#master

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways. ↗

— Clarence Day

#fact #first #grand #her #mastery

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#baseball #business #executives #master #maybe

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger. ↗

— Edgar Rice Burroghs

#human nature #love #love is #master #nature

The smallest feline is a masterpiece. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#masterpiece #smallest

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing. ↗

— John Donne

#great #great thing #harmless #masterpiece #nature

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

— Faye Dunaway

#class #feature #i #lot #master

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#anyone #comfort #console #contrary #destiny

The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#capability #cuisine #fully #good #good things

Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this country, don't you think? ↗

— Robert Duvall

#ballet #country #culture #find #interesting

It was a tough year for me, '89, losing two Slam finals and losing another five finals. It wasn't until I won the Masters, or what's now called the ATP Finals, that things changed again. Suddenly I won seven tournaments in 1990 and became No. 1. ↗

— Stefan Edberg

#another #became #called #changed #finals