Joan Didion Quotes
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself.
Joan Didion
Quotes to Explore
Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.
Ingrid Newkirk
We're fabricating a state-of-the-art concessions system for our touring, so we can feed the people and give them everything they need without having to wait on it.
Zac Brown Band
Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more serious threat, and we need to shelve many of the orthodoxies we have held so dear.
Gavyn Davies
Any movement at all that reduces disease, that reduces overdoses, that reduces property crime, that reduces violent crime, is good.
Gary Johnson
I am not struggling. What I do, it is what I do.
Vince Gill
Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?
Camille Paglia
Lookin' so innocent,I might believe you if I didn't know.Could'a loved you all my life,If you hadn't left me waiting in the cold.And you got your share of secrets,And I'm tired of being last to know.And now you're asking me to listen'Cause it's worked each time before.
Taylor Swift
Ὀλβίσαι δὲ χρὴβίον τελευτήσαντ' ἐν εὐεστοῖ φίλῃ.
Aeschylus
So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Несчастные эгоистичны, злы, несправедливы, жестоки и менее, чем глупцы, способны понимать друг друга. Не соединяет, а разъединяет людей несчастье...
Anton Chekhov
It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes.
Alva Myrdal
Yeah, I was born in Montreal and I go back to Vancouver and Toronto a lot, so I have a sense of being Canadian, and I was raised by two Canadians, and my wife is Canadian, so yeah, I feel it.
Jason Reitman
I think that you try to raise the bar on whatever you do because you know, in this day of having to deal with a lot of reality TV, people say that scripted programming is dying, so you have to try to create something that can live in people's minds, long after they see it.
Kevin Costner
Wilt thou fear that, and fear not my desire?
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.
Ava Gardner
Whilst the Bihar calamity damages the body, the calamity brought about by untouchability corrodes the very soul.
Mahatma Gandhi
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself.
Joan Didion
