Top 100 Jo Jo Quotes
#1. Damita Jo. Jo. That's my middle name. It's let in about the different characters that live within me. They say we have 200 characters that we portray with different people.
Janet Jackson
#2. Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.
Patti Smith
#3. You're important," Nicholas interrupted quietly catching her face and turning her to peer at him. "You're the most important thing in the world to me Jo. I love you. Let me have this moment.
Lynsay Sands
#4. But Jo wasn't angry. Not anymore. He couldn't really tell if what he had been before was angry. It was an emotion he had no use for, that accomplished nothing and meant even less than that. If anything, what Jo really felt was tired.
Yaa Gyasi
#5. I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully ...
Louisa May Alcott
#6. Boys don't gush, so I can stand it. The last time I let in a party of girls, one fell into my arms and said, "Darling, love me!" I wanted to shake her,' answered Mrs. Jo, wiping her pen with energy.
Louisa May Alcott
#7. [Jo to her mother] I knew there was mischief brewing. I felt it and now it's worse than I imagined. I just wish I could marry Meg myself, and keep her safe in the family.
Louisa May Alcott
#8. Well I took her over to a soda fountain over on Bo's She had an Ice Cream Sundae and a hot cup of Jo She leaned way back just to straighten up her hose Well the ice cream melted and the coffee froze.
Gene Vincent
#9. So much for a great opening speech, that sucker done tucked tail and is hiding in the deepest part of my brain, sucking its thumb.
Brandy Nacole
#10. ... books are always good company if you have the right sort. Let me pick out some for you.' And Mrs. Jo made a bee-line to the well-laden shelves, which were the joy of her heart and the comfort of her life.
Louisa May Alcott
#11. In spite of her small vanities, Margaret had a sweet and pious nature, which unconsciously influenced her sisters, especially Jo, who loved her very tenderly, and obeyed her because her advice was so gently given.
Louisa May Alcott
#12. ... that's what old people are here for, - else their experience is of little use.
Louisa May Alcott
#13. I always wanted to be Jo in 'Little Women.' She's a bit reckless and feckless, always getting into trouble like me. But I'm probably more like Madame Bovary.
Sue Townsend
#14. Perhaps it would have been better if he had killed me; my life is spoilt.
Louisa May Alcott
#15. Don't let the darkness that's been visited upon this family pull you in so deeply, you cannot get out. Turn back from it, darling Jo ... he'd warned her. He didn't seem to understand that turning your back on the darkness didn't mean the darkness would turn its back on you.
Jennifer Donnelly
#16. We're great, Jo and me. We're pals, and I guess sex has a lot to do with it. She's also brilliant at clearing a room. So protective, so devoted. I can't believe how much she loves me.
Ron Wood
#17. In all likelihood, I was going to be in charge of his entire business empire soon. I would hold the purse strings, and Jo was worried that my main vice - vindictiveness - would mean she was going to lose her cushy lifestyle. For once in her miserable life, she was right.
L.J. Shen
#18. Engrave your pieces, Jo, and they'll always find their way back to you, said Willie.
Ruta Sepetys
#19. Jo claimed that the reason people survived breakups was that within days of the amputation, Mother Nature started reminding you of what you had been doing without, what could have been better, all the samll discontents you had been filing away.
Emma Donoghue
#20. I don't understand it. What can there be in a simple little story like that to make people praise it so?" she said, quite bewildered. "There is truth in it, Jo, that's the secret.
Louisa May Alcott
#22. Jo turns towards me. Her voice is calm but now I see her eyes blaze in a holy hazel fire. She doesn't want to die, but she will, for what she believes in. I need new friends.
Eliza Crewe
#23. We're just people Jo he said quietly.
Yeah I suppose. People with fangs who drink blood live a long time and apparently do crafts. She shook her head.
Lynsay Sands
#24. ... he stood behind her, tall and pale, like the ghost of his former self ...
Louisa May Alcott
#25. Herbs, vials, and crap," I grumble. "Where are the massive weapons and spirit fighting spears?"
"So impatient," Cooper says, mocking, and goes to pick up a tube filled with powder. "You know, these herbs and vials and crap are important."
"Yes, because crap always sounds necessary.
Brandy Nacole
#26. ... if men and women would only trust, understand, and help one another as my children do, what a capital place the world would be!' and Mrs. Jo's eyes grew absent, as if she was looking at a new and charming state of society in which people lived as happily and innocently as her flock at Plumfield.
Louisa May Alcott
#27. I can't love anyone else; and I'll never forget you, Jo, never! never! with a stamp to emphasize his passionate words. - Laurie
Louisa May Alcott
#28. 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
#29. I love Jo Malone. I got the Orange Blossom scent as a gift many years ago, and I fell in love with it. It's very light, natural, sweet. It's there but not that obvious.
Zhu Zhu
#30. After a bath, I like to use Jo Wood Organics Usiku Body Oil. It mositurises my skin without leaving it greasy.
Jessica Alba
#31. Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.
Louisa May Alcott
#32. Dear me! If only men and women would trust, understand and help as my children do, what a capital place 'the world would be!
Louisa May Alcott
#33. Tired of my own company, I suppose, now I've seen so much better.
Louisa May Alcott
#34. And Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again.
Louisa May Alcott
#35. Jo? Look at me. I'm about to do something really f**king stupid. When I do this, I need you to remember three words for me. Omni rosae spina." Thorn
"Every rose has its thorn?" Jo
"Good, you understand Latin. Yes. Commit those words to memory in the event I lose control. Okay?" Thorn
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#36. Goddamn it, Joanna!' Claire called. After twelve years her voice was sharper than Jo remembered. 'I know you're standing on the stairs,' she said. 'I can see you. Get down here and help me!
Tiffany Baker
#37. God had told the survivors of Sodom and Gomorrah not to look back after they'd been rescued from death and destruction, and if Jo's family continued to gaze into the past, they were going to become stuck in place like pillars of salt, too.
Lynn Austin
#38. You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.
Louisa May Alcott
#39. Khusrau darya prem ka, ulti wa ki dhaar,
Jo utra so doob gaya, jo dooba so paar.
English Translation.
Oh Khusrau, the river of love
Runs in strange directions.
One who jumps into it drowns,
And one who drowns, gets across.
Amir Khusrau
#40. Mrs. Jo did not mean the measles, but that more serious malady called love, which is apt to ravage communities, spring and autumn, when winter gayety and summer idleness produce whole bouquets of engagements, and set young people to pairing off like the birds.
Louisa May Alcott
#41. What a joy Mary Jo Putney is to read; she can't write fast enough for me.
Laura Kinsale
#42. Mary Jo Putney is a gifted writer with an intuitive understanding of what makes romances work. I loved Silk and Shadows, couldn't put it down, and don't think readers will, either.
Jayne Ann Krentz
#44. I'm a big fan of the poet Mary Jo Salter, and although she doesn't need to be discovered at all - she's widely admired and anthologized and extremely accomplished - I wish she were a household name.
J.R. Moehringer
#45. Once, in a spasm of sappiness, you asked Q-Jo if she thought your dreams would ever come true. 'You aren't talking about dreams,' she corrected you, 'you're referring to your pathetic bourgeoisie ambitions. Dreams don't come true. Dreams are true.
Tom Robbins
#46. Now, if you make fun of my plan I'll give you bad coffee for a week, and then where are you, sir? cried Mrs. Jo, tweaking him by the ear just as if he was one of the boys.
Louisa May Alcott
#48. It seems I can go from elated, embarrassed, angry, and back to embarrassed in four comments flat.
Brandy Nacole
#49. In high school there were so many Jennifers, I had all sorts of names, including Jo-Jen, Jenna, Jenna-Bean, and Jenny A.
Jennifer Aniston
#50. When I was 16 or 17 I heard the Count Basie band with Jo Jones and Lester Young and Herschel Evans and I couldn't believe it. They were the greatest swing band. I really fell in love with that sound. Everybody danced!
Illinois Jacquet
#51. I think Jo Kwon is my nemesis, because he looks like me.
Jay Park
#52. The conversations were miles beyond Jo's comprehension, but she enjoyed it, though Kant and Hegel were unknown gods, the Subjective and Objective unintelligible terms, and the only thing 'evolved from her inner consciousness' was a bad headache after it was all over.
Louisa May Alcott
#54. Back to reality, after a brief but pleasant dream.
Jo Victor
#55. She says, all serious like, Lor, you're a really sweet guy
(who the bloody fuck is she talking about? I'm looking
around the bed but it's only me and her) ...
Karen Marie Moning
#56. Don't take it away! It's only a fancy, but a man must love something ...
Louisa May Alcott
#58. It's okay to be afraid, Jo. It's what keeps us alive. But falling to that fear is what will get you killed.
Brandy Nacole
#59. Nick!' I flinch. 'What?' Jo widens her eyes at Mom. 'Forget it, Jo,' Mom says. 'He's not ready.'
'Yes, I am,' I tell her. 'I know I don't have a dad. Kenny DiPoto doesn't have a dad either because his dad got knifed in jail.'
'Geezus,' Jo breathes. 'What kind of neighbourhood is this?
Julie Anne Peters
#60. Live. Do whatever possible to stay alive. I'll be waiting. Praying, faithful. Just live. - Jo Marie Rose, Silver Linings
Debbie Macomber
#61. ... she never had what she wanted till she had given up hoping for,' said Mrs. Meg.
Louisa May Alcott
#62. ... Jo valued the letter more than the money, because it was encouraging, and after years of effort it was so pleasant to find that she had learned to do something ...
Louisa May Alcott
#63. {Mrs. March to Jo} You are too much alike and too fond of freedom, not to mention hot tempers and strong wills, to get on happily together, in a relation which needs infinite patience and forbearance, as well as love.
Louisa May Alcott
#64. Jo carried her love of liberty and hate of conventionalities to such and unlimited extent that she naturally found herself worsted in an argument.
Louisa May Alcott
#65. A lot of America is kind of done. People have been making films about it for 100 years. Everything to me feels used up. But Jo-Burg feels unbelievably inspirational to me.
Neill Blomkamp
#66. My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer.
J.K. Rowling
#67. Jo, you're you. And that's as important as you want to make it.
Samuel R. Delany
#68. Love should not make us blind to faults, nor familiarity make us too ready to blame the shortcomings we see.
Louisa May Alcott
#69. When Laurie said 'Good-by', he whispered significantly, It won't do a bit of good, Jo. My eye is on you; so mind what you do, or I'll come and bring you home.
Louisa May Alcott
#70. ... a woman's always safe and comfortable when a fellow's down on his luck.
Louisa May Alcott
#71. Best of all, as happy as Chip Gaines was, he seemed happiest around me.
I'm a generally happy person. My mom says I was a happy baby. But it's a fact--I was always happiest around Jo. And I still am.
Joanna Gaines
#72. ... what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.
Louisa May Alcott
#73. Jo told me once that she was an old woman everywhere but in her studio. "There I'm only myself," she'd said. Standing in the middle of masterpieces that only Jo had ever seen and touched, I knew what she meant.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#74. Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.
Louisa May Alcott
#75. Ted Kennedy's achievements as a senator have towered over his time, changing the lives of far more Americans than remember the name Mary Jo Kopechne.
Adam Clymer
#76. I wish I had a horse; then I could run for miles in this splendid air, and not lose my breath." Jo
Louisa May Alcott
#77. I'm pretty sure Jo couldn't talk about the weather without somehow including a threat. Forecast today: cloudy with a chance I'll kick your ass.
Eliza Crewe
#78. When I first saw Jo, I said boom, that was it, because I'm a one-woman man.
Ron Wood
#79. Jo couldn't even lose her heart in a decorous manner, but sternly tried to quench her feelings, and failing to do so, led a somewhat agitated life. She was mortally afraid of being laughed at for surrendering, after her many and vehement declarations of independence.
Louisa May Alcott
#81. And the more the king snips and carps, the more do his petitioners seek out the company of Cromwell, so unfailing in his amiable courtesy. At home, Jo comes to him looking perplexed. She
Hilary Mantel
#82. ... Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any way.
Louisa May Alcott
#83. Take it easy, I carefully suggested to a pale Jo. She was chugging a glass of Champagne so quickly I half expected the bubble to shoot right down to her arse and release tiny Champagne sparkle farts.
Becca Lee
#84. What in the world are you going to do now, Jo? asked Meg one snowy afternoon,
Louisa May Alcott
#86. With so many trapped in the upper floors, it hardly surprised Jo how often they fought, or how fiercely. When you didn't have one room to yourself in the whole world, you laid claim to every inch of whatever you could.
Genevieve Valentine
#87. And mother-like, Mrs. Jo forgot the threatened chastisement in tender lamentations over the happy scapegrace ...
Louisa May Alcott
#88. People always tell me I'm nothing like my character. Well, hopefully not! He's a character who's very defined. He was purposefully written by Jo Rowling as very one-dimensional in the first few books, because you're supposed to hate him.
Tom Felton
#89. I agree not to expect anything from Mother or you, but I do want to buy Undine and Sintran for myself. I've wanted it so long, said Jo, who was a bookworm.
Louisa May Alcott
#90. All Adam needed was an answer, and 'no' would have worked just as well to set the pack back in order. I agreed because ... because he's Adam. Mine, whispered a voice in my head, but I was pretty sure it was my own voice.
Patricia Briggs
#91. I'm glad of it, that's one of your foolish extravagances, sending flowers and things to girls for whom you don't care two pins," continued Jo reprovingly. "Sensible girls for whom I do care whole papers of pins won't let me send them 'flowers and things', so what can I do? My feelings need a 'vent'.
Louisa May Alcott
#92. Relationship. Jo wanted me to know, though. She thought
Samantha Young
#93. I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this.
Louisa May Alcott
#94. Jo knew nothing about philosophy or metaphysics of any sort, but a curious excitement, half pleasurable, half painful, came over her, as she listened with a sense of being turned adrift into time and space, like a young balloon out on a holiday.
Louisa May Alcott
#95. Death is my art form--when I fight, I'm a ballerina. Graceful. Chi lacks my grace, but makes up for it in energy and enthusiasm. His fighting style is like breakdancing--strong and frenetic with some really sweet moves. Jo's is . . .the Macarena. Ugly but gets the job done.
Eliza Crewe
#96. There were these great women in Montgomery, [Rosa Louise] Parks was among them. Jo Ann Robinson [who organized the bus boycott] was among them. It's always these ordinary women and men of grace who have been waiting and seething and planning to change things that are unjust that bring movement.
Marian Wright Edelman
#97. I'll try and be what he loves to call me, 'a little woman' and not be rough and wild, but do my duty here instead of wanting to be somewhere else," said Jo,
Louisa May Alcott
#98. ... misfortune was much more interesting to her than good luck.
Louisa May Alcott
#99. Are you sure it wouldn't work?" said Jo urgently, in a quiet voice. "Are you sure you don't want to see him again?
Laura wanted to laugh. Those were two totally separate things, weren't they?
Harriet Evans
#100. Naivety is cured with time. Stupidity is terminal.
Eliza Crewe
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