(61 quotes found)
“We get hit with the 'jukebox musical' label, but (book authors Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice) and (director) Des McAnuff accomplished a 50-50 split between music and drama, ... The music is very important, but the history of the group makes it a great piece of theater.”
Bob Gaudio
“I like our chances against Des Moines, I really do. I think we match up well. We're not playing an opponent that had their way with us. We were pretty darn even with them.”
Mark Mazzoleni
“To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“My goal is to make that team, like every other Des Moines kid's dream.”
Joseph Harcharik
“Would I send Chris King to Des Moines or Washington, D.C., and feel secure in his ability to represent me (and his) ability to convey the information and the needs of this community and the ability to interact socially and professionally with our state and federal leaders?”
Chris King
“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.”
“Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite”
“But this isn't going to be a contest between 'urban versus rural' or 'everybody against Des Moines'. We got to recognize all of the values that we share and the vision that we share.”
Jim Nussle
“Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young”
