Ethel Merman Quotes

Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist.

Ethel Merman

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• With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.

  

  Iain Glen
  • Woman
  • Look
  • Modesty

• Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Way
  • Interesting

• For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.

  

  Karen O
  • Space
  • Rest
  • California

• Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Different
  • Politics
  • Ethics

• I wasn't an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Girl

• We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.

  

  Sam Ewing
  • World
  • Born
  • Profit

• I've been writing for years, you know, and when I get to a particular place, city, or different locale, I find myself first of all being challenged by those that love me to write more.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Know
  • City
  • Write

• Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • School
  • Religion
  • Ethics

• Forget market or publishers or whatever. Just write with fire and joy, and in my own experience, those are the stories of mine people have wanted to read.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • People
  • Experience
  • Joy

• I don't necessarily need Hollywood.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Need
  • Hollywood
  • Necessarily

• Today, people tend to credit me with having the original idea and made the first circuits.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • People
  • Today
  • Credit

• I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy - a crow and a rabbit - to remind me of home. I like art and have a big portrait of Bjork.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Art
  • Home
  • Bigs

• Don't ever wrestle with a pig. You'll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it.

  

  Cale Yarborough
  • Enjoy
  • Dirty
  • Pig

• God does not look at riches, titles, education, or beauty. There is only one thing that God does look at, and that is the soul.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • God
  • Soul
  • Education

• I'm the kind of person who wants to present my most honest, authentic self to the world, so I hide backstage and rehearse honest and authentic lines until the curtain opens.

  

  Donald Miller
  • World
  • Present
  • Person

• Study Bibles tend to circulate widely, so they play a disproportionate role in helping Christians and others understand holy Scripture. Further, many of our members have long used one or two other Study Bibles, and it is important that Christians not be tied too tightly to only one option, however good it may be.

  

  D. A. Carson
  • Good
  • Important
  • Long

• The true Christian is like sandalwood, which imparts its fragrance to the axe which cuts it, without doing any harm in return.

  

  Sadhu Sundar Singh
  • True
  • Christian
  • Cutting

• With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stock broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Reputation
  • Can
  • Gain

• Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Time
  • inspirational
  • Motivational

• Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your reputation. Be not apt to relate news, if you know not the truth thereof. Speak no evil of the absent, for it is unjust. Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise. There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth, and pursue it steadily. Nothing but harmony, honesty, industry and frugality are necessary to make us a great and happy nation.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Quality

• We've developed a reputation as pretty heavy drinkers. I don't know if that's really true. Sure, we enjoy hoisting a few pints. But then, who doesn't? We're surely not a bunch of alcoholics, though some guys in the papers would have you believe that we couldn't go on stage unless we were really cocked. That's a load of rubbish. When it comes to performing we're very professional, but after the show, we may let our hair down a bit.

  

  Steve Clark Def Leppard
  • True
  • Reputation
  • Performing

• A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.

  

  Ernest Bramah
  • Moment
  • Reputation
  • Conduct

• Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist.

  

  Ethel Merman
  • Reputation
  • Sophistication
  • Hedonist