When it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
BETTE MIDLERJust 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.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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If I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.
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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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I’m mad about God! That’s why I’m divine.
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[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
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There’s a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don’t really do with your family.
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I wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
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When you reach a certain age, you have fulfilled your childhood dream and whatever your first or second adulthood led you to do. T
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I never know how much of what I say is true.
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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.
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Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn’t even doing the singing. I’m a bit cynical about this [music] business.
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I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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We’re all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
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