Jo Jordan Quotes

Our country is now at war and the only way out is forward. I would not change one word I have spoken against war but that is no longer the issue. We must now stand together.

If, after the election, you find a Cy Vance as Secretary of State and a Zbigniew Brzezinski as head of National Security, then I would say we failed. And I'd quit.

Sometimes it's necessary to do wrong. Sometimes it's the only way to make things right.

What unimaginable luxury, never to wrestle with whether or why, never to lie awake nights wondering what if

This was the truth at the core of my existence: this yawning emptiness, scantily clad in rage. It had been there all along.

That's what it is to love someone: to give whatever you can while taking what you must.

Differences among deaf people are okay, but we need to recognize those differences and work together.

The Biblical worldview is not given to us in the discursive and analytical language of philosophy and science, but in rich and compact language of symbolism and art.

'We need to do more' is not very sophisticated thinking and not good sales management.

Sales management is the most critical - and underappreciated - role in the sales force. Companies struggle to find something powerful to train sales managers on.

Over the long haul, salespeople come and go, but having top-shelf management in place is the ultimate answer.

We ask sales managers what they would do if they had an extra hour in their week. They always say they would get out in the field and coach their reps. Yet, they don't.

Someone is going to have to explain to me at some time how raising taxes on job-creators is going to create more jobs.

Let's get put in place a better health care system the American people deserve.

I'm not here to promote your pride.

All the cul-de-sacs are closed for Scotland.

It's not enough to picture their outward appearance. Give them a background and sphere of influence.

A journey takes time. And the lessons we learn best, they come from the journey, not the destination.

Improbable things happen a lot...

My reading practice is one reason I mostly don't read electronically. Different books are in different rooms of my house, and one is in my backpack. Physical location tells me what book to read.

You have to make sure there's a lock on your phone because people can hack into your Twitter so fast.

First day of school, make sure that you know your locker combination.

I hid the homework, stayed in the bathroom for the longest time trying to cut class - I was a wreck as a kid.

I love Tom Wilkinson and Tommy Lee Jones as well as Jessica Chastain. But the person I look up to most, not because I identify with her roles but because of who she is as a person, is Sissy Spacek.

I think it's a mistake to say that to be a healthy, well-adjusted person you need a monogamous relationship.

Maybe I shouldn't have had breakfast at Denny's.

With a horror movie, you're making a metaphor. You're making a personalized nightmare for the protagonist.

I've always thought of myself as an African-American comedian, African-American man, everything.

There might be some sinister modern form of slavery going on.

I didn't know my father very well; I only met him a few times.

I was raised that emotion was a good thing.

'Get Out' takes on the task of exploring race in America, something that hasn't really been done within the genre since 'Night of the Living Dead' 47 years ago.

[Barack Obama] will touch you on the shoulder and, you know - in that big brother or father figure kind of way. And you really do feel sort of shepherded by him.

You never want to be the whitest-sounding black guy in a room.

It's a no-win situation with politics, it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life.

Annette had kissed me. Who would’a thunk it?

Mr. Watras asked me whether I was practicing, and I told him I was practicing my tissue basketball skills.

It was a cheesy cheeseball, covered with Cheez Whiz and served on a bed of Cheez-Its. With a side of queso.

Steven, I know I phrased that as a question, but it was really a command. Yes, but mine is…ummm…private. Private, Steven? Yes, Miss Palma. PRIVATE Steven? Again with the capital letters?

...my little blurb wasn't going to win me any speaker-of-the-year awards, but at least I hadn't tripped and fallen off the stage, crushing and killing three elderly jazz fans.

The only time I can ever remember Steven crying over any of it was after my treatment, when I tried to use my foot on his bass drum pedal, and we realized I could never play a drum set.

Who’s that? That’s the King. Who’s he? The Duke. Who’s she? The Princess. What do they call you? The Count. What does that make me? Umm…how about the Peasant? And the name stuck.

You are a wonderful son, and a wonderful man. Yet another parent busting forth with the “man” thing! I’d have to check my chest for signs of hair when I got home.

Note to self: It's hard to attain a state of no-mind when you're incredibly pumped up on tea and sugar and have to urinate every three and a half minutes.

I think most video game movies have a problem, because they do try and have one foot in one door and another foot in a completely door.

I don't hate things, but I'm turned off by arrogance. I also don't like power for the sake of power.

I am the history of the rejection of who I am

I believe that love is the single, true prosperity of any moment.

We survive our love because we go on loving.

The thing about genius is it will never yield to circumstances. Genius regards what's given as the beginning of its need to find or devise something else.