“I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think and novelists to see what I could get away with. And, in the end, I distilled everything down to one wonderfully simple principle: win or die.”
Christopher Hampton
“We're building (our house) as close as we can to the Dade County, Fla., codes. It's about the strictest code in the country.”
Jerry Akins
“We have one of the strictest gift policies in the state, and I think we should just leave it alone.”
John Dingfelder
“The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous will happen.”
Claude Debussy
“[He] is one of those virtuoso guitar players. Sometimes I equate him to the flamenco Jimi Hendrix. You get this kind of amplified electric acoustic sound.”
Wally Ingram
“I decided years ago that I wasn't interested in being a virtuoso of the piano.”
Herbie Hancock
“Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil”
Mark Twain
