Really Jo Really Quotes

He had never been able to understand the assumption of intimacy fans felt with those they had never met. ~ Robert Galbraith

A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone. ~ Jo Godwin

Form, not the crashing waves far below at the base of the cliff. She looked eerily like the sketch that Kenneth had drawn of ~ Mary Jo Putney

I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully ... ~ Louisa May Alcott

Dr. Rice went well beyond offering a helping hand - she went so far as to shed tears and share hugs with those who, in a matter of just a few hours, had lost everything to the rising floodwaters. ~ Jo Bonner

I have such admiration for single mothers. I simply don't comprehend how you'd cope with that intensity, the lack of breaks, ever, on your own. ~ Jo Brand

We are the only life form that can bring a purpose to our lives. It doesn't make sense to strive and strive and then die without any meaning to it. ~ Jo Maeder

Oh dear, life is pretty tough sometimes, isn't it? ~ Louisa May Alcott

Gone, but only until we get there ~ Jo Royston

Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area. In fact, as of the writing of this column, millions of people along the Gulf Coast have been displaced from their homes in a period of only five days. ~ Jo Bonner

I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste. ~ Mary Jo Putney

That's why teenagers fascinate me - they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct. ~ Nancy Jo Sales

Social media is not the same in 2013 as it was in 2003 - or even 2008 or 2011. You didn't carry around AOL chat in your pocket or look at it when you were in class. ~ Nancy Jo Sales

The first change is a realization that I am no longer alone. Even when I'm lying in the dark by myself, I now sense other beings hovering near me. It isn't just me living in this house, but unfinished love and my dejection and anger and dead Paulie, and their miraculous presence feels as real as my fingernails digging into my hand. The second change is that I'm not more obsessed with cooking, like the Roman gourmets and their cherished chefs, who wanted to put all things wonderful or special or new or majestic or strange or scary-looking on the table. The cooks back then knew only how to bake or boil, but I understand how a few drops of pomegranate juice can transform a dish. The third change is that with these first two revelations, my sense of taste has become ever more sensitive and sharp, my imagination richer. When I got my ears pierced and walked into the street in the middle of winter, I become one large ear. All sensation and pain were concentrated in my ears. It's that same feeling. Everything about me disappears and I'm only a pink tongue. This is the time to grow into a truly good chef. ~ Kyung-ran Jo

I love to interview outrageous people who speak their minds; also, people who have some kind of mystery attached to them. ~ Nancy Jo Sales

Lounging and larking doesn't pay," observed Jo, shaking her head. "I'm tired of it and mean to go to work at something right off. ~ Louisa May Alcott

No wonder fairies run away from pain. They like to be entertained, and it's awfully boring. ~ Jo Walton

Confidence and empowerment are cousins in my opinion. Empowerment comes from within and typically it's stemmed and fostered by self-assurance. To feel empowered is to feel free and that's when people do their best work. You can't fake confidence or empowerment. ~ Amy Jo Martin

Your beliefs create your world. ~ Jo Ana Starr

I try to walk around without being noticed but I can't help attracting attention with my pink Mohawk, black clothing and steel toes, and often I'm with Holly and we're both tall and arrogant. ~ Jo Treggiari

Spirituality is rooted in desire. We long for something we can neither name nor describe, but which is no less real because of our inability to capture it with words. ~ Mary Jo Weaver

Adam leaned down to Paul. That edge you lost in your fight with Mary Jo is what allowed me to take the time to find something that would hurt you instead of kill you. You can thank her for your life. ~ Patricia Briggs

I think I was righteous. I saw myself as the good guy in my own movie. I didn't get into many fights when I was younger, but when I did, they were righteous. I always thought I was defending something good. I fought for friends who couldn't fight for themselves. I was still being selfish and arrogant, but I was focused on what was fair and unfair. ~ Jo Nesbo

The power in each individual comes from all of us, and the power of all of us comes from each individual. ~ Jo-Ann L. Tremblay

Girls need to put down their phones sometimes and pick up books. ~ Nancy Jo Sales

It was time to chuck this life, with its Jo-Jos and Rodneys, its bloody burning children and walking-dead parents, just kick dirt over the whole show, like a cat burying its shit. ~ Richard Price

I remember when Victoria Wood started to come through, and I thought she was great, though she and I are very different in our approach. ~ Jo Brand

Books had been invented to salve human loneliness, and they were friends without peer, friends who never sneered or flinched or laughed behind a man's back. Books revealed their treasures to all who took the effort to seek. ~ Mary Jo Putney

If you fall into water, you may still be saved. But if you fall down in literary matters, there is no life left for you. ~ Donna Jo Napoli

We're probably more like our parents than we'd like to believe. ~ Jo Nesbo

Be careful what you get good at doin' 'cause you'll be doin' it for the rest of your life. -Jo Carson ~ Gabrielle Hamilton

To err is human, to forgive is divine. ~ Jo Nesbo

Reports of our demise have been greatly exaggerated," Sheppard said. He'd always wanted to use that line. ~ Jo Graham

Watched the close-cropped, long-legged policeman with the bad back stride quickly out of the canteen. ~ Jo Nesbo

Sometimes I think they are, not that it's ever been said, ~ Jo Goodman

Who knows what's for true once a time is past? There's no way to prove how something was that's gone. And if a time is gone, what does it matter? It's all rain into rivers now. ~ Jo Dereske

Absolutely not. I'm an expert in procrastination, but the last thing I want you to think is that I'm incompetent, too. Because I'm actually pretty good at what I do. -Jo ~ Nicholas Sparks

On page six his eyes fell on a large photograph of a wooden road sign with a sun cross painted on. Oslo 2,611 km, it said on one arm, Leningrad 5 km on the other. The article beneath was credited to Even ~ Jo Nesbo

There's a funny thing about everything, even if you have to make it up! ~ Jessica Jo Ann Thometz

Not a savage - a barbarian. Savages know nothing of civilization. We barbarians know what civilization is, though we may have a low opinion of it. Peregrine's tone was distinctly ironic. ~ Mary Jo Putney

I've always been criticised for how filthy my material is. Victoria Wood said to me once, 'I wish I was a bit ruder, like you,' and I said, 'Well, I wish I was a bit cleaner, like you.' ~ Jo Brand

Jo left me a few months ago for 10 days. I get this note: I'll come back when the real Ronnie comes back. ~ Ron Wood

Friends carry our sadness for us when we're terrified we'll be crushed under the weight of it. ~ Lisa-Jo Baker

Eating is an absolute, repetitive activity. The same as love. Once you start you can't stop. So if you can't eat when you're hungry, it's worse than being stricken with the gravest illness. ~ Kyung-ran Jo

I've been known to do lunges down hotel hallways. I also like to use the ice bucket in the hotel room as a medicine ball. ~ Amy Jo Martin