Top 100 Jones Quotes
#1. My first novel, 'Leaving Atlanta,' took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead.
Tayari Jones
#2. One thing both my parents agree on is this: if people are doing something unfair, it's part of our job to remind them what's fair, even if sometimes it still doesn't turn out the way we want it to.
Kelly Jones
#3. People who think that once they are converted all will be happy, have forgotten Satan.
David Lloyd-Jones
#4. Life ain't all burritos and strippers, my friend. - TRUE FACT
Darynda Jones
#5. People who take risks like Amy Winehouse and Norah Jones take a second to catch on, but eventually they do because they're different and honest in a musical landscape that's not always like that.
Emmy Rossum
#6. Doras II was a somewhat absentminded king, It is said, when Death came to summon him, Doras granted Death the usual formal audience and then dismissed him from his presence. Death was too embarrassed to return until many years later- Ka'a Orto'o, Gnomic Utterances
Diana Wynne Jones
#7. The world would be a better place for man, if man were not in it.
Allyson Jones
#9. It was one thing to die. It was another to lose one's soul. To come to a complete end. To exist no longer.
Darynda Jones
#10. He's the sort of player whose brain doesn't always know where his legs are carrying him.
Nick Farr-Jones
#11. We are continuing to look for ways that we can do something that's good for both of us. Good for both of us being the Cowboys relative to relief as to our cap management and good for him that would maybe be some pluses for him on his contract.
Jerry Jones
#12. Having a little talent as a writer is like having a little talent as a brain surgeon.
James Jones
#14. Sometimes the things that destroy you, become the architectural blueprints which make your mind royal.
Curtis Tyrone Jones
#15. Most of my favorite writers are over forty, and so I suppose I'll only name a few of the writers whose work I find myself constantly returning to: Edward P. Jones, Marilynne Robinson, Kazuo Ishiguro, V. S. Naipaul, Toni Morrison, and Philip Roth.
Dinaw Mengestu
#16. I guess the President says the majority of the people didn't elect him, he doesn't have to listen to 'em anyway.
Star Jones
#17. The thing is that Warcraft has so much story available to it. For the fans, there are some key stories they really want to see on screen. I won't be doing those.
Duncan Jones
#18. I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I'm gaining weight, I want to record if the Lord wants me to still record, and I just want to do my work on the road as long as I got those fans out there.
George Jones
#19. Life's a little bit too crazy for my liking right now.
Jeremy Jones
#20. Mostly though, college was me trying to look cooler than I was. There were definitely some Carhartt jeans and backward kangol caps in my repertoire.
Rashida Jones
#21. I'll kiss your feet if you'd scratch my nose.
Sandra Jones
#22. I don't think people like to read about themselves or about others as they really are. It would be too horrifying.
James Jones
#24. She stopped, and he knew she had caught herself, dismayed a what she had been about to reveal. [Nicole Dubois]
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#26. Forget how vast darkness can be
Focus on how powerful your light is ...
When you turn it on
Roxana Jones
#27. I want everyone to feel as much as possible as if they inhabit the same space. They more fluid the relationship between actor and audience, the better.
Christine Jones
#28. Romance is about love. It's about two people sharing intimate moments expressing that love
Donell Jones
#29. I liked to go to court. I became a lawyer because of the allure of the courtroom, not necessarily to be chained to an office desk.
John E. Jones III
#30. They were back. The demons in all their glory. And they had a plan. I made plans sometimes, too, but they rarely involved world domination. Hot dogs on a grill, maybe. Tequila.
Darynda Jones
#31. Anther spasm ripped through me and all I could wonder was why in the world had women been doing this for thousands of years? This was barbaric. This was torture. Never again. Never again as long as I lived would I have another baby, so Beep had better be pretty awesome.
Darynda Jones
#33. I've never worried about how long the song is.
Adam Jones
#34. But thats not love, he thought, thats not what she wants, nor what any of them want, they do not want you to find yourself in them, they want instead that you should lose yourself in them. And yet, he thought, they are always trying to find themselves in you.
James Jones
#35. The siren song of redistribution of wealth by centralized government never ceases for those who seek irreversible and unusurpable control over the lives and liberties of private citizens.
Josh Jones
#36. I've never seen 'The Goonies.' I've never seen 'Indiana Jones.' I watched 'UHF' over and over again when I was little, and that was it. I had no time for any other movies. I watched 'Naked Gun,' 'UHF,' and 'Airplane!' over and over.
Eric Andre
#37. Love with no feelings is a waste.
Jon Jones
#38. We will definitely not burn the Koran, no. Not today, not ever.
Terry Jones
#39. I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.
Tayari Jones
#41. I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.
Van Jones
#42. What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.
Franklin P. Jones
#44. The league, I think, is doing well. It's growing, it's maturing, and it's becoming a better league.
Cobi Jones
#45. The things that trip a person into love aren't the grand, sweeping traits you expect (must adore Waugh, display altruism, respect my space). The truly endearing properties are the small and apparently trivial gestures and habits that differentiate us one from another.
S.A. Jones
#46. Tax and I have a secret world. We are on this earth surrounded by billions of people, and yet, this thing we have, it's just us. It's fucked up, it's insane, but it's something I can only share with him.
Nina G. Jones
#48. Any man who isn't married by thirty-five is either gay or he's got skeletons in his closet.
Lisa Renee Jones
#49. I have just as much woman in me as I have man. It's just a matter of channeling the energy into which way you use it.
Grace Jones
#50. I produced the Buckcherry album and I just finished a band called American Pearl on Wind-Up Records. That's Creed's label. They're pretty rocking. Now I'm looking for another band to produce.
Steve Jones
#51. Know the difference between famous and great.
Deacon Jones
#52. The saying "the cherry on top" is only a good metaphor if the person listening or reading actually likes cherries on top of their ice cream.
Christopher Jones
#53. Uh, I feel like there's a Jessica Jones tip somewhere in here about Hollywood and using looks and fame and skintight costume to your advantage or something, buuuuut I'm just gonna skip it.
Kelly Thompson
#54. The next thing I want to say is that God's way is always the best way. It's the only way, really. And God's word clearly says he created sex for one man and one woman to share only inside the commitment of marriage
Robin Jones Gunn
#55. The fact that there's a Highway to Hell and only a Stairway to Heaven says a lot about anticipated traffic numbers. -
Darynda Jones
#56. Issie?"
After a second her voice comes out small and tired. "I'm not here."
"Oh." I back up so I can stare at the bathroom door. No feet. "Then I should probably freak out because the toilet is talking back to me, huh? A little too many pain meds for Zara today.
Carrie Jones
#57. I was in a mental asylum? When the fuck did that happen?
Darynda Jones
#58. I love inspirational R&B, like Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Hudson. I want to do that. That kind of music stays with you.
Ashthon Jones
#59. I love to have confidence, but that confidence doesn't come from myself. It comes from God, and that's what I wanted America to see.
Ashthon Jones
#60. I don't consider myself no attractive man. People like Tom Jones and Elvis Presley - I'm not nothing like that.
Muhammad Ali
#61. I do think it's important to be honest about your feelings in a long term relationship because it's totally human to be attracted to other people. It's just about what you do about that attraction.
Zoe Lister-Jones
#62. See you in a few. Hold down the fort, Mr. Wong!
Darynda Jones
#65. I'm sorry I made you cry, it's the last thing I would ever want to do....Unless it's out loud....during a moment of passion
Lesley Jones
#66. I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet.
Norah Jones
#67. I've just completed Mike's [Mann] Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e. from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith's [Briffa] to hide the decline.
Phil Jones
#69. All of a sudden I had a baby, because it went really quick. It was like, 'Oh! I have a baby!' So, it's great. I'm just having a great time with my children. They're here in New York with me.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
#71. Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.
E. Stanley Jones
#72. I hang up. Actually, I smash the phone down because I take my anger out on inanimate objects. Which is better than taking it out on people, right?
Carrie Jones
#73. You know, I grew up on romantic comedies, and it's hard to find a new way to tell that story.
Rashida Jones
#74. People don't believe this, but Hollywood really is a meritocracy.
Rashida Jones
#75. I buy shoes sometimes and use them as bookends. They're too beautiful to wear.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
#76. How would you like your eggs?"
I tried. I really did. But I glanced at his crotch and it came out anyway. "Fertilized?
Darynda Jones
#77. The gospel is meant to control and govern everything in our lives.
David Lloyd-Jones
#78. I do like Peyton Manning. I mean, you can't lose with a guy like that - especially with the amount of touchdowns he's been able to produce.
Dhani Jones
#80. Then, the door opens and there he is; silhouetted in the hall light. Long hair, long legs, and a heartbeat in tune with my own.
Hunter S. Jones
#81. The theater is a kind of international language, and I like it. But I have a practical bent of mind, too. In any other field, I could make only about a tenth as much as I do acting. That's why I want to be a producer. It pays better, and you have more control.
Carolyn Jones
#82. Sidney Poitier and Sidney Lumet were instrumental in helping me get started as the first black composer to get name credit for movie scores.
Quincy Jones
#83. submission would be, because I'd really earned it." "Oh, please. You have so many rules, your rules have rules. Any woman who dared to date you would need an encyclopedia-sized book to keep up.
Lisa Renee Jones
#84. I have a large personal collection of pictures. For every project, I choose images. Usually I don't do this until I've done an extensive script breakdown and distilled the text down to poetic form. I have to plant enough seeds so that there will be vibration.
Christine Jones
#86. The early Christians did not say, in dismay, 'Look what the world has come to,' but, in delight, 'Look what has come to the world!
E. Stanley Jones
#87. I want you to want me because you want me, not because of grief, not because he is not here. I want you to love me for me. I want you to kiss me first and not because you need me to help you, but because you need to kiss me.
Carrie Jones
#88. You always have to lie. I've been in plays that people don't enjoy and I pray that they lie to my face when I come outside.
Zoe Lister-Jones
#89. We were terrified that Jones would settle. It was contrary to our purpose of bringing down the president.
Ann Coulter
#90. I pin my hopes to quiet processes and small circles in which vital and transforming events take place.
Rufus Jones
#91. You see, things being good has nothing to do with how you feel outside, it is all to do with how you are inside.
Helen Fielding
#93. The demons? How many are there?"
"More than even you could handle."
"So, then, there're two?
Darynda Jones
#94. If you keep standing on the verge of greatness, you'll eventually get the courage to leap into it,
Curtis Tyrone Jones
#95. My biggest complaint about customer service is that I am put on hold too long.
Jon Jones
#96. The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.
Chuck Jones
#97. The World Cup experience is more than just the game of soccer. It's an event. And it will fly by faster than you think. It will end and you'll be saying, 'Wow, it's over already?' You have to remember to take it all in and enjoy it.
Cobi Jones
#98. Good rom-coms have some reflection of the way things are, the sign of the times.
Rashida Jones
#99. I kept my head down and my breathing steady. No idea why. I totally felt like a sniper in the marines. Only I was pregnant. Other than that, and the fact that I couldn't snipe if they'd paid me to, I embodied all that a sniper should be. Stealth. Grace. The patience of a panther on the prowl.
Darynda Jones
#100. We just want government to be a smart, supportive, reliable partner to the forces that are working for good in this country.
Van Jones
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