Jean Paul Riopelle Quotes

#1. Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.

Confucius

#2. When we delight in something, we declare our delight. When we adore someone, we announce our adoration. Isn't this, then, the essence of worship - lifting up with our lips and our lives the one we love above everything else?

David Platt

#3. There aren't a lot of roles in period movies for black people. It sucks because I love that era. But, I love musicals. I love the show Glee, and I wouldn't mind being on that either.

Megalyn Echikunwoke

#4. I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny.

Jim Dine

#5. Choose your friends because you feel most like yourself around them, because the jokes are easy and you feel like you're in your best outfit when you're with them, even though you're just in a t-shirt.

Caitlin Moran

#6. So much of my writing derives from these questions that I ask myself - things that are utterly beyond my personal set of experiences - and it's my attempt to try to ... understand, to sort of break out of my own consciousness, you know, the limitations of my own life.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#7. Requirements in mathematical language are no use unless they are easier to read than the code.

David Parnas

#8. I have a husband and children, and it affects me deeply that somebody could be taken away in a second.

Hope Davis

#9. When I hesitate, I do not paint. When I paint, I do not hesitate.

Jean-Paul Riopelle