Villemin Gerard Quotes & Sayings

It's been a secret too long, but I'm actually a straight male. — Darren Criss

We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose. — Will Cuppy

Here comes Jesse Jackson, he talks of common ground. Does that common ground include me, or is it just a sound? — Lou Reed

Try calculating the probability of getting a call from an old friend after just thinking about them. Or, your favorite song coming on the radio just as you turn on the car. Or, you smiling at a stranger, just as they needed to receive a smile. These are the events unexplained by logic, reason, and probability, yet are the foundation and guiding principles of faith. — Charles F. Glassman

If the world had ever been in a state in which no change whatever was taking place, how could it pass from this state to one of change? The absolutely unchanging, especially when it has been in this state from eternity, cannot possibly get out of such a state by itself and pass over into a state of motion and change. An initial impulse must have therefore come from outside [ ... ] But as everyone knows, the "initial impulse" is only another expression for God. — Friedrich Engels

[T]hrough bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity. — Tahir Shah

It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment. — Pat Metheny

I look at my career and I feel I have the potential to maybe mature into a Samuel Jackson-type older cat, and people will still respect me and say 'Yo, Ice-T was wild', into my old age. And why not? I don't necessarily think I'll be rapping in 10 years. — Ice-T

I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty. — Alex Kapranos

The king appeared ... with his dogs and sycophants behind him. — Kathleen Winsor

I love Lil Wayne, that's like my little brother. He's just the coolest dude on Earth. — Fat Joe

It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of attachment for the land, respects these very things about Indian traditions, without adopting those respected ways themselves. — Linda Hogan

the baby boom cohorts had to make it on their own, almost as much as the interwar and turn-of-the-century cohorts, who were devastated by war. By contrast, the cohorts born in the last third of the century experienced the powerful influence of inherited wealth to almost the same degree as the cohorts of the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries. — Thomas Piketty

I do believe God gave me a spark of genius, but he quenched it in misery. — Edgar Allan Poe

Sleep is death's younger brother, and so like him, that I never dare trust him without my prayers. — Thomas Browne