Master Quotes

My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.

I entered the Physics Department in 1950, receiving a Master's degree in 1953 and a Ph.D. in 1956. It is difficult to convey the sense of excitement that pervaded the Department at that time.

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.

I walked away from the sport for 17 years, then started swimming again recently in a master's program.

I wouldn't describe myself as a master of anything.

Slave girls on Gor address all free men as Master, though, of course only one such would be her true Master.

Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used.

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it.

He has a very extensive public relations apparatus that is paid for by the taxpayers of this state. They are some of the best in the business. and he is a master at getting not only television but other media exposure on the basis of confrontation and chaos.

However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children.

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications.

I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev.

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

Now the master paid a number of visits to England and, as a Cambridge man, it is a source of pride that he taught there for a longer period than elsewhere in my country.

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

He is great enough that is his own master.

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.

There are divisions between a culinary chef and a dessert chef, also called a pastry chef. There are specializations within the pastry chef field. Some pastry chefs specialize in baking breads, while others are master cake designers. Each field requires an exceptional level of creativity and attention to detail.

A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.

To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.

I played baseball, and that's pretty much it. Basketball came late, this was, basketball was the sport that I tried to master, I kind of mastered baseball, so basketball was one of those things where I wanted to master this game, so that's why I probably play it the way I do.

I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?