Jo Graham Quotes

I don't have children - yet! But I can imagine a love so potent that you would give your life for them. To give your life over to something else outside of you, that's love.

Like, Mission Of Burma to me always sounded almost like they were part of the British Arty New Wave. I kind of like that. I like not being able to tell the difference.

I think now, more than anytime I can remember, bands are sounding pretty similar whether they're English or American, from Manchester or London... or Leeds or Welsh or Irish.

Being a singer now I have to get all fussy... I must have my ginger and lemon and all that.

My own preference is for mixed (beds) where there are ...groups of larger shrubs on corners and elsewhere to give shape to the views and to create surprises.

I'm still amazed by the process of recording.

When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in the air to be taken, and to lose the sense that somebody once made it.

Effective as perspective is... it becomes a deadening influence on an artist's natural way of seeing things once it is accepted as a system - as a mechanical formula.

The artist is a man who finds that the form or shape of things externally corresponds, in some strange way, to the movements of his mental and emotional life.

I hope I will have achieved something lasting.

I like the world we've got. If there is anything special and magical, I have to find it in the ordinary stuff.

All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.

There are two great tragedies in life: one is to fail to achieve one's grandest ambitions, and the other one is to succeed.

I'm afraid I'm not personally qualified to confuse cats, but I can recommend an extremely good service.

I mean, if I went 'round saying I was an emperor, just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!

I loved watching Ken Griffey Jr play for the Mariners and when he was trade to the Reds I was especially excited to get the opportunity to watch him play in person.

I asked Mother how she endured so many years of goodbyes. She quoted a mountain-man who said, 'Make the least of all that goes and the most of all that comes.'

We shouldn't blame the Panama programme for the World Cup bid failing

I have to choose my words carefully because I don't want to sound like one of those who goes on about how things were better in my day.

No one sees themself as the villain in their story.

I've been called to the slums of the streets and the ditches of the world.

In training everyone focuses on 90% physical and 10% mental, but in the races its 90% mental because there's very little that separates us physically at the elite level

The world is not always ours to understand.

I always feel a responsibility to the people I write about. I feel obligated to portray them in the way they feel is proper.

My style is not trendy by any means; my inner artists loves to shine through in my wardrobe.

Religious traditions can be reinterpreted in a manner that assists healing, corrects distortions, and expands vision.

Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.

I've spent a lot of time wondering, What's going to happen? What's going to happen? I try not to allow myself to do that much anymore. I think ive gotten more comfortable with the unknown.

My mother had lived in London since I was little, so she never got to see my school plays and stuff.

Texting is not flirting, if you don't care about me enough to say the words than that's not love, I don't like it!

Maybe I should sit. Plenty of people use sitting as a way to pass the time.

If I had a normal job and had been moving up, I'd be management level now.

The best you can hope for is a great collaborator.

The thing you must really do in television is bring yourself to everything you do - you can't try to be anybody else.

I've made out more this season on a family-friendly show than ever in my actual life.

I think concerns with a member of Congress with a cabinet official being active in business. I don't see why it wouldn't apply to the president.

The world we live in takes a multifaceted approach. To the American taxpayer: We need to be investing in improving people's lives before the terrorists try to take over.

I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can't stop.

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.

I hope we follow Mr. Snowden to the ends of the Earth to bring him to justice.

Iran is part of the problem, not the solution. And the Russian government is ignoring reality.

The great hindrance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital.

Today, more pastors than ever need profound encouragement and rejuvenation.

To me, my grandfather’s urgency to preach the Gospel one more time to a lost and dying world is the definition of 'finishing well,' and it’s such a blessing and lesson.

Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society.

The world I'm interested in is the one where things are not named.

I think comedy is the most difficult thing in the world, I really do.

In society it is etiquette for ladies to have the best chairs and get handed things. In the home the reverse is the case. This is why ladies are more sociable than gentlemen.

For a driver to be driven by somebody else is an ordeal, for there are only three types of drivers: the too fast, the timid and oneself.

It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.