WeHeartQuotes.com logo
Life

Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal.

- Esther Williams

Other quotes by Esther Williams


Clark Gable was the first to have called me a mermaid.

- Esther Williams

I never walked the streets of New York hoping to be a musical comedy star. For one thing, they would have thought I was too tall, because l was five feet eight and a half, and they were all little bitty things running around in the studio at that time.

- Esther Williams

By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light.

- Esther Williams

I was the only swimmer in movies. Tarzan was long gone, and he couldn't have done them anyway; he could never have gotten into my bathing suit.

- Esther Williams

With two little boys in diapers, I had to keep it simple if I were going to have a life at all.

- Esther Williams

The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.

- Esther Williams

You might like


I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.

- Karen Allen

It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she died, she made just one request: that a picture of me be put into her casket. So somewhere in England, I'm in a casket.

- Hank Snow

There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value.

- Ellen Goodman

I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this. I wanted people to know who I am based on my music, not on what they read in the tabloids.

- Lisa Marie Presley

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

- Marcus Aurelius

What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.

- Paul A. Volcker