Top 37 Ira Gershwin Quotes

#1. 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, dear, to me.

Ira Gershwin

Ira Gershwin Quotes #93524
#2. Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

Joni Mitchell

Ira Gershwin Quotes #171056
#3. What usually comes first is the contract.

Ira Gershwin

Ira Gershwin Quotes #236112
#4. Cross-pollination and "contamination" is really important to the health of fiction, and sometimes it's a literal conversation, too, in that writers who might never otherwise meet and talk do so because of our anthologies.

Jeff VanderMeer

Ira Gershwin Quotes #236496
#5. They all laughed at Christopher Columbus
When he said the world was round.

Ira Gershwin

Ira Gershwin Quotes #239484
#6. But the age of miracles hadn't passed.

Ira Gershwin

Ira Gershwin Quotes #450545
#7. Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

Albert Camus

Ira Gershwin Quotes #461135
#8. S wonderful! 'S marvelous!
That you should care for me!

Ira Gershwin

Ira Gershwin Quotes #464416
#9. Even when it wasn't visible, Dominic could smell the newly broken skin. It sent a wave of hunger through him, but he ignored it. Not tonight; tonight was for other pleasures.

Isabelle Rowan

Ira Gershwin Quotes #501415
#10. 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 hush, little baby, don' yo' cry.

Ira Gershwin

Ira Gershwin Quotes #574213
#11. I'd like to add her initial to my monogram...

Ira Gershwin

Ira Gershwin Quotes #588103
#12. In time the Rockies may crumble,
Gibraltar may tumble.

Ira Gershwin

Ira Gershwin Quotes #689618
#13. Damn it all! What rhymes with rhythm?

Ira Gershwin

Ira Gershwin Quotes #716950
#14. I'm superstitious. I keep mum while I'm working on something.

Steven Pressfield

Ira Gershwin Quotes #809322
#15. Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

Ira Gershwin

Ira Gershwin Quotes #851543
#16. Oh, lady be good To me.

Ira Gershwin

Ira Gershwin Quotes #860416
#17. 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 me.

Ethel Merman

Ira Gershwin Quotes #900294
#18. 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 from me!

Ira Gershwin

Ira Gershwin Quotes #907941
#19. Summertime
And the livin' is easy,
Fish are jumpin', and the cotton is high.

Ira Gershwin

Ira Gershwin Quotes #928948
#20. I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man- Who could ask for anything more?

Ira Gershwin

Ira Gershwin Quotes #1016962
#21. Try looking in the mirror and determining where you stand in the attractiveness-hierarchy with anything like the objective ease you can determine whether just about anyone else you know is good-looking or not - but

David Foster Wallace

Ira Gershwin Quotes #1175946
#22. Holding hands at midnight 'Neath a starry sky ... Nice work if you can get it And you can get it
if you try.

Ira Gershwin

Ira Gershwin Quotes #1199724
#23. A free man has two things thoroughly his own, his body and his land.

Joseph Bedier

Ira Gershwin Quotes #1236119
#24. Life is one long jubilee.

Ira Gershwin

Ira Gershwin Quotes #1297034
#25. You must let it glide on surfaces so you don't make a mess of things

Lidia Yuknavitch

Ira Gershwin Quotes #1319054
#26. Love is sweeping the country.

Ira Gershwin

Ira Gershwin Quotes #1330311
#27. A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.

Ira Gershwin

Ira Gershwin Quotes #1334931
#28. There's a somebody I'm longing to see, I hope that he, turns out to be, someone to watch over me.

Ira Gershwin

Ira Gershwin Quotes #1412199
#29. Remember the story of the Spanish prisoner. For many years he was confined in a dungeon ... One day it occurred to him to push the door of his cell. It was open; and it had never been locked.

Winston Churchill

Ira Gershwin Quotes #1442230
#30. I'm bidin' my time,
'Cause that's the kinda guy I'm.

Ira Gershwin

Ira Gershwin Quotes #1526297
#31. Aladdin's lamp is mine.

Ira Gershwin

Ira Gershwin Quotes #1570732
#32. To bring oneself to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time, then everything is easy.

Thomas Buckner

Ira Gershwin Quotes #1583797
#33. One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.

Ira Gershwin

Ira Gershwin Quotes #1661976
#34. The future of this nation, with the present generation, You must admit is nothing but a joke

Ira Gershwin

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#35. Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Ira Gershwin

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#36. I'm a little lamb who's lost in the wood.

Ira Gershwin

Ira Gershwin Quotes #1793084
#37. Real gifts don't demand reciprocation (at least not direct reciprocation), and the best kinds of gifts are gifts of art.

Seth Godin

Ira Gershwin Quotes #1805190

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