Joni Mitchell (Roberta Joan Mitchell) Quotes

In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.

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• Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.

  

  Magdalena Neuner
  • Home
  • Feeling
  • Me

• We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.

  

  Barry Diller
  • People
  • Long
  • Tax

• I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Time
  • Start
  • Brothers

• A lot of times, when you're the leading lady, you get to sing heartwarming songs and that's it, and people don't get a sense of who you truly are.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • People
  • You
  • Lady

• All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen.

  

  Xenophon
  • Up
  • Great
  • Men

• Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • People
  • Good
  • Myself

• I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Dreams

• I have a very all-over-the-place lifestyle. The people I know who are married - 90 percent of them have houses and live in the same place and sleep in the same bed every night.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • People
  • Live
  • Night

• Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Business
  • Success
  • Failure

• Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Man
  • Lose
  • Anger

• I'm always trying to push for women's rights.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Rights

• At the end of the day, you have to sit with the scripts and decide where your heart is.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Heart
  • Day
  • End

• We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

  

  A. J. Muste
  • Life
  • War
  • Peace

• I think lobbying is really an honest profession. Lobbying means trying to persuade Congress to accept your point of view. Sometimes you can give them a lot of facts they didn't have before.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Trying

• Gallows, n. A stage for the performance of miracle plays, in which the leading actor is translated to heaven 

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Heaven
  • Miracle

• The increasing diversification of media ecosystems after decades of state control, along with new digital tools that allow for greater citizen engagement, have led to a dramatic reshaping of the dynamics between citizens, media, and government.

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • Control
  • Engagement

• Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.

  

  Daniel Webster

• A lot of factors go into the longevity of a show.

  

  Eric Close

• Even when I get dressed up to go out, I never use too much makeup.

  

  Ana Ivanovic
  • Up
  • Makeup

• These things I sample, or clip, are things that we share - music, films, sounds. It triggers a layer of participation from the audience as they recognize the material and remember it.

  

  Christian Marclay
  • Music
  • Remember

• I just sort of try to be a good person; try to write music that lifts people and makes me feel good to sing.

  

  Carole King
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• What's missing is the music. I'd like to rant on and on about the music, the mechanics of it. It's what I think about 90 per cent of the day. I don't think about getting high all the time. I guess I do think about sex a lot, though...

  

  Brian Molko Placebo
  • Music
  • Sex
  • Mechanics

• When your feeling down, do you know you can change it, like that. Put on a beautiful piece of music, start singing, that will change your emotion - or think of something beautiful, think of a baby, maybe one you love, really keep that thought in your mind, block out everything but that thought. I guarantee you'll start to feel good.

  

  Bob Proctor
  • Music
  • Love
  • Change

• In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.

  

  Joni Mitchell
  • Music
  • Born
  • Tragedy