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

• As in the early 20th century, the elemental forces of globalisation have unravelled broad solidarities and loyalties.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Early
  • 20th Century

• 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

• The essence of the ludicrous consists in surprise,--in unexpected terms of feeling and explosions of thought,--often bringing dissimilar things together with a shock; as when some wit called Boyle, the celebrated philosopher, the father of chemistry and brother of the Earl of Cork.

  

  Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Thought
  • Surprise
  • Philosopher

• It pays to cultivate popularity. It doubles success possibilities, develops manhood, and builds up character.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Up
  • Character
  • Success

• Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Life
  • Family
  • Woman

• We have bred multiple generations of people who have not experienced knowing where you are the moment a news story broke, with that news story being great and grand and something that elevates society instead of diminishes it.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • People
  • Great
  • Society

• 'Frankenstein' was all about the idea that, through electricity and the destruction of night, man creating light and darkness, we took on god-like powers and then abused them like gods, and we are only men. That's a story about man making a man in his own image. The inversion of natural order.

  

  Benedict Cumberbatch
  • God
  • Men
  • Night

• 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