Jo Bell Quotes

I love nerds. Comic-Con junkies are the tastemakers of tomorrow. Isn't that funny? The tables have turned

Down through the years, I turned to the Bible and found in it all that I needed

I will have no locked cupboards in my life.

because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.

I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.

The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.

I had teen angst for a while, but I think every teenager has the angst.

We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.

I live to harass white folks.

I think one of the most interesting things about automation isn't on the practical side. I think it's about creating magic and wonder and moments of splendor.

Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.

Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing anything terribly new.

There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.

I think it's great that she's not perfect and wasn't perfect. I think that's maybe why so many young girls and different people look up to Mac and respect her even more.

I don't want to portray myself as a daredevil. I'm not at all.

I never really sympathised with Peter Parker.

I've got more junk in the trunk than most 5-foot-1 blonde girls, and I like it.

I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.

To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.

A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure.

Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

The life that you want begins the moment you embrace the life you have because all of it is a miracle.

When one door closes, another one opens.

Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.

Self-esteem is like a difficult-to-cultivate flower. It requires frequent nurturing that occurs when you keep your word and follow through on your promises.

What this power is, I cannot say... All I know is that it exists.

You do better in the gym with a trainer; you don't figure out how to cook without reading a recipe. Therapy is not something to be embarrassed about.

The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom.

A book is so much a part of oneself that in delivering it to the public one feels as if one were pushing one's own child out into the traffic.

It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing hows and whys about things.

I did find out about the koalas and how eucalyptus makes them high and why they sleep all day. They're little druggies.

If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.

In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity.

The best way to refine an interpretation is by getting out and performing.

Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.

If I weren't acting, I would own my own chocolate shop in Paris. I would be a nice, overweight person that makes chocolate all day long.

The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.

Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.

Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

...the holy men sat in an atmosphere reeking of antiquity, so thick with the dust of ages that you can't see through it -nor can they.

Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.

To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this manner automatically assumes accountability and responsibility.

Whether we're talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it's where the learning is.

When I see something unjust, I have to intervene - it's hard for me to watch the underdog suffer.

The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.

Observe, Remember, Compare.

When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better.