Jo Bell Quotes

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

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.

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.

feminism is for everybody

I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.

When I do get time, I like to hike and I take lots of vitamins and powders to keep healthy.

I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.

I learned that I could not do enough work; it's always incomplete. When you ask a question, the answer will raise four more questions, and those four will become eight.

Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.

I believe our world desperately needs Good News.

If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody.

I think what's happened in the modern world, there's a lot of people that sound very smart and it's very compelling and alluring, but it leaves you empty.

To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients - care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment, and trust, as well as honest and open communication.

You're here, you're breathing, you are the recipient of an extraordinary act of generosity called life.

Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.

I'm empathetic to a fault. I really do - embarrassingly enough - tear up when someone squishes a bug in front of me.

I've got a lot of nervous energy and I trip a lot. I don't have a good equilibrium. In the places where the physical comedy was necessary, it came very naturally and it was fun.

Choose your props wisely.

I might not be perfect, but I feel perfect. I think that's all that matters.

I'll tell you what I hate - bands like My Chemical Romance.

Anyone living in Los Angeles who has opposable thumbs is required to write a screenplay.

If you can write each day, do it, and meet a quota. Minimum 350 words a day. A baboon can do 350 words a day. Don't be shown up by a baboon

My philosophy on writing books is that if you learn only one new thing, or even get a new take on something you already know, it's worth it.

If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.

If you see a better world, you're morally obligated to create it

Cycling also offers a sense of independence, of being able to get up and go wherever and whenever you want. That's invaluable.

Detail is the heart of realism, and the fatty degeneration of art.

The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confess this or not, men know that just is not true.

Imagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition.

When we work with love we renew the spirit; that renewal is an act of self-love, it nurtures our growth.

Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?

. . . no Black woman can become an intellectual without decolonizing her mind.

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

Within a capitalist consumer society, the cult of personality has the power to subsume ideas, to make the person, the personality into the product and not the work itself.

I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.

Do not expect to receive the love from someone else you do not give yourself.

The reason you want your kids to pay attention in school is you haven't the faintest idea how to do their homework.

But, people are recognizing me more. Sometimes fans just approach me on the street and say how much they love the show. It's great to get that kind of feedback.

Trust is something that happens within people only when it is created between people.

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

God is bigger than the Christian faith.

I wake up in the morning, walk downstairs, and just bang on the piano and write about what's going on in the world around me.

The Bible tells a story. A story that isn’t over. A story that is still being told. A story that we have a part to play in.

Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you need to repent of it.

Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to the apes.

Watching a child first learn to crawl on a carpet somehow has more significance to you as you get a little older. Perhaps it is that you have suffered more.

Whether we are reading the Bible for the first time or standing in a field in Israel next to a historian and an archaeologist and a scholar, the Bible meets us where we are. That is what truth does

For Jesus, heaven and hell were present realities. Ways of living we can enter into here and now. He talked very little of the life beyond this one.

Visual journaling allows us to access our inner language of imagery and express it both verbally and visually, while exploring the connection between image and word.