Esther Williams Quotes

I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers.

Esther Williams

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• What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution - this revolution - is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.

  

  Bono U2
  • Technology
  • Revolution
  • Dreaming

• I was raised in the church, and there's still a fire burning inside me. I definitely don't ever want to be preachy. But less and less young people are religious. The thing is, I see so many positive things about religion, so I'm happy to talk about it.

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • Church
  • Inside
  • Burning

• Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Despair
  • Melancholy
  • Symmetry

• I'll turn over a new leaf.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Turn
  • Leaf

• The Code of the Vampires decreed that anyone who violated the Sacred Law was condemned to death, the blood burning. Charles had refused to subject Allegra to the sentence. But Mimi was a different matter. Mimi walked out of the church, knowing that if she ever saw Jack again, she would have to kill him.

  

  Melissa de la Cruz
  • Law
  • Church
  • Kill

• Finally, it occurs to me that the biggest problem with our elections is that however you vote, you wind up electing a politician.

  

  Burt Prelutsky
  • Problem
  • Vote
  • Politician

• Sometimes I think your life and mine are under the protection of some supreme being or fate, because, after many years of parallel thought, we find ourselves in the positions we now occupy.

  

  George S. Patton
  • Life
  • Protection
  • Positions

• It's a real primal thing, watching someone get hurt. It's funny and accessible.

  

  Johnny Knoxville
  • Funny
  • Hurt
  • Watching

• Success doesn't happen overnight. Keep your eye on the prize and don't look back.

  

  Erin Andrews
  • Eye
  • Happens
  • Prize

• We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Thinking
  • Taken
  • Fighting

• Don't get me wrong - I'll put $25 on the ground and then if you pick it up and we have sex in an alley, that's not a crime. That's a coincidence.

  

  Eugene Mirman
  • Sex
  • Crime
  • Coincidence

• The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead.

  

  Arthur Honegger
  • Music
  • Dead
  • Public

• Each living creature is said to be alive and to be the same individual - as for example someone is said to be the same person from when he is a child until he comes to be an old man. And yet, if he's called the same, that's despite the fact that he's never made up from the same things, but is always being renewed, and losing what he had before, whether it's hair, or flesh, or bones, or blood, in fact the whole body.

  

  Plato
  • Body
  • Creature
  • Despite

• The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all - he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Peace
  • Fight
  • Despite

• I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers.

  

  Esther Williams
  • Despite
  • Beverly Hills
  • Onlooker