Joan Rivers Quotes

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

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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 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

• I'll keep going till my face falls off.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Face
  • Going
  • Keep Going

• What's nice for me, having identified myself for years as being rather shy, is now, wherever I am, in public, there tends to be a friendly face who's pleased to see me, and I like that.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Public
  • Shy
  • Friendly

• One of my biggest problems this season was with the clutch at the start of the race. I hate to risk the car.

  

  Alain Prost
  • Hate
  • Car
  • Risk

• Firing is always difficult. The right way: one-on-one. The wrong way: snickering in front of other people, or via email.

  

  David Moore
  • People
  • Difficult
  • Management

• He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.

  

  Mario Puzo
  • War
  • Die
  • Hero

• I think my love of form is especially informed by my background, whether this is creating a wonderful silhouette in a dress or finding the perfect shape for a bowl or the 'just so' angle of a table leg.

  

  John Rocha
  • Perfect

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

  

  Joan Rivers