logo

Quotes About Ethel

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
Ethel was incensed by the whole thing. We had no obligations that would be jeopardized by it; our daughter, Marilyn, was married and no longer dependent on us. But that didn't matter to Ethel; she just didn't want to hear about the McDonalds or my plans.
~ Ray Kroc
The reason why I believe Ethel's story is as important today as ever is to realize what can happen when fear, a forceful and blunt weapon in the hands of authority, turns to hysteria and justice is willfully ignored.
~ Anne Sebba
My first paid role was my first job out of drama school, which was 'Just William.' It was a BBC TV show. I played Ethel.
~ Lily James
Winifred's, you know, where Ethel's girls were.' 'Yes, of course I know Miss Rogers,' he said. His dark hair receded from a forehead that seemed always moist, as were his dark and mournful eyes. As soon as they heard his voice – low, catarrhal and with such gentle inflections – some of the women, who had been sitting in a group by the window, got up and came over to him. 'Professor Rybeck,' one said. 'We are beside ourselves
~ Elizabeth Taylor
I'll admit - I was honored to be on the cover of Time
~ Ethel Merman
My dream dinner party guests would be Ethel Kennedy, Truman Capote and Hunter S. Thompson.
~ Dylan Penn
I'd carry the mail for you, Ethel, Stop running around with that pup, He's got a car, sure, and jack to throw Like water but what does he want? What do they all want? something easy, Something that somebody else worked for. Ethel, lay off rich kids, you'll end dirty.
~ Kenneth Patchen
EVER since she saw a woodcut of a missionary surrounded by jungle natives, Ethel thought it would be spiritually fulfilling to serve the Lord in dark Africa, delivering savages to the light.
~ Colson Whitehead
it means what it say, Ethel said. It means that a Hebrew may not enslave a Hebrew. But the sons of Ham are not of that tribe. The were cursed, with black skin and tails. Where the Scripture condemns slavery, it is not speaking of negro slavery at all.
~ Colson Whitehead
The solution presented itself in a flash of inspiration. He would sacrifice Ethel. The internal pressure generated by her murder would be so intense that he "would be liberated from all the bonds of mortality and would arrive at the stage of Redeemer."15
~ Harold Schechter
Jackie whispered to me, pointing to the gentleman seated on Ethel's right: "That is one of Bobby's oldest friends, and he's the one selling drugs to David.
~ Jann S. Wenner