Virtuosas Quotes & Sayings

You know," Ghastly said to Skulduggery, "for someone who hates plans, you've got an awful lot of them."
"Well, yes," Skulduggery replied, "but really, the likelihood of any of them actually working is extraordinarily slim. — Derek Landy

The belief that all wealth comes from stealing is popular in prisons and at Harvard. — George Gilder

In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal and live upon their fellow-men as a natural food. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The proverb has it that Hunger is the best cook. The Law makes afflicted consciences hungry for Christ. Christ tastes good to them. Hungry hearts appreciate Christ. Thirsty souls are what Christ wants. He invites them: "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Christ's benefits are so precious that He will dispense them only to those who need them and really desire them. — Martin Luther

There was a much smaller room on the other side. It was merely the size of, say, a cathedral. And it was lined floor to ceiling with more hourglasses that Susan could just see dimly in the light from the big room. She stepped inside and snapped her fingers. — Terry Pratchett

If the body is stiff that is understandable. But if the mind is also stiff then you can't get anywhere. The mind has to become flexible. — Geeta Iyengar

The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins; then the fillet slides away swifly as though fed to a seal. — William H Gass

I never did theater. I was a theater major at USC my first year because I didn't get into the film school. I was biding my time, hoping to be accepted to film school, and I ended up transferring to UCLA my sophomore year. — Darren Star

The Free Hawks is fighters, I says.
Warriors, she says, like you. An occasional highway robbers. — Moira Young

Is there ever a time you're not an arrogant bastard?"
"Is there ever a time you're not a difficult bitch?"
"No."
"Then I guess that makes us perfectly matched, now doesn't it? — G.A. Aiken

You can cruise the world's millions of omega-3 Web sites without encountering any reflections about where these prized fatty acids are coming from and at what social or environmental cost. For some people, what goes into their bodies has become an overriding obsession. Perhaps we are witnessing a successor to the Me Generation
namely, the Don't Care About the Rest of the World as Long as I Have a Spa and Some Omega-3 Fatty Acids Generation. Let's call it the Omega-3 Generation for short. Or is that thought just too depressing? — Charles Clover

If you're on to something but you start repeating it, that's the end of your career. — Ron Rothfield

A wealthy man in ancient Egypt would never have dreamed of solving a relationship crisis by taking his wife on holiday to Babylon. Instead, he might have built for her the sumptuous tomb she had always wanted. — Yuval Noah Harari