Bette Midler Quotes

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?

Bette Midler

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• I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Up
  • Feel
  • Drama

• A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Sometimes
  • Rules
  • Mortgage

• If you will be the best that you can be right where you are, God will promote you and give you more.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • You
  • Best

• The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Society
  • Product
  • Boredom

• The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.

  

  R. W. Apple, Jr.
  • Wealth
  • Taste
  • Product

• I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Feel
  • Find
  • Act

• I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about; I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully!

  

  Danica McKellar
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• My great-grandfather came here as a refugee from the pogrom in Ukraine.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Great
  • Here
  • Refugee

• Christmas was always a big holiday in our family. Every Christmas Eve before we'd go to bed, my mom and dad would read to us two or three stories and they would always be 'The Happy Prince,' 'The Gift of the Magi' and 'Twas the Night Before Christmas,' and I would like to keep that alive.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • Family
  • Happy
  • Night

• The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • You
  • Will
  • Tell

• People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Effort
  • Language

• Economics should be defined in terms of what it is about. It should be about how people produce things, how people exchange them, how people earn income, how they pay taxes, how the government provides infrastructure with tax revenue, and how it conducts monetary policy. The subject has to be defined in terms of the object of inquiry.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • Government
  • Economics

• I am an atheist and do not know the meaning of the 'religious pain' that is felt by believers of every cast when what they believe in is insulted.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Believe
  • Pain
  • Religious

• Tolerance is another word for indifference.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Tolerance
  • Indifference

• That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative to the progress made by those in the top percentiles of assets and income.

  

  Harold Washington
  • America
  • Day
  • Progress

• My job is to engage, entertain, work out my life, tell a certain truth.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Life
  • Work
  • Job

• My brain doesn't like to be quiet.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Like
  • Brain
  • Quiet

• If you're looking for someone to go to Washington, to go along to get along, to get - to agree with the career politicians in both parties who get in bed with the lobbyists and special interests, then I ain't your guy.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Guy
  • Career
  • You

• It’s one thing to have guts; it’s another to be crazy.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Crazy

• But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Sex

• I'm convinced my mother only had sex eight times.

  

  Linda Fiorentino
  • Mother
  • Sex

• It's 4:30 in the morning, it's always 4:30 in the morning.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Morning

• Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote the entire novel, and when it was all finished, I would give it to my agent and say, 'Well, here's a novel; sell it if you can.' And they would do that, and it was good because I never had anyone looking over my shoulder.

  

  George R. R. Martin
  • Good

• If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?

  

  Bette Midler
  • Sex