Esther Williams Quotes

Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.

Esther Williams

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• Discipline
• Head
• Swimming Pool

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• I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Green
  • Eat
  • Vegetables

• My characters hope for better lives.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Hope
  • Better
  • Characters

• People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Time
  • Character
  • Man

• There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality child care.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • Work
  • Women
  • Children

• The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Faith
  • Principles
  • Islam

• People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Writing
  • Family

• The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • Needs
  • Everyone
  • Earn

• I need to have better knife skills... for vegetables.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Better
  • Skills
  • Knife

• I love working on films and I'd love to do some interesting work, but if somebody asked me, 'Would you like 'Human Target' to continue to be picked up?' The answer is 'Absolutely!' I love working on this show. I love playing Guerrero. I love seeing where it's going.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Work
  • Interesting
  • Like

• It was an honour for me to have been able to work with Mr. Mandela in the process that led to the adoption of the interim constitution and our first democratic elections in April 1994.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Work
  • Constitution
  • April

• There's no glory and no respect in making fun of the weak, the powerless.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • Fun
  • Respect
  • Glory

• You can love me or hate me and disagree with me, but you sure as hell know where I stand.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Know

• When I was younger, I used to be super, super shy. I still find myself being scared of things.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Myself
  • Find
  • Used

• Seeing your baby in pain and seeing them crying and that sort of thing, and you're tired, and you can do nothing about it - that's, like, one of the most demoralizing things I can think of.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Pain
  • Baby
  • Tired

• He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time
  • God
  • She

• I don't mind dying before you do. In fact, I rather prefer it that way.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Mind
  • Dying

• As our products have improved, and you add value at the high end, customers move to the high end.

  

  Amy Hood
  • High
  • Value

• I think the other thing that's important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody can decide not to play for a while. You watch any group of musicians improvising together and they nearly all play nearly all the time. In fact I often say that the biggest difference between classical music and everything else is that classical musicians sometimes shut up because they're told to, because the score tells them to. Whereas any music that's sort of based on folk or jazz, everybody plays all the time.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Jazz
  • Musicians
  • Decide

• 'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Character
  • Game
  • Balance

• Each time that you're playing a character, it's hard to pick a favorite.

  

  Lindsey Shaw
  • Time
  • Character

• A culture of discipline is not a principle of business, it is a principle of greatness.

  

  James C. Collins
  • Business
  • Culture
  • Discipline

• Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.

  

  Esther Williams
  • Character
  • Water
  • Discipline