Top 16 Jo Ann Beard Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Jo Ann Beard

#1. Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.

#2. The way everything seems to be working out right now, I wouldn't be surprised if I ended up dead before the night is over.

Jo Ann Beard

#3. I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.

Anna Deavere Smith

#4. We sit silently in our living room. He watches the mute television screen and I watch him. The planes and ridges of his face are more familiar to me than my own. I understand that he wishes even more than I do that he still loved me.

Jo Ann Beard

#5. In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. It is as final as the mountains: a fact. There it is. When you realize it you cannot complain.

William S. Burroughs

#6. I don't name sources.

Nelson DeMille

#7. On the very tip of his tongue is his Firerancher. Thin as tissue paper, it looks like the moon in the daytime sky. Suddenly love is looming over the car, as big and invisible as the ghost mountains of the Comobabi range. I smile at him and turn up the radio with my toes.

Jo Ann Beard

#8. Sometimes when you're cruel to others, it's because you've gotten yourself into a situation you can't get out of.

Jo Ann Beard

#9. Pain is God's megaphone

C.S. Lewis

#10. Stop trying to make me feel better," Sophia ordered. "It won't work. I'm determined to be angry and guilty about this for at least another two days, and then again when I'm punching your corpse.

Alexandra Bracken

#11. Instead of slapping her head, I do what they tell you to do: count to ten. Only I do it the gifted way: 123+456+789+10. When your sister has hurtled you swerving into the darkness, stranded you at a funeral home, and threatens to get you in trouble, just stop and count to 1,378 before you respond.

Jo Ann Beard