Brierre Joseph Quotes & Sayings

There's no "correct path" to becoming a real artist. You might think you'll gain legitimacy by going to art school, getting published, getting signed to a record label. But it's all bullshit, and it's all in your head. You're an artist when you say you are. And you're a good artist when you make somebody else experience or feel something deep or unexpected. — Amanda Palmer

Never let a serial killer buy you coffee — Howard Roughan

How could it limit its investigation to one sector of reality? How could it help being pluralistic? How could it help finding the same truth everywhere? — Maurice Merleau Ponty

Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes him strive to justify himself. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurts his sense of importance, and arouses resentment. — Dale Carnegie

Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. — Laurie Halse Anderson

That religion which costs a man nothing is usually worth nothing. — Charles Spurgeon

Reversing global warming will take a World War II level of mobilization. It is the work of tens of millions, not hundreds of thousands. — Van Jones

In reference to Einstein's definition of insanity...
No Mr. Einstein, that is not insanity, that is autism. — Eileen Miller

The idea of the universe as an interconnected whole is not new; for millennia it's been one of the core assumptions of Eastern philosophies. What is new is that Western science is slowly beginning to realize that some elements of that ancient lore might be correct. — Dean Radin

Almost any tale of our doings is comic. We are bottomlessly comic to each other. Even the most adored and beloved person is comic to his lover. The novel is a comic form. Language is a comic form, and makes jokes in its sleep. God, if He existed, would laugh at His creation. Yet it is also the case that life is horrible, without metaphysical sense, wrecked by chance, pain and the close prospect of death. Out of this is born irony, our dangerous and necessary tool. — Iris Murdoch

I would've said yes before I saw Aaron Gordon do what he did. And Zach LaVine went nuts as well. I think Gordon should've won for what he did. But what LaVine does is amazing. I don't know where he gets that bounce and that glide but it's incredible. I hope both those guys compete it in next year. Over the last years or so, I'd say the three-point contest has been more entertaining than the dunk contest, but this was really special this year. — Steve Kerr