#iv

Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#cake #even #feel #fire #give

I don't like to read. The only things I read are gossip columns. If someone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#book #columns #gives #gossip #had

I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#delivering #films #i #liked #performance

I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#cole porter #enough #first #five #george

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

— Ethel Merman

#boldness #created #distinctive #gave #god

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

My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years. ↗

— Paul Merton

#endured #give #happiest #i #indication

When I wake up on a Monday morning and I realise I don't have to go and work at the civil service, I really think I've won. ↗

— Paul Merton

#civil service #go #i #monday #monday morning

There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won't forget them. ↗

— Joyce Meyer

#forget #forgiven #hurts #some #them