Jo Jones Quotes

In all honesty my cake was baking when I met Al - I had made up in my mind already to get physically healthy. He refreshingly was on his own journey so it was almost as if we walked together.

Film is like football - you join a team, get close to one or two people, then never hear from them again. I don't get emotionally involved. Do one, move on.

Wanting the best that life has to offer is so nice. Working for the best that life has to offer is greater.

The moral laws of the Universe are deeply embedded in the constitution of things. We do not break them - we break ourselves upon them.

I was like, 'Oh, my God, girls are so pretty and soft. No stubble burn! What am I doing with guys?' [I] haven't dipped back since, but I was very appreciative of the experience.

Roy Jones still number one and it's gon' be that way baby! For all these doubters, him [points to Larry Merchant] and the rest of them that said Roy Jones is a fluke, now they know.

The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?'

Running was like the friend that never left. It was just always there.

War don't ennoble men, it turns 'em into dogs. It poisons the soul.

I'm not going to sing something if it doesn't make sense to me, or if it makes me look like I'm begging someone or I'm weak, because that's not me.

Love is just love, it can never be explained.

You have typewriters, presses. And a huge audience. How about raising hell?

If trading is like chess, then macro is like three-dimensional chess.

I'm trying to simplify my life, I guess that's my latest project.

Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.

Our society has got to evolve and create better ways of living.

I think any athlete will tell you that season-ending losses stay with you for a long time. If you are one of the main reasons for a season-ending loss, it sticks with you longer.

China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right.

The hardest thing for a musician to learn is how to play WITH people. That's what made the Basie rhythm section.

Militant feminists, I take my hat off to them, they don't like that.

I'm getting hassled by a couple of people to release the CRU station temperature data. Don't any of you three tell anybody that the UK has a Freedom of Information Act.

Cook, at that moment in time, I would have sold my body for a mocha latte

Stop using your phones and laptops as toys and use them to start a revolution.

The referee will now keep track of the time on the field and the shootouts have finally been banned.

Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.

All of you here have one hundred thousand bad drawings in you. The sooner you get rid of them, the better it will be for everyone.

I am a person of faith. I'm certainly not an atheist or an agnostic and I see some divine force somewhere.

The Republic of Texas is no more.

When fighting clowns, always go for the juggler.

To change our laws and culture, the green movement must attract and include the majority of all people, not just the majority of affluent people.

While I am flattered about the speculation of being enticed out of retirement, I'm happy with life as a bad golfer!

You are only a young talent, but we don't know how old your soul is.

I’m a big lipstick girl- I’m old school that way.

I think we have every reason to hope for the best but expect and prepare for the worst.

In the whisper of the leaves appears an interchange of love.

When we run from God, we run away from everything that makes us alive and free. We run away from our own happiness. We leave our place where we belong—close to his heart.

[I want to be remembered] as a sweet Christian girl, who was always loving and kind to everyone.

I always like to see a person stand up to a golf ball as though he were perfectly at home in its presence.

I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.

We need to think bigger, dream bigger, and get bigger.

I've never worked a day in my life. Don't get me wrong. I work at track. If you love what you do, it's not work.

I wasn't a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants.

I was the originator of smack. Some guys rattle with smack; with other guys it rolls right off their shoulders like nothing.

I feel very, very gratified when people are complimentary to what I have done or appreciated it with sincerity... It makes me feel that maybe I did do something that was proper and that was right.

I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober.

Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.

& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.

If there is one beast in all the loathsome fauna of civilization I hate and despise it is a man of the world.

After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.

But I discovered that people like me -- they do, you know, if you like them -- and then it was all right.