Bette Midler Quotes

We're all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.

Bette Midler

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• Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Why
  • Free

• When I'm out the street, I get people whispering behind me, 'Isn't that Jennifer Lawrence?' I should start doing autographs - although if you stood us side by side, you wouldn't make that mistake.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
  • Mistake
  • Start

• I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Music
  • End
  • Short

• My husband works in the music industry and he's always the first to know about great new bands, so I end up seeming really with it because I'll be listening to an up-and-coming band before everyone else hears about it.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Up
  • Great
  • Music

• No matter who the prime minister is, incremental changes take place. The economy moves on.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Place
  • Economy
  • Changes

• The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Mind
  • Food
  • Body

• I've realized that I'm more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza, but I love myself more. Being thin is about changing the way you think about yourself. It's about saying that you deserve to be healthy.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Important
  • Way
  • Healthy

• I wanted to be a Disney Channel star! I wanted to be Hannah Montana.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Star
  • Wanted
  • Disney

• There are a lot of people that get interested in something, and they hear about it, and they read about it, and then they watch it happen, and that's why I had quite an interest in the lottery because you'd interest a lot of people, and then just a few would win a chance to do something.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • People
  • Why
  • Happiness

• I think my type of personality has all music inside of it, so I am full of music, without even knowing it, without even learning it, without even hearing it.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Learning

• I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people's feelings a lot of the time.

  

  Andrew Motion
  • People
  • Time
  • Feelings

• Thrust the sword into the dark

  

  Robert Farrell Smith
  • Dark

• Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense

  

  Lucille Clifton
  • Children
  • Why
  • She

• Any trade that is voluntarily made is mutually beneficial, by definition, and, indeed, is balanced, by definition.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Made
  • Trade
  • Definitions

• Love in my case is not indispensable to pleasure, nor is respect. Is it possible, therefore, that the disgust, the humiliation begin afterward, when a man subdues you and violates you at his pleasure solely because now you belong to him, love or not, respect or not?

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Love
  • Respect
  • Pleasure

• God has graced every tradition with insight into the divine mystery, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated-each has a gift to bring to the world.

  

  Bede Griffiths
  • World
  • God
  • Mystery

• The Divine does not come from somewhere above, it exists beyond time and space, and informs all life.

  

  Alberto Villoldo
  • Life
  • Divine
  • Informs

• It's been a dream to play in the NFL and hopefully after next year that becomes a reality, but I wouldn't pass up being here with my teammates and coaches for anything.

  

  Denard Robinson
  • Dream
  • Play
  • Coaches

• We're all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Divine
  • Nerves