“I take a breath when I have to.” — Ethel Merman Quote

I take a breath when I have to.

I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano.

Cole Porter wrote Anything Goes and four more hits for me.

I've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast.

I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird.

Perhaps grief is not about empty, but full. The full breath of life that includes death. The completeness, the cycles, the depth, the richness, the process, the continuity and the treasure of the moment that is gone the second you are aware of it.

When I got my first glimpse of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, my breath caught. In that single instant, he was Wolverine.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.