#de

Music, in the past few years... anything singable or understandable is square. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#few #in the past #music #past #square

Once I had all the attention, all I had to do was deliver. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#deliver #had #i #once

And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five. ↗

— James Merrill

#astonishing #become #external #five #his

At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed. Didn't dream of thinking beyond or around what I saw. ↗

— James Merrill

#around #believed #beyond #college #dead

Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#desperation #fire #full-bodied #honest #over

I looked at longevity in show business when I was about 13, and the people who seemed to have longevity were the ones who'd spent quite a bit of time learning about what they were doing before they made it. ↗

— Paul Merton

#before #bit #business #doing #i

I was trying to organise my DVDs into a sort of chronological order, and I am afraid that it all trailed off after the Sixties. ↗

— Paul Merton

#after #am #chronological #dvds #i

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#another #destiny #find #life #love

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#balance #harmony #intensity #matter #order

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#either #end #image #life #live