Joy Quotes

You know, I'm a comedian the same as Bill Maher and Jon Stewart. We all came up the same way. The three of us have interest in politics; I call us fundits, we're fundits! We're not pundits!

I feel bad for young people. The 20s are a nightmare also. The 20s are hard to do.

I do like talk shows. I'm interested in talking to people.

Never eat at a Chinese restaurant named Mama Teresa's Trattoria.

I don't want to do just a liberal show.

I don't profess to be an expert on anything, or have the memory for who ran in 1952. I am an informed American citizen, that's my position.

Monogamy is monotonous, but it's safe you know. And that's my philosophy. And I like to convey that to people.

You really have to know who you are. It takes, uh it's not that easy.

Charity always feels better to the donor than to the recipient.

It is a lot harder to put something back together than to keep it running.

You can certainly go to war about it, but to me it seems pointless.

I never wanted to be the person who said, "I woulda, coulda, shoulda." Life is way too short, and you may not last that long.

Failure isn't really an option because, as my grandmother used to say, "Nothing beats a failure but a try."

If it gets to the point where I actually physically cannot have a child, there's plenty of children in the world that need a stable home and loving parent. I'm so down for adoption.

I kind of do high-low style a lot.

Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it.

In the mid-nineties, diversity in the fashion/beauty business was hard to come by.

I don't have children of my own so I can't say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some of the complexities of it.

You can't improvise if you are tense. Or thinking too much. You have to really let it go.

I love the look of buffed nails. They look neat and chic without actually having to paint your nails-and it takes no time!

Sometimes, we are dealing with our own troubles and feel that we don't have the resources to help one another. Or simply, we just don't know what to do.

When I was younger, I was one of the few girls in the neighborhood who could break dance. That's kind of my local, ghetto-celebrity claim to fame.

I've always said that if anything - whether it was film or television - was something I responded to, then I was open to it.

It's been encouraging to hear the pope talking about climate change and take it away from being a political issue to being one of survival.

You have to move to your own beat.

Almost everyone can do or be something for someone else in need.

No matter how grim things may seem, they always get better.

I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won't work.

I was born with eyes that can never close.

The woman hanging from the 13th floor window on the east side of Chicago is not alone...She is all the women of the apartment building who stand watching her, watching themselves.

In Isleta the rainbow was a crack in the universe. We saw the barest of all life that is possible. Bright horses rolled over and over the dusking sky.

Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life.

Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

Fear is your greatest obstacle - so question your fear. If it does not serve your greatest life then do not make it your master.

I think the writer has to be responsible to signs and dreams. If you don't do anything with it, you lose it.

Writers when they're writing live in a spooky, clamorous silence, a state somewhat like the advanced stages of prayer but without prayer's calming benefits.

One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you're just beginning to read and comprehend dies.

A side benefit of the new and developing technologies is that soon we won't have to feel guilty about the suffering and denigration of the animals because we will have made them up.

Nothing the writer can do is ever enough.

I believe in guilt. There's not enough guilt around these days for my taste.

Good writing never soothes or comforts. It is no prescription, neither is it diversionary, although it can and should enchant while it explodes in the reader's face.

Many writers today are wanderers. There is not only an unhousedness in language - how to convey, to say nothing of converge - but an unhousedness of place.

As you grow older, you'll find that you enjoy talking to strangers far more than to your friends.

Writers end up writing stories-or rather, stories' shadows-and they're grateful if they can, but it is not enough. Nothing the writer can do is ever enough

One of the reasons that Donald Trump cannot properly respond to what was an obvious proper response from an America president is the people in his government.

I have to say that Donald Trump is on probably about the 13th minute of fame.

I think that Rahm Emanuel's political career is going to be very difficult to revive after the mismanagement.

Campaigns and primaries can get ugly. There are always messy squabbles.

I think it's going to be an important policy, the opening of Cuba and I think political policy for the hemisphere.

There's no greater risk to the Israeli position in Washington than to make itself a partisan issue.