#w

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

I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#free #i #often #want #work

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

— Ethel Merman

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

My beloved Mom and Pop always rated tops with each other, and that's the way it will always be. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#beloved #each #mom #other #pop

There have been people who have tried to take advantage of me. They want to be linked to me just because I'm Ethel Merman. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#because #been #i #just #just because

When I'm asked how to succeed in show business, I always say I haven't the foggiest. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#asked #business #haven #how #i

I remember being fascinated by the very nature of comedy from the age of 10; why is this funny, and that isn't? ↗

— Paul Merton

#being #comedy #fascinated #funny #i

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

Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays. ↗

— James Merrill

#couple #i #novel #plays #trying