Joan Kirner Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Whether I'm hitting .100 or .300, I have resolved to at least enjoy every game.
-
I work out, I go to pilates, I walk and I eat everything I can get my hands on.
-
Most people seem unaware that corporate influence and wealth has taken over public policy, such that government policy now favors the wealthy few at the expense of the people.
-
Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.
-
In the Bronx, you have the southern Italians; in Queens, the Greeks, Koreans and Chinese; in Brooklyn, the Jewish community; and in Harlem, the Hispanics - all with their own markets.
-
I was aware that everybody said I was going to be a vast mega-flop, and that William Hague was just oh-so intelligent, and oh such a great parliamentarian, and therefore so different from me! So I thought, I must deprive them of the satisfaction of proving themselves right.
-
But having set myself these goals, I had to work really hard to achieve them.
-
I am not an enemy of Adventism.
-
Pretty much at all times music motivates me. How can I say this without sounding in any way proud of myself? Obviously I've always written songs that are critical of our government, and talk about our times. Hopefully you attempt to be timeless while doing it.
-
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
-
Before I even knew what that half of my family did, I was interested in performing. I remember being seven years old and up on a stage and loving it. I've always adored it. Not just acting, but the whole process of writing and directing movies, everything that has to do with that part of life. Maybe it's in my blood.
-
The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!
-
In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write?
-
I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing.
-
I feel that I have such an abundance in my life, and once you've seen how many people suffer and how little it takes for you to actually change their lives for the better, it's hard not to do something.
-
Most jokes state a bitter truth.
-
Recognize that dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong, and go out of your way to reward them.
-
cupido dominandi cunctis adfectibus flagrantior est
-
Shakspeare never has six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven: but this does not refute my general assertion.
-
Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
-
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
-
I stopped asking myself questions like what the value of my stock was and started asking more fundamental questions of life and death.
-
I have severe osteoporosis. Your bones start to collapse.
