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Esther Williams Quotes

I took a job at the pool in order to earn the five cents a day it cost to swim. I counted wet towels. As a bonus, I was allowed to swim during lunchtime.

Esther Williams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: August 8, 1921 - June 6, 2013

Topics

Day Job Pool Earn Cost Wet

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

Joan Baez

Happy End You White Know Despair

I think we've got outstanding teaching in Michigan classrooms.

John Engler

Think Got Michigan Outstanding

Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.

Mason Cooley

Children Way Same Get Use

If I could have any power, I think flying would definitely be up there! Along with speaking every language.

Roxanne McKee

Power Flying Think Language Up

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Michel de Montaigne

Nature Job Death Die Worry You

When I started my writing process for 'Empty Bank,' everything had to do with money. It was at a time in my life where I started to see money differently.

Jay IDK

Life Time Money Writing My Life See

I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I know what I'm doing it rattles along, then the rewrite whips it into shape rather quickly.

Jonathan Franzen

Think Process Doing Find Know Write

You've got to be willing to forgive and say, 'God, get something good out of something bad.' And if you'll make that choice... God will do it.

Don Young

Good God You Bad Choice Say

I have been snowboarding since I was seven years old.

Dove Cameron

Snowboarding Old Years Been Seven

What's funny about Jesus' Son is that I never even wrote that book, I just wrote it down. I would tell these stories and people would say, You should write these things down.

Denis Johnson

Funny Son People Book You Down

Let me tell you something: if you're on an island for three and a half months and you're four and a half hours by boat from the nearest store, and there's nobody but 30 crew members on the island, I guarantee that you'd be running around without your clothes on.

Christopher Atkins

Me Boat Clothes You Nobody Three

I write with a sort of grim determination to deal with things that are hidden and difficult, and this means, I think, that pleasure is out of the question. I would associate this with narcissism anyway, and I would disapprove of it.

Colm Toibin

Determination Think Hidden Difficult