Jo Jones Quotes

It is wonderful how cheered a pilot becomes after he shoots down his first machine; his morale increases by at least 100 percent.

When you need a friend most is when no one is cheering.

When you are down and out, find something or someone to love.

The worst injury I've ever seen in a fight was with Anderson Silva when his leg snapped in half.

True love has always been a two-way proposition.

Success is more a part of who you are, than anything outside of you.

Love and happiness is a great match.

Love will put a spring in your step and a bounce in your heart.

Just to clear the record ive never turn down a mma fight against anyone and never will.

I was actually a huge tomboy growing up.

Photography is like an open book to the world.

Fear does its best work in isolation. Courage wears the face of your ability to love and be loved. Breakthrough happens when you discover your self-worth had nothing to do with what you looked like.

I loved having my baby inside of me, but I was very happy when he was finally here.

It's difficult isn't it, when you're in a Mosque and everyone's praying and you really enjoy leapfrog.

The school had a big problem with drugs... especially Class A.

I have a nut allergy. When I was at school the other children used to make me play Russian roulette but force-feeding me a packet of Revels.

I preferred sewing to bossing little children.

I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial.

People think I'm really melancholy and romantic and all whispery. I'm not at all. I'm very direct.

I don't like shopping, and I like my clothes to be comfortable.

Coffee gives me bad breath.

Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.

Michael (Jackson) was so shy, he'd sit down and sing behind the couch with his back to me while I sat with my hands over my eyes-and the lights off.

I don't deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn't deserve that, either. So I'll keep it.

I'd been in love before - I was always in love.

My brother died of cancer two years ago (1998), renal cell carcinoma. He was my only real brother and I didn't know what to do. I'd never been so desperate in my life.

Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.

Be friendly to everybody; protect yourself; people sometimes want a piece of you for no good reason; and always do things out of love not fear.

There's no better way to process pain than to write.

Control the publics perception of you and nobody will care if you have any talent.

Spy plots are hard, really hard.

I've never been in a writer's room.

I wish for myself as an adult that I cared less what people thought of me, especially people who don't know me.

I was raised by a strong mother and I never felt like I had to be a role, you know, I was just me, who I am.

As a musician, I've accomplished what I hoped to accomplish.

I want to work and be happy.

I'm easily destroyed and I operate on emotional levels.

I feel I belong in the movie business and I belong in the security business. It's a natural for me.

Once I retire and slow down, I don't want to be in New York. I want to be somewhere near a lake or a pond, so that on my days when I have nothing to do, I can go fishing.

My friend Megan Holken is a nutritionist. I have spent some time at her home upstate in Sharon Springs, where she told me how to eat right and cook right.

This is what noir is, what it can be when it stops playing nice--blunt force drama stripped down to the bone, then made to dance across the page.

Abandonment doesn't have the sharp but dissipating sting of a slap. It's like a punch to the gut, bruising your skin and driving the precious air from your body.

My first novel, Leaving Atlanta, took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead.

We are, of course, now against any other group burning Qurans. We would right now ask no one to burn Qurans. We are absolutely strong on that. It is not the time to do it.

Pinterest may have more travel intent data than any other site, so many people are pinning where they want to be.

It's a great time to book vacation travel for the winter, .. After the first of the year, airplanes are empty, resorts are empty, and they are very excited to get early bookings.

We will definitely not burn the Koran, no. Not today, not ever.

Love is in the air everywhere I look around. Love is in the air every sight and every sound.

I didn't like to be restricted, because when you're in a choir, you have a part to sing and you sing it. I always liked singing on my own.

I think the first time I ever wore a tuxedo was when I played at the Talk Of The Town in 1967, because it was a nightclub and that was the thing to do.