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.

Ethel Merman

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• 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.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • World
  • Business
  • Own

• 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.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • Good
  • Practice

• Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.

  

  Vera Rubin
  • Science
  • Best
  • Force

• 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.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Time
  • Think
  • Reflect

• Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • History
  • Past
  • Study

• 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.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Police
  • Video
  • Surveillance

• 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.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Work
  • Business
  • Today

• When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Song
  • Sometimes
  • Look

• I don't like fashion. I don't like art. I do like smashing up expensive things.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • Up
  • Art
  • Fashion

• For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Me
  • Decision
  • Hard

• '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.

  

  Oren Peli
  • World
  • Help
  • Unique

• If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Always
  • Unknown
  • Obvious

• 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.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Job
  • Want
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Time
  • World
  • Winning

• The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • True
  • Knowing
  • Finding

• I read, read enormously on all different fields of Islamic thought, from philosophy to Islamic literature, poetry, exegeses, knowledge of the Hadith, the teachings of the prophet. That's how I trained myself. And then I was appointed imam by a Sufi master from Istanbul, Turkey.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Different
  • Knowledge
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Time
  • Real
  • Alone

• 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!

  

  Natasha Poly
  • Myself
  • Best
  • Makeup

• I feel blessed that I found not just a profession, but a 24/7 way of life that I purely love. That curiosity to be current, to listen to the Hozier album, to be early in recognition of a Lorde and spending time with her and Miguel, the pleasure of seeing new talent erupt... I love it.

  

  Clive Davis
  • Life
  • Time
  • Blessed

• As I say, it never ceases to amaze me how gullible some of our Church members are.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Church
  • Members
  • Ceases

• As I always said: I fell in with David Jones. I did not fall in love with David Bowie.

  

  Iman
  • Love
  • Fall
  • Always

• A lot of people get into alternative music as part of their identity. It's something that isn't the mainstream, that their brothers and sisters don't know about, and that their parents don't like. It's something they can have as their own.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • People
  • Music
  • Parents

• I don’t love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Soul
  • Dark
  • Fire

• I've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast.

  

  Ethel Merman
  • Kitchen
  • Toast
  • Cooked