Bette Midler Quotes - Page 2

I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.

Self-esteem is something you have to earn!

My whole life had been spent waiting for an epiphany, a manifestation of God's presence, the kind of transcendent, magical experience that lets you see your place in the big picture. And that is what I had with my first [compost] heap.

Sometimes my brain goes on CD shuffle. You know, you put a bunch of CD's on and hit play and random things come out.

Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your heart to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you, its only seed.

I'm not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren't perfect.

The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.

A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I've chosen not to be.

Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?

Even if the whole human race dies off because we keep fighting and killing each other and being heartless, the planet will take care of itself. Eventually, after millions of years, it will cleanse itself, and new life forms, maybe better ones, will come. Meanwhile, we'll have gotten exactly what we deserved: annihilation.

I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.

Humor disarms people. They don't feel threatened.

It's important that you all agree on what the parameters are and what you can accomplish - and not get pissed off or beat yourself up for what you can't accomplish.

You have to think you're the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you're not.

I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.

When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.

I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.

Total contentment is only for cows.

Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there's a seed that with the sun's love in the spring becomes a rose.

My parents used to park us kids at the public library in downtown Honolulu every Saturday. They'd leave us there at 8 A.M. and pick us up at 4 P.M. - so between those hours, you'd better find something to do! I sat upstairs in the picture room and went through opera, ballet, and theater books. I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes - they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn't have much of a social life.

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance.

Romance is an illusion. Well, romance is not a complete illusion, but it's ephemeral. It does not last.

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

I never know how much of what I say is true.

Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.