Lavallee Brensinger Quotes & Sayings

One of the popular songs in Tyler's rebellion was the familiar couplet: "When Adam delved and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman?" Shakespeare refers to it in "Hamlet," where the grave-diggers speak as follows: "First Clown. Come, my spade. There is no ancient gentleman but gardners, ditchers and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession. Second Clown. Was he a gentleman? First Clown. He was the first that ever bore arms. Second Clown. Why, he had none. First Clown. What, art a heathen? How dost thou understand the Scripture? The Scripture says, Adam digged; could he dig without arms?" (Act 5, — William Shakespeare

I learned in grade-school that after WWII European politicians considered sending Jews to Madagascar instead of Palestine. At the time I thought: Madagascar would've been so great. — Jill Soloway

I haven't really been recording in the last several years. I haven't wanted to. And even though I had to deal with Sony and now I'm on Universal again, I will probably put out a new record soon. — Donna Summer

A distracted existence leads us to no goal — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Pop music is not a threatening style of music. — Joan Jett

'Dead Witch Walking' is basically a modern-day witch living in Cincinnati. — Kim Harrison

It [is] that courage that Africa most desperately needs. — Barack Obama

Embrace change or it'll anchor you to your present - or, worse, your past. — Ben Tolosa

I confess to you guys, I confess to the church, I know I have backed away from certain things because of my arrogance. I thought I could attract more people to Jesus by hiding certain things about him. — Francis Chan

It's much harder, much more work to be your own artist, and it's hard for me to just want to do one thing. I love doing my own music, but I really have to get into a groove with it, which has been difficult over the last few years because I've had so much great work coming in. — Gail Ann Dorsey

You can smell it, too. Death. Dying. Decay. The sky is falling, the sky is dying, the sky is dead. — Josh Malerman

Nothing conceivable is so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests, in one word, so anti-poetic, as the life of a man in the United States. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well. — Jonathan Carroll

What most of us must be involved in
whether we teach or write, make films, write films, direct films, play music, act, whatever we do
has to not only make people feel good and inspired and at one with other people around them, but also has to educate a new generation to do this very modest thing: change the world. — Howard Zinn