I have personally believed in every product I have ever advertised.

Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.

Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another.

During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.

There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.

I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.

My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.

after several months of probation work, standing on my feet some ten to twelve hours a day, I decided that as a nurse I was a pretty good entertainer.

I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway.

And when all is said and done, there is no greater success in the world than just being happy.

Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.

Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always. ("The Higgler")

All the beaches of the world, could never amount to, nor implore the one grain of sand that I stand on, which is your love.

From my experience, honey, if he seems too good to be true—he probably is.

I personally cannot in good faith continue to contribute to a process [IPCC process] that I view as both being motivated by pre-conceived agendas and being scientifically unsound.

I battered the cordons around me And cradled my wings on the breeze, Then soared to the uttermost reaches With rapture, with power, with ease!

We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that is racism.

I like to believe my suspense novels marry the strong characters from my romance writing past, with the twisty, clever plots of my mystery writing present.

I didn't know," I start truthfully, "that it was the hard way when I started on it.

Let us march immediately, and never lay down our arms until we obtain our independence.

People think that just because you're a center, you're not as smart as the guards or the smaller guys.