I spend a lot of time with Buddhists. I'm not a Buddhist, but their relationship with death inte...
JOAN BAEZ Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try to give their best qualiti...
JOAN BAEZ The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organiz...
JOAN BAEZ You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live no...
JOAN BAEZ It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing ...
JOAN BAEZ All serious daring starts from within.
JOAN BAEZ Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
JOAN BAEZ The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organizat...
JOAN BAEZ The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one.
JOAN BAEZ If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
JOAN BAEZ You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost ha...
JOAN BAEZ During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with t...
JOAN BAEZ Action is the antidote to despair.
JOAN BAEZ You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to li...
JOAN BAEZ Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in ...
JOAN BAEZ That's all nonviolence is - organized love.
JOAN BAEZ Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.
JOAN BAEZ Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualit...
JOAN BAEZ The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
JOAN BAEZ As long as one keeps searching, the answers come
JOAN BAEZ I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?
JOAN BAEZ This gives me flash-forwards,
JOAN BAEZ It took many, many years to get to this point in Vietnam.
JOAN BAEZ I thought it was monumentally well run and I had a marvelous time playing it.
JOAN BAEZ He had moved on and it was awful and it hurt like hell, ... No Direction Home.
JOAN BAEZ I think the question that nobody wanted to deal with is the question they're posing: did my kid die ...
JOAN BAEZ I think Cindy and the women have impeccable credentials -- no matter how hard people try to slander ...
JOAN BAEZ I know that the Camp Casey movement is going to end the war in Iraq,
JOAN BAEZ Dylan made it pretty clear he didn't want to do all that other stuff,
JOAN BAEZ I felt very definitely about Crawford, that, whether or not people actually stayed with it, a spark ...
JOAN BAEZ Good morning, children of the 80s. This is your Woodstock, and it's long overdue.
JOAN BAEZ It was the final tear for the overflow and you can't stop running water. Cindy's was the final tear.
JOAN BAEZ I've never had a humble opinion in my life. If you're going to have one, why bother to be humble abo...
JOAN BAEZ Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.
JOAN BAEZ The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sin...
JOAN BAEZ You don't get to choose how you are going to die or when. You can only decide how you're going to li...
JOAN BAEZ It's All Over Now
JOAN BAEZ If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second lab...
JOAN BAEZ The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organ...
JOAN BAEZ I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?
JOAN BAEZ We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up ...
JOAN BAEZ I see a young man playing 'Plaisir d'Amour' on guitar. I knew I didn't want to go to...
JOAN BAEZ If we don’t sit down and shut up once in a while we’ll lose our minds even earlier than we had e...
JOAN BAEZ Seeing you sleeping peacefully on your back among your stuffed ducks, bears and basset hounds, would...
JOAN BAEZ In the first march I went to there were 10 of us. This is huge.
JOAN BAEZ The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.
JOAN BAEZ The first time I got the news, I wasn't happy about the trade. But when they told me Gagne was comin...
DANYS BAEZ I felt like a Palestinian or an Arab every week.
SAM BAEZ There's a lot of things happening. There's a lot of speculation about Lou, about new ownership, abou...
DANYS BAEZ Sometimes they hit two hard line drives right at the chest, that are mistakes, and they're out and y...
DANYS BAEZ I could be upset [about not closing], but what am I going to do with that? Nothing. I can do a lot o...
DANYS BAEZ They told me yesterday that Gagne wouldn't be ready and I would be closing today. If I have to pitch...
DANYS BAEZ You saw the last couple of years when the owner of the Anaheim Angels [Arte Moreno] started doing th...
DANYS BAEZ We didn't seek this out, but after an in-depth exploration, it made sense for us.
DANYS BAEZ Getting the saves I've gotten against them doesn't mean anything special to me. I am just trying to ...
DANYS BAEZ There were a couple of good pitches and the ball found the hole.
DANYS BAEZ Our tank is absolutely pristine. There was no indication of any kind of defects on this tank.
OMAR BAEZ That idea helped me to offer myself to spearhead what became a cause. I became the instrument which ...
SAM BAEZ My mother loved entertaining, and I've followed suit, so we have big celebrations for New Year, ...
JOAN RIVERS When you look at the world, the world isn't just one palette. It's a beautiful rainbow, and ...
JOAN SMALLS A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it fro...
JOAN DIDION I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
JOAN MIRO I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.
JOAN RIVERS Forty for you, sixty for me. And equal partners we will be.
JOAN RIVERS Being Jewish has always been important to me. I now have 6M tattooed on the inside of my left arm. I...
JOAN RIVERS I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery.
JOAN RIVERS I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property...
JOAN RIVERS I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.
JOAN RIVERS I have no methods; all I do is accept people as they are.
JOAN RIVERS Is Elizabeth Taylor fat? Her favorite food is seconds.
JOAN RIVERS I'm always shocked when I get an invitation. People are always shocked when they see me at a par...
JOAN RIVERS Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the ...
JOAN RIVERS I've had so much plastic surgery, when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware.
JOAN RIVERS Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It's all funny. Next. Everyone gets so upset about the w...
JOAN RIVERS I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That...
JOAN RIVERS Fashion is part of our culture, and it's about more than just a pretty dress.
JOAN SMALLS I was no longer, if I had ever been, afraid to die: I was now afraid not to die.
JOAN DIDION Nothing I read about grief seemed to exactly express the craziness of it; which was the interesting ...
JOAN DIDION I was not an attractive child. When I didn't use my Girl Scouts uniform as a uniform, I used it ...
JOAN RIVERS We used to wash our hair in buckets and survive on toasted sandwiches, chocolates and soup.
JOAN GREENWOOD I left my family, and I left my brother and sister, and I went and lived my dream. I saw everybody, ...
JOAN JETT When I came back to it, we amicably separated from Warner Bros. I just picked up where I left off, t...
JOAN JETT Bulgaria is fascinating. Because it had been a Communist country until the mid-80s, so it had just r...
JOAN CUSACK What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is go...
JOAN DIDION I'm a fiend for costume jewellery and have countless pairs of rhinestone or diamante earrings, w...
JOAN COLLINS I love getting back to Wivenhoe. I get out of my wig, bustle and costume in three minutes flat at th...
JOAN HICKSON What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it's the Super Bowl. The ad ...
JOAN BLADES Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.
JOAN LARSEN When I finish dressing before a night out and have put on all the accessories, I usually look at mys...
JOAN COLLINS I used to go over to Gene Kelly's house and play volleyball, and Paul Newman and Marlon Brando w...
JOAN COLLINS Influence: What you think you have until you try to use it.
JOAN WELSH Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can ...
JOAN RIVERS Writers are always selling somebody out.
JOAN DIDION Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until y...
JOAN ERICKSON Roache's statement after his acquittal was dignified but his supporters were angry. They demanded to...
JOAN SMITH Jesus
JOAN DIDION If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi...
JOAN POWERS A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a...
JOAN RIVERS A heart filled with anger has no room for love.
JOAN LUNDEN I remember walking across Sixty-second Street one twilight that first spring, or the second spring, ...
JOAN DIDION Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never t...
JOAN CRAWFORD Simple things bring infinite pleasure. Yet, it takes us a while to realize that. But once simple is ...
JOAN MARQUES We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.
JOAN DIDION I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.
JOAN COLLINS When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not th...
JOAN DIDION We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them att...
JOAN DIDION If you're coasting, you're either losing momentum or else you're headed downhill.
JOAN WELSH Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of ...
JOAN BORYSENKO The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
JOAN BORYSENKO My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy.
JOAN RIVERS There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.
JOAN RIVERS Can we talk?
JOAN RIVERS Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.
JOAN GILBERTSON A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -- pills or stairs.
JOAN WELSH To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have ev...
JOAN DIDION The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soo...
JOAN DIDION The Four Rules of Life:
1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don't be upset at the res...
JOAN BORYSENKO Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look...
JOAN BORYSENKO Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europ...
JOAN DIDION A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the u...
JOAN DIDION The Universe knows itself and expands itself through me.
JOAN BORYSENKO Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended a...
JOAN DIDION We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we share...
JOAN DIDION To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that ...
JOAN DIDION According to my sister, the expert novelist Jackie Collins, most men stray. And sex doesn't mean any...
JOAN COLLINS If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you...
JOAN SUTHERLAND Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
JOAN DIDION I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all...
JOAN RIVERS There is in Hollywood, as in all cultures in which gambling is the central activity, a lowered sexua...
JOAN DIDION Death affords those who are left an opportunity to reevaluate everything. And though we would give a...
JOAN BORDOW Sometimes you wonder how you got on this mountain. But sometimes you wonder, How will I get off?
JOAN MANLEY ...the story of a man who saw three fellows laying bricks at a new building:
He approached the fi...
JOAN BORYSENKO The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect sp...
JOAN DIDION My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.
JOAN RIVERS Journalism has always existed in two different realities . . . the economic marketplace and [the] sp...
JOAN KONNER I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. W...
JOAN DIDION Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from whi...
JOAN DIDION I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.
JOAN RIVERS I think nobody owns the land until their dead are in it.
JOAN DIDION My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid f...
JOAN RIVERS No woman has an abortion for fun.
JOAN SMITH Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw fro...
JOAN LUNDEN To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.
JOAN KLEMPNER Just by making a decision to stay out of politics, you are making the decision to allow others to sh...
JOAN KIRNER Even though everybody's lives are different, in general we're all human beings, and we go th...
JOAN JETT The 325-foot Seagram Tower is the most southerly and closest to the Canadian falls and also affords ...
JOAN LINGARD I can't imagine being a single parent or a single parent that doesn't have a lot of money. T...
JOAN CUSACK It has been said that on screen I personified the American woman.
JOAN CRAWFORD I went on a book tour immediately after 9/11. I was due to leave the following Wednesday, so I just ...
JOAN DIDION We aim to express the passion of our members in something actionable that we can all in fact do.
JOAN BLADES All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.
JOAN CHEN Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's ...
JOAN CUSACK We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate...
JOAN DIDION I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.
JOAN RIVERS Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want...
JOAN JETT I think there's nothing better than laughing in life, so that's nice, to be thought of as so...
JOAN CUSACK I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, He would have put diamonds ...
JOAN RIVERS I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the wor...
JOAN CUSACK Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It'...
JOAN JETT My personal style is bipolar. Sometimes I feel like dressing in a boyish leather jacket; other times...
JOAN SMALLS A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it.
JOAN LUNDEN The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
JOAN COLLINS It kills me when people talk about California hedonism. Anybody who talks about California hedonism ...
JOAN DIDION I had a friend who was a plastic surgeon, so he would do little things. I never had, like, a full th...
JOAN RIVERS Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wi...
JOAN COLLINS For me the challenge isn't to be different but to be consistent.
JOAN JETT We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compas...
JOAN HALIFAX Acting is my true love. I would like to have been a serious actor, and I plan to in the next life. I...
JOAN RIVERS My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.
JOAN JETT Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and ...
JOAN RIVERS The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it.
JOAN RIVERS Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.
JOAN DIDION Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
JOAN DIDION My mother 'gave teas' the way other mothers breathed. Her own mother 'gave teas.' Al...
JOAN DIDION Diets, like clothes, should be tailored to you.
JOAN RIVERS Settings are obviously important - and as a writer, you have to respect what was real at the time of...
JOAN LINGARD One of the main secrets to staying young is staying healthy. I've sometimes had to suppress a sm...
JOAN COLLINS You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.
JOAN JETT For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life m...
JOAN MIRO I used to get into the government car and switch on Chopin or someone I liked to hear at the end of ...
JOAN KIRNER The arrangement of the words matters, and the arrangement you want can be found in the picture in yo...
JOAN DIDION I wasn't beautiful, so there were plenty of character roles. I never did any Shakespeare, I'...
JOAN HICKSON Once I got to high school and auditioned for a play and got in, I thought this was really what I was...
JOAN ALLEN The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
JOAN MIRO When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important tha...
JOAN ARMATRADING When I first met Antonin Scalia, I was a small child with one brown ponytail atop my head. Which is ...
JOAN LARSEN And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your record...
JOAN JETT Most families need both parents to work. Moms need to be able to work and earn fair pay and have the...
JOAN BLADES You can take charge, kick ass, do whatever you have to do and it's okay. You can blow people up....
JOAN SEVERANCE Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.
JOAN DIDION My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.
JOAN BAUER I think that in our society we should do everything to encourage child-bearing and family-making. An...
JOAN LUNDEN We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to ...
JOAN BLADES What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.
JOAN MIRó Reading should be a pleasure, not a chore.
JOAN RIVERS Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only questio...
JOAN DIDION I mean, even my dressing room at the studio has candles and cushions and cashmere rugs and things.
JOAN COLLINS Every time an article is written about me or any of my contemporaries who's had the fortune and ...
JOAN COLLINS So now 20 years later people want us to get together so they can take shots at all these old babes t...
JOAN JETT I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the b...
JOAN CUSACK