Top 100 Quotes About Ella
#2. The one radio voice that I listened to above others belonged to Ella Fitzgerald. There was a quality to her voice that fascinated me, and I'd sing along with her, trying to catch the subtle ways she shaded her voice, the casual yet clean way she sang the words.
Doris Day
#3. Hiding's not a bad thing. If you run away, you live to fight another day."
Ella Harper - Paper Princess
Erin Watt
#4. What are you doing?"
"Playing house" said Felix
"Do you want to come and pour the tea?"
Ella's not stupid. "You are not.
Sally Nicholls
#5. The position that places you on your knees at my feet, if I so choose to command you there, the one where you realize that no matter the power you wield, I am
and will always be
stronger and in control. Time, Ella, I want time. Aleixandre
Inger Iversen
#6. Patsy Cline belongs shoulder-to-shoulder with Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald.
Elvis Costello
#7. Ella -Shifting, I roll to my side to find myself staring into a pair of pale blue eyes... "Your beautiful."
Jayden - "I've been called a lot of things, sweetheart, but beautiful isn't one of them.
Lisa Renee Jones
#8. [Slipped beneath the minnow Pea front door]
Nollopton
Monty No-way 6
Insane woman named Ella:
Retreat is what we want. Go away. Let we alone.
Anonymess
Mark Dunn
#9. Actually I'm taking her for a ride," I say slyly, inching my hand up the back of Ella's leg and she slaps the back of my head playfully. "I'm taking you for a ride in my car. And you think I'm the pervert.
Jessica Sorensen
#10. Frederic had imagined this moment - him running to Ella with open arms, calling her name - but being as winded as he was, doubled over with his hands on his knees, all he could do was nod in her general direction.
Christopher Healy
#11. Don't misunderstand, Ella. I want you. So fucking bad." I gathered her face in my hands. "The day I can finally bury myself inside of you is the day I know for sure that you're mine. All mine. Only mine. And anything other than that isn't good enough.
Christina Lee
#12. I believe that a hundred years from now, when people look back at the 20th century, they will look at Miles, Bird, Clifford Brown, Ella and Dizzy, among elders as our Mozarts, our Chopins, our Bachs and Beethovens.
Quincy Jones
#13. Here's what I was thinking about:1.Who the new threat was 2.The air show in Mexico City 3.How to get Total to quit milking his injury, because enough was enough 4. My mom and Half sister Ella 5.Fang 6.Fang 7.Fang
James Patterson
#14. Even now, Dickon was upstairs, writing sonnets to his new love, while back at Seadown House, Marianne was writing 'Ella' on scraps of paper and then burning them.
Jessica Day George
#15. Life is a series of decisions Ella, and some of us make the wrong ones.
James Turner
#16. What will happen between you and I, Ella? You will still want the normal life you have been fighting for, and I will be an ageless accessory in your life you will soon outgrow.
Inger Iversen
#17. I was disinterested in everything, even in Ethan. Even, I was ashamed to admit, in Ella. I didn't know where else I wanted to be but I knew it was anywhere except on this earth, in my body, living my life.
Leslie A. Gordon
#18. See, the same old Ella still lives." He grins ... "She just needed a little push out." ...
"No, she doesn't. She's gone forever."
"Try all you want, but I'm bringing her back,
Jessica Sorensen
#19. That clever mind, that sharp tongue and droll wit. His love for Ella, manifested in sacrifice and secret smiles; his sense of honor and duty; his pride in the face of unceasing subjugation. His joy of nature, his respect for all things living, his skill with ... well, everything.
Rachel Haimowitz
#20. I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister.
Carol Ann Duffy
#21. We used to sing along to Judy Garland and Ella Fitzgerald records together. She had the most amazing voice ... She's always encouraged me, and she's still that person who, when things look dire, lifts me up and reminds me of who I am and that we all have a capacity for greatness.
Sheryl Crow
#22. Because I mean it. I don't care about anything else. I could lose anyone else and make it through. But not you, Ella May. I can't do this without you.
Jessica Sorensen
#23. Ella squeezed, wringing a groan from his throat that echoed the torments of the damned. Usually, though, the damned didn't lean into the torment in a silent entreaty for more. Or so she assumed. She didn't think hell was likely to be kinky.
Christine Warren
#24. I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning. My mother, Willie Ella Mays Clarke, was a washerwoman for poor white folks in the area of Columbus, Georgia where the writer Carson McCullers once lived.
John Henrik Clarke
#25. Ella can work nightclubs that Duke might not be able to work, because of having the big band. Where they go now is strictly a matter of their own names and talents.
Norman Granz
#26. Come with me."
"Let me think on that." I tap a finger against my bottom lip as if I'm really contemplating his crappily delivered invitation. His eyes drop to watch the movement.
"Okay. I've decided. No."
- Ella Harper
Erin Watt
#27. I would say my greatest musical influences have been Ella Fitzgerald and Mary J. Blige.
Estelle
#28. Whitney Houston and Ella Fitzgerald are my musical mothers. I learned everything I know about true R&B, pop and jazz singing from these stunning performers and unparalleled musicians.
Ciara Renee
#29. You belong with us. You're the best thing that ever happened to this family."
Surprise filters through me. Okay. Wow.
"You're ours," Easton mumbles. "I'm sorry about tonight. I really am, Ella.
Erin Watt
#30. I didn't really grow up on hip-hop. Ella Fitzgerald and the old school jazz divas are more my comfort zone.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw
#31. Dear Jack,
I love you, too.
And I think I know the secret to a long and happy marriage - just choose someone you can't live without.
For me, that would be you.
So if you insist on being traditional ...
Yes.
- Ella
Lisa Kleypas
#32. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Tyson pounding the Earthborn into the ground like a game of whack-a-mole. Ella was fluttering above him, dodging missiles and calling out advice: "The groin. The Earthborn's groin is sensitive."
SMASH!
"Good. Yes. Tyson found its groin.
Rick Riordan
#33. I lay under Luke, pretty certain I was going to die and wishing I'd made a will. Now, my sisters and mother were going to get all Aunt Ella's money. I should have left it to Sissy and a cat shelter.
Kristen Ashley
#34. A continuity isn't necessarily right, just because it's a continuity.'
'Yes, Ella, it is. It is. Believe me, it is,
Doris Lessing
#35. Deep inside, Ella blamed herself. She hadn't aged well
Elif Shafak
#36. He was unbelievably hard. Everywhere. He was in control, infinitely stronger, and he wanted me to know it.
-Ella
Lisa Kleypas
#37. Charles Tucker had starred in Ella's dreams ever since she was fourteen.
Rachel Harris
#38. I love you, Ella May," I whisper, kissing her cheek. "And one day I want to be doing this exact same thing at our wedding.
Jessica Sorensen
#39. Later, Fang said to Ella and Dr. Martinez in that gushy, hyperemotional, overdramatic way he has.
James Patterson
#40. I also met, early on Ella Fitzgerald. Her songbooks are some of the most amazing bodies of work.
Johnny Mathis
#41. I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald.
Lena Horne
#42. I gave him a mocking smile. "Come on, Jack. Don't deprive me of the pleasure of watching you donate a DNA sample. I'll even pay for it."
"That offer might interest me," he said, "if it involved anything more exciting than a buccal swab."
-Ella & Jack
Lisa Kleypas
#43. I moved to Louisiana to become the executive Chef at Commander's Place. And I must say I had some encouragement from friends such as Ella Brennan, the queen of the New Orleans's culinary set, and others. This was very flattering to a young man with a dream. I was only 26 years old.
Emeril Lagasse
#44. Ella. If you don't learn to carpe the diem, you will be, while most certainly not Nobody, something less than a Somebody.
Melissa Jensen
#45. Ella is nervous," the harpy muttered from her perch on the railing. "The elephant. The elephant is watching Ella.
Rick Riordan
#46. I grinned into the phone. "You like to think about a man making sweet love to my mouth? I think you have a problem, Ella bella." "If you don't know by now that I love you long time, Ollie, you are not very observant.
Janelle Stalder
#47. Cinnamonrolls are good for harpies.' She [Ella] said.
Rick Riordan
#48. I'm comfortable singing jazz. The only thing I was concerned about is that everybody, even in jazz, has their own style. To me, the queen of doodling was Ella Fitzgerald, and scatting is something I never thought I could do.
Gladys Knight
#49. Kate cleared her throat. She looked between the two of them. "Uh, how did you two
meet?"
"Ella stalked me," Clove replied at the same time as Ella said, "I saved her life.
Lauren James
#50. I've always sung. I was really into musical theater when I was growing up. As a kid, I listened to Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone, actually, on cassette tapes.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw
#51. Ella was vapid and worthless at least nine-tenths of the time, but when she got really mad, her face became sharp and purposeful. Almost vicious. Like if Barbie were suddenly possessed by Atilla the Hun.
Francine Pascal
#52. I bet I've led a more virtuous life than you."
"First, darlin', that's not saying much. Second, getting to a higher spiritual level is like increasing your credit score. You get a lot more points for sinning and repenting than if you have no credit history at all."
-Ella & Jack
Lisa Kleypas
#54. Ella was a perfect study in contradictions, and I'd somehow contracted her like a beautiful disease.
Laura Marie Altom
#55. need a drink of Ella's hot soup." Ella brought the warm broth
Barbara Smucker
#56. I guess my biggest influence was actually my Grandfather. He used to play old records on vinyl, and would play old jazz and soul music like Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and The Rat Pack and swing music.
Ella Henderson
#57. Better yet - I'll buy him a dildo with his own money, send it to him, and tell him to go fuck himself
from The Art of Submission by Ella Dominguez
Ella Dominguez
#58. Taking in the scene, Ella wrinkled her nose. "Drat. We missed the excitement!" "It appears we did," Vivi agreed, disappointment in her tone. "Ah, well. Next time!" Ella brightened. Alex
Sarah MacLean
#59. This cock is mine Jack. All mine and I will do what I want with it. What you need to understand is that your orgasms belong to me. They are my gift to you and I will give or withhold them for my pleasure. (Ella - Lost and Found)
Megan Fields
#60. Ella, if it's magic, then nothing is supposed to happen.
Brad Barkley
#61. Ella - "I want the truth!"
Jayden - "Give me the gun Ella."
Ella - "Make me trust you and I will.
Lisa Renee Jones
#62. There was something real breakable about Mary Ella and I was always afraid if I touched her in the wrong spot, she'd crack.
Diane Chamberlain
#63. I have struggled for decades now with the fear of and resistance to change - mostly in the realms of technology, transportation, and the ways people choose to communicate. If I had a theme song, it would be that lovely song 'I'm Old-Fashioned,' as sung by Ella Fitzgerald.
Julia Glass
#64. Her words had the intended effect. The Roman officers laughed nervously. Some sized up Ella, then looked at Octavian and snorted. The idea of a chicken lady issuing prophecies was apparently just as ridiculous to Romans as it was to Greeks. "I, uh ... " Octavian dropped his teddy bear. "No, but -
Rick Riordan
#65. I think the
people who go through more can
end up stronger in the long run.
They have insight in to what a lot of
people don't have and a better
understanding - they can be more
open-minded. - Ella's mother
Jessica Sorensen
#66. On a basic level, it's actually very simple, Ella. Dr. Hakim's words. Not one single person on this planet is perfect. Every single one of us is deeply flawed. Either we accept that fact and forgive ourselves for the mistakes we're bound to make, or we let them destroy us. But
Harper Bliss
#67. She'll be ruined if she's not careful," Ella said. "Nonsense. He'd wed her in a heartbeat if he thought she'd have him," Vivi replied. "Quite." A
Sarah MacLean
#68. You're the first girl I've ever fallen in love with, Ella, and you'll be the last girl I ever love
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#69. Aha! She hadn't misread anything. A man who hinted at discussing lingerie definitely had his flirt mode engaged. Ella happened to own a leopard-print bra and panty set. But she couldn't admit it to him.
Anonymous
#70. Ella held herself rigidly against all emotion until she arrived at the dark haven of her room. Then she threw herself across her bed and cried because life was such a tragic thing.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#71. We're Cinder and Ella, woman! We're supposed to get our fairy-tale ending!
Kelly Oram
#72. The three great moments of my life had to be the concerts of Ellington in 1938, Dizzy in '48, and Ella in '52.
Boris Vian
#73. Ella was his strength and his weakness. She was all things to him and he would never stop trying to be all things to her.
Sydney Landon
#74. I didn't care if Travis had holstered his gun, double-bagged it, or tied it in a knot. He could probably get a woman pregnant just by winking at her.
-Ella's thoughts
Lisa Kleypas
#76. Babies were dangerous ... they made you fall in love before you knew what was happening.
-Ella's thoughts
Lisa Kleypas
#77. How did I make a living? I haven't. I have eked out an existence. - Ella Baker
Gail Collins
#78. My style of singing has always been referred to 'soul' singing when it fact it's more influenced by English R&B Blues Shouting. I'm closer to Led Zeppelin as a vocalist than to Ella Fitzgerald. It was torture dealing with major labels.
Alison Moyet
#79. When Hank Jones had his night off, I would get somebody to take my place as intermission pianist and I'd play the show with Ella, so I would get a chance to play with Ray Brown and Charlie Smith as well.
George Shearing
#80. I really don't think anyone can blame us for wanting no part of the marriage mart if she is already the belle of the ball," Ella said. "My mother even had
the audacity to ask me earlier if I didn't think I should have a gown made like hers! Lord deliver me from the London season
Sarah MacLean
#81. I told Ella Mae Cheeks Johnson, then age 105, that she was the only person over 80 who I'd ever met who never referred to her physical infirmities or health problems. To which she replied, I have my difficulties; I do not rejoice in them.
Patricia Mulcahy
#82. I'm not going to kiss you, Ella. Not tonight."
She sagged against me, her forehead landing on my shoulder.
"Kissing you would be too easy," I whispered in her ear. "And you're not a girl I want to be easy with.
Christina Lee
#83. "I'm going to love fucking you, Ella ... " - Jonathan di Luca
R. Matthews
#84. The premieres are, kind of exciting, especially to Ella, who loves limousines.
Kelly Preston
#85. How would you feel about sharing your bed?" she asked.
Tristan blinked. "Excuse me?"
"He'd love to!" Gary said.
Tristan shot him a look,
"Good," said Ivy, failing to notice Gary's wink. "Ella can be a pillow hog, but all you have to do is roll over her.
Elizabeth Chandler
#86. When my daughter was born, I called her Ella Bella Mandela, because she was born the day after Mandela was released from prison.
Phil Daniels
#87. Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction Ella said
Rick Riordan
#88. U is gone. I suppose you're aware. The 1st aeiouy to go. Up until now the other graphemes were not aeiouys. When the aeiouys start to go, Ella, writing to you turns exponentially more grueling. I will not throw in the towel, though. I trust that you won't either. I truly relish our partnership.
Mark Dunn
#89. With a voice like Ella ringing out there's no way a band can lose.
Stevie Wonder
#90. To my wife Marganit and my children Ella Rose and Daniel Adam without whom this book would have been completed two years earlier.
Joseph J. Rotman
#91. I cleared my throat and tried to sound casual, like this was no big deal. "I don't even get cheesy seduction music?"
Jack shook his head. "I usually do this a cappella."
"You mean unaccompanied?"
"No, I haven't done this unaccompanied since I was fourteen."
-Ella & Jack
Lisa Kleypas
#92. Draiocht.
It's the Gaelic word for magic That is what you are, Ella Mae. You are Other. You are magical.
Ellery Adams
#93. My name is Ella; that's who I am at school, hanging out with friends, while I'm doing homework. But when I'm up on stage, 'Lorde' is a character.
Lorde
#94. Deep and intense, his eyes shone with an inner fire that burned so clearly, Ella was tempted to reach for a skewer and a marshmallow.
Anonymous
#95. One of my biggest musical influences is definitely Ella Fitzgerald as a vocalist.
Elle Varner
#96. For the rest of my life?" His voice softens. "Do you want that, Ella May? Do you want me eternally, infinitely, forever, till death do us part?
Jessica Sorensen
#97. I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating.
-Ella Varner
Lisa Kleypas
#98. A prayer without a deed is an arrow without a bow-string; A deed without a prayer is a bow-string without an arrow. ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
Paulo Coelho
#99. People like Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Marlene Dietrich and Sammy Davis Jr. all walked me down this path of entertainment.
Dionne Warwick
#100. It's all in my mind.
I'm in my right mind now, and my right mind is crazy.
"You need to wake up, Ella."
The words are a command I cannot obey.
Beth Revis
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