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An ounce of convention is worth a pound of explanation.
— Ethel Mumford
The best time to make friends is
before you need them. — Ethel Barrymore
before you need them. — Ethel Barrymore
Busy people are never busybodies.
— Ethel Mumford
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
I wasn't one to usually show off Lucy and Ethel because I was self-conscious of them, but money was money.
— Mariana Zapata
I attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn't appeal to me.
— Ethel Merman
Dullness is a misdemeanour.
— Ethel Wilson
I Got Rhythm really put me on the map.
— Ethel Merman
I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano.
— Ethel Merman
I'm screaming for help and everybody's acting as if I'm singing Ethel Merman covers ...
— David Foster Wallace
The slapdash way producers used to assemble a show seems a little unbelievable when we talk about them now.
— Ethel Merman
A stone in the path may have the best intentions, but it must be kicked out of the path, for all that.
— Ethel Lilian Voynich
I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird.
— Ethel Merman
I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank.
— Ethel Merman
I am known to be able to take care of myself when I become angry. I don't mince words.
— Ethel Merman
Introspection! I hate it!
— Ethel Kennedy
The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.
— Ethel Percy Andrus
The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
— Ethel Barrymore
We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available.
— Ethel Waters
Contentment: The smother of invention.
— Ethel Mumford
That's all there is; there isn't any more.
— Ethel Barrymore
I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame.
— Ethel Merman
He'd never known he had so much fight in him. Never known he could be capable of so much... He was going to change the world.
— Ethel Rohan
Only a mother's heart can be
Patient enough for such as he. — Ethel Lynn Beers
Patient enough for such as he. — Ethel Lynn Beers
In my case, things have pretty much been handed to me.
— Ethel Merman
The longer a thing is to take doing, the more reason to begin at once
— Ethel Lilian Voynich
There had to be a hysteria and a fear sent through America in order to get increased war budgets.
— Julius And Ethel Rosenberg
Quite a small spoke is enough to stop a wheel - even a mighty big wheel - if it's going too fast.
— Ethel M. Dell
We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.
— Ethel Waters
If whites bored me, it was because they bored themselves. They seemed to get little fun out of life and were desperately lonely.
— Ethel Waters
Everything's coming up roses - for me.
— Ethel Merman
I've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast.
— Ethel Merman
I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow.
— Ethel Waters
I take a breath when I have to.
— Ethel Merman
I'm not afraid to die. I'm looking forward to it. I know the Lord has His arms wrapped around this big sparrow.
— Ethel Waters
I can imagine nothing more tiresome than always to speak of people as if they were listening at the door.
— Ethel Smyth
Crawling about the floor like half-dead November flies is one thing, and dancing reels another.
— Ethel Smyth
We always understood each other without many words, even when we were little things.
— Ethel Lilian Voynich
Economy is the thief of time.
— Ethel Mumford
I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty.
— Ethel Waters
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh
at yourself. — Ethel Barrymore
at yourself. — Ethel Barrymore
I'm glad to see that the crusading spirit of your forebears hasn't been entirely obliterated by rock and roll.
— Ken Follett
My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.
— Ethel Waters
We are all fit for better things than we ever do
— Ethel Lilian Voynich
Edith Ethel with the sweetest possible smile would beg the pillows off a whole hospital ward full of dying ... . She
— Ford Madox Ford
Finding out with Ranger is a whole different deal than finding out with Lula. Lula and I are Lucy Ricardo and Ethel Mertz. Ranger is Batman.
— Janet Evanovich
Whenever I write for hotel reservations, I always enclose a set of rules I have made for the hotels.
— Ethel Waters
There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.
— Ethel Waters
The self-made man is often proud of a poor job.
— Ethel Mumford
I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.
— Ethel Barrymore
My opinion was that if we had a common enemy we should get together commonly.
— Julius And Ethel Rosenberg
What broke Mom's heart was realizing that her children knew nothing and cared nothing about the better side of life.
— Ethel Waters
None of the seven is really good, for the excellent reason that Australian children never are.
— Ethel Turner
I love humility in a woman. It's so rare. With man, of course, it is practically extinct.
— Ethel M. Dell
Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.
— Ethel Mumford
You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.
— Ethel Barrymore
The hand of the Lord is heavy.
— Ethel Lilian Voynich
Musicals have clearly gotten more physical. You never saw Ethel Merman doing step aerobics.
— Bruce Vilanch
I never posed as a saint. I would have slept with a man for nothing if I liked him well enough.
— Ethel Waters
Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.
— Ethel Watts Mumford
Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
— Ethel Waters
The greatest acts in colored show business had long made Harlem their home and favorite stamping ground.
— Ethel Waters
You gotta have a gimmick.
— Ethel Merman
When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege.
— Ethel Waters
Would you have me wait till my grave opens of itself to swallow me up?
— Ethel Lilian Voynich
If I wanted pity, I got it because I'm illegitimate. And when I didn't want it I was mean and nasty.
— Ethel Waters
All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket.
— Ethel Lynn Beers
We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.
— Ethel Barrett
So have your wits about you, and do what you can and dig in, because it might not last.
— Ethel Kennedy
Your power comes from the songs.
— Ethel Wilson
I dressed plain, but my partners were always spending more money on clothes than I could afford.
— Ethel Waters
Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.
— Ethel Waters
What we once fling away never comes again to us.
— Ethel M. Dell
They kill me because they are afraid of me; and what more can any man's heart desire?
— Ethel Lilian Voynich
Do you think you didn't hurt the man you killed?
— Ethel Lilian Voynich
I cannot help feeling I would have been happier with a husband and chidren of my own.
— Ethel Waters
I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes.
— Ethel Merman