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Bette Midler Quotes

Total quotes: 25
“It’s the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.”
— Bette Midler, Amanda McBroom, The Rose
Tagged: Life, Love
“Oh look, another glorious morning. Makes me sick!”
— Winifred 'Winnie' Sanderson, Hocus Pocus
Tagged: Morning, Sick
“Sisters, we’ve been gone 300 years.”
— Winifred 'Winnie' Sanderson, Hocus Pocus
Tagged: Witch Life, Witches
“You know I’ve always wanted a child. And now I think I’ll have one…on toast!”
— Winifred 'Winnie' Sanderson, Hocus Pocus
Tagged: Cannibalism, Infanticide, Children
“Unfaithful lover long since dead. Deep asleep in thy wormy bed. Wiggle thy toes, open thine eyes, twist thy fingers toward the sky. Life is sweet, be not shy. On thy feet. So sayeth I!”
— Winifred 'Winnie' Sanderson, Hocus Pocus
Tagged: Unfaithful, wormy
“Master's Wife: Aren't you broads a little old to be trick or treating?

Winifred Sanderson: We'll be younger in the morning.

Master's Wife: Yeah, sure, me, too.”
— Winifred 'Winnie' Sanderson, Hocus Pocus
Tagged: Old, Ageism, Broads, trick or treating
“I don't care about what fancy school you went to or how many boys you didn't bang while you were there.”
— Hadassah Gold, The Politician, Season 1: Vienna
Tagged: Fancy School, boys, Sex, Sassy
“Billy Butcherson: Go to hell!

Winifred Sanderson: Oh! I've been there, thank you. I found it quite lovely.”
— Winifred 'Winnie' Sanderson, Hocus Pocus
Tagged: Hell, Go to Hell
“[Exiting the clay oven where they were lured by a learn-to-speak French tape] Hello, I want my book. Bonjour, je veux mon livre.”
— Winifred 'Winnie' Sanderson, Hocus Pocus
Tagged: french lessons
“Sarah: What is this place?

Mary Sanderson: It reeks of children!

Winifred Sanderson: It is a prison for children.”
— Winifred 'Winnie' Sanderson, Hocus Pocus
Tagged: Children, Prison, reeks
“Jay: Oh man, how come it's always the ugly chicks that stay out late?

Winifred Sanderson: [Winnie, Sarah and Mary stop, turn and glare at the boys] Chicks?”
— Winifred 'Winnie' Sanderson, Hocus Pocus
Tagged: Chicks, Misogyny, late
“Oh, I’ve been there, thank you.  I found it quite lovely.”
— Winifred 'Winnie' Sanderson, Hocus Pocus
Tagged: Hell, lovely
“My ungodly book speaks to you. On All Hallow's Eve, when the moon is round, a virgin will summon us from under the ground. Oh oh! We shall be back, and the lives of all the children of Salem will be mine! [All three witches cackle]”
— Winifred 'Winnie' Sanderson, Hocus Pocus
Tagged: Witches, Moon, Halloween, all hallow's eve, Salem
“Oh, cheese and crust! He's lost his head! Damn that Thackery Binx!”
— Winifred 'Winnie' Sanderson, Hocus Pocus
Tagged: cheese and crust, fake swearing
“I am calm!!!”
— Winifred 'Winnie' Sanderson, Hocus Pocus
Tagged: Calm Down
“Why was I cursed with such idiot sisters?”
— Winifred 'Winnie' Sanderson, Hocus Pocus
Tagged: Cursed, Idiot, Sisters
“Winifred Sanderson: Sisters, All Hallow's Eve has become a night of frolic, where children wear costumes and run amok!

Sarah: Amok! [dances around] Amok, amok, amok, amok, amok. [Winifred punches Sarah in the stomach] Ugh!”
— Winifred 'Winnie' Sanderson, Hocus Pocus
Tagged: Halloween, frolicking, Dancing, costumes
“Winifred Sanderson: Don't get your knickers in a twist! We're just three kindly old spinster ladies.

Mary Sanderson: Spending a quiet evening at home.

Sarah: Sucking the lives out of little children! [Winifred chokes Sarah]”
— Winifred 'Winnie' Sanderson, Hocus Pocus
Tagged: Spinsters, knickers, Child Abuse
“Oh, look. Another glorious morning. Makes me sick!”
— Winifred 'Winnie' Sanderson, Hocus Pocus
Tagged: Glorious, Sick
“Did you ever know that you're my hero,
and everything I would like to be?
I can fly higher than an eagle,
'cause you are the wind beneath my wings.

It might have appeared to go unnoticed,
but I've got it all here in my heart.
I want you to know I know the truth, of course I know it.
I would be nothing without you.”
— Bette Midler, The Wind Beneath My Wings
Tagged: Daddy Daughter Dance, Daddy Daughter Songs
“Winifred Sanderson: [sings while flying] Book! Come to Mommy!

Voice of Thackery Binx: [Jumps on the book to prevent it from floating up to Winifred, with a screech] Afraid not!

Winifred Sanderson: Thackery Binx, thou mangy feline. Still alive?

Voice of Thackery Binx: And waiting for you!

Winifred Sanderson: Oh! Thou hast waited in vain. And thou will fail to save thy friends, just as thou failed to save thy sister!
[Screams and swoops down toward Binx]”
— Winifred 'Winnie' Sanderson, Hocus Pocus
Tagged: mangy, feline
“Winifred Sanderson: Therefore, it stands to reason, does it not, sisters dear? That we must find the book, brew the potion and suck the lives out of the children of Salem before sunrise. Otherwise it's curtains. We evaporate! We cease to exist! Dost thou comprehend?

Mary Sanderson: You explained it beautifully, Winnie. They way in which you started out with the adventure part and slowly.

Sarah: Explained what?

Winifred Sanderson: Come, we fly!”
— Winifred 'Winnie' Sanderson, Hocus Pocus
Tagged: Witches, Curses, potion, Salem, Curtains
“Winifred Sanderson: Twist the bones and bend the back.

Sarah, Mary Sanderson: Itch-it-a-cop-it-a-Mel-a-ka-mys-ti-ca.

Winifred Sanderson: Trim him of his baby fat.

Sarah, Mary Sanderson: Itch-it-a-cop-it-a-Mel-a-ka-mys-ti-ca.

Winifred Sanderson: Give him fur black as black, just…

Mary Sanderson: Like…

Sarah: This!”
— Winifred 'Winnie' Sanderson, Hocus Pocus
Tagged: magic spells, baby fat
“Master's Wife: Okay that's it, party's over! Get out of my house!

Master: Now, pudding face.

Master's Wife: Shove it, Satan!

Sarah: Ooh. Thou mustn't speak to Master in such a manner.

Master: They call me Master.

Master's Wife: Wait 'til you see what I'm gonna call you. Now, tart-face, take your Clark bars and get out of my house!

Winifred Sanderson: Make us!
[the witches gather around her]

Master: Honeybunch.

Master's Wife: Ralph, sic 'em!

[the witches runs out of the house in fear]”
— Winifred 'Winnie' Sanderson, Hocus Pocus
Tagged: party's over, Shove It, satan, sic 'em
“Thackery's Father: Winifred Sanderson?

Winifred Sanderson: Yes?

Thackery's Father: I will ask thee one final time.

Winifred Sanderson: Yes?

Thackery's Father: What hast thou done with my son, Thackery?

Winifred Sanderson: Thackery? Hmm.

Thackery's Father: Answer me!

Winifred Sanderson: Well, I don't know. Cat's got my tongue. [Winifred, Mary, and Sarah laugh at her own joke as Binx angrily meows]

Winifred Sanderson: [thunder clash]”
— Winifred 'Winnie' Sanderson, Hocus Pocus
Tagged: Answer Me!, Cat Got Your Tongue
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