Bette Davis on eyes
Bette Davis119 quotes“I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.”
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
Bette DavisBette Davis Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
Bette DavisBette Davis If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.
Bette DavisBette Davis You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
Bette DavisBette Davis Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
Bette DavisBette Davis I’ve always liked men better than women.
Bette DavisBette Davis You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good, Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
Bette DavisBette Davis Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
Bette DavisBette Davis There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
Bette DavisBette Davis I was thought to be ‘stuck up.’ I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
Bette DavisBette Davis At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.
Bette DavisBette Davis Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve
Bette DavisBette Davis I work to stay alive.
Bette DavisBette Davis I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
Bette DavisBette Davis Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
Bette DavisBette Davis The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
Bette DavisBette Davis
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Brad NeatonBrad Neaton Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone else heart.
Alexander KandovAlexander Kandov One quick sip of your memory I let it slip, and I go on without you.
Emma SchippersEmma Schippers If the scars on my heart were visible to the naked eye, maybe you’d think twice about inflicting more.
Laura Natoli-KearneyLaura Natoli-Kearney I am getting better at forgetting you. I am slowly but steadily learning the art of forgetting you.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia Paper and pen petrify me, for they pierce right through me, drawing deep blue blood, leaving me utterly cold.
Shreya JoshiShreya Joshi Spend time with people who get excited over even the smallest victories you earn.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis I wonder if you were the poison or the antidote.
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Ansel AdamsAnsel Adams Summer came and summer went and I never saw your eyes again.
Helena DegnHelena Degn I can’t take the look in your eyes of hurt I can’t help.
Sarah J. MarvinSarah J. Marvin I think, when you’re great, not everyone’s going to give you your props, and you can’t really worry about that. In my eyes, I’m still climbing. I’m still taking myself to the next levels in my career, and that’s fine with me. When it’s time for my rewards, I will get them.
Lil' KimLil' Kim If possible could you just look in my eyes and find all the things I can’t seem to say.
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