Ira Gershwin quotes:
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Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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Love is sweeping the country.
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A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.
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They all laughed at Christopher Columbus When he said the world was round.
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Oh, lady be good To me.
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Summertime And the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin', and the cotton is high.
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One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.
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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 hush, little baby, don' yo' cry.
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Aladdin's lamp is mine.
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The future of this nation, with the present generation, You must admit is nothing but a joke
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I'm a little lamb who's lost in the wood.
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There's a somebody I'm longing to see, I hope that he, turns out to be, someone to watch over me.
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Holding hands at midnight 'Neath a starry sky... Nice work if you can get it And you can get it -- if you try.
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I'd like to add her initial to my monogram...
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But the age of miracles hadn't passed.
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What usually comes first is the contract.
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I'm bidin' my time, 'Cause that's the kinda guy I'm.
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I got daisies In green pastures.
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In time the Rockies may crumble, Gibraltar may tumble.
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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.
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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!
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S wonderful! 'S marvelous! That you should care for me!
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I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man- Who could ask for anything more?