Valente Rodriguez Quotes & Sayings

Beasts kill for hunger, men for pay. — John Gay

The biggest risk factor for cancer is aging. — Laurie Glimcher

There is one unmistakable lesson in American history: A community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future — Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Nature's in no hurry, then.
Why would she be? She has literally all the time in the world. — Andreas Eschbach

It took me a good decade of hiding in my house and not going outside to even, like, get my arms around this idea of celebrity, where suddenly people are looking for you to pick your nose or get a shot of you kissing some woman. It's a very discombobulating thing. — Brad Pitt

Tristran tugged and pulled out the stopper of the bottle. He could smell something intoxicating, like honey mixed with wood smoke and cloves. He passed the bottle back to the little man. "It's a crime to drink something as rare and good as this out of the bottle," said the little hairy man. He untied the little wooden cup from his belt and, trembling, poured a small amount of an amber-colored liquid into it. He sniffed it, then sipped it, then he smiled, with small, sharp teeth. "Aaaahhhh. That's better." He passed the cup to Tristran. "Sip it slowly," he said. "It's worth a king's ransom, this bottle. It cost me two large blue-white diamonds, a mechanical bluebird which sang, and a dragon's scale." Tristran sipped the drink. It warmed him down to his toes and made him feel like his head was filled with tiny bubbles. "Good, eh?" Tristran nodded. "Too good for the likes of you and me, I'm afraid. Still. It hits the spot in times of trouble, of which this is certainly one. — Neil Gaiman

It's hard to think of such things when you are busy dreaming or loving or screwing. The context falls away. — David Levithan

When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session. — Placido Domingo

The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind. — Nigel Calder

It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music. — David Byrne