Esther Williams Quotes

I never walked the streets of New York hoping to be a musical comedy star. For one thing, they would have thought I was too tall, because l was five feet eight and a half, and they were all little bitty things running around in the studio at that time.

Esther Williams

• Running
• New York
• Hoping
• Musical Comedy

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• The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Remember
  • Artist
  • Young

• I still love recording and still love the stage, but like my dad, I have the most fun when I am in front of that glorious orchestra or that kick-butt big band.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Fun
  • Dad
  • Like

• If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Art

• What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Heart
  • Home
  • Power

• I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Work
  • Help
  • Better

• A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Europe
  • Communism
  • Haunting

• If you say the word amnesty - the 'A-word,' so to speak - it's DOA. If there's even a hint of amnesty in my district, it's dead on arrival.

  

  Randy Weber
  • You
  • Speak
  • Say

• Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • War
  • Worry
  • Shooting

• I still love physical product. I still hold out for actual CDs, because in radio, everyone just wants to send you a file to play.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Play
  • Wants
  • Physical

• Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Grateful

• 'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• That's usually how I get to know strangers - get inappropriately touchy. Once they've experienced the awkwardness of you being way too close for comfort, after that, it all gets easy.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Know
  • Easy
  • Comfort

• I'm very excited about taking over the reins on Vampirella. I've really been enjoying myself so far.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • Myself
  • Excited
  • Far

• CERN is a concrete example of worldwide, international co-operation - and a concrete example of peace. The place which makes, in my opinion, better scientists, but also better people.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • People
  • Peace
  • Opinion

• Ninja is super-ambitious - more than I am.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Ambitious
  • Ninja

• Nothing means more to me than racing for my country, the Queen, the Royal Family, and the people back home that support me.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • Country
  • Family

• People are more optimistic about Detroit outside of Detroit.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • More
  • Optimistic

• It's always discouraging when you don't have things go your way. They are frustrated just like the rest of us.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • You
  • Rest
  • Always

• I feel pretty comfortable with who I am. After a while, if you're not, it's like, what are you hoping for?

  

  Ed Harris
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Comfortable

• I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Experience
  • City
  • New York

• When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Music
  • Children
  • School

• Everything you need is already inside.

  

  Bill Bowerman
  • Running
  • Needs
  • Race Day

• Mentors don't have to be the Daymond Johns or the Mark Cubans. A person running a successful bodega or a tax firm in your community for the last 20 years, that person is working just as much as the individual who's running General Mills.

  

  Daymond John
  • Community
  • Running

• I never walked the streets of New York hoping to be a musical comedy star. For one thing, they would have thought I was too tall, because l was five feet eight and a half, and they were all little bitty things running around in the studio at that time.

  

  Esther Williams
  • Running
  • New York
  • Hoping