Porter Quotes
61 quotes by 45 authors
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As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.
— Mel Brooks
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My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she…
— Tori Amos
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When I die, I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. I wonder would…
— J P Donleavy
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It was darkly rumoured that the butler, regarding him with favour such as that stern man had never shown before to mortal boy, had sometimes…
— Charles Dickens
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Nothing quenches the thirst like a wheat beer, or sharpens the appetite like an India pale ale. Nothing goes as well with seafood as a…
— Michael Jackson
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I use no Porter ... in my family, but such as is made in America: both these articles may now be purchased of an excellent…
— George Washington
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Death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace.
— Richard Sibbes
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It doesn't matter if you're photographing a porter in a market in Marrakech or you're photographing the king of Morroco. You have the same sympathetic…
— Albert Watson
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Chris Porter scored his first league goal last week, and he's done the same this week.
— Jeff Stelling
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Death is not the master of the house, he is only the porter of the king's lodge.
— John Henry Jowett
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Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.
— William Shakespeare
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No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-'devoted and obedient.' This definition would do…
— Florence Nightingale
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Any quick analysis of a Beatles tune or a Cole Porter tune will reveal often simple but unexpected chords, chords that chromatically shift between keys,…
— Paul Zollo
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In the early days, Porter Wagoner would not exactly scold me, but he's say, 'You're writing too many damn verses. You're makin' these songs too…
— Dolly Parton
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I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for…
— Ethel Merman
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Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist
— Ethel Merman
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Cole Porter wrote Anything Goes and four more hits for me
— Ethel Merman
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I sympathize with every kitchen porter.
— Jamie Bell
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They said pret-a-porter will kill your name, and it saved me
— Pierre Cardin
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But at my back from time to time I hear The sound of horns and motors, which shall bring Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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