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Ethel Merman

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BETH DITTO Musicals have clearly gotten more physical. You never saw Ethel Merman doing step aerobics.
BRUCE VILANCH I'm not funny. Never have been and, as far as I can tell, I never will be.
DAVID DOBKIN You know, if it weren't for these fans, I wouldn't have gotten as far as I did.
ADAM LAMBERT As far as groupies, I never saw any of them.
DAVY JONES And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade ...
CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.
JOYCE MEYER Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.
CHRISTA MCAULIFFE Our job as writers, as far as I can tell, is to attempt to express what seems inexpressible.
NICK FLYNN Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
STEVE WOZNIAK There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES As far as I can judge, not much good can be done without disturbing something or somebody.
EDWARD BLAKE As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE As far as the world was concerned, from 1979 to 1996, I didn't publish any original material; it...
ALAN GARNER As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.
MARK MOTHERSBAUGH As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.
ALBERT J. NOCK Nothing trumps honesty, as far as I'm concerned.
DAVID KOECHNER You can't please everyone, and you have to trust your instincts, and you have to do your work an...
MATT RYAN There have been people who have tried to take advantage of me. They want to be linked to me just bec...
ETHEL MERMAN As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can.
VINCE MCMAHON Frankie Muniz is amazing at everything he does. Many people don't know that he can play the pian...
SAMAIRE ARMSTRONG Rapport? You mean like, 'You run as fast as you can, and I'll throw it as far as I can'?
JEFF KEMP [WHEN ASKED ABOUT HIS RAPPORT WITH WIDE RECEIVER JERRY RICE] In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
KANYE WEST Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.
J. P. MORGAN Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.
THOMAS CARLYLE As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.
JACK LEVINE I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Gu...
FRANK BLACK What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust b...
STEPHEN R. COVEY As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table.
GARRY TRUDEAU As far as festivals, nothing tops Cannes.
SASHA LANE Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism.
DICK VAN DYKE Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes.
HELENA BONHAM CARTER As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.
JEF RASKIN As far as music, Louis Armstrong is one of my heroes.
JON BATISTE As far as natural ability, I was always athletic.
TROY BROWN That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Fame was not at all what it was cracked up to be, as far as I was concerned.
DAVE MADDEN I am not a lobbyist. I am not a political activist. I am not a leader, as far as I'm concerned.
JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS As far I'm working on The life Of one Kid 7... continue!
DEYTH BANGER I understood it's a business as far as when you're drafting someone, and you want a guy you ...
STEFON DIGGS As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
KAJOL Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great star...
HAROLD PRINCE As far as working out, I know exactly what I'm doing.
EVANDER HOLYFIELD As far as my relationship with President Putin is concerned, it's fine.
GERHARD SCHRODER You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other; our brothers, our sisters, our frien...
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it p...
JAMES COOK This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
CHARLES LAMB I make films about black women and it doesn't mean that you can't see them as a black man, d...
AVA DUVERNAY This is a tough game. You can't be intimidated. You can't be frightened. And as far as I'...
MAXINE WATERS I don't play accurately-any one can play accurately- but I play with wonderful expression. As far as...
OSCAR WILDE I've succeeded as far as I'm concerned - I don't feel that I have any cliffs I could fal...
SHANIA TWAIN Medical professionals are as skilled and as dedicated as any, but they operate within a fragmented s...
CHESLEY SULLENBERGER From beginning to end I worried that Ang Lee wouldn't be satisfied with my work. So I worked as ...
ZHANG ZIYI Surveys have shown going back as far as you and I can remember that people have perceived a leftward...
BRIT HUME I tell you, I feel like a real novice as far as horror goes.
LAWRENCE KASDAN We wouldn't be as far along as a country if we didn't take on some of Martin Luther King'...
RODNEY KING I love the '60s - that's my comfort zone as far as dressing goes.
OPHELIA LOVIBOND I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
NATASHA HENSTRIDGE As far as accessories are concerned, I think it is always best to be as minimalist as possible.
ALICE TEMPERLEY As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
NATALIE GULBIS We've actually eliminated Type II polio in the world, at least as far as we can tell.
SETH BERKLEY Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
JOSEPH STALIN As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
ALBERT EINSTEIN As far as single payer, it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland.
DONALD TRUMP As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film.
ALESSANDRO NIVOLA I don't regret anything I do, ever, whether articles I've done or things I've said. And ...
EVA LONGORIA Small Faces were really a soul band as far as we were concerned. That's what we listened to; tha...
IAN MCLAGAN I wouldn't trust Nixon from here to that phone.
BARRY GOLDWATER I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all moder...
ROGER WATERS To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as fa...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Rapport? You mean like, 'You run as fast as you can, and I'll throw it as far as I can'? (when aske...
JEFF KEMP Would you want you as a friend?
PETER STROPLE Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that'...
TOM PETTY As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.
D. B. SWEENEY Stress and looks are directly connected as far as I am concerned. If you are happy, you look good.
MAHESH BABU In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.
GAYLE GARDNER Only fools wait, and only tools bait.
CRE You wouldn't expect a cattle dealer to sit down at a grand piano and play it beautifully. That&#...
DEIRDRE O'KANE Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a p...
ETHEL BARRYMORE You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw...
JOHN MADDEN I want a man I can keep for myself. I wouldn't ever share my man with anyone else.
KAREENA KAPOOR KHAN I wouldn't want a manicure. I'm a man's man!
ED WESTWICK In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part...
RAJAT MOHAN If I didn't believe in myself as a dancer, I wouldn't choreograph.
TWYLA THARP If I didn't do what I do, I wouldn't be as young as I am.
ROBERT PLANT Give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string; I wouldn't get bored anywhere.
KEITH RICHARDS You can't save the world with music. But I can try. I have the same job as Bruce Springsteen. I ...
BRANDON FLOWERS We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not tryi...
ANI DIFRANCO But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf.
STEPHANIE BEACHAM I think Jennifer Lopez is a phenom. And as far as I'm concerned, she's really a very smart b...
RITA MORENO I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anyw...
KEITH RICHARDS I wouldn't know how to fool a man any more. My deceiving days seem so long ago.
JULIE BURCHILL A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.
FRED ALLEN I don't trust doctors. It's not to say there ain't some good ones, but on a general leve...
KEITH RICHARDS As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illu...
ALAN MOORE There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as ...
SADE ADU And as far as guitars go, I loved Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West's stuff.
WILLIE NELSON As far as I'm concerned, the best acting class is life.
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ETHEL MERMAN Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to broadway.
ETHEL MERMAN Legend has it that when God created me, he gave me a big distinctive voice, a lot of boldness and no...
ETHEL MERMAN Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a c...
ETHEL MERMAN Everything's coming up roses - for me.
ETHEL MERMAN At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I sto...
ETHEL MERMAN At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.
ETHEL MERMAN I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole ...
ETHEL MERMAN I have plenty of invitations to go places, lots to do. If I'm not working, I go to have my hair ...
ETHEL MERMAN I am known to be able to take care of myself when I become angry. I don't mince words.
ETHEL MERMAN The World Is Your Balloon: The Decca Singles 1950-1951.
ETHEL MERMAN I take a breath when I have to.
ETHEL MERMAN Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most.
ETHEL MERMAN I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank.
ETHEL MERMAN You'll never prove you're too good for a job by not doing your best
ETHEL MERMAN Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to Broadway.
ETHEL MERMAN I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here...
ETHEL MERMAN Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.
ETHEL MERMAN But Not For Me.
ETHEL MERMAN I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my...
ETHEL MERMAN As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the a...
ETHEL MERMAN My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear ...
ETHEL MERMAN My beloved Mom and Pop always rated tops with each other, and that's the way it will always be.
ETHEL MERMAN When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales.
ETHEL MERMAN I've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast...
ETHEL MERMAN Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to m...
ETHEL MERMAN Of my four marriages, the one to Bob Levitt is the only one I don't regret.
ETHEL MERMAN When I'm asked how to succeed in show business, I always say I haven't the foggiest.
ETHEL MERMAN Any audience that gets a laugh out of me gets it while I'm facing them.
ETHEL MERMAN I Got Rhythm really put me on the map.
ETHEL MERMAN There have been people who have tried to take advantage of me. They want to be linked to me just bec...
ETHEL MERMAN I was born in my parents' bedroom on January 16. The World Almanac says it was 1909. I say it wa...
ETHEL MERMAN You gotta have a gimmick.
ETHEL MERMAN I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird.
ETHEL MERMAN Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.
ETHEL WATERS I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the ...
ETHEL WATERS You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more ...
ETHEL BARRYMORE Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think n...
ETHEL WATERS When we lost Bobby, I would wake up in the morning and think, 'He's OK. He's in Heaven, ...
ETHEL KENNEDY You grow up the first day you have your first good laugh-at yourself.
ETHEL BARRYMORE Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, "Good luck!" and those who...
ETHEL BARRYMORE For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace ...
ETHEL BARRYMORE The best time to make friends is before you need them.
ETHEL BARRYMORE When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, ...
ETHEL BARRYMORE I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.
ETHEL BARRYMORE There is as much difference between the stage and the film as between a piano and a violin. Normally...
ETHEL BARRYMORE We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.
ETHEL BARRETT You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more...
ETHEL BARRYMORE You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself.
ETHEL BARRYMORE The people are unreal. The flowers are unreal, they don't smell. The food is unreal, it doesn't tast...
ETHEL BARRYMORE For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grac...
ETHEL BARRYMORE You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself.
ETHEL BARRYMORE It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.
ETHEL WATERS Introspection! I hate it!
ETHEL KENNEDY We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.
ETHEL WATERS Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious p...
ETHEL WATERS We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big ...
ETHEL WATERS When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and h...
ETHEL WATERS The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or mo...
ETHEL WATERS After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistlin...
ETHEL WATERS We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and ou...
ETHEL ANDRUS The human contribution is the essential ingredient.
ETHEL ANDRUS What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost;/ but what I gave away will be mine forever.
ETHEL ANDRUS Such to me is the new image of aging: growth in self and service for all mankind
ETHEL ANDRUS The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others th...
ETHEL ANDRUS Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun ...
ETHEL WATERS Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.
ETHEL MUMFORD God gives us relatives; thank God we can choose our friends.
ETHEL MUMFORD New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever ...
ETHEL WATERS No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer.
ETHEL WATERS Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, w...
ETHEL WATERS We all must pay the price to be our genuine selves.
ETHEL RUSSELL None of the seven is really good, for the excellent reason that Australian children never are.
ETHEL TURNER Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit f...
ETHEL WATERS Ring of Fire, The Johnny Cash Musical Show
ETHEL BARRYMORE The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong t...
ETHEL BARRYMORE At the present moment, with little or no detail to hand, it is difficult for me to make any comment,...
ETHEL ROSENBERG I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from h...
ETHEL WATERS Pinky.
ETHEL WATERS St. Louis Blues.
ETHEL WATERS You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job righ...
ETHEL WATERS It's saved many a guy from wives, girlfriends, whatever.
ETHEL SHATFORD The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.
ETHEL BARRYMORE The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
ETHEL BARRYMORE For an actress to be a success she must have the face of Venus, the brains of Minerva, the grace of ...
ETHEL BARRYMORE Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragemen...
ETHEL BARRYMORE Deep Are the Roots.
ETHEL BARRYMORE Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a p...
ETHEL BARRYMORE All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people.
ETHEL WATERS There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.
ETHEL WATERS All the moms, and dads, and kids, and grandparents - everybody helps.
ETHEL GROSSMAN We have big serving lines in the kitchen. They fill your plate and they take it out, and you never k...
ETHEL GROSSMAN We order the meat [in advance] because it has to be kosher.
ETHEL GROSSMAN It used to be a buffet, but that would take forever now.
ETHEL GROSSMAN Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a p...
ETHEL BARRYMORE Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire f...
ETHEL WATERS The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I...
ETHEL WATERS Well, it so happens that I have had a spinal curvature since I was about thirteen and every once in ...
ETHEL ROSENBERG A writer's mind seems to be situated partly in the solar plexus and partly in the head.
ETHEL WILSON It's a young man's game, a single man's game.
ETHEL SHATFORD Those Were the Good Old Days.
ETHEL ROSENBERG We are innocent... To forsake this truth is to pay too high a price even for the priceless gift of l...
ETHEL ROSENBERG Well, if I used the privilege of self-incrimination at that time, I must have felt that perhaps ther...
ETHEL ROSENBERG Well, it was alleged that he was a member of the Communist Party.
ETHEL ROSENBERG I refuse to answer on the ground that this might be incriminating.
ETHEL ROSENBERG The condition of my child was very poor.
ETHEL ROSENBERG I never heard any such conversation.
ETHEL ROSENBERG Behind every man who achieves success, Stands a mother, a wife and the IRS
ETHEL JACOBSON Kosher means clean. Kosher meat is butchered in a very special way so that the animal doesn't suffer...
ETHEL GROSSMAN It can be stressful - you listen to one sad, bad, situation - sometimes one after the other.
ETHEL FITZPATRICK Lots of time, you pray a lot and you cry a lot because you're hoping you're trying to do the right t...
ETHEL BUSSMAN There are people who come in who don't know what they would have done if they hadn't come in.
ETHEL BUSSMAN She heard through somebody else that I had experience, and I wasn't even looking for a job.
ETHEL BUSSMAN That's all there is; there isn't any more.
ETHEL BARRYMORE He brewed his tea in a blue china pot, poured it into a chipped white cup with forget-me-nots on the...
ETHEL POCHOCKI You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.
ETHEL BARRYMORE I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family.
ETHEL WATERS Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the mo...
ETHEL WATERS There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen.
ETHEL WATERS I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn...
ETHEL WATERS Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drink...
ETHEL WATERS My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.
ETHEL WATERS Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.
ETHEL WATERS I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.
ETHEL WATERS All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.
ETHEL WATERS I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and ...
ETHEL WATERS I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty.
ETHEL WATERS The Kennedys were very organized. Dinner was always served at 7:15, and if you were a minute late, i...
ETHEL KENNEDY I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.
ETHEL BARRYMORE That's all there is; there isn't any more.
ETHEL BARRYMORE When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, ...
ETHEL BARRYMORE Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person
ETHEL WATTS MUMFORD God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.
ETHEL WATTS MUMFORD In the midst of life we are in debt.
ETHEL WATTS MUMFORD Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and...
DAME ETHEL SMYTH The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others th...
ETHEL PERCY ANDRUS The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it behooves lovers of good literatur...
DAME ETHEL SMYTH All quiet along the Potomac to-night, no sound save the rush of the river, while soft falls the dew ...
ETHEL LYNN BEERS Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.
ETHEL WATTS MUMFORD Knowledge is power if you know about the right person.
ETHEL WATTS MUMFORD What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost; but what I gave away will be mine forever.
ETHEL PERCY ANDRUS We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and ou...
ETHEL PERCY ANDRUS The human contribution is the essential ingredient.
ETHEL PERCY ANDRUS What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost;/ but what I gave away will be mine forever.
ETHEL PERCY ANDRUS Such to me is the new image of aging: growth in self and service for all mankind
ETHEL PERCY ANDRUS God gave us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends
ETHEL WATTS MUMFORD The greatest possession is Self-possession
ETHEL WATTS MUMFORD Knowledge is power if you know about the right person
ETHEL WATTS MUMFORD What could our worst enemy do to damage this strong and beautiful country? He could do no better tha...
ETHEL GRODZINS ROMM The greatest possession is self-possession.
ETHEL WATTS MUMFORD God gives us our relatives, thank God we can choose our friends.
ETHEL WATTS MUMFORD All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket Is shot as he walks on...
ETHEL LYNN BEERS (ETHELINDA ELIOT) Art thou a pen, whose task shall be To drown in ink What writers think? Oh, wisely write...
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