Ira Gershwin Quotes

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• Summer time an' the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin' an' the cotton is high. Oh, yo' daddy's rich, and yo' ma' is good-lookin', So…
• What usually comes first is the contract.
• A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.
• Oh, lady be good To me.
• I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man- Who could ask for anything more?
• Life is one long jubilee.
• I'd like to add her initial to my monogram...
• The future of this nation, with the present generation, You must admit is nothing but a joke
• If I'm a guy who doesn't seem so merry, It's just because I'm so misunderstood. When I was young I ate a dictionary, And that…
• If you'll promise not to cry, Baby, I will kiss you by-and-by—Maybe! Though you're six feet three, You will always be Nothing but a Baby,…
• There's a somebody I'm longing to see, I hope that he, turns out to be, someone to watch over me.
• The way you wear your hat, The way you sip your tea, The mem'ry of all that -- No, no! They can't take that away…
• Holding hands at midnight 'Neath a starry sky... Nice work if you can get it And you can get it -- if you try.
• S wonderful! 'S marvelous! That you should care for me!
• Love is sweeping the country.
• One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.
• Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
• Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
• But the age of miracles hadn't passed.
• When love walked in with you.

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