Ethel Merman Quotes

Legend has it that when God created me, he gave me a big distinctive voice, a lot of boldness and no heart.

Ethel Merman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 16, 1908 - February 15, 1984

Topics

GodHeartMeVoiceLegendBoldness

You know, being an entertainer is partly being on the road, and a lot of your songs come from the road.

Mel Tillis

RoadYouKnowBeingComeYour

How about 'anvil babies' - because that is what anchor babies are around the necks of the American taxpayer.

Ann Coulter

AmericanAnchorBecauseBabiesHow

The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

PeopleBlackPersonSeeMostMany

With two kids it's hard to find down time to write so I often write during their nap time.

Tori Spelling

TimeFindDownNapWriteHard

General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.

Mason Cooley

KnowWantRunOthersExampleHorses

My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.

Judd Nelson

SuccessFailureAgeEarlyCelebrity

Without computers, in the 17th century, we could classify the entire animal kingdom... there was this idea of the speciation, right? And now, all a search engine is is essentially the mathematical speciation of ideas - and these things really derive from the way that language is used and the way words relate.

Joshua Cohen

WordsAnimalIdeasComputersSearch

There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside the field of teaching understand how bad most of our elementary school materials still are.

Jonathan Kozol

InnovationProgressSchoolPeople

I do remember the moment when, as a child, I realized that the things we call 'TV shows' are really just the stuff that gets put between commercials. Later, I came to see that the kinds of things that get on 'free' TV are shows that help sell products.

Douglas Rushkoff

MomentChildFreeHelpRememberSee

Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when I'm shouting at fights or at baseball games.

Cleo Moore

TruthBaseballMeThinkFeelYou

I was too shy to do anything but read, but there was nobody to tell me what to read.

Bobbie Ann Mason

MeNobodyShyTellAnythingRead

As long as you're enthralled by a lifeless form, you're not free.

Bodhidharma

FreeLongYouFormLifeless

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