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Quotes About Mastered

We've mastered the art of making pretty music that makes you want to die.
~ Sean Kinney
Kam smiled as if to say, Look, fools! You think you're so smart and politically correct and all of that, but the Chinese mastered the art of jargon-twisting-to-get-what-you-want back before your sweet Jesus was a holy zygote.
~ Douglas Coupland
I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.
~ Rachel McAdams
We know that to work well the newfangled forces of society, they only want to be mastered by newfangled men — and such are the working men. They are as much the invention of modern time as machinery itself. - Speech at anniversary of the People's Paper, April 1856
~ Karl Marx
I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in Morning Glory with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.
~ Rachel McAdams
Even in a hostile press conference with hostile questions there was drama, and he could benefit from the drama and the hostility. He mastered the greatest art of television, appearing to be spontaneous without in fact being spontaneous.
~ David Halberstam
By the light," he said, when he had mastered himself. "I think that beats singing a lullaby to a stormdog for simplicity and economy, Maerad. But I wish I had known that you simply had to blow at Hulls to get rid of them. It would have saved me a few scars.
~ Alison Croggon
I think I make good beats, but when it's not mastered correctly, it can definitely make it sound like it's not a good beat, and that has been an issue sometimes with me in the past.
~ Hopsin
Life is an art we are required to practice without preparation, a score that we play at sight even before we have mastered our instruments.
~ Lewis Mumford
Life is an art we are required to practice without preparation, a score that we play at sight even before we have mastered our instruments.
~ Lewis Mumford
Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
~ Dorothy Parker
It's big production. It's huge. It's using studio technology to your benefit. You don't go in and play live and then just take the tapes and get them mastered. You have to create.
~ Joe Elliott
Grammar is to a writer what anatomy is to a sculptor or the scales to a musician. You may loathe it, it may bore you, but nothing will replace it, and once mastered it will support you like a rock.
~ B. J. Chute
Eliza has no use for the foolish romantic tradition that all women love to be mastered, if not actually bullied and beaten.
~ George Bernard Shaw
He had never said as much before, and I must admit that his words gave me keen pleasure, for I had often been piqued by his indifference to my admiration and to the attempts which I had made to give publicity to his methods. I was proud, too, to think that I had so far mastered his system as to apply it in a way which earned his approval.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
God did not give the Bible so we could master him or it; God gave the Bible so we could live it, so we could be mastered by it.
~ Scot McKnight
In comedy timing is everything, but Betty White is the rarest of comics who seems to have mastered time itself.
~ Brian Williams
I heard a theory once that if aliens ever do come calling, they may very well be hostile, because the same brains that mastered spaceflight learned to think by hunting.
~ Max Brooks
Blind with love, my daughter has cried nightly for horses, those long-necked marchers and churners that she has mastered, any and all, reigning them in like a circus hand.
~ Anne Sexton
Persecution is an enemy the Church has met and mastered many times. Indifference could prove to be a far more dangerous foe.
~ Brother Andrew
Donald Trump's more sophisticated defenders have long since mastered the art of pretending that the only thing that matters with his presidency is what it does, not what he says.
~ Bret Stephens
If I had mastered the Spanish language to any extent, I might have gone in that direction.
~ Leon Redbone
Meekness is the mark of a man who has been mastered by God.
~ Geoffrey B. Wilson
The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.
~ Douglas William Jerrold