Virtuosos Crossword Quotes & Sayings

I don't like abrasion while I'm working. I don't thrive on chaos. I enjoy what I'm doing, and it seems to work better when I am enjoying it. — Harold Prince

The president and I sat down in the Oval Office, and he expressed very clearly that what he wants from me is my best professional military advice. — David Petraeus

The reactions of organic magnesium compounds are of two kinds - reactions of substitution and reactions of addition. — Victor Grignard

To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and triumph with humility. — Thomas S. Monson

The Nikon D5100 is clearly an advanced digital SLR, and offers the potential to capture professional quality images in most any situation you wish to use it. — Douglas Klostermann

Peer attachments are not the problem themselves. It's when they compete with adult attachments that the problems emerge. It's just like when siblings get attached to each other. If they start revolving around each other, then the parents can't do anything with them because it's a competing attachment. — Gordon Neufeld

The American system is a beautiful and durable thing, but flawed. I would like to think that this decadence is not sustainable, whether in the eyes of the electorate or the eyes of whatever the local economy is built on; that would bring me hope. — Mark Leibovich

There's nothing new about the government protecting corporations and calling it the freeing of the world or bringing democracy to bereft nations. — Henry Rollins

Coming out of BYU's football spring, 1999, practice: We might have a chance to be pretty good. — LaVell Edwards

And there's even a lord named Lord Dashwood [like the characters in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility]. It's very steeped in Austen. It's been used in many films, but not in its entirety and we shot the inside and the outside and used every nook and cranny. The inside is very gaudy. It's a little naughty inside. There's a lot of portraiture. — Jerusha Hess

Who cares about the men who steered your breakfast cereal through winter storms? How ironic that the more ships have grown in size and consequence, the less space they take up in our imagination. — Rose George

Sometimes maybe you should let someone you love travel great distances away from you. You shouldn't think you needed to set out to retrieve them and put them back where they belonged. Sometimes they were only safe and happy, like Annabelle Aurora. And then other times, it was just possible they were lost at sea. It would be your duty, then, to get out into the boat and search, even if the waves were choppy and the wind was howling the protests of the dead. — Deb Caletti

learned that the world has a soul, and that whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of things. I learned that many alchemists realized their Personal Legends, and wound up discovering the Soul of the World, the Philosopher's Stone, and the Elixir of Life. "But, above all, I learned that these — Paulo Coelho

I was feeling rational and restless, which is horrible for watching movies — Sinclair Lewis

One of my favorite things in the world is to be seeing two people that are really old, still holding hands, still kissing. — Tommy Lee