Vitaphone System Quotes

#1. The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.

Sallust

#2. As we speak, that is what we are doing. Projects that come to you are not written for you. We have to take a lesson from Will Smith, who develops projects he can shine in. We're trying to develop things from the ground up.

Columbus Short

#3. My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference.

Harry Truman

#4. I realized that lacking the feminine, the language had communicated to me in subtle ways that women were nonentities, that women counted mostly as they related to men.

Sue Monk Kidd

#5. To cherish perfection is to commit creative suicide, and every true artist knows that a masterpiece is an accident that should be burned.

Barry Hughart

#6. A museum is like a valuing machine. Museums and the industrial society started at the same moment, and they're really tied into each other. They've been all about displaying objects and the kind of wealth that can be derived from objects and promoting that point.

Tino Sehgal

#7. For a friendship to work, both people have to want the same thing. Both people have to want to be friends.

J.R. Rain

#8. A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.

Emily Giffin

#9. Invest in the future because that is where you are going to spend the rest of your life.

Habeeb Akande

#10. I got really frustrated in jail, and I was like, 'Man, I love what I've done, and I love the mark I've made on rock n' roll history' ... and I sat there, and I got really depressed, thinking, 'I gotta make a move ... do something fresh and new.'

Tommy Lee