Ethel Merman Quotes

The only things I read are gossip columns. If I read three pages of a book, I'm out like a light. When I pick up the book again, I've forgotten what I've read and have to start over again. By page three, even if I've just awakened from a nine -hour nap, I fall asleep again. So if anyone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures.

Ethel Merman

• Book
• Light
• Forgotten
• Gossip
• Fall Asleep

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• A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us, and it's also not that fun to watch.

  

  Dan Fogelman
  • Fun
  • Mother
  • Son

• I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a predominantly African American Catholic church. So they would have - one mass would be traditional church music, and then the other mass would be gospel music.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Music
  • American
  • Church

• Falsehood is a perennial spring.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Spring
  • Falsehood
  • Perennial

• I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.

  

  Daddy Yankee
  • Record
  • Very
  • Catchy

• An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Leaving
  • Washington
  • Outside

• I was a 200-pound defensive back on Saturday, but after the season, I was performing 'Lysistrata' or 'Fences.'

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Back
  • Season
  • Saturday

• I learned to listen and listen very well. It helped me athletically and in the classroom as well. The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • People
  • Me
  • Listening

• I think William Trevor is as good as it gets. Whenever I want a book to do exactly what it says it will, I read him.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Good
  • Book
  • Want

• Para ser grande, sê inteiro: nadaTeu exagera ou exclui.Sê todo em cada coisa. Põe quanto ésNo mínimo que fazes.Assim em cada lago a lua todaBrilha, porque alta vive.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• I wanted just a song to sing, and there came a certain point where I couldn't sing anything. So I had to write what I wanted to sing 'cos nobody else was writing what I wanted to sing.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Writing
  • Song

• Elinor was still staring at this missive, her plucked brows drawn together in distaste, when the door opened. The maid announced, 'Mr Welman,' and Roddy came in.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Together
  • Door

• He who looks in the crystal ball ends up eating glass... They're way, way close.

  

  Mary Matalin
  • Up

• Effort should be made to see that the forum-type programs (the 'Today Show,' 'Meet the Press,' etc.) afford at least as much opportunity for supporters of the American system to participate as these programs do for those who attack it.

  

  Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
  • American
  • Today
  • Opportunity

• As Members of Congress and people of conscience, we must work to overcome the indifference and distortions of history, and ensure that future generations know what happened.

  

  Jerry Costello
  • People
  • Work
  • History

• When I was a boy, I was sagging my pants like everyone else. Some boys become men and continue to sag their pants because that's their form of rebellion.

  

  Jidenna Theodore Mobisson
  • Men
  • Boy

• Places have charisma, in short, as much as people do.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • People

• I was attracted to 'Half of a Yellow Sun' because of the story.

  

  Chiwetel Ejiofor
  • Sun

• I used to get stressed out, but my cancer has put everything into perspective.

  

  Delta Goodrem
  • Perspective
  • Cancer

• It is an insult for me to have been alive through the times you are calling the so-called civil rights movement. I don't celebrate my humiliations and my insults.

  

  James Meredith

• I always create book soundtracks to capture the overall mood I'm going for and listen to them as I write. Those songs and scores really fuse with the scenes in my mind.

  

  Claudia Gray
  • Mind
  • Book
  • Mood

• I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Book

• 'The Lady' is a piddling little magazine that no one cares about or buys.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Little
  • Lady
  • Magazine

• AY, screen thy favourite dove, fair child,Ay, screen it if you may,-Yet I misdoubt thy trembling handWill scare the hawk away.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • May

• The only things I read are gossip columns. If I read three pages of a book, I'm out like a light. When I pick up the book again, I've forgotten what I've read and have to start over again. By page three, even if I've just awakened from a nine -hour nap, I fall asleep again. So if anyone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures.

  

  Ethel Merman
  • Book
  • Light
  • Forgotten