Jo Bell Quotes

I must have truly been under his spell, believing anything is acceptable when you're in love.

Bucket lists are supposed to be about doing things you've always dreamt about not torturing yourself.

There are plenty of other ways to mend a broken heart, and doing some list full of stuff that you don't want to do doesn't have to be one of them.

And yet you thought he was the one? Imagine a lifetime without laughter.

Is that what you meant when you said the more you love a person the harder your heart breaks?

I realize that it's not that difficult to remember what people like, especially when you care about them.

Loneliness chosen is always preferable to loneliness imposed

It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther.

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library..

Like begets like honesty begets honesty trust trust and so on.

When we are taught that safety lies always with sameness, then difference, of any kind, will appear as a threat

Writing is my oxygen. Music is my carbon dioxide.

Many patients with cancer are depressed, yet depression is not the cause of cancer.

It's one of the happy things about a world gone so wrong: your personal freakishness don't stand out so much.

Words have the power to make things true if they're said right.

It's been a rollercoaster ride. There have been some great moments and some low points... like when I was leaving Stax. That's when I actually thought of getting out of the business.

I have always had a mystical attitude toward inspiration. That's my nature.

I like to play music and sleep. But most of all, I love to work... I don't really play sports, so I like to spend my time playing guitar or piano.

I'm totally the 'decorate early, start listening to Christmas songs super early' guy. I've just always been that way.

I love Christmas. I'm totally the 'decorate early, start listening to Christmas songs super-early' guy.

My teacher, Josef Gingold, a student of the French school, always loved the music of Saint-Saens and Henri Vieuxtemps and all the French repertoire.

The finest lesson I've learned with age is that all I need is a small team of comrades who inspire me, try not to judge me, and remind me when I'm judging myself.

Good conductors know when to let an orchestra lead itself. Ninety percent of what a conductor does comes in the rehearsal - the vision, the structure, the architecture.

My whole life, I've been watching conductors. I was 7 the first time I played with a conductor. Seeing the ones that do it well, it's an amazing thing.

The American people do not begrudge anyone his or her power until they start abusing it.

Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.

The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.

I want to do everything. That's my problem. Life is short, and I hate the idea of turning down anything. You never know what interesting experience might happen.

The symphonies are the things that, as a soloist, I've not gotten to play. I used to travel the world playing concertos, and then I would sit and listen to the symphony.

I think part of what I love about being an actor is getting to take on different worlds and investigate different genres and travel to different lands.

Halloween is fun, but it wasn't always my favorite holiday. I think Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.

An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time they also create it.

My dad sat me in front of the TV, and instead of putting on Nick Jr. or something, he put me in front of 'Jailhouse Rock' and all the Elvis movies.

Marriage is traditionally old-school in many respects. It is highly antiquated, and, that being said, beautiful.

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

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

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

Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis on racial distinction.

I think music should be the basis of an education, not just something you do once a week.

I have always been a flirt. My mother says whe I was a child, I used to stand outside the house and just smile at everyone who walked by. Like, 'Please take me with you!'

Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Don't store unnecessary data, keep an eye on what's happening, and don't take unnecessary risks.

The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.