Ethel Merman Quotes
I've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast.
Quotes to Explore
-
The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.
-
Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
-
Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
-
I think comics are really part of The Zeitgeist. They reflect back to us the issues that we're concerned about in the time they are written.
-
Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
-
Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree.
-
Today, currently, business owners can go out and find out if the person they are hiring is eligible to work here or if they are not. We need to think about how we are impacting workers.
-
I don't like fashion. I don't like art. I do like smashing up expensive things.
-
For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.
-
'Paranormal Activity' was a unique project in that I made it basically on my own, with a little help, and I had no exposure to the filmmaking world when I made it.
-
If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown.
-
Most actors will tell you that it takes a while to figure out what you want to be because we just want to do everything we see on TV and don't know that 'actor' is a job yet.
-
I am very superstitious. I trod on a wet towel before winning the Junior World Championships, and now I have to do that every time.
-
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
-
Eating by myself in my own apartment, single and alone again for the first time in many years, I should have felt, but did not feel, sad. Because I had taken the trouble to make myself a real dinner, I felt nurtured and cared for, if only by myself. Eating alone was freeing, too; I didn't have to make conversation.
-
I like doing my makeup myself! It's a hobby of mine. I like to play around. I've learned all the best tricks from the pros!
-
I never quite toed the line.
-
You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
-
Then proudly smiled that old man To see the eager lad Rush madly for his pen and ink And for his blotting-pad – But, when he thought of publishing, His face grew stern and sad.
-
I feel like if you've done something wrong, then you should keep on apologizing to that person.
-
All things are created twice; first mentally; then physically. The key to creativity is to begin with the end in mind, with a vision and a blue print of the desired result.
-
In that shrinking moment he discovered that he had never hated anyone until now. It was a feeling as pure as love, but dispassionate and icily rational.
-
Are you afraid? Remember the "fear nots" of the Bible.
-
I've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast.
