#ella

I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era. ↗

— Bob Iger

#billie holiday #ella #ella fitzgerald #era #fitzgerald

I ain't afraid to tell the world that it didn't take school stuff to help a fella play ball. ↗

— Shoeless Joe Jackson

#ball #fella #help #i #play

If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it. ↗

— Stan Laurel

#fella #had #i #just #like

I've always thought Prince Charming in 'Cinderella' was the most boring role; I'd rather be the Wicked Witch. ↗

— Jude Law

#boring #charming #cinderella #i #most

I also met, early on Ella Fitzgerald. Her songbooks are some of the most amazing bodies of work. ↗

— Johnny Mathis

#amazing #bodies #early #ella #ella fitzgerald

The real significance of Magellan's voyage was not that it was the first to circumnavigate the planet, but that it was the first to realize just how big that planet was. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#globe #history #magellan #home

Constellations shine with light that was emitted aeons ago, and I wait for something to come to me, words that a poet might use to illuminate life's mysteries. But there is nothing. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#life

The next day the two sisters went to the ball, and so did Cinderella, but dressed more magnificently than before. The King's son was always by her side, and his pretty speeches to her never ceased. ↗

— Charles Perrault

#ball #before #ceased #cinderella #day

When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines. ↗

— Samuel Rutherford

#am #cellar #choicest #i #i am

When Hank Jones had his night off, I would get somebody to take my place as intermission pianist and I'd play the show with Ella, so I would get a chance to play with Ray Brown and Charlie Smith as well. ↗

— George Shearing

#chance #charlie #ella #get #had