Valoris Center Quotes & Sayings

If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

I sometimes use music as way of getting back to a certain time, dredging up stuff from the past and putting it down on canvas. — Danny Fox

After trying Atkins and doing Nutrisystem a few times, now I'm just focused on maintaining a healthy lifestyle rather than dieting. — Miranda Lambert

Yes, I can endure guilt, however horrible; The laughter of my enemies I will not endure. Now — Euripides

Life is impact and you have not lived unless you leave a trail — Christian Michael

The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason. — Eberhard Weber

The public debate plays out in an infinite regress of blame over who's responsible for those who fail to fit the standard erotic mold. This is variously ascribed to the people choosing to be the deviants they are, porn, the Devil (always a shoo-in), bad parents, poor role models, our sexually repressed culture, or the psychiatrists who keep needling sexual minorities by branding them mentally ill. It's a rabbit hole of endless (and usually endlessly bad) arguments. Morally, all that matters - and allow me to reiterate that because I feel it's quite important, all that matters - is whether a person's sexual deviancy is demonstrably harmful. If it's not, and we reject the person anyway, then we're not the good guys in this scenario; we're the bad guys. — Jesse Bering

There is nothing like race, is there? — Oscar Wilde

You don't always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that's plenty. — Alice Walker

All the prophecy of Israel turns on one simple but extremely effective idea: namely that all Israel, living and dead, from Sinai to the present hour, stands in its relation to God as a single immortal individual. — Herman Wouk

He who prays without confidence cannot hope that his prayers will be granted. — Francois Fenelon

Fly enough, and you learn to go brain-dead when you have to. It's sort of like time travel. One minute you're bending to unlace your shoes,and the next thing you know you're paying fourteen dollars for a fruit cup, wondering, How did I get here? — David Sedaris

Once we played at the Fillmore opposite The Cream. Eric Clapton was there and he played his ass off that night ... backstage Michael Bloomfield introduced me to Eric, and Eric was so nice. He came up to me, put his arms around me and said "Barry, it's such a pleasure to meet you" ... I couldn't figure it out ... then Michael told me that he had told Eric I had cancer and two months to live ... — Barry Goldberg