Bette Davis Quotes

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

Bette Davis

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• I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.

  

  Dana Hill
  • Myself
  • Hurt
  • Diabetes

• I don't go to places where I'm going to get mobbed.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Going
  • Where
  • Places

• I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Myself
  • Opinions

• We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Want
  • Human
  • Human being

• People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twists in our DNA that make us unique. America is exceptional because we were founded upon the notion that everyone should be free to pursue life, liberty, and happiness.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Life
  • America

• I'm not a foodie - I'm an eater: I'm hungry.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Hungry
  • Eater

• I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Remember
  • Funny
  • Hair

• Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Audience
  • Talent
  • Luck

• Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino's box.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Wealth
  • Pizza

• I have friends who are science journalists, and I'm seeing stories of theirs or talking with them about ideas that they're pitching. Certain kinds of science are around me all the time, like climate change and biology.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Science

• What does that suggest when a compound this simple plays such an important role? To me it suggests that nitric oxide is one of the most primitive elements of cellular signaling, that it goes way back into evolution.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Important
  • Simple
  • Evolution

• I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.

  

  Harold Ross
  • Words
  • Day
  • Short

• I have an 'office,' technically. I never use it. I work on a couch in my living room, with my laptop on my lap, looking out the windows. I love space and green things. And I'm an incredibly casual person. I slouch. I close the laptop and just lie on the couch for a while if I need to think. I put my feet up on a table while I type.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Work
  • Think
  • Space

• My own first love was biology. I spent a great part of my adolescence in the Natural History museum in London (and I still go to the Botanic Garden almost every day, and to the Zoo every Monday). The sense of diversity-of the wonder of innumerable forms of life-has always thrilled me beyond anything else.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • Life
  • Great
  • History

• reported by Trudy Ring, 'Georgia Governor: 'License to Discriminate' Bill Isn't Christian,' The Advocate, March 3, 2016

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Christian
  • March

• My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.

  

  Arnold Schoenberg
  • Work
  • Eyes

• Time flies when you are anxious!

  

  Maria Bamford
  • Time

• Vegetables are organized bodies that grow on the dry areas of the globe and within its waters. Their function is to combine immediately the four elements and to serve as food for animals.

  

  Antoine Lavoisier
  • Food
  • Animals
  • Vegetables

• My challenge is really to say, 'Can you name me a moral action or a statement that has been made by a believer that couldn't have been made by a non-believer?'

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Action
  • Challenge
  • Moral

• I loved the sea. I loved steamers and sailboats and surf and sailors. And I yearned and strained to the sea, always the sea, for it is a lovely, vicious lonely thing. In its limitless variety I had a sort of HOME.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Home
  • Sea
  • Lonely

• I go out in New York, and I think, boy, you can look at someone and pretty much determine their zip code. Everyone seems to want to conform. I wonder, are they all just button-pressers, on the Internet all day long? I don't know.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Long
  • Pretty
  • Day

• So I watched the Pink Panther last night, and so I'm trying desperately to be funny, and then it's just not working out so good... I wonder if maybe I could've been a comedian or something like that, or maybe I could've been a doctor, then I wouldn't have to make anyone laugh.

  

  Dave Matthews Dave Matthews Band
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Night

• Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Wonder
  • Creation
  • Trade