Bess Quotes
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Bess stepped back and looked at Nancy admiringly. 'Your hunches are so often right it startles me.
— Carolyn Keene
I wouldn't be a good wife, but I would be a wife in a way that was cinematically compelling.
— Gabby Bess
Mother has to be coerced into doing a lot of things.
— Bess Truman
The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
Love is the light that you see by.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
Things last so much longer than people.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
I'm no different from anybody else. If I don't have a card, I can't check out these books.
— Bess Truman
I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.
— Bess Myerson
It is better to remember our love as it was in the springtime.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
You could not stop the winds and you could not stop Time. It went on and on,-and on.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler's dream.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
It takes a small town to keep you humble.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
Like her father, Bess never forgot a hurt or a service.
— Jeane Westin
It's very embarrassing to be put on the spot.
— Bess Truman
I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.
— Bess Truman
I have a strong tennis arm.
— Bess Truman
Men go after me, and I choose among them.
— Bess Myerson
I am somewhat handicapped in doing things with my hands.
— Bess Truman
A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.
— Bess Truman
I really don't like talking about diets.
— Bess Myerson
Bonnie Jean said, "You don't understand. Daddy's taking us away. To Nebraska." Bess Hartman looked at the mother,
— Truman Capote
Elizabeth, Beth, Betsy, and Bess, they all went together to find a bird's nest ...
— Shirley Jackson
Why does everything eventually become terrible?
— Gabby Bess
What's the worst that could happen?"
"Don't say that!" Bess and Corwin yelled at the same time.
"You two are so superstitious. — Georgette St. Clair
"Don't say that!" Bess and Corwin yelled at the same time.
"You two are so superstitious. — Georgette St. Clair
You cannot be beautiful and hate.
— Bess Myerson
Thoughts are acrobats, agile and quite often untrustworthy.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
Do you think he's going to hurt Sam?" Bess asked. "I don't know. But it sounds like that's on the table.
— Carolyn Keene
...For can you think how it would be, to never, never hear a meadow lark sing again...?
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
The wheels where enormous wooden affairs, the back ones rounding up over the windows of the coach.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
I don't look upon my divorces as mistakes. Those marriages were right for the Bess that made that decision at that time.
— Bess Myerson
Not only do I have celebrity, but I have notoriety, which is sometimes more seductive.
— Bess Myerson
I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.
— Bess Myerson
I never like other people to clean for me. I don't want them to invade my own privacy.
— Bess Myerson
...The last name had been entered by Samuel Peters' agile pen with much shading of downward strokes and many extra corkscrew appendages...
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
Not all clever words are true ... And inversely most things that are true are not clever.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
Even when I jog, I need a place to get to.
— Bess Myerson
It took all their common sense and philosophy to face life these days. The two are synonymous.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
I believe in God. I believe in a higher power. And I do believe that God works in mysterious ways.
— Davone Bess
...Laura knew the price of motherhood to be pain and responsibility; the reward, love and pride.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
I ... you mean me?"
"Quite naturally, when I said, 'What about you, yourself,' I meant
you. — Bess Streeter Aldrich
"Quite naturally, when I said, 'What about you, yourself,' I meant
you. — Bess Streeter Aldrich
It's nice to win.
— Bess Truman
When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
Betty, who had found an old battered doll, was sitting quietly in the corner and industriously endeavoring to pick its one eye out
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
I was a dancer for many years. I was a premier dancer with 'Porgy and Bess,' the opera. And I taught dance some, in different places.
— Maya Angelou
Mrs. Schneiderman's theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal ...
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
Once people have seen four or five Henry Moores, they will have a sense of great art.
— Bess Myerson
Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain't. So the results of man's labor will never be equal.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
I'm not conniving - that has a pejorative context. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deals. That's not my style.
— Bess Myerson
It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
I close my eyes to the ability
to inhabit four places
in long enough intervals
to miss them all. — Gabby Bess
to inhabit four places
in long enough intervals
to miss them all. — Gabby Bess
Forks ceased their perpendicular traveling.
— Bess Aldrich