Bob Merrill Quotes

Who told you you're allowed to rain on my parade?

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• Readers want to see, hear, feel, smell the action of your story, even if that action is just two people having a quiet conversation.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • People
  • Action
  • Conversation

• I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Doing
  • Figure
  • Documentary

• I can't figure out how you can draft players for a coach that you know coaches a certain a style, and was successful doing that style, and get him to play a style that you feel comfortable with.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Know
  • Style
  • Successful

• I think that's a huge theme in superhero books across the board: When you have this massive power, how do you use it responsibly? When do you intervene? Those are the big questions.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Power
  • Think
  • Questions

• When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • Pretty
  • You
  • Right

• I spent my whole life playing sports and training and pushing myself to the limits.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Sports

• I play guitar, the ukulele and the piano. I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee, and we had 'The Mountain Opry,' where anyone could just get up on stage to perform. It was just about the soul and heart of music. My upbringing was less about being great and more about just doing what you love. It was always for joy.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Soul

• It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Men
  • Character
  • True

• Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Nice
  • Rock
  • Waiting

• 'Any road', said Carlyle, 'even this road to Entepfuhl, will take you to the end of the world'. But the Entepfuhl road, if taken in its entirety, and to the end, goes back to Entepfuhl; so Entepfuhl, where we already were, is that very end of the world we were seeking.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • World
  • Taken
  • Road

• Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practised at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Time
  • Job
  • Moments

• I feel like a lot of my past career was going to film school, making a lot of different kinds of movies. I made a bunch of comedies, I made one drama and I made a couple musicals.

  

  Adam Shankman
  • Different
  • School
  • Career

• If you take Darwinian theory, make a 'scientific' principle out of it, put it into political action, then you have something like Nazi Germany.

  

  Bruce Lipton
  • Political
  • Action

• Never marry a man who hates his mother because he'll end up hating you.

  

  Jill Bennett
  • Up
  • Mother

• When I started working on 'Michael And Michael,' it was my life for three to four months, and then suddenly it's gone.

  

  Kumail Nanjiani
  • Life

• Allan had come down wanting to do some sort of crucial music and I'd been involved in so-called Art Music and wanted to explore other areas - we were approaching it in some quite tongue-in-cheek ways and we had a lot of fun - we spent more time laughing than playing music.

  

  Jamie Muir
  • Time
  • Music
  • Art

• There's a whole range of words that people use about landscape. Pastoral? Idyll? I can't stand them.

  

  Alice Oswald
  • People
  • Words

• In the Mexican culture, we never miss a baptism, a birthday, a baby shower, a wedding shower, a wedding. You must show up. Otherwise, you'll be in big trouble.

  

  Eva Longoria
  • Culture
  • Birthday
  • Wedding

• Everyone thinks that Prince and I had a beautiful, romantic love affair, but we didn't. We just let people think that in order to promote 'Purple Rain.'

  

  Apollonia Kotero
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Romantic

• I inhale loneliness like it is the sweet smell of virgin earth conquered by fiery rain drops. Within me, I'm a thousand others.

  

  Faraaz Kazi
  • Earth
  • Sweet
  • Rain

• The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Book
  • Rain
  • Flying

• Who told you you're allowed to rain on my parade?

  

  Bob Merrill
  • Rain
  • Parade