Joan Didion Quotes

I never had faith that the answers to human problems lay in anything that could be called political. I thought the answers, if there were answers, lay someplace in man's soul.

Joan Didion

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 5, 1934

Topics

FaithSoulManProblemsThought

Success unshared is failure.

John Paul DeJoria

SuccessFailure

For hundreds of thousands of years, life was brutal. It still is for a good chunk of the planet. The technology and wealth we enjoy in North America is a very new development in history, and I think we miss the challenges of day-to-day survival in our comparatively easy modern lives. Some people will even create problems if they have none.

Jeff Carlson

LifeGoodTechnologyHistoryPeople

I love all dots. I am married to many of them. I want all dots to be happy. Dots are my brothers. I am a dot myself.

Sigmar Polke

LoveMyselfI AmHappyBe HappyDot

My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.

Simon van der Meer

FamilyFatherMotherTeacherCame

I love pressure situations. I won't run for cover, and I'll try to take as much of the heat as possible. Because I feel I can stand it better than most people.

Roger Ailes

LovePeopleStandPressureBetter

The real estate business was something Dad and I could do together.

Ross Perot, Jr.

BusinessTogetherReal EstateReal

As humanity goes online, it's becoming an extremely advanced, large-scale processing unit.

Luis von Ahn

HumanityBecomingOnlineUnitGoes

Striped shirts and printed shorts, jeans, and trousers are all items I buy and wear a lot in my private life.

Liu Wen

LifePrivate LifeJeansBuyWear

I always lived by railroads, and I would find places to just look at the horizon, and I always expected there was something somewhere else. And sometimes I think that's more a metaphysical somewhere else rather than just to get out of the town.

Jason Molina

ThinkHorizonLookFindSometimes

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

Clarence Darrow

MenI AmKnowIgnorantPretendSure

My child has changed things for me. Lately, I really wish there were greater roles for women. I think I see it in a different way now. I look at my little girl and I don't want her to think that all she has to be is pretty and quiet.

Brooke Smith

WomenGirlChildMeThinkWish

I've always been drawn to raw material.

Alice Ripley

AlwaysBeenRawMaterialDrawn

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