D Joan Quotes

Joan commented, upon sentence, My body is your property, but my love is not. My love is my own, and I shall love you fiercely while you kill me. ~ Cordwainer Smith

I just want to continue to break barriers and to show the industry and the world that beauty is diverse, and you don't have to be a certain stereotype to be beautiful. ~ Joan Smalls

The accuracy of my memories, whether things happened exactly the way that the personalities remember, doesn't really matter. If my memory, combined with the memories of the other personalities, provides some coherent past, then that is far better than the blankness I have. Whatever inaccuracies may occur because of the passage of time or because of the colored intensity of "emotional truth" harm no one. All that matters is that I gain a firm grasp on what is real. (165) ~ Joan Frances Casey

When we mourn our parents, we mourn the parents we had as well as the ones we never had. With death, all bets are off: the last chance at reconciliation or change or hope is gone. Whatever relationship we had with our parents, that's it. No more chances for something else. ~ Joan M. Drury

(Joan,1941) She wrote me a letter asking,"How can I read it?,Its so hard." I told her to start at the beginning and read as far as you can get until you're lost. Then start again at the beginning and keep working through until you can understand the whole book. And thats what she did ~ Richard Feynman

Courtesy is the bedrock of social interchange. No matter what you're doing, even if you're fomenting revolution, you can still be courteous. ~ Joan M. Drury

One thing in my defense, not that it matters: I know something Carter never knew, or Helene, or maybe you. I know what "nothing" means, and keep on playing. ~ Joan Didion

Being an artist is not exactly the most universally respected, or secure thing to do with your life. It can be frightening and you can feel that you're taking a lot of risks just with your own life, and your family's security. But the rewards outweigh those things. ~ Joan Osborne

I don't think I'm good in bed. My husband never said anything, but after we made love he'd take a piece of chalk and outline my body. ~ Joan Rivers

I was lucky not to have been born pretty. ~ Joan Hickson

We used to wash our hair in buckets and survive on toasted sandwiches, chocolates and soup. ~ Joan Greenwood

About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they're just one thing. ~ Joan Of Arc

I think a lot of the problem is that at 8 o'clock there's nothing on for kids. ~ Melissa Joan Hart

We both know what memories can bring / They bring diamonds and rust. ~ Joan Baez

Mick Jagger could French-kiss a moose. He has child-bearing lips. ~ Joan Rivers

I'm telling you that at eight she knew more about reproduction than Xerox. ~ Joan Rivers

Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A full blown storm where everything changes. The sky goes through four days in an hour, the trees wail, little animals skitter in the mud and everything gets dark and goes completely wild. But it is really God - playing music in his favourite cathedral in heaven - shattering stained glass - playing a gigantic organ - thundering on the keys - perfect harmony - perfect joy. ~ Joan Baez

If our words cannot enhance the peace
We should keep quiet and use our ears
The extent of our perception will increase
As we'll be less to blame for others' tears ~ Joan Marques

They wanted to make her less rural, less of a cartoon. Not that Southern woman are cartoonish - they're the strongest women in this country, but with Val they wanted to take the stereotypical things out. ~ Joan Van Ark

When a man has a birthday, he takes a day off. When a woman has a birthday, she takes at least three years off. ~ Joan Rivers

Old age' is always ten years more than we are. ~ Joan Rivers

Time and judgment collaborate to produce farce, and farce in turn contains much truth; major characters upon the stage may turn out to be lackeys in disguise, while the figures we have overlooked in the midst of the frenetic action unmask and reveal themselves as divinities. (160) ~ Joan Wickersham

The brilliant Schiller was wrong in his Joan of Arc when he said against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. It is actually by means of the gods that we make our stupidity and gullibility into something ineffable. ~ Christopher Hitchens

Everyone needs fudge, Hildy. It's how God helps us cope. ~ Joan Bauer

She was the right girl at the right time. She had only a small repertory of Child ballads, never trained her pure soprano and annoyed some purists because she was indifferent to the origins of her material and sang everything 'sad'. ~ Joan Didion

I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing. ~ Joan Didion

Yesterday I was playing Beethoven's fifth, because I love that. ~ Joan Armatrading

No person could fill twenty-six years of lack. And each personality had learned from experience that is was less painful to set limits than to have some external person set limits for us. (95) ~ Joan Frances Casey

Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time. For forty years I saw myself through John's eyes. I did not age. ~ Joan Didion

A ghostly side note Soldier boy Miller played a Lucifer-like character in the final two episodes of Joan of Arcadia. Coincidence I do find it strangely poetic, ... that a character who shows up on a show about God to play something kind of satanic winds up in the very last two episodes of that show, and then appears in the show that replaces that show on its exact time and night the following season. ~ Wentworth Miller

It was February sixth: eight days until Valentine's Day. I was dateless, as usual, deep in the vice grip of unrequited love. It was bad enough not having a boyfriend for New Year's Eve. Now I had to cope with Valentine datelessness, feeling consummate social pressure from every retailer in America who stuck hearts and cupids in their windows by January second to rub it in. ~ Joan Bauer

I connected very much with all the work of Joan Crawford because she started as a flapper. She used to dance and sing and she was very cute. She had something that was so different from what she is at the end of her life and she started in the silent movies and then went into the talkies. ~ Berenice Bejo

Through music I've discovered other philosophies. Buddhism in particular is one that has always - whenever I've studied it and read about it, it's just been so true to me. And I do try to take some practices of that into my daily life. Whether that's meditating or trying to see the world from that perspective. ~ Joan Osborne

Social gatherings can serve three purposes: networking, gossip, or politics. Many care about the social, some about the gatherings, and a few about neither... ~ Joan Marques

There was no time for bitterness now: eat bitterness, and bitterness eats you. ~ Joan Slonczewski

I always like a charity with people who don't speak English because I get them to do all kinds of things around my house. ~ Joan Rivers

Marx, however imperfectly he worked out the details, set himself the task of discovering the law of motion of capitalism, and if there is any hope of progress in economics at all, it must be in using academic methods to solve the problems posed by Marx. ~ Joan Robinson

So one thing I want to say about life is don't be scared and don't hang back, and most of all, don't waste it. ~ Joan Blos

I did not believe in the resurrection of the body but I still believed that given the right circumstances he would come back. He who left the faint traces before he died, the Number Three pencil. O ~ Joan Didion

Boy George is all England needs - another queen who can't dress. ~ Joan Rivers

Find the good in every day. ~ Joan Maynard

When you're going through a tough spell, it's easy to think that's all your life is about. You forget the good things, forget the quiet places. But they're always inside of us and we can pull them up when we need to set ourselves right. ~ Joan Bauer