Jo Jones Quotes

Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.

I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we match teen girls and writing mentors because it changes their lives.

When a man truly sees himself, he knows nobody can say anything about him that is too bad.

A revival means days of heaven upon earth.

Trading gives you an incredibly intense feeling of what life is all about.

Despite the failures you've had, you can be great.

We have 25 or so years invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try to find something wrong with it.

People don't get angry about the half a million dead Iraqis from the sanctions.

When you're over the hill, that's when you pick up speed.

Civility isn't just some optional value in a multicultural, multistate democratic republic. Civility is the key to civilization.

Fashion choices are never arbitrary. Even if you say you don't care, that's a decision. There's something you're trying to say.

Americans need to see people who are honestly trying to learn from each other, even as we make our own points powerfully and fight for our own values and policies.

Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there's always one brave enough to stay.

There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.

I try to just make music that I love, and if I believe in it that's all that matters.

The world's not a very comfortable place if you have a nightmare to face.

Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow

You must go on to remind yourself of God - who God is, and what God is, and what God has done, and what God has pledged Himself to do.

If you're an employer, you want to hire an employee who'll do their job, not do your bidding.

I always feel like there’s no fighter that I can’t figure out.

The task of industry is continuously, year on year, to make more and better things, using less of the world's resources.

There is practically no area of business where the difference between rhetoric and actuality is greater than in the handling of people.

Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.

You understand why some animals eat their young.

Old ladies in wheelchairs with blankets over their legs, I don't think so...retired mermaids.

Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.

There was nothing like a trip to the gynecologist to make one feel just a little violated. Charley

Where men of fine feeling are concerned there is seldom misunderstanding.

It's downright undignified how many blazers I've bought over the years. And will continue to buy. They immediately give shape and add authority. With the perfect blazer, anything is possible.

I get a bit gloomy when it's gloomy.

I feel very fortunate to be healthy, so I try to take advantage of it.

A garden should be natural-seeming, with wild sections, including a large area of bluebells.

The ending has to fit. The ending has to matter, and make sense. I could care less about whether it's happy or sad or atomic. The ending is the place where you go, “Aha. Of course. That's right.”

It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.

I like a lot of things that aren't good for me.

Anytime you go upside a man's head - or a woman - then they have a tendency to blink they eyes. Or close they eyes.

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected.

Being glamorous is about strength and confidence. It's black and white - dramatic. You have to be strong.

I will tell the truth wherever I please.

My account is paid in full. So, why are you calling me?

The universe is the baby of time.

We have the chance to build this new energy economy in ways that reflect our deepest values of inclusion, diversity, and equal opportunity for everyone.

Any successful long-term strategy will require that the green wave fully and passionately embrace the principles of eco-equity.

He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.

I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.

I think, as an actor, you're always traveling. There's a sense of dislocation sometimes from home.

The whole world is simply nothing more than a flow chart for capital.

Often Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.