Bette Midler Quotes

I have my standards. They're low, but I have them.

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• More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that's more like a spice.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Fashion
  • Need
  • Everything

• I find celebrity really scary.

  

  Kate Ashfield
  • Find
  • Scary
  • Celebrity

• If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.

  

  M. Esther Harding
  • Up
  • Personality
  • Reach

• I don't think I would change anything. I think we've done a fairly good job of remaining sane and making the right decisions.

  

  Washed Out
  • Good
  • Done
  • Job

• No one wants to read an apologetic book.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Book
  • Read
  • Apologetic

• It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform measures you should follow and in what sequence.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Art
  • Science
  • Strategy

• As forces of hate in this country and worldwide try to pull Muslims and Christians apart, we are in desperate need of a unifying force that can bridge the widening gap of interfaith misunderstanding and mistrust. That force could be the message of love, peace, and forgiveness taught by Jesus and accepted by followers of both faiths.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • Jesus
  • Force
  • Forgiveness

• The most pressure I felt was for the first 'Paranormal Activity,' because when it was released, whether it was going to be a hit or not, I knew it was going to be a life-altering event for me.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Life
  • Pressure
  • Hit

• When Jesus says you must leave your family to follow Him, he doesn't necessarily mean physically. He means leave your dependence on them, make an emotional break with them.

  

  Anne Graham Lotz
  • Family
  • Jesus
  • Emotional

• We're big 'Game of Thrones' fans, so we call our house King's Landing. I have a studio apartment above our garage that we call Winterfell. I go to Winterfell to write.

  

  Kay Cannon
  • Game
  • House
  • King

• To hit bottom is to fall from grace.

  

  Douglas Horton
  • Fall

• I kind of miss that whole NXT thing. When I was there, it was Florida Championship Wrestling with Seth Rollins and the other guys who were there. I wrestled on, like, local-access Florida TV in front of 30 people. It was a tiny little situation.

  

  Dean Ambrose
  • People
  • Wrestling

• I always conceive a piece as a different set of challenges.

  

  John Corigliano
  • Different

• I don't have anything to hide but what happens is the media tend to beat up what I say.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Up
  • Happens
  • Media

• Our dreams make us large.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Dreams
  • Make

• Children are wonderful, and they add to my whole life.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Life
  • Children
  • Wonderful

• Always hire people who are better than you. Hiring dummies is shortsighted. You can't move up the ladder until everyone is comfortable with your replacement.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • People
  • Up
  • Business

• I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Done
  • Expectation
  • Uninteresting

• I am a first-time director given an opportunity to pursue an artistic ambition I would not likely have the chance to elsewhere. The budget is excruciatingly tight, I am regularly abused and I expect to be fired sometime before we shoot. It's nice to see that, at Miramax, continuity has been maintained.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Nice

• This place of mine never is entered by humans come for conversation, only by the mute moon's light shafts that slip in between the trees.

  

  Saigyō
  • Light
  • Moon

• This is where the whole ape-descended thing reveals its worth, I thought madly. Sucks to be you, quadruped. Opposable thumbs - don't leave home without them.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Home
  • Reveals

• God is the only being who is good, and the standards are set by Him. Because God hates sin, He has to punish those guilty of sin. Maybe that's not an appealing standard. But to put it bluntly, when you get your own universe, you can make your own standards.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Universe

• I have my standards. They're low, but I have them.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Standards
  • Lows