Joan Rivers Quotes

My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy.

Joan Rivers

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• The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Government
  • Goal
  • Creating

• There are so many devices that can receive video, creating complexities, because suddenly you can have a TV, laptop, smartphone, pads. And they are of different sizes. It's clear that you need to standardise and get a much more efficient TV delivery.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Different
  • You
  • Need

• 'Sleepless' was the first thing that came out and really gained a lot of traction online.

  

  Flume
  • First
  • Really
  • Sleepless

• I remember someone telling me that when he saw the back of a woman's head, he knew that was the woman he was going marry. I laughed that away as silly talk. But I guess when a relationship has to happen, it happens seamlessly. Your partner just walks into your life.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Relationship

• Any reaction is better than none.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Better
  • Reaction
  • Than

• I've been asked to interview for many managing jobs, and I never said yes because I was never serious about it, and I thought it would be wrong to go through that process.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Serious
  • Thought
  • Process

• Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Always
  • Innovation
  • Being

• Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • God
  • Business
  • Attention

• To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

  

  Man Ray
  • Society
  • Painter
  • Useful

• Finding your style is like putting puzzle pieces together.

  

  Lara Spencer
  • Together
  • Style
  • Puzzle

• In 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes).

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Revolution
  • Scenes
  • Romanticizing

• I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Never
  • Show
  • Anything

• I started mountain-bike riding two years ago, which is much better than riding a stationary bike in the gym. Mountain biking is a total body workout.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Body
  • Mountain
  • Gym

• I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Ideas
  • Jazz

• The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Life
  • Character
  • Kids

• The environmental problems of developing countries are not the side effects of excessive industrialisation but reflect the inadequacy of development.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Problems
  • Environmental

• We don't give importance to Page 3 or to appear at all the events. Our focus is on our kids and our home.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Focus

• I'm very affected by what I watch and read.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Read
  • Very
  • Watch

• To make harmonics scream, I first dump my Floyd Rose real quick, hit a harmonic with my left hand while the string is still flapping, and then use the bar to pull it up to the pitch I wanna hit.

  

  Darrell Lance Abbott
  • Up
  • Real
  • Hand

• I suppose my life has always been about pleasing people, making sure they're all right, doing the right thing. Then, suddenly, you have to face up to what you want and be honest about it.

  

  Emilia Fox
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Our career is a dream. I mean, we get to act, travel around the world, and meet cool people. What's not to love!

  

  Mary-Kate Olsen
  • People
  • World
  • Career

• Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.

  

  Adrian Anthony Gill
  • Country
  • Kids
  • Sports

• We've got a lot of guys in here that are playing for pride and contracts and different things. Now that we are out of the race, guys are playing looser and you can see it in our play.

  

  Wes Walz
  • Play
  • Pride
  • Race

• My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy.

  

  Joan Rivers