I don’t think I’ve ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I’m confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1. – Ed Balls
Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it. – Gene Simmons
In England, one without a trace of Royalty will master. Twenty months he will rule; twenty months he will bleed the lands, then his end comes quickly. – Nostradamus
The person who is developing freely and naturally arrives at a spiritual equilibrium in which he is master of his actions, just as one who has acquired physical poise can move freely. – Maria Montessori
I have an amp that doesn’t have a master volume. It sounds awesome, but we just can’t get an appropriate decibel level out of it. – Joe Trohman
Sometimes it’s liberating to confront horrible things in lyrics as a way to master the shadow-self that exists in everyone. – Jeff Tweedy
When you are editing, the final master is Aristotle and his poetics. You might have a terrific episode, but if people are falling out because there are just too many elements in it, you have to begin to get rid of things. – Ken Burns
All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them. – Muhammad Ali
‘La Notte’ is my favorite of the Antonioni pictures and my favorite work of the master cinematographer Gianni di Venanzo, who also shot ‘8 1/2’ for Fellini. – Jake Paltrow
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master. – Michelangelo
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man. – Martin Heidegger
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. – Milan Kundera
The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master. – Khalil Gibran
In order to make the novel into a polyhistorical illumination of existence, you need to master the technique of ellipsis, the art of condensation. Otherwise, you fall into the trap of endless length. – Milan Kundera
I feel so entirely in my element with a full orchestra; even if my mortal enemies were marshalled before me, I could lead them, master them, surround them, or repulse them. – Robert Schumann
I’ve been obsessed with demons since reading ‘The Elfstones of Shannara’ and ‘Master of the Five Magics’ by Lyndon Hardy. – Peter V. Brett