Jo Baker Quotes

Dreams are guests who ensoul our lives if we have hospitality for them.

If you want to see what stage comedians did to get laffs a century ago, watch the 1910 'Wizard of Oz.' I hope you have a high tolerance for pratfalls.

And now, with the aid of this common beer glass, I shall play my fifty guinea solo.

As in Jesus' time, so today, tyranny and pride need to be whipped out of the temple, and humility and divine Science to be welcomed in.

Sacrifice self to bless one another, even as God has blessed you. Forget self in laboring for mankind.

The web as a platform is the most powerful platform we have ever seen.

There's something about being a woman in a technology space, unless you happen to be model beautiful, where there's always, always talk about what you look like.

To throw bombs from an airplane will do as much damage as throwing bags of flour. It will be my pleasure to stand on the bridge of any ship while it is attacked by airplanes.

Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.

It's troubling to see how often Winston Churchill is a proponent of massive programs that are really aimed at civilians - starvation blockades and chemical warfare stockpiles and so on.

I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.

The problem I have with schools is, people are taught, 'This is how you do this.' They're not taught about why you do this.

The biographer's problem is that he never knows enough. The autobiographer's problem is that he knows too much.

The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.

American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House in 2001.

Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.

I think most people can identify with the hierarchy of the workplace.

For an actor working in television or film, I think it's important to understand how the medium works - how the camera and lenses work and how the sound and the editing works.

A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it.

Sorrow has its reward. It never leaves us where it found us.

I'd love to be the political voice of my generation, but that's not my gift.

Film can express things that computers never will. Film is a series of photographs separated by split seconds of darkness. Film is light and shadow.

The waves of time wash us all clean.

I never have reservations about doing anything as long as I'm being paid.

The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished

As a parent, I want my kids to have an optimistic outlook, and one that has hope, and that makes sense, where good does triumph over evil and it's not cynical, and it's not snarky.

[Walter White] was also one of the best lobbyist of the period.

The abundance of fruit comes out of intimacy with the Lord.

There is always enough because I died for you.

The poor know they are in need.

Conflict begins at the moment of birth.

Women are the carriers of life. We hold the fruit of our loving beneath our hearts.

I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too.

Disease is an image of thought externalized.

Rushing around smartly is no proof of accomplishing much.

Prayer is not to be used as a confessional, to cancel sin. Such an error would impede true religion. Sin is forgiven only as it is destroyed by Christ - Truth and Light.

Reason is the most active human faculty.

It requires courage to utter truth; for the higher Truth lifts her voice, the louder will error scream, until its inarticulate sound is forever silenced in oblivion

Life is real, and death is the illusion.

Hypocrisy is fatal to religion.

Nothing save divine power is capable of doing so much for man as he can for himself.

Mankind thinks either too much or too little of sin.

You conquer error by denying its verity.

Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error.

When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.

A bee rose up from a sun-filled paper cup, off to make slum honey from some diet root beer it had found inside.

Queen can't work like any normal group. They utilise each others' talents to the fullest. A lot of the band's ideas are revolutionary, a lot of the style is revolutionary.

Reality is the only obstacle to happiness.

When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond.

Industrial-strength foolishness sets in-in males, at least-at about the age of 18. This is why the military prefers males in the 18-to-25-year-old range when there's combat to be done.