Jo Brand Quotes

You shouldn't eat animals, it's mean to them.

The Holy Spirit ain't got a pen.

When you bump into your own mom at an orgy, it's hard not to get her to read into certain things.

I'm a vegetarian. I believe that we're all equal. I ain't got no right to kill. Say a fly comes in my house, I tolerate that little a**hole.

Today's 'Sesame Street' will NOT be brought to you by the number 34 or the letter D.

If anybody needs any help with anything, I'm prepared to help.

It doesn't take an incredible manner of analysis to reveal that our primary desires are incessantly stimulated to keep us basic consumers.

If you're a drug addict, often you're stealing - I've gotten done for shoplifting a few times.

The way I've been with drink and drugs suggests I have a tendency to get addicted to things.

The greatest poverty one can have is to be poor in one's heart and for falling in love, he is truly happy. He discovers purpose.

If you're a drug addict, then you've always got drugs, so you're a criminal. So you're gonna get into problems.

If people associate you with the idea of loads of money, they in turn will give some of that money to you.

I'm a recovering drug addict, so it's not a subject that I take lightly, but I do agree that the criminalization of narcotics is the deliberate inhibition of human consciousness.

Our basic fundamental desires are overly stimulated. A friend of mine said, "you have a generation of people that have been accidentally marketed to."

I am too busy thinking about killing myself.

We can influence the future but not see it.

How can I throw my life away in the least unhappy way?

Tool - something with a use on one end and a grasp on the other end.

The point is to explore whatever may be helpful for thinking, understanding, and acting responsibly over long periods of time.

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.

Want to know where the action in a culture is? Watch where new language is turning up and where the lawyers collect, usually in that sequence.

When a generation talks just to itself, it becomes more filled with folly than it might have otherwise.

There should always be in sight the draw — a kind of a beacon that draws you on through the labyrinth.

The technology of synthetic biology is currently accelerating at four times the rate of Moore's Law. It's been doing that since 2005, and it's likely to continue.

Civilization’s shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems.

Historians will consider this a dark age. Science historians can read Galileos technical correspondence from the 1590s but not Marvin Minskys from the 1960s.

You own your own words, unless they contain information. In which case they belong to no one.

As you gain elevation [on the mountain] your IQ goes down - but your emotional affect goes up, which is great for having a mythic experience, whether you want to or not.

Programming (or making music) at night is dreamtime, a period exclusively mental, utterly absorbed, sustained and timeless, placeless, disembodied.

Many of my contemporaries in the developed world see subsistence farming as soulful and organic, but it is a poverty trap and an environmental disaster.

This is pretty much the infrastructural stuff that comes along with large quantities of energy. Whichever technology we are looking at has serious hazardous issues.

We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten

A long list of propositions does not necessarily make a coherent argument

The big bad monster wasn't green and hiding under the bed, it wore tasteless floral prints, bright scarlet lipstick and sat in the kitchen smoking and saying 'bollocks' alot.

The stranglehold of the departed was much resented by the new generation of aspiring authors. Which is why it is who did make the breakthrough were so admired.

It is often the parishioners, the men and women in the pews, who set the tone.

Because there was no pre-existing patrician elite, those successful in the new book industry could write very swiftly to the top of the social hierarchy.

A personality for the incredibly beautiful can be a pointless cargo...

Print, it transpired, was not just an instrument of agitation and change: now it was equally necessary to win the peace.

Dawn and dusk are mutual friends of the sun

Good evening, children, ' Said Nurse Matilda, and she gave a loud thump on the floor with her big black stick. 'I am Nurse Matilda.

The Agency was doubtful, because they had already sent a lot of nurses and nannies and governesses to Mr. and Mrs. Brown's family. 'The person you want, ' they said, 'is Nurse Matilda.

Have you been out in society recently? 'Cause it's SHIT.

Sometimes she couldn't tolerate a man's physical superiority. No wonder they were so damned macho.

Create your own future

What others see in you now is just a MILD chapter of you

We are hard-wired to engage with those we trust, and this hard-wiring has led to a constant push for greater interaction and connection on the Web.

Launching a brand is not for those with thin skin. It takes courage, intelligence and foresight.

Every great brand goes back to a courageous individual who dared to say 'NO' to the status quo.

Brand growth and dominance is created by having the highest brand value, not the lowest price tag.