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.
BETTE MIDLERWriting a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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That’s our mission: to clean and green New York City – one block at a time.
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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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When it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
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Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world.
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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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I’m confident that I’m as intelligent as many people, but I know that I’m not as intelligent as some. So in the presence of hyperintelligent people, I’m a shrinking violet because I don’t want to look like a fool. I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little.
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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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I celebrate everyone’s religious holidays. if it’s good enough for the righteous, it’s good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.
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I’m so glad to be back in New York. Los Angeles can be so cold, so cruel after you’ve been-what’s the word?-oh yes: ‘fired.’
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Where did I do well?” When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, “It was really good.”
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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?
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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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