#mast

Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece. ↗

— Steve Buscemi

#both #course #father #life #like

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. ↗

— Albert Camus

#alone #anyone #cher #days #dreadful

I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God's eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews - everybody is created equally in the eyes of God. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#attitude #baptists #because #believe #between

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#out #slaves #slip #those #unsaid

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. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#because #english #feel #i #i feel

Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters. ↗

— Grover Cleveland

#masters #officeholders #people #their

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#barely #child #himself #into #language

The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#becomes #books #clearer #consequence #function

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#does #effective #every #existence #find

He who allows me to rule is in fact my master. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#fact #in fact #master #me #rule