Brian > Brian's Quotes

“All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“We are what we imagine ourselves to be. ”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.”
― Jack Kerouac

“I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Do it or don't. It's amazing how many things in life are that easy.”
― Henry Rollins

“We should enjoy and make the most of life, not because we are in constant fear of what might happen to us in a mythical afterlife, but because we have only one opportunity to live.”
― Greg Graffin, Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God

“It's my firm conclusion that human meaning comes from humans, not from a supernatural source. After we die, our hopes for an afterlife reside in the social networks that we influenced while we were alive. If we influence people in a positive way -- even if our social web is only as big as our nuclear family -- others will want to emulate us and pass on our ideas, manners, and lifestyle to future generations. This is more than enough motivation for me to do good things in my life and teach my children to do the same.”
― Greg Graffin, Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God

“I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

“Good habits are worth being fanatical about.”
― John Irving

“The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.”
― John Irving

“Eventually, that feeling fades, but there is always the memory of those days. When you’re young, everything is butterflies. What I mean is—it’s all new. I guess he was telling you to still believe, to hold on to your butterflies.”
― Brian Joyce, The B-Side Diaries

“It’s funny how books can change you. You open up a book and one minute you are who you’ve always been, then you read some random passage and you become someone else.”
― Brian Joyce, The B-Side Diaries

“There are moments in our lives that define the people we will become in the future, like a symptom before an ailment, or the catalyst before the cure.”
― Brian Joyce, The B-Side Diaries

“In times such as these, life often begs us to seek answers when in reality there are only questions available.”
― Brian Joyce, The B-Side Diaries

“Dream-start with dream. Start tonight-become who you want-dream big!" He became animated at this point, "No money needed for dreams. Dreams are free.”
― Brian Joyce, The B-Side Diaries

“Popularity is like a girl in class that you can't ignore. She give you eyes when no one looks then turns to her friends and laughs some more.”
― Brian Joyce, The B-Side Diaries

“That night, he laid in his bed thinking about all the possibilities. They came like waves in his mind. At first they came slow, then gradually built up speed, cresting into full on dreams, until finally, they broke onto the shore with all of their reality. First dreams, then nightmares.”
― Brian Joyce, The B-Side Diaries

“The price of coming from a small town is that everyone knows your story. Your book has been read, shelved, dusted, and re-read by everybody.”
― Brian Joyce, The B-Side Diaries

“You know-portraits are odd things." "How do you figure?" I asked. "Well at the time, that portrait told the whole story. It told the truth. We were a family-a happy family. Now that same portrait just looks like a lie.”
― Brian Joyce, The B-Side Diaries

“Christopher was wearing a suit and adorned make-up. As long as I had known him, he never wore a suit or make-up. The look of him defenseless to his appearance saddened me.”
― Brian Joyce, The B-Side Diaries

“What were we, but kids with apartments and jobs anyway?”
― Brian Joyce, The B-Side Diaries

“Couples swayed and embraced to the beat as the singer's vocals soared above a group of confused teenagers and twenty-something's.”
― Brian Joyce, The B-Side Diaries

“Character isn't something you talk about; it's something you show through your actions-through your every day habits.”
― Brian Joyce, The B-Side Diaries

“Society gets by from the help of its citizens.”
― Brian Joyce, The B-Side Diaries

“I guess what's most important is that we chose to live with our hearts open and to let our experiences show us the way towards our brightest days.”
― Brian Joyce, The B-Side Diaries

“I guess it was only fitting that to them PUNK was a four letter word. However, to people like Dylan and I-punk was our hearts-our souls. We grew up with a lot of uncertainties. To be a teenager isn't always pretty, and our music reflected that.”
― Brian Joyce, The B-Side Diaries