Master Quotes

Capucci was the biggest schooling I had. It wasn't just about the technical knowledge, such as color and volume, but also about the secret rules, and the beautiful codes of respect between the atelier and the master.

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.

I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.

Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards.

The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.

Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

The ego is not master in its own house.

There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne, the great master swordsman and brilliant stunt double.

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.

Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.

Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something from Nabokov on every page he ever wrote.

We think it will be shortly afterwards, but it seems a terrible thing to gamble with such big stakes in diplomacy without having your master card in your hand.

Is it possible that literacy standards are falling because young Australians are growing up in a culture in which they can be entertained and informed, and in which they can communicate effectively, without having to master any but the most rudimentary literacy skills?

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Nearly everything I do is part of a master plan to make me the most important entertainer in the world.

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

If an apprentice does not hear what a master hears, is then that quality not present in the music? Yes and no. In the world in which the apprentice lives no.

One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.

I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

Sometimes I feel I can't quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I'm too much a student of English. I would need another lifetime to learn it.

Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner.

An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.