Joni Mitchell (Roberta Joan Mitchell) Quotes

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

Joni Mitchell

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• I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Television
  • Own
  • Watch

• If you're not careful as an actor, you can find yourself, at a certain point, a little bit bored.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Yourself
  • Actor
  • Find

• When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Heart
  • Write
  • Get

• This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he tell her? Should he not tell her? He's torn, Georgie. This is drama.

  

  Ed Wood
  • People
  • Guy
  • Girl

• In the studio, there's no tiptoeing. As opposed to big, blow-out arguments, there are just lots of little solutions.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Blow
  • Just
  • Big

• I got in trouble for saying I would move my family to Europe, but I said it.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Family
  • Said
  • Saying

• The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Woman

• I interpret contemporary human social behavior to comprise hypertrophic outgrowths of the simpler features of human nature joined together into an irregular mosaic.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Together
  • Nature

• Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Time

• I love my iPhone; it's great to have a camera around all the time.

  

  Win Butler
  • Time
  • Great

• When I was young, I had no choice as to what I was eating.

  

  Danny Meyer

• I made my living in comedy, but I'm not a silly person. I've got all these sides to me. Even in my movies that I've written myself, the characters sometimes border on great anger or nutsiness or other kinds of behavior. I'm not just doing fart jokes for two hours.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • Silly

• You have to take the belt, and I dont give my opponents a chance to take my belt. I go out there and take away their opportunity to take my belt away from me.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • Opportunity

• The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

  

  James Hillman
  • People
  • Power
  • Society

• It's always been a subtext of our secular optimism that you solve the economic problem, and all other things sort of take care of themselves. Well, we seem to be doing well on the economic side - we are doing very well - and the other things are not solving - they're compounding.

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

• I don't necessarily want to hear about my talent or my greatness as an actor.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Greatness

• To be the first British athlete to win a gold is amazing, but to win it in the U.K. is something else. Also, having my family here with me has made it extra special, and I know all my friends back home have been cheering me on and putting posters in their windows. I want to thank them all.

  

  Jade Jones
  • Family
  • Home
  • Friends

• Having grown up in Iceland and Los Angeles, gone to school in Europe and America, and lived and worked in London and New York, my insatiable appetite for travel has informed many of my life decisions.

  

  Aslaug Magnusdottir
  • Life
  • Up
  • School

• Let us remember the poor, and not forget kindness to strangers; above all, let us love God with all our soul, and might, and strength, and our neighbour as ourselves.

  

  Athanasius
  • Love
  • Kindness
  • Neighbour

• It doesn't take a degree in economics to know that something is wrong when it takes $30 or $40 to fill up the gas tank.

  

  Evan Bayh
  • Wrong
  • Economics
  • Gas Tank

• Our lyrics deal with real issues that face all humans: choices in life, depression, self-esteem. And the fans know that we are there for them, and they are there for us.

  

  Kim Nam-joon BTS
  • Life
  • Humans
  • Fans

• If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.

  

  Bill Vaughan

• As a musician, you never understand why people connect with certain songs.

  

  Lisa Loeb
  • People
  • Why

• Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

  

  Joni Mitchell
  • Depression
  • Sand
  • Pearl