Isaac Slade (Isaac Edward Slade) Quotes
If you're a painter, paint. But you don't have to put Jesus in every picture. Paint well, and if you paint well enough, they might ask you why you do that.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't do the gym and I don't diet. I'm vegetarian but I don't diet.
-
Television is democracy at its ugliest.
-
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
-
I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.
-
If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
-
To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.
-
The strong desire to include every vital component of life instead of excluding part of them for the sake of too narrow and dogmatic an approach has characterized my whole life.
-
Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
-
Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
-
Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
-
If you're in a major city, there's a 25-year cycle. In Vegas, it's probably 10 or 15 years, except for those landmark places like Spago or Nobu. In Vegas, you have to reinvent yourself once in a while.
-
I have music in my brain all the time, all sorts.
-
I don't wear sunscreen. I don't have a skincare program.
-
Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.
-
All I can say is, I don't encourage younger kids to read my books, and actually, the biggest age group on my Facebook page is 25- to 35-year-old women.
-
I would always contend that talent is an element, but over the long run, ultimately, a minor part of it all; it is mostly hard work.
-
I can't be bothered anymore about giving songs titles.
-
Nietzsche is never boring. He is always interesting, exciting, thrilling, glittering, breathtaking. He possesses a kind of brilliance and tempo which I believe was unknown in former times.
-
If there were one city I should pick to live in, it would be New York. It is a city where I walk down the street and feel anything is possible.
-
There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.
-
I don't know enough about hip-hop, though I've heard some great hip-hop. I just did a thing with Qwest Love - we did a performance together in Memphis at the Folk Alliance Festival, and we had a great jam and a conversation.
-
What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand well enough how human beings may struggle and murder for good material reasons - reasons connected, for instance, with their physical survival. It is much harder to grasp how they may come to do so in the name of something as apparently abstract as ideas. Yet ideas are what men and women live by, and will occasionally die for.
-
If you're a painter, paint. But you don't have to put Jesus in every picture. Paint well, and if you paint well enough, they might ask you why you do that.
