Jo Robinson Quotes

If you like Harlan Coben, you’ll love Linwood Barclay.

People need their history like they need air and food.

We all have to die, and I preferred to have just one death. It seems to me that to suffer insult without response is to die many deaths.

I've never had any trouble opposing people I've been close to. I've never worried about offending or bothering people I feel strongly about.

Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent.

Americans don't bother to notice anybody else in the world.

I think the evangelicals want to provoke an immense global disaster to precipitate the second coming of Christ.

Democracy requires that if you who don't like the outcome of elections you have to tolerate it and then pursue your interest the next time around.

The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. The country with one-twentieth of the world's population has one-fourth of those in prison.

Reagan was conservative, but he didn't approach global management with an unbending religious zeal.

I wanted to write and think. Activism is a displacing kind of passion.

For anyone who is not white in America, the affronts are virtually across the board.

I can't think of a more mediocre human talent than George Bush. He obviously is a product of family advantage, and he's the worst American President of all time.

I think the business community knows that half the world's oil reserves are gone. All the low-hanging fruit has been picked, and now there's the scramble for what remains.

I've opposed black regimes and white regimes, leftist regimes and rightist regimes. I'm close to Aristide because I have respect for him, but all that is beside the point.

I'm aware that because America is so powerful - with its tentacles reaching out to the world - one doesn't escape it by leaving. This is the most dangerous and disturbing time in my life.

I got a chance to be in a society where the barriers between classes - social and economic - are not insuperable, where money is not everything all the time.

Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it.

Oh heavy change. The world deteriorates like a rotting apple, worms and a skin.

Does it matter whether you hate yourself? At least love your eyes that can see, your mind that can hear the music, the thunder of the wings.

If millions are born millions must die.

Truly men hate the truth; they'd liefer meet a tiger on the road.

We might remember ... not to fear death; it is the only way to be cleansed.

They import and they consume reality.

The love of freedom has been the quality of Western man.

Only the drum is confident, it thinks the world has not changed

If I cry, it means I'm too weak to compete in this sport. That's bull.

Finding a sponsor is the toughest part of racing, tougher than driving.

I really haven't strayed too far, musically, from my roots

If I just gave you a piece of paper with the lyrics written down on it, it would mean something to you. It would tell you a story.

My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home

There's some sad things known to man, but ain't too much sadder than, the tears of a clown when noones around.

Everybody has their own soul.

There's so many wonderful gospel people out there, and I don't necessarily want to compete with those people.

I don't like you, but I love you.

Just like Pagliacci did, I try to keep my surface hid. Smiling in the crowd I try, but in a lonely room I cry.

People still look at Michael Jackson as being a Motown artist.

Ron White was not one of the very first original members of the Motown staff, but eventually he was.

Originally I was not writing songs for myself

I've never been to rehab, I've never been to psychotherapy or the doctor or anything like that. I went to a church and I was prayed for, and I've always had a great relationship with God.

When you write a song, a song has longevity

There is nothing that means more to a woman than a love she can count on.

I will build you a castle with a tower so high it reaches the moon.

Baby, let's cruise, let's flow, let's glide.

You are most certainly the inspiration for all of today's rock 'n' roll guitarists. Your music is timeless.

If some of those people who wanted to ban Beethoven's music could hear the music that's being played today, wow, what would they do, man?

And I can say this, most of the people who have recorded my songs are songwriters themselves.

there's nothing in the human heart or mind, no place no matter how twisted or secret, that can't be endured - if you have someone to share it with.

A beginning is the end of something, always.

Sexual intercourse vests no property rights.