"I don't know anyone who sits down to write a song hit except Irving Berlin. He can't help writing hits."

-- Cole Porter

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Berlin Quotes

“I played a maniac fan who murders a policeman and she did my makeup. I thought anyone interested in me looking like that must have genuinely liked me.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Our Aim Is God: “We must constantly remember our aim is God. And we must not be concerned with anything that makes us forget Him.””
“Give me a hot coal glowing bright red, Give me an ember sizzling with heat, These are the jewels made from my beak. We fly between the flames and never get singed We plunge through the smoke and never cringe. The secrets of fire, its strange winds, its rages, We know it all as it rampages Through forests, through canyons, Up hillsides and down. We track it. We'll find it. Take coals by the pound. We'll yarp in the heart of the hottest flame Then bring back its coals an make them tame. For we are the colliers brave and beyond all We are the owls of the colliering chaw!”
“Garden: One of a vast number of free outdoor restaurants operated by charity-minded amateurs in an effort to provide healthful, balanced meals for insects, birds and animals.”
“The ultimate design is little different from the natural world.”
“I love to do fashion. I always put fashion in all of my storytelling because that's what I am, but I'm not selling clothes, I'm telling a story.”
“An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning.”

Source : Meridel Le Sueur, Elaine Hedges (1990). “Ripening: Selected Work”, p.231, Feminist Press at CUNY
“There has been growing quite a strain of irritating feeling between our government and the Russians and it seems to me that it is a time for me to use all the restraint I can on these other people who have been apparently getting a little more irritated.”

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