Bette Midler Quotes
When I moved to New York City in 1965, I wanted to be in theater. I was following my Ethel Barrymore dream. But I was too young to be Ethel.
Quotes to Explore
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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I'm over the word 'like' in conversation, and 'you know' seems to be the placeholder of choice, but when I'm writing dialogue, I tend to use those phrases because that's how people talk.
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People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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I don't care about revenues.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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I think where it's going is toward what the music industry is like, where channels will be considered more like labels that carry the type of TV show that you like, and then you'll consume them however you can. For example, I don't really watch Showtime, but I bought 'Homeland,' and I've been watching every episode on my iPad.
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
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I didn't intend to introduce food so early, but she became very interested at about 5 months, and I just gave her whatever sort of nutrient-rich food I had. Her first food was smoked trout.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.
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I get a lot of letters from people.
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Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more debt and bigger deficits is a logical mystery.
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The efficacy of a prayer depends not on the words but on the sincerity of intention.
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For mountain and stream, tree and leaf, root and blossom, every form in nature is echoed in us and originates in the soul whose being is eternity and is hidden from us but none the less gives itself to us for the most part in the power of love and creation.
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When I moved to New York City in 1965, I wanted to be in theater. I was following my Ethel Barrymore dream. But I was too young to be Ethel.
