. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#color #helms #i #jesse #jesse helms

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#dying #earth #every #hear #i

The spin overwhelms the substance. That's very clearly what happened. ↗

— Joseph C. Wilson

#happened #overwhelms #spin #substance #very

The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss to explain my delusion that there exist any real links between that past and a future worthy of it. ↗

— Hart Crane

#between #delusion #exist #explain #form

I've certainly auditioned for big budget studio films. I don't know if it's because there's so much money involved, but a lot of times the pressure overwhelms me and engulfs me. I end up falling apart in the audition. ↗

— Jason Ritter

#audition #auditioned #because #big #big budget

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

#art world #business #controversial #helms #him

Well, I don't ever get excited. I haven't been excited since I got a Chopper bicycle when I was about 12. Once you get older you realise there's always a catch to everything. So when I get, say, a commission to make a TV show, the catch is that you have to deliver something and then the sense of responsibility overwhelms the joy of the occasion. ↗

— Jack Dee

#always #been #bicycle #catch #commission

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

#carolina #country #defeated #good #good thing

My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication. ↗

— Uma Thurman

#me #options #overwhelms #sophistication #washing