Jo Brand Quotes

My mum taught me to knit when I was a child, and I turn to it, for some weird reason, when I'm feeling depressed.

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• The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Feeling
  • Like
  • Friendship

• Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Feeling
  • Me
  • Easy

• You should always care about what you're eating because it's your body, and you should always want to eat healthy foods, but dieting tactics in Los Angeles are really confusing. There are so many different weird diets out there.

  

  Laura Slade Wiggins
  • Different
  • Care
  • Weird

• It is not weird for a dad to be doing the dishes, the laundry, and taking the kids to school, and read them stories for bed.

  

  Zach Cregger
  • School
  • Kids
  • Dad

• Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Long
  • History
  • Feeling

• I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Think
  • Know
  • Me

• I'm shy. I am. I mean, if I get around, you know, in a room of a bunch of people especially I - you know, I don't know or - it takes me a while to warm up. I'm - and the real me, I'm not as witty as, you know, as the comic Wanda. The comic, she's had time to work on some things.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Work
  • Real
  • Witty

• I don't spend a lot of money on clothes, which is weird because I am a fashion model, but when it comes to the new collections coming out, I am just praying designers send it to me for free.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Money
  • Fashion
  • Model

• How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Important
  • You
  • Feeling

• Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Life
  • Ideas
  • Spiritual

• I definitely think being a young girl, there's a time where - like when you're in middle school or when you first start liking boys - you don't really feel comfortable. You remember that time when you first got your period, or when your boobs started coming in, that you were like, 'This is weird.' You have to grow into yourself.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Time
  • School
  • Remember

• In comics, we're all weird together. I can go to a comics convention and not stand out, even though I'm the only woman in a headscarf there, because the guy next to me has a beard and a Sailor Moon costume.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Together
  • Guy
  • Woman

• I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Time
  • School
  • Feeling

• I'm just the second Bodhi. I think there will be more. I have the feeling this is only the first re-imagination of 'Point Break'.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Think
  • Feeling
  • Imagination

• Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Success
  • Feeling
  • Shame

• If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Good
  • Want
  • Feeling

• Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • People
  • Art
  • True

• I'm a girl who loves shoes. There is nothing like the feeling of trying on shoes at the store and they fit perfectly.

  

  Laura Marano
  • Trying
  • Girl
  • Feeling

• I just turned 40, and I look at so many performers and so many people who are actually always on time and always have an album out. They don't have actual lives, in my opinion. I feel like I'm so much more than being famous and meeting a musical quota. And I don't know, just the weight of the scrutiny and attention is too weird for me.

  

  Gerald Maxwell Rivera
  • People
  • Time
  • Attention

• I'd like to go away for six months and learn to kiteboard and windsurf. I love pinochle, I love chess and I love windsurfing.

  

  Christopher Meloni
  • Chess

• Growing up, my sisters and I would always talk stories. One of my frustrations was I didn't know anything about cameras. I didn't know how to make a film and I obviously didn't have a special effects budget. I was a kid. So I was learning to draw to get down the stuff that was in my head, that I couldn't afford to actually do.

  

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Learning

• My career is over. I'm just playing now and having a great time. I like to keep busy, and I'm doing what's fun for me.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Time
  • Great
  • Fun

• My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Want

• My mum taught me to knit when I was a child, and I turn to it, for some weird reason, when I'm feeling depressed.

  

  Jo Brand
  • Feeling
  • Weird