Jo Robinson Quotes

Where's the rest of me?

When you have given yourself to Christ, leave yourself there, and go about your work as a child in His household.

I'm not a big fan of Robert Plant's lyrics or his singing.

What I had to learn was, that I'm responsible for my perception of things.

My music is how I feel, and that's changed from being twenty years old to being forty-three years old.

There is no job feels as lonely as that of a fighter but there is also no bond closer than the one he shares with his corner.

On the path that leads to Nowhere I have sometimes found my soul!

Stretch out your hand and receive the world's wide gift of joy, appreciation and beauty.

There is no wisdom but in death

When I look in the mirror, I see a work in progress.

I think training is helpful, but so is living a well-rounded life full of different experiences.

I learned how to be a woman and a good person just by watching and observing my mother.

When the sun is shining, the right song is on, and I'm with people I love.

The best decision I ever made was to invest in myself, both financially and time-wise.

My repertoire is small, but I can make a pretty tasty pasta sauce from scratch.

I listen to a wide variety of music of all genres, but sometimes you just need a cheesy pop song.

I love performing in any medium, and more the opportunities you have to vary things, the more you learn.

All actors have their own unique path when it comes to the development of their training and careers.

I feel comfortable in the US, the UK and in Ghana. They are all home to me in some way.

The great thing about really heightened historical dramas is that they can convey much larger themes.

I haven't accepted anyone telling me what is or isn't possible and have just kept moving along toward my goals.

I always travel with my bike and it has become a little more difficult to do it nowadays, but I stick it in 3,5 by 6-foot case and wheel that thing in.

My kids, that's my biggest accomplishment. Being able to have talented and smart kids. They are doing something I didn't do. I didn't finish school so...that's my biggest accomplishment.

Our ability to turn off empathy for specific kinds of humans and then use faulty logic to justify our beliefs is messily sociopathic.

I don't think anyone's normal.

In general, I'm careful when I'm dealing with subjects of deep cultural importance and write with abandon when I'm dealing with issues of personal dysfunction.

The push and pull of representing your world responsibly and your artistic license is a tricky balance.

We have good people. We have selfless people. We have great leaders.

I don't see the point of pretending we're clones.

If I gave up writing, I'd have to find an equally obsessive way to fill my time. Yarn-bombing skyscrapers or making houses out of empty soda bottles.

My family is filled with wonderful storytellers. I lack their gift of gab, so it's a relief to be able to write.

Canadians are fond of darker stories, serious stories, so if you're a Mystery writer or a Romance writer or Fantasy Writer, you will most likely have an American publisher and agent.

I miss smoking (two to four packs a day) but I don't miss the crackle in my lungs when I breathed.

I have carpal tunnel so I can't write more than four hours total without tingling numbness. I take a lot of breaks and do stretches.

I do get flak for the lack of romance in my stories.

Our ability to factory farm animals is coldly psychopathic.

Writing about your community is difficult for any writer.

The world is fine. Our place on it is precarious.

I usually tame my off-kilter sense of humor for novels.

I don't know if I have a book in me, but I'm sure I have more essays.

In general, Americans like to be entertained. Canadians seem more suspicious of it.

I wonder more and more just where I may have come out if I had never seen Harvard Square.

And we who delve in beauty's lore Know all that we have known before Of what inexorable cause Makes Time so vicious in his reaping.

Where's the need of singing now?

For through it all--above, beyond it all-- I know the far-sent message of the years, I feel the coming glory of the Light.

I just didn't have anything to say, so I said nothing.

The way we're going... if I called up another pitcher, he'd just hang up the phone on me.

There's absolutely no way you can go barreling into second and dump a guy on a double play, like you should do, when you've been fraternizing with him before a game.

All in all, I wouldn't call it a bad outing. It was a short outing.

I expect that [trying to do the best] of my players today and of my kids. My wife says I shouldn't expect that of my children, but I don't think that's asking too much.