Quote Tree

Listed by Category, and then A-Z, with attribution to the character (if applicable), the title of the work (with the year of origin [if known]), and, lastly, the author and title of the larger work (an album, let's say).

• On Beauty
  • Wars have been fought over women less beautiful than you.
    • Joey P. Jones (to Q.) [2025]
• On Being Remembered
  • Don't be belligerent or in-your-face.
    Give others some quiet, some space.
    Don't have to leave your lipstick mark.
    Don't have to be remembered.
    It'll be alright if people are...
    So caught up in their own worlds...
    That they totally forget you when you're gone.
    Gently...
    Gently...
    Leave your mark on the world.
    • "Lipstick Mark" (2018), JRex, Welcome to Weird
• On Birthday Gifts
  • What do you get for the man who already has everything? Answer: more quality relationships.
    • Joey P. Jones (2025)
• On the Class System in the U.S.
  • But go ahead, live like you're poor. You do you.
    
    I delete. I purposefully don't see those things, those criteria that other people use to define me as poor.
    
    I focus on those things that further enrich my life. And I get me some more of that.
    • Joey P. Jones (2025)
• On Dying
  • If you're frightened of dying and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the earth.
    • Danny Aiello as "Louis," Jacob's Ladder (1991)
• On Fear
  • If you are scared of something just keep looking at it.
    • Tom Cruise (to Hayley Atwell) [Variety, 3/28/2025]
• On Government
  • "The databank know my number. Says I gotta pay 'cause I made the green last year."
    • "Who Made Who" (1986), AC/DC, Maximum Overdrive Soundtrack
• On Healthcare
  • When you put your care into the hands of others, you take yourself out of the equation.
    • Joey Phillip Jones (2025)
• On Incompetence
  • "I am not retained by the police to supply their deficiencies."
    • Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle (1892), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• On Keeping Our Priorities Straight
  • You think other people are more entitled just because they made it a priority to fuck people out of their money in order that they might get rich?
    
    They gave no consideration – absolutely "zero fucks" – to the fact that they stepped all over people to get to where they are.
    
    I work every bit as hard as they do, if not harder. I am smarter than most of the people in this world.
    
    And just like the fuckers, I have my priorities.
    
    I give generously of my time and knowledge, and I don't attempt to force people to repay me for my kindness.
    
    And it has led to me financially scraping by, which I don't much mind, because I am living the most incredible life.
    • Joey P. Jones (2025)
• On Living
  • "Come with me if you want to live."
    • Kyle Reese, The Terminator (1984)
  • "Get busy living or get busy dying. That's goddamn right."
    • Red, The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
• On Power
  • People who crave power shouldn't have it because they're already corrupt. Instead, those who have a track record of behaving responsibly should be elected to those positions. And they'll do it, not because they want it, but because they are noble. They believe in protecting life. But they will resist leaving their good life. They will likely go kicking and screaming. Because nobody in their right mind wants the responsibility and burden of looking after thousands of idiots.
    • Joey P. Jones (2025)
  • Speak truth to power.
    • Bayard Rustin (circa 1964)
• On Predestination
  • "If you can't change anything because it's already happened, then you may as well smell the flowers."
    • Madeleine Stowe as "Kathryn Railly," 12 Monkeys (1995)
• On Relations
  • "You always take the long way around to get what you want. Don't you, Tom? You could have just asked."
    • Verna, Miller's Crossing (1990)
  • You don't go looking for love: it finds you. All you've got to do is put yourself on the scene and interact.
    • Joey Phillip Jones (2025)
  • Love Maxim #1: Always bold; never creepy.
    • Joey Phillip Jones (2025)
  • Love Maxim #2: Is she worth taking a bullet for? That's always the first question that needs answering.
    • Joey P. Jones (2025)
  • Love Maxim #3 (a further clarification of Love Maxim #1): Always the gentleman, but never an innocent.
    • Joey P. Jones (2025)
  • Love Maxim #4: With regard to how women feel about you...
    
    Keep them oscillating between aroused and offended by you, in a perpetual state of fuck or fight. And in the middle of all this, as the pendulum swings from one extreme to the other, offer astute observations about them (to them) that demonstrate you're paying attention and that you care.
    • Joey P. Jones (2025)
• On Sensuality
  • If you will suck my soul, I will lick your funky emotion.
    • Funkadelic (1970)
• On The Simulation
  • This shit is a land of ones and zeros. It's not even real. So do you think for one second that I need to respect the ones and zeros in a bank account?
    • Joey P. Jones (2025)
• On The Soulmate
  • James: In my dream, it's always you.
    Kathryn: I feel that I've always known you.
    • 12 Monkeys (1995)
  • He said to her: Whatever you're looking for, you don't need it.
    • How Jason Sudeikis won Olivia Wilde
• On Time
  • Tick-tock, motherfucker.
    • The Soulmate (2021)