Jo Russell Quotes

But with her eyes closed, she began to whisper. "If you have someone to love, then love. If you have someone to forgive, then forgive. You think, when you're seventeen, there's time enough for that, but there's not. There's no time at all."
I squeezed her hand, trying to think of how to respond. But she took the burden from me and kept whispering. "You want to know why God gave us people to love? Because that's the only way we can understand how he feels about us. Desperate and jealous. ~ Laura Anderson Kurk

Let's go to town," Jo said. "Take me to eat dinner at the hotel."
I sucked in a breath and stared at her for a minute. Here she sat, her hair still wet although neatly braided, wearing an old Kiss sweatshirt, the one with the red mouth and tongue, red sweatpants, and ridiculous red pumps with black scuffs on the toes and heels.
And she wanted me to take her to the Hotel Wyoming, where the rich tourists hung out. I smiled. Because it was possibly the greatest thing I'd ever heard.
"Yeah, let's go to the hotel. Grab your purse and I'll find your coat. ~ Laura Anderson Kurk

Jo told me once that she was an old woman everywhere but in her studio. "There I'm only myself," she'd said. Standing in the middle of masterpieces that only Jo had ever seen and touched, I knew what she meant. ~ Laura Anderson Kurk

I think back when I was kind of a crappy writer, I really did know my time was better spent working and having adventures and seeing the world. ~ Bonnie Jo Campbell

Chickens are true creatures of zen - they live only and absolutely for the moment. Their actions one particular second will not necessarily have any influence or bearing on their actions in the next second, nor are they necessarily influenced by their actions of the prior second. Chicken thoughts arrive in their tiny mad little minds like flashes of a strobe light, each light being an action, each flashing with the brilliance of a not very brilliant thing. Each action utterly random. The complete randomness of chaos. Chickens are notorious escape artists, not due to their ability to devise cunning plans as they huddle together in their coop beneath a bare light bulb, scratching out complex diagrams in the dirt, but simply out of sheet unpredictability. They are the pachinko balls of the animal kingdom, effecting their escapes through the simple device of, say, turning left for no particular reason. ~ Jeffery Russell

This seems plainly absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities. One ~ Bertrand Russell

Remove any of your fear with faith. Trust the power of God to guide you. ~ M. Russell Ballard

There are comics who treat women fairly appallingly. But I can be great friends with them because I don't tend to do that ticking of boxes: it can make life too simplistic. ~ Jo Brand

Are you not entertained? ~ Russell Crowe

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. ~ Bertrand Russell

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven. ~ Russell M. Nelson

Too often, our concept of pastors and church leaders reinforces rather than obliterates the sad state of family life in our current context. ~ Russell D. Moore

Miss Penelope THINKS I need beauty sleep?! Sorry, Brianna, but Miss Penelope CAN'T think. She doesn't have a BRAIN! She's a hand puppet!" I shot back. ~ Rachel Renee Russell

I've been interested in China ever since I was a kid. When I was a kid, I grew up in San Francisco about a mile from China Beach. ~ Russell Freedman

I took a huge risk leaving baseball, because I was predicted to play in the big leagues. I'm kind of a prototypical second baseman. ~ Russell Wilson

From quite early on, I had this idea of compartmentalized identities - 'this is how you are when you are with your mum, and this is how you are when you are with your dad' - so it seemed like I could never absolutely be myself. And the image of myself as compromised and inconsistent made me want to withdraw from the world even further. I had a sense of formulating a paper-mache version of myself to send out in the world, while I sat controlling it remotely from some smug suburban barracks. ~ Russell Brand

Herd pressure is to be judged by two things: first, its intensity, and second, its direction. ~ Bertrand Russell

A personal journey is part of the generational relay. Live your legacy then pass it on. ~ Jo Ann V. Glim

The British story of Peter Pan is about a boy who never grows up and plays all day. ~ Donna Jo Napoli

So my mum bought a jacuzzi, and I was in there along with my father and my sister, when my mother decided it would be the ideal moment to say - 'Guess what everyone in this jacuzzi has in common? You've all sucked on my tits.' ~ Russell Howard

Anything that you could possibly imagine is already out there in another universe. If you are open to it, you can tap into all other realities for knowledge, strength, courage or whatever you need or desire. ~ Russell Anthony Gibbs

You shouldn't eat animals, it's mean to them, ~ Russell Brand

To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it. ~ Bertrand Russell

What passes for news is just morbid speculation or cartoonish screaming, followed by diaper commercials. ~ Karen Russell

Sex & Money
The Warden of the Order of Silence
(Kensington: The Settlement Press, n.d.)

'...all the troubles of human life can be grouped under one or other of these words. ~ Russell Ash

People always had one kind of animal or another inside them. ~ Paul Russell

A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for example, he sent a 'Dear Murph' letter about it to his old friend George Murphy, a former senator and actor who had once played Reagan's father in a film. ~ Russell Baker

Tommy to Zack- "Aw, come on. Just a little slow torture, then? Can't I make him scream like a girl, just once?"

"I can make the worm disappear for you," Joaquin offered with a dangerous smile. "Permanently."

Zack rolled his eyes. "Ignore Al Capone. Murdering the competition is never a good plan. ~ Jo Davis

Whatever the desire - for food, for attention, for admiration, for adventure, for fame, for security, for whatever it is that you crave at the moment - once it's redirected away from its intended end, it becomes a master. ~ Russell D. Moore

Writing is like painting. You sketch it, add colour, add depth and detail. You give it a final layer and then hang it proudly. ~ Kia Carrington-Russell

No price is set on the lavish summer;
June may be had by the poorest comer. ~ James Russell Lowell

When I read philosophy or neuroscience papers about consciousness, I don't get the sense we're any closer to understanding it than we were 50 years ago. ~ Stuart J. Russell

Faith is the andtidote for fear ~ Russell M. Nelson

I've allowed myself to lead this little life, when inside me there was so much more. ~ Willy Russell

That bad letters of every kind arise from want of the habit of thinking, I cannot doubt. ~ Mary Russell Mitford

It's pretty cool that artists like Flo Rida and Bingo Players can be inspired to interpret a song like 'Piano in the Dark' in completely new genres. As an artist and writer, it's the highest compliment we can be paid. ~ Brenda Russell

Words spoken in pain could be far crueler than the speaker really intended.
-Bound ~ Donna Jo Napoli

Moral cowardice at the expense of the vulnerable unborn is both wrong and pathetic. ~ Russell D. Moore

I've got bits falling off me. I'm not made of rubber. That's from film stunts. Every single injury I have is related to a movie. I know that sounds fundamentally embarrassing. ~ Russell Crowe