#master

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#complete #finished #masterpiece #mind #once

I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#books #carry #case #cassettes #down

It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little. ↗

— Alberto Giacometti

#boiled #could #disappointing #down #form

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters. ↗

— Alexander the Great

#cannot #earth #heaven #masters #nor

I once had a dream and this one familiar god, who was probably one of my master teachers, said, 'You should not worry about being on the charts. That's not important.' ↗

— Nina Hagen

#being #charts #dream #familiar #god

And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#artists #capital #educate #labour #masters

When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters. ↗

— Edward F. Halifax

#contend #get #liberty #masters #new

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to thing when you have outlived the first interest and not yet the second which comes with a sort of mastery. ↗

— Janet Erskine Stuart

#first #great #great thing #hard #hard thing

All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

#masters #our #spent #time #unfaithfulness

As we depend upon our masters, for what we eat and drink and wear, and for all our comfortable things in this world, we cannot be happy, unless we please them. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

#cannot #comfortable #depend #drink #eat