Bess Myerson Quotes

#1. The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

Bess Myerson

#2. Once people have seen four or five Henry Moores, they will have a sense of great art.

Bess Myerson

#3. Not only do I have celebrity, but I have notoriety, which is sometimes more seductive.

Bess Myerson

#4. All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for some wonderful man to come and save me from my life - but there didn't seem to be any, at least not for me.

Bess Myerson

#5. If your content isn't driving conversation, you're doing it wrong.

Daniel Roth

#6. You do the easy thing, the appealing thing, the peaceful thing, mostly it turns sour in the end. But if you take the hard path - ah, that's how you reap the sweet rewards. Duty. Sacrifice. They mean something.

Rick Riordan

#7. And to read the Bible without horror, we must undo everything that is tender, sympathizing and benevolent in the heart of man.

Thomas Paine

#8. Think of destiny more like potentiality because of an element called - free will.

Ruben Papian

#9. To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.

Bess Myerson

#10. I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

Bess Myerson

#11. I really don't like talking about diets.

Bess Myerson

#12. You can't be beautiful and hate because hate is a corroding disease and affects the way you look ... You can't hide it - ever. It shows in your eyes. It warps your expression. It affects your character, your personality.

Bess Myerson

#13. 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

#14. Everybody asks me, 'So, what are you doing now?' Why must I be doing something? All my life I've been doing something. All my life I've been doing. For now, I'm being
being quiet, being grateful.

Bess Myerson

#15. You cannot be beautiful and hate.

Bess Myerson

#16. Anyone who ever spoke to me would know I would never say the words 'get hitched' nxt time do ur research.

Lady Starlight

#17. I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.

Bess Myerson

#18. I never like other people to clean for me. I don't want them to invade my own privacy.

Bess Myerson

#19. The key to a good meal is simplicity and the right seasoning.

Buddy Valastro

#20. Men go after me, and I choose among them.

Bess Myerson

#21. People want gimmicks. They have to lose 10 pounds by 8:30 tonight.

Bess Myerson

#22. You've got to love people, places, ideas; you've got to live with mind, body, soul; you've got to be committed; there is no life on the side-lines.

Bess Myerson

#23. Criticism is the best sign you're onto something.

Rands

#24. Even when I jog, I need a place to get to.

Bess Myerson

#25. All problems, though appearing outside of you, must be resolved within YOU.

Vivian Amis

#26. 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