Jo Brand Quotes

I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.

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• But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.

  

  Sally Field
  • Up
  • Years
  • Broken

• If you've never tasted what it's like to get up in the morning and be pleased to go to work, you don't know what you're missing.

  

  Larry Smith
  • Up
  • Work
  • Know

• I'm actually a very lazy person. Most of the time, I'm happy to sit around and stare. Or watch bad TV soaps. It's quite rare for me to get inspired by anything, but it could be something small. A view of the Serpentine. A snatch of music. Or a little shred of conversation overheard on a bus, such as, 'You also will marry someone of my choice.'

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Time
  • Music
  • Bad

• Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Success
  • Achieve
  • Fame

• I love meeting new people, different cultures. I love that.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • People
  • Different
  • Love

• I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Time
  • She
  • Wife

• We all live with blinders on. They come with having a personal vantage point.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Live
  • Point
  • Personal

• Throughout my career as a lawyer, teacher and labor leader, books have remained my constant companion - stuffed into a briefcase, overflowing on my bedside table, stacked on my desk at work. Books have carried me to distant worlds, opened new doors and made me feel empathy, compassion, anger, fear, joy, acceptance - and everything in between.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Work
  • Career
  • Fear

• As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Time
  • America
  • Feel

• To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Power
  • Society
  • Man

• Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Up
  • Time
  • Job

• You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad - if you're indifferent, Endsville.

  

  Frank Sinatra
  • World
  • Perfect

• bends over *errgh* Sorry for making that noise, but … that's what happens when you get older. One day what happens is that you bend over, and you never come back.

  

  Craig Ferguson
  • Sorry

• Don't stress over mean-girl antics.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Girl
  • Stress

• I did gymnastics when I was growing up and to this day I can still do the splits.

  

  Kristin Kreuk
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Gymnastics

• The riskiest thing I have done in my fifties is to do a Polish accent for a new film. I had a great time working on it and two wonderful people to guide me. A dialect coach that I have known for thirty years and a Polish actor.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• You have to discipline your children, or they won't respect you, law enforcement or God or anyone else.

  

  Phil Robertson
  • God
  • Children
  • Law

• When people say that L.A. doesn't have a culture, I think it really does: a very old culture, and very specific. There's streets named after entertainers, and statues of entertainers, and it's great. Entertainment is still art, even if it makes billions of dollars. So it's like a city built on entertainment, and art in a way.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • People
  • Great
  • Art

• I felt like, for so many years - and I still even feel it - as a girl, you can't really expect to go on stage and dress like a boy and jump around and scream with the audience and mosh and stuff, and every time that happens, I feel really proud.

  

  Billie Eilish
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Proud

• We didn't want to live anymore in the old logic. And I like that. The consequence of that is to create the dream of that, but we all know this dream may be not possible. So here we have the key of the ambiguity of the atmosphere of my films. Is it possible, this dream? Is it as funny as it seems, or is it tragic?

  

  Albert Serra
  • Dream
  • Create
  • Atmosphere

• A group of scientists led by Bärbel Hönisch, of Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, recently reviewed the evidence for changing CO2 levels in the geologic past and concluded that, although there are several severe episodes of ocean acidification in the record, “no past event perfectly parallels” what is happening right now, owing to “the unprecedented rapidity of CO2 release currently taking place.” It turns out there just aren’t many ways to inject billions of tons of carbon into the air very quickly.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Ocean
  • Record
  • Changing

• 'Married with Children' was racy. It was sexist. It was a lot of things, but mostly it was funny.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Children
  • Funny
  • Married

• Entrepreneurs need to start building today. The barrier to entry in tech is low, so start designing, start coding it, launch it, build prototypes, build a working version of it. The Internet has amazing powers of distribution. You can test your ideas. You can see if it works, if it doesn't work, whether it's fun, and whether you're sufficiently motivated. People who go into entrepreneurship to get rich aren't going to be happy. It’s the building of things that makes you happy. You have to enjoy the process whether you succeed or fail.

  

  Caterina Fake
  • Today
  • Design
  • Internet

• I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.

  

  Jo Brand