Owen Jones Quotes

I'm very critical of political parties. I don't think they're needed in the world as it is now. They impede the development of individuals, they encroach on creativity and they impose absurd structures of discipline. ~ Manuela Carmena

A stack overflow error caused cabin fever and the reset button was Pattaya. ~ Owen Jones

When Art struggles, it succeeds; when revelling in its own successes, it as singularly fails. ~ Owen Jones

Get rid of all the cleaners, rubbish collectors, bus drivers, supermarket checkout staff and secretaries, for example, and society will very quickly grind to a halt. On the other hand, if we woke up one morning to find that all the highly paid advertising executives, management consultants and private equity directors had disappeared, society would go on much as it did before: in a lot of cases, probably quite a bit better. So, ~ Owen Jones

after having, for instance, reproduced in a picture the right shoulder or the right ear of a figure, we deem it totally vain and useless to reproduce the left shoulder or the left ear. We do not draw sounds, but their vibrating invervals. We do not paint diseases, but their symtoms and their consequences. ~ Owen Jones Classics

May you always look as beautiful as this last time I saw you. ~ Owen Jones

We are like the RCMP, we are Mountees and we always get our man to come, just not always quietly. ~ Owen Jones

Chav-bashing draws on a long, ignoble tradition of class hatred. But it cannot be understood without looking at more recent events. Above all, it is the bastard child of a very British class war. ~ Owen Jones

The objective is to change the system and the behaviour it encourages, rather than replacing 'bad' people with 'good' people. ~ Owen Jones

Dieting is long-haul. Many rapid weight loss programs actually only squeeze the water out of you. Just like a wet sponge. But a good dieter maintains his or her grip on that sponge, not letting it soak up water again. ~ Owen Jones

To attempt to build up theories of art, or to form a new style, would be an act of supreme folly. It would be at once to reject the experiences and accumulated knowledge of thousands of years. On the contrary, we should regard as our inheritance all the successful labours of the past, not blindly following them, but employ simply as guides to find the true path. ~ Owen Jones Classics

She was crushed by society like a mosquito fending for its unborn young ~ Owen Jones

He had become the writers' equivalent of a goldfish after years of writing 500 word articles and wondered whether mind-expanding drugs would help him hold a full-length plot in his head, because he was having problems with continuity. ~ Owen Jones

Being born into a prosperous middle-class family typically endows you with a safety net for life. If you are not naturally very bright, you are still likely to go far and, at the very least, will never experience poverty as an adult. A good education compounded by your parents' 'cultural capital', financial support and networks will always see you through. If you are a bright child born into a working-class family, you do not have any of these things. The odds are that you will not be better off than your parents. ~ Owen Jones

Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society. ~ Owen Jones

It is entirely undesirable that on modern housing estates only one type of citizen should live,' he argued. 'If we are to enable citizens to lead a full life, if they are each to be aware of the problems of their neighbours, then they should all be drawn from different sectors of the community. We should try to introduce what was always the lovely feature of English and Welsh villages, where the doctor, the grocer, the butcher and the farm labourer all lived in the same street. ~ Owen Jones

Yet there is a logical flaw at the heart of Establishment thinking. It may abhor the state - but it is completely dependent on the state to flourish. ~ Owen Jones

As well as a shared mentality, the Establishment is cemented by financial links and a 'revolving door' culture: that is, powerful individuals gliding between the political, corporate and media worlds - or who manage to inhabit these various worlds at the same time. The terms of political debate are in large part dictated by a media controlled by a small number of exceptionally rich owners, while think tanks and political parties are funded by wealthy individuals and corporate interests. ~ Owen Jones

Under the modern Establishment, the function of the state has been reconfigured. Now, it exists to support private interests, including sectors - like the City - which have nothing but contempt for the state. ~ Owen Jones

I would like Britain - and indeed other countries - to be run in the interests of people's needs and aspirations, rather than on the basis of profit for a small elite; for democracy to be democratically managed by working people; for democracy to be extended as far as possible, including in the workplace and the economy. ~ Owen Jones

You can argue whether it's right or wrong,' says Halfon about the scrapping of Connexions, 'and yes I believe we should be balancing the economy, but nevertheless the think-tank people never consider how it actually impacts on the front, although they do create an intellectual framework. ~ Owen Jones

As a non-believer, I want the atheist case to be made. I want religious belief to be scrutinised and challenged. I want Britain to be a genuinely secular nation, where religious belief is protected and defended as a private matter of conscience. But I feel prevented from doing so because atheism in public life has become so dominated by a particular breed that ends up dressing up bigotry as non-belief. It is a tragedy. And that is why it is so important that atheists distance themselves from those who undermine our position. Richard Dawkins can rant and rave about Muslims as much as he wants. But atheists: let's stop allowing him to do it in our name. ~ Owen Jones

Nature should be idealised not copied. ~ Owen Jones Classics

One day, this Establishment will fall. It will not do so on its own terms or of its own accord, but because it has been removed by a movement with a credible alternative that inspires. For those of us who want a different sort of society, it is surely time to get our act together. ~ Owen Jones

The modern Establishment relies on a mantra of 'There Is No Alternative': potential opposition is guarded against by enforcing disbelief in the idea that there is any other viable way of running society. ~ Owen Jones

We bar girls don't cheat on wives, we are just the rope that cheating husbands hang themselves with. ~ Owen Jones

The Establishment is amassing wealth and aggressively annexing power in a way that has no precedent in modern times. After all, there is nothing to stop it. ~ Owen Jones

If we want kids with 'aspiration', we need to give them something to aspire to. ~ Owen Jones

Occasionally her tongue darts out between her lips, which makes me think of a snake, or Jared Leto during a television interview. ~ Carrie Jones

While for critics of sprawl the generic signifies a loss of local identity and connection to place, for Koolhaas it represents an opportunity for reinvention and fantasy free from nostalgia or provincial habit. He admires the generic's accessibility, impermanence, economy of imagination, and malleable lack of authenticity or moralizing agenda. ~ Graham Owen

Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy. ~ Grace Jones

Everything I do, I go to black people. If I have a problem at the airport, I'll go to the black ticket agent. I hope they notice me because I'll get better service. If I'm at a restaurant, I look for the black waiter. Rent-a-Car, give you the upgrade. ~ Gary Owen

(At the end of the nineteenth century, economist Charlotte Perkins Gilman complained that housework was the only job that had not been modernized.) ~ Ann Jones

I guess the President says the majority of the people didn't elect him, he doesn't have to listen to 'em anyway. ~ Star Jones

My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative. ~ Tommy Lee Jones

That is control. Whether you want it or understand it. ~ Lisa Renee Jones

My parents didn't want me to be an actor. They didn't think I could take the rejection, and I have to say they were probably right. ~ Rupert Penry-Jones

What we deny owns us. You can't control what you don't first own and face. You simply delay the moment it owns you. ~ Lisa Renee Jones

That's when I realize how much I don't want to be alone, how sobbing should not be a solitary sport.. ~ Carrie Jones

There is no honor in sending men to die for something you won't even fight for yourself ~ Mark Owen

You must go on to remind yourself of God - who God is, and what God is, and what God has done, and what God has pledged Himself to do. ~ David Lloyd-Jones

If you're not a beautiful monster, then you're a villager, ~ Stephen Graham Jones

Beliefs kill more humans than all diseases and weapons combined, an inevitable tragedy because it's the hardest thing there is, knowing what to believe. ~ Jule Owen

I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube. ~ Owen Benjamin

You are the worst greeter in the history of greeters ever. In the history. Of time. And greeters." "Greeter? You think I'm a greeter?" Talk about a demotion. "Yes. To the other side?" She pointed up. "Dude, calling me a greeter is like calling Saint Peter a ticket taker. ~ Darynda Jones

I'm very much against photographs being framed and treated with reverence and signed and sold as works of art. They aren't. They should be seen in a magazine or a book and then be used to wrap up the fish and chucked away. ~ Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl Of Snowdon

I love the smaller clubs. I love the theaters. I love the festivals. There are things I don't like. At certain theaters, people can't get up and dance. ~ Sharon Jones

In her daydreams, they aged miraculously, she still trim with a blond ponytail, standing next to her strong, tall husband with his thick, curly dark hair and straight white teeth. Money was never an issue. ~ Karen Jones Gowen

I'm a huge Twitter dork! That's the best way for fans to keep informed about what's going on with me. ~ Brandon Jones

Is it not also a paradox that in our efforts to escape pain we all run immediately for salvation to human love where we find the greatest pain of all? ~ James Jones

However, on glimpsing in shop window realized outfit insane. Now am on bus, remember also that corset-ike nature of dress is torture when sitting down. One's rolls of fat are squezzed together like dough being kneaded in a food processor. ~ Helen Fielding

We can achieve more in a moment of compassion than in an hour of anger. ~ Sam Owen

Living a horror movie cliché, so to speak?" Caleb softly replied. "I know this is hard to comprehend, especially since we study science and things that are proven or explainable. But, all my life I've been on the road to this very place." He pointed downwards with his index finger for effect. "Many things I've personally seen keep leading me to the same conclusion. In reality, the impossible doesn't exist. ~ Davee Jones

When you're believing in the person that you're playing, you feel protected. It's about being true to that person you're playing. ~ Felicity Jones

You have something much more enduring than beauty," she said severely. "And what is that?" "Grace," she said simply. "Grace, and talent." I ~ S. Jae-Jones

When I look at great singers like Sinatra, Bennett and (Tom) Jones, I see great performers that can really move an audience. I really consider myself a troubadour privately and a song-plugger publicly. ~ Tiny Tim

I am extremely grateful for my 'American Idol' experience, and I enjoyed every bit of it. ~ Rayvon Owen

Just because there were times you were frightened doesn't mean you weren't brave. ~ Christine Brodien-Jones

Surrender? I have not yet begun to fight! ~ John Paul Jones

For me God existed in Primo Levi's writing, in the moments of reprieve he described when one human granted another respect in that godless wasteland of cruelty. ~ Kaylie Jones

The moon & sun were just friends til that night the sun couldn't depart before dark snowed in under an avalanche of stars & poetry was born. ~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will loose. ~ James Earl Jones

The air stilled, suspended with unspoken words, heavy thoughts, and two people who couldn't look away from one another. ~ Jenny B. Jones

The guy had more secrets than Victoria ~ Darynda Jones

For a nickel a month, Lady Jones did what whitepeople thought unnecessary if not illegal: crowded her little parlor with the colored children who had time for and interest in book learning. ~ Toni Morrison

Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything. ~ Felicity Jones

An apology, even as sincere as the one she had just received, could repair not one hour of the suffering she had endured over the last one hundred years, but ... her thoughts trailed away from her and her mouth fell open. ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones

That's one benefit of travelling to your own future, and making the trip part of your past. ~ James A. Owen

I love guys and the way they think; they're so straightforward - and women can learn from that. ~ Rashida Jones

Depression was my body's way of grieving the loss of my childhood dreams. Writing was my imagination's way of redefining them. ~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

All I want is the here and now, this piece of time. And please save the pillow talk for someone who wants it. Contrary to what you seem to think, I'm no delicate rose ~ Lisa Renee Jones

Seek the underlying harmonies of love and the overarching rainbow of hope, rather than the surface distinctions of creeds and of sects. Work for peace in religion. ~ Jenkin Lloyd Jones

Spiritual depression or unhappiness in the Christian life is very often due to our failure to realize the greatness of the gospel. ~ David Lloyd-Jones

Once you strike a note on the organ, it's going to stay with you until you either make it louder or softer or let it go. So it's a little bit like the human voice, so you can put a human characteristic in it. ~ Booker T. Jones

Why are all the best places to eat in the worst parts of town ~ Trisha Jones

Any life partner whom I choose must be willing to choose me in return, above all others, to hold fast in the face of any opposition, and to suffer no barrier to come between us. ~ Elaine Owen