Bette Midler Quotes

Unfortunately, teatime in London is when people in Los Angeles arrive in their offices and pick up the phone.

I can't switch time zones any more. London is one of my favourite places, but I'm always so zonked that I can't appreciate it. It's like a six-inch sheet of glass between me and Charing Cross Road.

Anytime that you get a chance to go from Washington to L.A., I think it's really just getting used to the three-hour time difference.

I know it shouldn't make a difference, but crossing the dateline, we weren't sure what day it was - it was very strange. Now, I seem to cope with it better.

I'm always one time zone behind myself.

I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.

If it's December 1941 in Casablanca, what time is it in New York?

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

I hope my journals relating to World War II will help clarify issues of the past and thereby contribute to understanding the issues and conditions of the present and future.

Almost anybody from the past will hold views discordant with the present.

If you want to know what London looked like in 1947, with all the bomb-sites, 'Hue and Cry' will tell you. And when I shot 'The Lavender Hill Mob' four years later, it didn't look that different.

Jet lag is tough, to be honest. For me, it's much easier to force yourself to stay awake.

I usually wake up really early because I keep myself on East Coast time.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt and J.F Kennedy were Presidents in very different times.

If the Deseret News is careful not to offend [Nazi] Germany, and I gather that it is falling backwards on the attempt, it is my guess that first of all the Church is afraid of complete banishment.

Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythm.

New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.

I refer to jet lag as 'jet-psychosis - there's an old saying that the spirit cannot move faster than a camel.

North Korea is creating its own time zone. It's going to push the country's time back a half hour. So it's not bad enough that they don't have food and they're ruled by an insane dictator. Now they have to wait until 8:00 to watch 'Wheel of Fortune.'

It was a strange combination to absorb - the everyday concerns of the town doctor stuck in the middle of a discussion of his early days in seventeenth-century London.

I was born in the middle of World War II, the middle of the Holocaust; I was born when there was no declaration of human rights, when feminism was not an issue, when children were working in factories. I mean, today's world is a better place!

From Britain's point of view the 1939 war had been a liberal war which had been entered into in a condition of moral indignation without the resources to fight it, that it had been providential good fortune which had placed the burden of fighting on the Russians and the Americans.

You don't always get what you wish for. Especially in Nazi Germany

I never dreamed I'd like any city as well as London. San Francisco is exciting, moody, exhilarating. I even love the muted fogs.