Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before -...
JO NESBO Ever since the '70s, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo were the godfathers of Scandinavian crime. They ...
JO NESBO At nineteen I was pretty sure I was going to be a professional soccer player. At that time I played ...
JO NESBO For many years, it seemed as if nothing changed in Norway. You could leave the country for three mon...
JO NESBO Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more ...
JO NESBO I think my heart is quite selfish. If I followed my heart, I would not be a good person. But I have ...
JO NESBO I was sleeping in a water bed for a couple of years, recommended by my doctor. I was never comfortab...
JO NESBO Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go ...
JO NESBO You can't visit readers where you think they are. You have to invite them home to where you are ...
JO NESBO I have questioned myself about the brutality in the last few novels. Actually in 'The Leopard,&#...
JO NESBO When I was a teenager, my father went bust. He could have declared himself bankrupt, but he was an h...
JO NESBO For me, the best places to write are on planes, trains and at airports. Not hotel rooms but hotel lo...
JO NESBO As I say, we Norwegians love our woolens, and you can buy some beautiful knitwear in Oslo. They migh...
JO NESBO I'm not a big crime reader, but I'm reading Michael Connelly's 'The Reversal.' I...
JO NESBO The only pressure I feel is to write good books. And to not replicate the previous book. Whether you...
JO NESBO In most sports, your brain and your body will cooperate... But in rock climbing, it is the other way...
JO NESBO The stock market to me was like a video game. When it went off, it was like turning the game off. It...
JO NESBO Some artists see a gig as an audience worshipping them. I think it is about having a great time toge...
JO NESBO You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all th...
JO NESBO I was a really bad taxi driver. I only collided twice but it was one time too much.
JO NESBO I've been watching more American TV because of all the great TV series that have come out in the...
JO NESBO My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any ...
JO NESBO All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I de...
JO NESBO 'Phantom' was for me an interesting technique of telling the story. You have one voice that ...
JO NESBO I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson -...
JO NESBO Even nice things don't make you happy when you're tired.
JO BRAND There are two types of people in this world: one who opens a packet of biscuits, has one and puts th...
JO BRAND Brexit doesn't guarantee that migration will come down.
JO COX I like reading, I like boring things, and yet I think people for ages had this image of me that I wa...
JO BRAND I'm lying in my room listening to the birds outside. I used to think they sang because they were hap...
JO KNOWLES In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.
JO COUDERT The more deeply the path is etched, the more it is used, and the more it is used, the more deeply it...
JO COUDERT You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly cent...
JO COUDERT I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to ...
JO BRAND One thing lots of Christians do have in common is that they can't help coming across as smug. Th...
JO BRAND Members of al Qaeda and other affiliated organizations spent a great deal of time blending into the ...
JO BONNER When I got married, the Sun ran the headline: 'Here comes the bride, all fat and wide.' Luck...
JO BRAND The problem with comedy audiences - it's like the Coliseum - when they see someone struggling, t...
JO BRAND At many points during our nation's history, there have been times - known in our history textboo...
JO BONNER The review process was conducted in an extremely bipartisan manner. Minority members of the Judiciar...
JO BONNER Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.
JO BRAND I wouldn't like to live in a castle now, but I'd enjoy a visit to Restormel in Cornwall in i...
JO BEVERLEY Venice is truly magical. The Devon-Dorset coast in England is so beautiful, and its sandstone cliffs...
JO BEVERLEY There are lots of people who believe that caricature of me the tabloids created, so they think they ...
JO BRAND I have two brothers and we basically spent our lives playing in the woods, falling in ponds, getting...
JO BRAND You can't love me.'

'Don't be bossy. I can do what the hell I like.
JO BEVERLEY There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of ...
JO WALTON Some men are deeply likable but have attitudes I don't like. Does that mean I should completely ...
JO BRAND Does anyone really go into nursing intending to be apathetic, cold and removed from suffering? I fin...
JO BRAND I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and ...
JO BRAND My dad's a very sensitive man, but as the archetypal rebellious teenager, I didn't realise t...
JO BRAND This is how a revolution begins. It begins when someone grows tired of standing idly by, waiting for...
JO BECKER Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press knows that, on ...
JO BRAND Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.
JO BRAND Everyone in comedy thinks if you go to the U.S. you become a global star but, unfortunately, I'v...
JO BRAND I must be an anorexic because an anorexic looks in the mirror and sees a fat person.
JO BRAND It is during difficult times like this that the true American spirit reveals itself. I am not talkin...
JO BONNER I find it difficult to judge myself, but people say that I have become a bit more socially acceptabl...
JO BRAND I am very aware that there are many of you who have friends and loved ones in the areas affected by ...
JO BONNER Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many pe...
JO BONNER I'm not a flag waver for obesity. It's not healthy, and you have a crap life because there i...
JO BRAND We think they can do better.
JO ANNE That one was kind of a no-brainer. We were eager to be able to rush the good news to the marketplace...
JO ANNE We've been blessed with very, very good weather and the wholesale price has gone down.
JO ANNE The heating season is not over, but for today, it's a decrease of significant proportion and that ma...
JO ANNE Nearly two weeks have passed since Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Gulf Coast, and while w...
JO BONNER Virtual Piggy was created to provide a safe way for kids to shop online with parental approval, in r...
JO WEBBER There is one final point I would like to make this week. As I said on the floor of the House during ...
JO BONNER The spirit of non-conformity is as prevalent now in my part of west Yorkshire as it was in the time ...
JO COX That result at the French was a big break for me. I had been playing quite well up until that point ...
JO DURIE I am certain more emergency supplemental bills will be needed before this process is concluded. In f...
JO BONNER There is an emerging subgenre of British nonfiction in which journalists from 'The Guardian'...
JO BECKER Hurricane Katrina this past week was certainly the worst episode in what has become an all-too-famil...
JO BONNER Suffice to say, many women find their first appearance on a comedy panel show to be their last. Seco...
JO BRAND I used to get a lot of people saying 'Oh, you are such a lucky granny.' But the fact of the ...
JO BRAND There's a general sense that women are more relaxed and less defensive in comedy than they used ...
JO BRAND Christians have always been fodder for comedians who have tended to portray them as anoraks - slight...
JO BRAND I don't know if we will ever try again because those sort of things are very hard to organise bu...
JO BRAND I had always fancied a go at the comedy and when it started to go reasonably well and the opportunit...
JO BRAND I've never been a fan of euphemism.
JO BRAND Regular panelists on shows can be terrifying. They own that space, and many guest comics suspect the...
JO BRAND I was really, because I thought it was extremely excruciating when I watched a tape of it, that my h...
JO BRAND There's a magical energy and power from the ocean. I was born in a room overlooking the sea, in ...
JO BEVERLEY What I'd love to do would be to bring a person from the past to me. In that case I'd pick Ja...
JO BEVERLEY Jeremy Clarkson is rather charming, but I can't stomach his public persona. I don't like his...
JO BRAND Once you get labelled, people expect you to behave within the very narrow confines of that label.
JO BRAND There are problems with nursing - such as the issue of nurses all having to do degrees these days. B...
JO BRAND The Inspector General issued six reviews and reports on actions taken based on provisions of the act...
JO BONNER Tech stocks are boasting high multiples, Sony shares are trading at 44 times projected fiscal 2006 e...
JO KAWAKAMI Since the September 11 attacks, nearly 400 individuals have been arrested by the Justice Department ...
JO BONNER Everything seems so surreal ,like it didn't even happen. It feels like a dream I still haven't woken...
ERIKA JO I'm not sure I ever want to get married. I'm neither messing around while waiting nor looking for so...
JO WALTON Businesses in my constituency want help to address the skills mismatch at local level which leaves e...
JO COX That's what got her, of course. That everyone thought it so unbelievable that she could possibly att...
JO LEIGH Everything becomes magnified at night. Sounds travel in a different way, it's dark, and everythi...
JO BRAND The decision to retire was quite an easy one for me because by that stage my knees were so badly gon...
JO DURIE You don't really see ugly people that are old, or a bit grotty and smelly, in the media. If a Ma...
JO BRAND There are so many cliches associated with mental health - such as the 'fine line between lunacy ...
JO BRAND GonziPN is infested with diehards and egocentrics and it seems intent to embrace cant and not to dec...
JO SAID We are of course sorry for Thomas because he made a great comeback in November but he pulled a thigh...
JO MASO I'm a Luddite with computers, and I'm slightly worried about being hacked as well.
JO BRAND A moment when the worst had already happened, so there was nothing left to worry about. I wanted to ...
JO FURNISS Dr. Rice went well beyond offering a helping hand - she went so far as to shed tears and share hugs ...
JO BONNER There has certainly been criticism of the timing involved in getting help to the victims of the stor...
JO BONNER Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for ...
JO NESBø He asked me to be his lobbyist.
JO EVANS I've no interest in fashion, shoes, handbags, or sweaty shopping.
JO BRAND Managers of hospitals over the years have been increasingly recruited from outside the health servic...
JO BRAND Bjarne Møller, my former boss, says people like me always choose the line of most resistance. It's ...
JO NESBø I was always being called upon to be an honorary boy alongside my brothers. I don't think I'...
JO BRAND When a gently born spinster has little money, her choices are few. She might receive an offer of mar...
JO BEVERLEY The world is a pile of grunge.
JO STAFFORD President Bush, Secretary of State Rice, and several cabinet level officials have visited Alabama...
JO BONNER I believe that if your brain has to get to grips with complicated words, then you won't get Alzh...
JO BRAND This really is our book for consumers. When you go to the doctor, if you know there's a gender diffe...
JO PARRISH They (refugees) have continued to receive half rations and we hope the generosity shown by the inter...
JO WOODS To have the chance of being loved we have to take a chance on being destroyed inside
JO NESBø My approach to my subjects was very simple. I never had them pose, we just talked about everything i...
JO DAVIDSON A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.
JO GODWIN The divorced person is like a man with a black patch over one eye: He looks rather dashing but the f...
JO COUDERT That is an outrageous suggestion. I find it cowardly and despicable.
JO MARSH This degree essentially has characteristics of chemistry and characteristics of biology, but it's no...
JO GOY Harry doesn't like people, you see." "I do like people," Harry said. "I just don't like being with t...
JO NESBø If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable.
JO WALTON I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.
JO WALTON Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit ...
JO WALTON The team had a very good second half against the Italians, and we want to continue to forge ahead to...
JO MASO His head had swollen to nearly three times its normal size. His neck was the same. It was wider than...
JO BROWN When the water gets clearer than it used to be, then you can get a lot more algae growth.
JO LATIMORE Agreements on measures designed to help stop future genocides and on reforms to the United Nations w...
JO LEADBEATER Until a one billion-dollar fund exists, the chaotic passing of the begging bowl will go on and peopl...
JO LEADBEATER These delays can cost thousands of people their lives. What will it take rich countries to learn thi...
JO LEADBEATER Governments are failing to respond to an emergency appeal. They must put their hands in their pocket...
JO LEADBEATER France's argument that the CAP is used primarily to support its small farmers rings hollow. Europe's...
JO LEADBEATER It's an opportunity to get together with girlfriends and do what you love and learn new things.
JO PACKHAM Olivier was not catastrophic against the English but he was responsible for three of the penalties t...
JO MASO British ferries have stopped transporting live animals to the Continent. This has made it very diffi...
JO BRAND Zebra mussels also take in everything, but some of the blue green algae, the zebra mussels don't wan...
JO LATIMORE Florian badly bruised his left knee in a French championship match with his Toulouse club on Saturda...
JO MASO We women continue to swallow this line that it's unladylike or even proof of being a lesbian if ...
JO BRAND I think it's difficult, if you're a quite private person like I am, to write about your life...
JO BRAND In the end, punk inevitably burned itself out and acted as a bridge across which the New Romantics c...
JO BRAND And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at ...
JO BRAND I am Batley and Spen born and bred, and I could not be prouder of that. I am proud that I was made i...
JO COX As the Tories know, the problem with setting yourself up as a shining example for others to follow i...
JO BRAND My preference is swimming in the sea. I find the sea is more liberating, wild and good fun rather th...
JO BRAND I was an aid worker for a decade and then worked in the voluntary sector in the U.K. on U.K. child p...
JO COX Black Velvet.
ERIKA JO I used to do bell ringing in Benenden church. It was really good fun, actually. My best friend's...
JO BRAND I have a utilitarian approach to dressing; as long as I quite like it and it covers me up, I don'...
JO BRAND I grew up in a small hotel with many rooms, so when I became aware of 'The Lion, the Witch, and ...
JO BEVERLEY It wasn't a conscious effort to have kids later. It was just the way life goes.
JO BRAND It's no more difficult than wheeling your trash cart to the curb. We all do it. That's a very easy t...
JO SANDERS You look across the board at comedy quiz shows, and they are mainly hosted by men.
JO BRAND You know what I'd love to read? A Dialogue between Bron and Shevek and Socrates. Socrates would love...
JO WALTON I think some people ramp a side of themselves up for performance purposes.
JO BRAND It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.
JO WALTON Occasionally, some sitcoms still stereotype women - the old dragon or the dolly bird - but on the wh...
JO BRAND They had studied law, information technology and art history as part of their beauty treatment, they...
JO NESBø It's got too much hard work slapping them and telling them to shut up.
JO BRAND Indeed, by refusing to tackle Assad's brutality, we may actively alienate more of the Sunni popu...
JO COX I never think, 'Where am I going to be in a year's time?' That seems to be a sure way of...
JO BRAND Yorkshire folk are not fools: talk about devolving power to cities and regions, while simultaneously...
JO COX I live on a big old Dutch barge by Tower Hill on the Thames.
JO COX Privatisation splits hospital services into increasingly small packages.
JO BRAND As horrific as this impact has been on my constituents, it is only a small part of the overwhelming ...
JO BONNER People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn'...
JO BRAND I spent the summers packing toothpaste at a factory, working where my dad worked, and everyone else ...
JO COX I shut my eyes and concentrated on the sun, and on feeling it warm my skin. On pleasure. Hedon. The ...
JO NESBø The hard part is putting one word after another.
JO LINSDELL Can you believe that just last weekend I was at my prom?! ... And now here I am with a record deal a...
ERIKA JO I guess you guys aren't going to hear this next song, but it's the it's going to be the next single ...
ERIKA JO It was kind of bitter sweet for me. He wanted to be there. He wanted a record deal. But in a way he ...
ERIKA JO It's been crazy, but a good crazy. I wouldn't have had it any other way. I recorded the album and pu...
ERIKA JO Gwen: It's not going to work.
Paul: Pardon me?
Gwen: Cinderella's not going to sleep with ...
JO LEIGH in order to isolate what was possible, you had to eliminate everything that was impossible
JO NESBø I nearly fell asleep over Dickens in English. Mind you, he's snoozeworthy at the best of times.
JO WALTON Reason lives in the head, and faith in the heart. They're not always good neighbours.
JO NESBø Our myths, our legends, aren't necessarily true, but they are truly necessary.
JO WALTON 1 tatty old man in jeans—what was he thinking? Jeans are for young people.
JO WALTON Marry me he said voice full of emotion. Be my soul mate my friend and my lover as long as we both li...
JO DAVIS Are you dying?"
Cato lit his cigarette. "It's not acute, perhaps, but we're all dying, Harry.
JO NESBø But perhaps that's why we take snaps...to provide false evidence to underpin the false claim that we...
JO NESBø Telephone conversations are so inadequate, so lacking in expression and gesture and everything.
JO WALTON We are grateful to Tony Riley for his dedication and hard work and look forward to his continuing co...
JO MAJOR As we exit our corporate restructuring, we are pleased to introduce a series of innovative new produ...
JO MAJOR Gross margins improved for the fourth consecutive quarter and are up 13 percentage points from the s...
JO MAJOR We now run a parallel orientation for parents. They get to meet (Principal) Juan Rodriguez, and the ...
JO LEWIS They can establish relationships right from the start.
JO LEWIS This presents an opportunity to explore the building, find their way around. It helps them make the ...
JO LEWIS I think it ran really smoothly.
JO LAMARCHE A lot of people are just waiting to see how this works with Burlington.
JO LAMARCHE As soon as somebody gets to 50 percent, it stops.
JO LAMARCHE I'm never going to leave the stage. I love the instant, immediate reaction. It's my home.
JO KOY That's one thing I pride myself on, that I'm Asian. All I really know is my Asian heritage.
JO KOY That's my man right there. He really took my comedy to the next level. I think it was a sense of urg...
JO KOY This is my 11th year (doing comedy). That's the whole thing -- if you wait 10 years, pay your dues a...
JO KOY Man, I don't know how it was for other comics, but that one appearance has changed my life. Everyone...
JO KOY Tech stocks are boasting high multiples, Sony Shares are trading at 44 times its projected fiscal 20...
JO KAWAKAMI I love modelling, it's a dream come true!
JO HICKS