Bette Davis Quotes

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

Bette Davis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are.

Jim Jarmusch

MeStartThinkSayCriticsAlways

For years I thought my assignment or the Church's assignment was to articulate the Gospel and nothing more. Now I believe that if we don't support the verbal expression of the Gospel with physical demonstration of compassion, we are not imitating Jesus.

Max Lucado

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Mike Pence, of course, is a governor with executive experience and doing well in a Midwestern state, but also served in Congress. I served with Mike.

Steve Scalise

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Count the dreams of your mind; if the numbers of the dreams exceeds the number of achievements, you are young.

Shimon Peres

DreamsMindYouNumbersYoungCount

The 'Weston' is actually my middle name. I hyphenated it because I really wasn't willing to go out in the acting world as 'Tom Jones,' 'cause I'm Welsh as well, so the connotation is just ridiculous.

Tom Weston-Jones

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I sometimes suffer from insomnia. And when I can't fall asleep, I play what I call the alphabet game.

Roz Chast

GameFallPlaySometimesSuffer

If creators of Christian culture hope to produce work that will bear good fruit, we must draw our life from the true source - our living Savior. He is real. He is present. But all too often we reduce him to an abstraction, giving him intellectual assent, but not our hearts.

Michael O'Brien

LifeWorkGoodHopeCultureFruit

I love 'SmackDown.'

Luke Harper

LoveI Love

That's my main complaint with Murakami: that he writes these complex males and then really static women.

Lucy Dacus

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I guess one of the ways that karma works is that it finds out what you are most afraid of and then makes that happen eventually.

Cheech Marin

KarmaYouAfraidHappenOutMost

Yes, writing is essential to me. It's my way of living in the world.

Claire Messud

MeWritingWorldLivingWayYes

Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love.

Chuck Schumer

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