Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, 'The church is not meant to be the master of the state.' We don't sort of take power and grab the levers of government and impose our agenda down people's throats.
From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the young breathing time to master the things they will need to know in order to survive as adults.
At one point in my life, I wanted to do a master's degree in Irish literature, but I ended up getting pregnant instead.
I'm a highly-educated man, maybe a shocker to some. I have a master's degree. I'm no dumbo.
When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.
Common sense is in medicine the master workman.
If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.
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.
I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.
Every woman likes her own way, but no woman can endure to see another woman master even over a man who does not concern her.
It's not like I have a master plan or anything.
Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.
Don't be so hard on yourself. Make something simple a few times until you 'master' it and move on to the next thing. Take a cooking class! Buy a cookbook that specializes in foods or a cuisine you enjoy.
Go out and find a copy of 'The Shrinking Of Treehorn' and its sequel, 'Treehorn's Treasure.' Written by Florence Parry Heide and illustrated by the great Edward Gorey, master of the gothic and the macabre, these books are small masterpieces.
My idol was Jack Benny and he was the master of subtlety and timing.
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
I wanted to master the art of cooking. Maybe, when I slow down and do one or two films a year, I will learn how to cook and pursue it as my hobby.
I don't know if I'll ever make rap music, but I just like people who are like, 'I am going to just find the medium that's best for this idea and master it and do that.'
When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line?
Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.
I studied history and English in college, got a master's in writing, but I was always sort of an autodidact in science.
By this way you may dress all sorts of horses in the utmost perfection, if you know how to practice it; a thing that is very easy in the hands of a master.
Aside from a few master teachers that we have had over the years, this has been a completely local talent development. But people have started to come now from Chicago, we have a number of students from Chicago and different places of the country and even in the world.
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
I wouldn't describe myself as a master of anything.
Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.
Always two there are, a master and an apprentice.
Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.
As a director, there is nothing more fun than seeing an audience screaming and jumping. You are the ultimate puppet master, controlling the emotions of the audience.
I got out of college and I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working as an actor at the Actor's Workshop, being abused as a intern.
Alfred Molina is one of the nicest people on the planet and a complete master.
Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.
There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
Learning isn't meant to be confined to a box, and students virtually never 'master' a topic simply by taking a class.
Part of me always longed to do just one more film and see what Luke would be like now that he's on the level of Obi-Wan Kenobi, the student having become the master. But it was not meant to be.
