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

• If the whole world should agree to speak nothing but truth, what an abridgment it would make of speech! And what an unravelling there would be of the invisible webs which men, like so many spiders, now weave about each other!

  

  Washington Allston
  • Truth
  • Speech
  • Spiders

• This is what we've been waiting for: finally, an unprecedented critical analysis of the history of Dutch design. Mienke Simon Thomas's Dutch Design is a book to have and to read: an important and richly detailed study of the cultural, economical and social-political context of twentieth-century design in the Netherlands.

  

  Wim Crouwel
  • Book
  • Design

• Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Power
  • Happy
  • Inexperienced

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

  

  Bette Midler
  • Divine
  • Nerves