Jo Bell Quotes

Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.

I remember one game I got five hits and stole five bases, but none of it was written down because they didn't bring the scorebook to the game that day.

Loyal customers, they don't just come back, they don't simply recommend you, they insist that their friends do business with you.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

I think a lot of people get into stand-up to be the center of attention, which is perfectly legitimate. But I think I got in there to be heard.

A rule without exceptions is an instrument capable of doing mischief to the innocent and bringing grief - as well as injustice - to those who should gain exemptions from the rule's functioning.

Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.

Secrets find a way out in sleep . . . It is the place where there is no pretense.

I am a Quantum Engineer, but on Sundays I Have Principles.

Many of the most significant moments in our lives come not because it all went right but because it all fell apart

Brian Howe had no mother, so he won't be missed.

But what I want most of all is a normal life.

The great advantage [the telephone] possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the instrument.

Status, worry and comparison are ways to madness, not victory.

Every hour you spend writing is an hour you don't spend worrying about your writing.

Jesus is God's way of refusing to give up his dream for the world.

Theoretical physicists live in a classical world, looking out into a quantum-mechanical world. The latter we describe only subjectively, in terms of procedures and results in our classical domain.

Art and religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstacy.

There is light in darkness, you just have to find it.

We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic.

To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.

Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.

As more people of color raise our consciousness and refuse to be pitted against one another, the forces of neo-colonial white supremacist domination must work harder to divide and conquer.

But I do believe in the paranormal, that there are things our brains just can't understand.

Superb historical romance, with a spiritual theme woven seamlessly throughout. I much enjoyed The Covered Deep and look forward to more from its author!

Think of it as the Doorway of No Return. The feeling must be that your lead character, once she passes through, cannot go home again until the major problem of the plot is solved.

I would also say that, in practice, many more Americans are anarchists than would ever use that term.

There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.

Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.

I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn’t taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers’ sword and made me feel powerful and godlike.

Comfort came in with the middle classes.

The starting-point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion. The objects that provoke this emotion we call works of art.

I find that the vast majority of people who are judging are just fearful or insecure.

For Georgina Sparks, love is always a battlefield.

Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world.

I'm a hard-mouthed north-eastern lad. That's me - the Eminem of Northeast England.

Imagine living in a world where there is no domination, where females and males are not alike or even always equal, but where a vision of mutuality is the ethos shaping our interaction.

The thing I do at the beginning is a "voice journal," a free form doc that is the character speaking to me. I just work on it until I start to hear different from my own, or the other characters.

The semi-colon is a burp, a hiccup. It's a drunk staggering out of the saloon at 2 a.m., grabbing your lapels on the way and asking you to listen to one more story.

Nurses nurse and teachers teach and tailors mend and preachers preach and barbers trim and chauffeurs haul and parents get to do it all.

Nurses are there when the last breath is taken and nurses are there when the first breath is taken. Although it is more enjoyable to celebrate the birth, it is just as important to comfort in death.

Detroit, the heart of the country... I grew up on 10 Mile, 2 miles better than 8 Mile.

I have always considered myself as an Agnostic.

I'm not recognized very often, and if I am, it's a die-hard Veronica Mars fan. Which is usually flattering and an honor. I really try not to think about it.

They used to say, 'If we find a good black player, we'll sign him.' They was lying.

Write like you're in love. Edit like you're in charge.

A writing teacher once told me that the most successful movies and books were simple plots about complex characters. You should be able to articulate your concept in a couple of lines.

There's a perilous word fiction writers need to watch out for. The word is 'had.'

You don't miss your water 'Till your well runs dry.

Effective questioning brings insight, which fuels curiosity, which cultivates wisdom.