I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
Bette DavisRead
Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night! - As Margo Channing in All About Eve
Interpretation
What this quote means
Prepare for challenges ahead, as they may be tumultuous.
The quote suggests that one should brace themselves for difficulties or unexpected events in life, which are often unavoidable and can be tumultuous. It implies that readiness and acceptance of challenges can help one navigate through tough times.
Themes
ChallengesPreparationAdversityResilienceLife
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech about overcoming obstacles, you might say, 'Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night!'
More from Bette Davis
All quotes βI have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.
Bette DavisRead
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
Bette DavisRead
Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.
Bette DavisRead
Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn't know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
Bette DavisRead
If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull.
Bette DavisRead
Similar quotes
As far as I remember, even younger than eight, I have always been guided by reason. Not cold reason, but that which leads to the truth, to the real, and to sane Justice.
Albert ClaudeRead
Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.
Walter BenjaminRead
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Henry David ThoreauRead
Here I am, fifty-eight, and I still don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.
Peter DruckerRead
What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
W. Somerset MaughamRead
You can never be wise unless you love reading.
Samuel JohnsonRead