Bette Davis Quotes

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 Davis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 5, 1908 - October 6, 1989

Topics

GoodTodayTruthWordsPeopleMe

No one respects the umpire's job more than I do; but, if I were a manager, I would probably be ejected three or four times a season fighting for my team.

Jim Evans

JobTeamFightingThreeManager

Your creativity before it gets formed into words and songs is the actual substance. No one else can see it, right? Unless you give it the shape of a song or a painting or whatever.

John Darnielle

CreativityWordsPaintingSongYou

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Robert Motherwell

LifeArtWhereverDisappearsAppears

Some people thrive on creating chaos and then operating through it, though usually that's presented as a female trait.

John Schneider

PeopleChaosThriveCreatingThrough

I had spent four months in Cedar City, Utah, right after graduation as an intern at the Utah Shakespearean Festival. It's a town that has many people living the polygamous lifestyle.

Stephen Karam

PeopleCityGraduationLivingRight

Football sometimes goes up and down, and we need to accept the result.

Son Heung-min

FootballResultDownSometimesNeed

If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny.

Steve Wozniak

LifeDesignFindTryRealThings

I feel like people have more in common than the news reports. People getting along doesn't sell very well in the news. I find that to be deeply depressing.

Mike Birbiglia

PeopleFeelFindNewsMoreSell

By living so long, the supercentenarian earns the prefixal 'super' and becomes a person suddenly freighted with power and meaning. He's Gandalf, Yoda, the Ancient Mariner, perhaps with some otherworldly insight. He's lived so long that, in fact, he's living the afterlife to his own initial life.

Michael Paterniti

LifePowerMeaningLongLivingOwn

Hollywood is a place that attracts people with massive holes in their souls.

Julia Phillips

PeoplePlaceHollywoodSoulsHoles

I try to construct each of my novels around one central theme - core tensions shared by the characters.

Chris Pavone

TryThemeCoreConstructAround

I don't think I would be getting any of these movies without that show, and that's a strong show, a great fan base and it's helped me out a lot. It took me out of Canada and brought me down to the states and gave me my career basically.

Scott Speedman

GreatMeStrongThinkCareerDown

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