Desolation Jones Quotes

There are many good reasons for drinking, and one's just entered my head: If you don't drink when you're living, how the fuck can you drink when you're dead? ~ Warren Ellis

If such crimes against the citizens of the state of West Virginia go unreduced by the government, I suggest that we take down the flag that stands for constitutional government, and run up a banner saying 'This is the flag of the money oligarchy of America. ~ Mother Jones

Photographing plants makes you look carefully and become aware of the many solutions plants provide to human problems ~ Andrea Jones

I don't need to sow any damn oats. What are you two, the supernatural version of Thelma and Louise?" "Hardly," Talia scoffed. "This car is a classic. No way would I drive it off a cliff. ~ A.E. Jones

It's funny how the ugly duckling always has so many beautiful things to teach us. ~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

I think in every character there are aspects of yourself that you bring to it. But then it would be really boring to just play yourself. ~ Felicity Jones

Love will wash you clean in the nights disgrace. ~ Rickie Lee Jones

Is a frog's ass watertight? ~ Darynda Jones

I think (Robert E.) Howard often wrote with his heart, but not always with his head. ~ Stephen Jones

I'm an actor, I'm always looking for work. I was born to do that. ~ Tommy Lee Jones

He held out his arms and I ran to embrace him. It wasn't that I couldn't feel my sorrows anymore, it was as if they were never there. I felt safe, and loved. There were no words exchanged, we just held each other. ~ Michael Brent Jones

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech. ~ Franklin P. Jones

Strong is the man who can pull apart his own pride and hopelessness; courageous is the man who then reaches in, near his most vital inner workings to pull out the slivers and shards of mortality that have worked their way in.
It's not about determining the shade of grey the white paint in the bucket has become, but finding where the black paint is dripping from, and stopping it. ~ Michael Brent Jones

I don't try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it. ~ Norah Jones

Most customer service people are great. It's that one customer service person from hell that drives me crazy! ~ Jon Jones

When I was a kid and I was being introduced to science fiction by watching movies with my Dad, Kubrick is one of those guys that we used to watch, you know, I watched Clockwork Orange at an age that was incredibly inappropriate, but he sat there with me and he explained what was going on and you know, I came to appreciate it even if I was terrified at the time. ~ Duncan Jones

Lead me not into temptation. I can find it myself. (T-Shirt) ~ Darynda Jones

I don't understand people. They smile when they are mad. They hug people they hate. They steal from people they genuinely love. And they are jealous of babies. ~ Darynda Jones

This does make me very very careful, particularly in the second draft, to get it right, because you do feel that somebody in the future who may be extremely important for everybody, is going to have me behind them, and this is a responsibility, a huge one. ~ Diana Wynne Jones

To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is 440 cycles, except in Germany where it's 444. But the universe is 450 cycles. So what I'm trying to say is, I think it's God's voice, melody especially. Counterpoint, retrograde inversion, harmony ... that's the science and the craft. ~ Quincy Jones

I've been told the weirdest things: 'Yeah, I love taking a bath to your music!' or 'I gave birth to my daughter while listening to your music.' ~ Norah Jones

Peace is one of the greatest gifts we can leave our children. ~ Jon Jones

For they were unseasoned, nor inured, not knowing this to be much less than the beginning of sorrow. ~ David Jones

She was an impostor here, unfit to be around these innocent lives. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones

You are always a gardener. What grows - and how it grows - is up to you. ~ Jones Loflin

Are there not thousands who have loved virtue who did not accept Jesus Christ in any supernatural or miraculous fashion, who, if they knew of him at all, knew of him only as the Nazarene peasant - the man Jesus. Such was Abraham Lincoln, the tender prophet of the gospel of good will upon earth. ~ Jenkin Lloyd Jones

Goblins do not feel the way mortals do," he went on. "You humans live and love so fiercely. We crave that. We need that. That fire sustains us. It sustains me. ~ S. Jae-Jones

I devoured each of what Halliday referred to as "The Holy Trilogies": Star Wars (original and prequel trilogies, in that order), Lord of the Rings, The Matrix, Mad Max, Back to the Future, and Indiana Jones. (Halliday once said that he preferred to pretend the other Indiana Jones films, from Kingdom of the Crystal Skull onward, didn't exist. I tended to agree.)
I also absorbed the complete filmographies of each of his favorite directors. Cameron, Gilliam, Jackson, Fincher, Kubrick, Lucas, Spielberg, Del Toro, Tarantino. And, of course, Kevin Smith.
I spent three months studying every John Hughes teen movie and memorizing all the key lines of dialogue. ~ Ernest Cline

Before I tell you, I have to know three things," I said.
"Okay."
"One, are you sitting down?"
"Yes."
"Two, are you mentally stable?"
"More than you'll ever be."
Well, that was uncalled for. "And three, how do you spell schizophrenia?"
"What does that have to do with anything?"
"Nothing. I just wanted to see if you'd tell me. ~ Darynda Jones

Krishna Murti: It is no sign of good mental health to be well adjusted to a sick society. ~ Charlene Diane Jones

She was remorseless, but she lacked method. ~ Diana Wynne Jones

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas. ~ John Harvey-Jones

When you have a show that's called Jessica Jones, if Jessica Jones isn't in a scene the rest of it become almost irrelevant until you earn other character storylines. You've got to flesh out those characters enough that you can travel. ~ Melissa Rosenberg

She tucks the veil of her hair behind the crescent moon of her ear to reveal the stars in her eyes. ~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

It doesn't worry me what anyone says, except when publicity hurts others. ~ Terry Jones

A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose. ~ Quincy Jones

I get a lot of inspiration from my surroundings, people I'm with. Mother Nature. It's combination of everything and really wanting to live life to the fullest. I feel very fortunate to be healthy, so I try to take advantage of it. ~ Jeremy Jones

I just don't trust any of it. Every time I read something about how there's been another ridiculous climb of the Dow Jones, there's a part of me that goes, "This can't be good." None of this is real money. You know what I mean? It's not like there's actually more of anything. It's just ideas. When people are getting richer and richer but they're not actually producing anything, it can't end well. ~ Louis C.K.

I thought it was funny. I always thought Star Wars and Indiana Jones were basically comedies. The humour came out of their relationships; it came out of the fact that we were basically types. ~ Harrison Ford

SHE LIKES MY SPARK!!!!--Calcifer ~ Diana Wynne Jones

Jake from 'Two and a Half Men' means nothing. He is a non-existent character. ~ Angus T. Jones

Well, we in America are about to break up with oil. Why not break up with poverty and discrimination too? ~ Van Jones

Sometimes it's exhausting for me to simply walk into the house. I try and calm myself, remember that I've lived alone before. Sleeping by myself didn't kill me then and will not kill me now. But this what loss has taught me of love. Our house isn't simply empty, our home has been emptied. Love makes a place in your life, it makes a place for itself in your bed. Invisibly, it makes a place in your body, rerouting all your blood vessels, throbbing right alongside your heart. When it's gone, nothing is whole again. ~ Tayari Jones

The only thing you believe in is the thing you believe in enough to practice. Your creed is your deed. ~ E. Stanley Jones

If life hands you lemons,keep them. Because, hey, free lemons.-T-Shirt ~ Darynda Jones

We were as far from each other as we could be in that moment; he on one end of forever, me on the other. ~ S. Jae-Jones