#masters

You know, you're hot and you've got that badass manly man thing going and I'm crazily attracted to you, but honestly, I suspect you're going to be a little too bossy for my tastes. Thanks for the offer on the whole love-me-die-for-me thing, but I'll pass. ↗

— Stephanie Rowe

#quinn-masters #love

If a servant strives to please his master and studies and takes pains to do it, I believe there are but few masters who would use such a servant cruelly. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

#cruelly #few #his #i #i believe

My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them. ↗

— Johann Sebastian Bach

#folk #little #masters #music #strange

Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do. ↗

— Clara Barton

#economy #fail #fortune #hand #life

Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to better done than before. ↗

— Thomas Clarkson

#before #better #did #done #former

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters. ↗

— Edgar Degas

#great #i #i do #less #masters

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters. ↗

— Paul Gauguin

#art #done #epithet #masters #merited

How much more must this be so in my own case for I am conscious not only of the great names and achievements of those who have preceded me, but also of the living presence of many of my masters and teachers. ↗

— Cecil Frank Powell

#also #am #case #conscious #great