Jo Brand Quotes
I was really, because I thought it was extremely excruciating when I watched a tape of it, that my husband taped for me and I never watched it again after that.
Quotes to Explore
-
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
-
I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
-
I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By the time I was 11, I had read all the children's books in my local library, so I moved on to 'Jane Eyre.' What I loved about Jane Eyre was that she didn't rely on her looks but her character. She had a spirit nobody could break.
-
I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.
-
I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
-
She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
-
A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
-
Don't get me wrong, I love watching episodes of my favorite shows on Hulu and reading the daily trash on PageSix, but I also embrace the opportunity to settle down with a good book and let my mind travel to another place and time.
-
To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.
-
I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.
-
I'm a child of the Sixties.
-
I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
-
Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
-
It ain't over till it's over.
-
Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
-
You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
-
Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.
-
We play tag and kickball almost every day. It's one of the ways that I've figured out how to spend some fun quality time with my kids while getting exercise.
-
The effort invested in 'getting it right' should be commensurate with the importance of the decision.
-
Prohibition, like so many other policies imposed from the moral high ground, typically by those who do not drink, disproportionately affects the poor who resort to illegally brewed alcohol when they want a drink, not infrequently leading to their death, and are more likely to be harassed by the police.
-
When I work in the theater, you know you'll get this almost devotional, religious experience where you're breaking bread with everyone every day.
-
There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.
-
I was trained by my husband. He said, If you want a thing done go. If not send. I belong to that group of people who move the piano themselves.
-
I was really, because I thought it was extremely excruciating when I watched a tape of it, that my husband taped for me and I never watched it again after that.
