Mastered Series Quotes

#1. Writers' lives break into two halves,

John Updike

#2. I think probably you can either write for kids, or you can't. That ability to imaginatively be a child and see the world as a child and feel and think like a child - you either have that ability or you don't.

Morris Gleitzman

#3. Somewhere between
what is...
and what can be...
begs the question...
what are you meant to be?

Manoj Vaz

#4. A king leads his people like a shepherd leads his flock.

Rick Riordan

#5. If you want your life to come together, you have to start treating yourself better.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#6. If something can bring you great pleasure, it can also bring you pain.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#7. A giraffe is so much a lady that one refrains from thinking of her legs, but remembers her as floating over the plains in long garb, draperies of morning mist her mirage.

Isak Dinesen

#8. Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.

Rand Paul

#9. Wit lives in the present, but genius survives the future.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

#10. She had so mastered the strategies of camouflage that her own history had seemed a series of well-placed mirrors that kept her hidden from herself.

Pat Conroy

#11. I got a lot of problems, but I'm really good at intuiting what I need to do to be happy with whatever I create. I know when to stop myself, I know when to start, I know when to leave something alone. I guess I just kind of indulge that completely, and so I just take my time.

Fiona Apple

#12. I would rather be my own tyrant than have someone else tyrannize me.

Henry Flagler

#13. As the heat of the coal differs from the coal itself, so do memory, perception, judgment, emotion, and will, differ from the brain which is the instrument of thought.

Annie Besant

#14. Winter is a season we all wish to start and end soon.

Karen Zirbes

#15. The size of a diamond doesn't indicate the size of my love for you. The earth hasn't produced a diamond that big because my love for you knows no bounds. Ronin Black

Lorelei James

#16. Such an Ibisian scene: both their faces were formal masks, their posture correct, pain kept inside where it cut deeper.

Andrea K. Host

#17. Sasha told me you were looking for engagement rings. Do you have a specific style in mind?
Yeah the kind that fits on her hand and makes her say yes when I propose

J. Sterling