Virtuosi Quotes

#1. Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.

H.L. Mencken

#2. Virtuosi have been long remarked to have little conscience in their favorite pursuits. A man will steal a rarity who would cut off his hand rather than take the money it is worth. Yet, in fact, the crime is the same.

Horace

#3. I am convinced that if the virtuosi could once find out a world in the moon, with a passage to it, our women would wear nothing but what directly came from thence.

Jonathan Swift

#4. The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi.

Gustav Mahler

#5. As a child growing up among artists I learned to think of a picture not as a finished product exposed for the admiration of the virtuosi, but as the visible record, lying about the house, of an attempt to solve a definite problem in painting.

Robin G. Collingwood

#6. I don't know where there can be so many pianists as in Paris, so many asses and so many virtuosi.

Frederic Chopin

#7. Music is a passion of mine. I'm always listening, always learning.

J. D. Pardo

#8. Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.

James Boswell

#9. 102. Scramble to reach higher ground. Order and sanity, something to comfort me.

Maynard James Keenan

#10. God doesn't want us to live timid, shy, weak, wimpy, fearful, boring lives. He wants us to be bold, con dent and courageous, unafraid to try new things. And it never ceases to amaze me what God will do through a person who simply steps out in faith.

Joyce Meyer

#11. I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.

Maxine Kumin

#12. Much early alchemy seems to have been adventure. You heated and mixed and burnt and pounded and to see what would happen. An adventure might suggest an hypothesis that can subsequently be tested, but adventure is prior to theory.

Ian Hacking

#13. Everything in life is choice.

J. Andrew Herbert

#14. And it was so still. The silence of the fields seemed to enter and move familiarly through the house. The wind used the open hall. He felt that he was in a mysterious, quiet, cool danger. It was necessary to do what? ... to talk.
("Death Of A Traveling Salesman")

Eudora Welty

#15. I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.

Anne Frank

#16. Malina looked incredulous. "Are you anything more than a Druid?"
"Of course I am. I own this shop and I play a mean game of chess, and I've been told that I'm a frakkin' Cylon."
"What's a frakkin' Cylon?"
"I don't know, but it sounds really scary when you say it with a Polish Accent.

Kevin Hearne

#17. you young ones . . ." 'Ask not what you can do for your country, but what your country has ever done for you?

Charles Stross

#18. I went from a guy, kind of a working actor, a supporting player, to magazine covers and being offered the studio pictures really quickly. Nobody was comfortable with it. I wasn't really comfortable with it.

David Caruso

#19. Our only business is to love and delight ourselves in God.

Brother Lawrence