Joan Van Ark Quotes

When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer.

Joan Van Ark

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• I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Look
  • Hide

• They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Want
  • Japanese
  • Planes

• As I get older, I find that wearing bright colors cheers me up.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • Up
  • Me
  • Find

• I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Up
  • She
  • Mother

• I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Travel
  • Luxury
  • Cuddling

• If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Long
  • Find
  • Little

• It's helpful to have a handbag that's a bit crazy, or shoes that have kiwis on them or something, because it distracts.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Crazy
  • Shoes
  • Helpful

• The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• I'm bad; I wear trainers with everything: with a dress, skirts, all of that.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Bad
  • Everything
  • Dress

• It's like there's this boldness that I have where I'm driven by something that I can't name.

  

  K. Flay
  • Like
  • Name
  • Driven

• This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • World
  • Love
  • Better

• I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Art
  • Past
  • Democracy

• I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Think
  • Political
  • Feminism

• There's just no telling what I'll do. But I can say for certain I will continue to play, record, and put out music.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Music
  • Play
  • I Can

• Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Financial
  • Priorities
  • Top

• With Loopt Star, consumers get to tap interactive rewards wherever they may be.

  

  Sam Altman
  • May
  • Star
  • Rewards

• Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Future
  • Science

• Something in your voice tells me we approach the question of remuneration.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Question

• Men treat men differently than they would a woman.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Men
  • Woman
  • Treat

• If politicians did care about their constituents, they would work harder to seek out people like me. They don't.

  

  Carl Hart
  • People
  • Work

• Reagan said that government is not the solution to our problems, government is the problem. And he was going to dismantle that government. Well, long story short, he failed to do that. He built up the military to a much greater status, more people in it, and actually more employees after the end of the Reagan administration. And, to achieve his objectives, he did some of the very same things that Trump is doing to achieve his. What Ronald Reagan really wanted to dismantle was the welfare state. And he had limited success in doing that.

  

  Brian Balogh
  • Government
  • Problems
  • Solution

• Me myself, I wanna wear sweats with my Jordans one day or a dress with my Jeffrey Campbell.

  

  Karen Civil

• There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.

  

  Alan Hirsch
  • Jesus
  • Walk
  • Side

• When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer.

  

  Joan Van Ark