#al

I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage. ↗

— Esther Williams

#damage #enough #football #football player #frame

They don't need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster. ↗

— Edward Bennett Williams

#lawyer #need #toastmaster

When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again. ↗

— Esther Williams

#betrayal #comes #feeling #funny #i

Clark Gable was the first to have called me a mermaid. ↗

— Esther Williams

#clark #clark gable #first #gable #me

I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood. ↗

— Esther Williams

#always #granted #hollywood #i #i always

I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant. ↗

— Esther Williams

#buying #ended #gas #gas station #had

I never walked the streets of New York hoping to be a musical comedy star. For one thing, they would have thought I was too tall, because l was five feet eight and a half, and they were all little bitty things running around in the studio at that time. ↗

— Esther Williams

#because #comedy #eight #feet #five

Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures the ugly into beauty. Complaint is the bitter howl of unbelief in any benevolent God in this moment, a distrust in the love-beat of the Father's heart. ↗

— Ann Voskamp

#beauty

I remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you. ↗

— Esther Williams

#could #everything #first #get #had

My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one. ↗

— Olivia Williams

#happy #happy marriage #ideal #live #long