Jo Jones Quotes

The Gospel is open to all; the most respectable sinner has no more claim on it than the worst.

Do you fear death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid bare. All your sins punished. I can offer you...an escape.

There is no training, classroom or otherwise, that can prepare for trading the last third of a move, whether it's the end of a bull market or the end of a bear market.

The siren song of redistribution of wealth by centralized government never ceases for those who seek irreversible and unusurpable control over the lives and liberties of private citizens.

I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything.

I think that no matter how much you don't like yourself or the drama of your life you can still find some comedy in it.

At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.

I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning.

I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.

I don't collaborate. You're born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.

It is sexy in here or is it just me?

I eat like a horse - my mother still brings me Cadbury's chocolate from Britain; I do have a very healthy appetite - but I work out.

Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers.

Whatever makes your balloon red, Swopes.

Plant a radish, get a radish, never any doubt. That's why I love vegetables, you know what they're about!

Don't you try and go through life worried if someone had liked you or not. You best make sure that they are doing right by you.

I wanted to be a veterinarian. I adored animals, raised everything in the world and decided that was going to be what I was going to do. But I could sing.

The more you work, the more people can see that you're something different from what's come before.

The trouble is that all-encompassing though information technology may be, it will always convey facts and numbers ... what it does not convey is perception, belief and motivation.

I look at obstacles as opportunities.

Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer.

There is a very real danger of our putting our faith in our sermon rather than in the Spirit. Our faith should not be in the sermon, it should be in the Holy Spirit Himself.

You must stand for free speech in the streets.

I have a great plain blue shirt from APC, and a denim one from Dolce that I wear constantly. It's hard to find the perfect denim shirt, but this is it.

The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others' burdens, easing other's loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas.

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

Ethnic stereotypes are boring and stressful and sometimes criminal. It's just not a good way to think. It's non-thinking. It's stupid and destructive.

I found my voice in books.

You don't grow old. You get old by not growing.

When you wear a bow tie, doors open for you.

I've just finished my book, I wrote it on penguins. Come to think of it, paper would have been better.

People who think that once they are converted all will be happy, have forgotten Satan.

The FA have given me a pat on the back. I've taken violence off the terracing and onto the pitch.

Prayer, in many ways, is the supreme expression of our faith in God.

I mean, on the television, I've got to continue to be Star Jones Reynolds. And I enjoy that. But in my real life, I'm a wife now. You can't really be bossy when you're married.

Sometimes bad things are going to happen in your life, and those things can make you stronger if you just learn how to get over them.

Dream the dream, find that extraordinary vision, and keep it in focus.

I like to drink to suit my location.

Start out by celebrating the best in the situation because it allows us to fall in love with it, which connects us to our passion and emancipates the energy.

I had done 25 motion pictures prior to The Partridge Family and nobody knew my name.

People are unlikely to know that they need a product which does not exist and the basis of market research in new and innovative products is limited in this regard.

My grandfather invented the cold air balloon... But it never really took off.

Golf is recognized as one of the more difficult games to play or teach. One reason for this is that each person necessarily plays by feel, and a feel is almost impossible to describe.

Be patient with the negative people of the world. Take a moment to think how they are helping you clarify your own thinking and firming your own resolve. Then, headslap them out of your way.

I don't even want to go to the Pride marches anymore. The politics have been removed almost entirely. They're just huge corporate showcases.

As lonely and sad as I am today, your return will cause a new birth in me.

True love will never fade like a rainbow.

It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School.

I'm not planning to jump off a bridge with no bungee.

So in my junior year, I switched to the drama department.