Confrontations Crossword Quotes

#1. Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

George Bernard Shaw

#2. I wondered why ordinary words seemed so exotic when they were used in relation to numbers. Amicable numbers or twin primes had a precise quality about them, and yet they sounded as though they'd been taken straight out of a poem.

Yoko Ogawa

#3. One builds one's life in consistency; one invests it with the belief, however unsupported by reality, that one has always been what one is now, that even in one's distant past one could recognize the seed from which this doomed flower has bloomed.

Aleksandar Hemon

#4. My history as a manager cannot be compared with Frank Rijkaard's history. He has zero trophies and I have a lot of them.

Jose Mourinho

#5. I feel cool about making music and I feel secure pushing boundaries in my music. But things like videos and photos I find really difficult. I don't really like being in front of a camera - even though it is my job and I must act like I do.

Erika M. Anderson

#6. Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.

Dane DeHaan

#7. I wanted to direct when I was very young. I had no idea of cinema, of who's doing what. That was my first instinct: "Okay, I want to be the boss."

Thomas Bidegain

#8. A statement made from the heart has an aroma, it has lights, it has earth and
sun and moon. It is colorful and it grasps the attention of those around you,
like the sunset.

Beth Johnson

#9. Tom Hanks is fantastic - he is one of my dad's good friends, and he's very warm and funny.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#10. Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. I never knew you played the banjo!" cried Harris and I, in one breath.
"Not exactly," replied George: "but it's very easy, they tell me; and I've got the instruction book!"
From Three Men in a Boat

Jerome K. Jerome

#12. As a rule, indeed, grown-up people are fairly correct on matters of fact; it is in the higher gift of imagination that they are so sadly to seek.

Kenneth Grahame

#13. Now do what you do best. Break this fucking thing wide open, and let the pieces fall.

Mira Grant

#14. I really enjoy the iPad because you can multi-task: I can watch a movie, read, look at pictures that I shot - because I'm into photography. It serves a lot of purposes for me.

Tyson Chandler