Jo Bell Quotes

Although I hardly ever turn on the TV set unless it's football season, I do watch a lot of TV on my iPad - perfect for long airplane journeys.

Every orchestra is different. Sometimes, you're blown away by a particular musician. If I'm playing the Brahms concerto, it's crucial to have a great oboe player, because we work in tandem.

Actors want to do Shakespeare again and again, or want to do Hamlet. When you hear one guy do Hamlet and another guy do it, it's going to be a whole different experience.

Conducting is a strange thing to teach.

There's nothing more frustrating than seeing a conductor say, 'Play softer,' as they're waving their hands in huge gestures.

Kids need to be structured in some way, but you don't want to force something down their throats that they have no interest in.

You don't have to have lots of love affairs to know what love is.

If you have created an image of yourself at 13 and it is still with you at 17, it needs to be dropped.

I'm very good at meeting people, very outgoing.

I have, I think, eight mentors. It's crazy, but I need them. They are all really important to me. They keep me grounded and advise me.

I wanted to be a journalist for a long time.

I'm awkward around girls.

I love anything that kind of removes me from myself and employs something else. So, I love accents and I love pretending.

The damning tho't stuck in my throat and cut me like a knife, That she, whom all my life I'd loved, should be another's wife.

I've never seen a job being done by a five-hundred-person engineering team that couldn't be done better by fifty people.

Every big computing disaster has come from taking too many ideas and putting them in one place.

Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week.

Galois read the geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn.

Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also the source of such beauty as may spring from mathematics.

Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler.

If a lunatic scribbles a jumble of mathematical symbols it does not follow that the writing means anything merely because to the inexpert eye it is indistinguishable from higher mathematics.

If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.

It wasn't like a "I know I wanted to do this," I was sort of just - I was five and my dad kinda said hey, you wanna be an actor and I said sure.

The fans are especially amazing in Mexico. You look out your window, and there are fans that stay out there all night long.

Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.

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.

Art is an end in itself; its values are intrinsic.

There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.

Cezanne is the Christopher Columbus of a new continent of form.

Customers who are merely satisfied remain your customers only as long as everything goes their way.

The best part? Probably being able to portray such a respectable, ethical, intelligent, strong woman. That's still pretty rare in our business, unfortunately.

I started when I was in college because I was shy and thought it would be a good way to break out of that.

I started acting when I was about 18. I was a model for a couple of years before that

I love cold, rainy weather.

I'm a firm believer in doing things that scare you.

After being out so long, I was more anxious to pitch than anything, just ready to get back into things. I can't imagine a better situation to test me against some pressure.

The free man is not he who defies the rules ... but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his being, seeks rather to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest each day's experience.

It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.

The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.

Feminism as a political movement has to specifically address the needs of men in their struggle to revolutionize their consciousness.

...move from emphasis on personal lifestyle issues toward creating political paradigms and radical models of social change that emphasize collective as well as individual change.

We all may have prejudices, but we're not all part of a system that reinforces, reinvents and reaffirms itself every day of our lives, systemically.

All my life I have longed to have a loving relationship that would last a lifetime.

I think stress is anything going on in our lives that impinges on our capacity to have optimum well being.

as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning for a master who will set us free and claim us because we cannot claim ourselves

The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem.

Love is an action, never simply a feeling.

The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength and courage from it, to dwell in a community.

If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue.

Since reality TV everything is much more celebrity-oriented, there are gossip magazines, people seem to be obsessed with every little detail. That's why I'm so pleased that I'm not starting out now.