Masterly Inactivity Quotes

#1. The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.

James Mackintosh

#2. We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all-especially for young physicians-we ought to throw in no medicine at all-to abstain-to observe a wise and masterly inactivity.

John Randolph Of Roanoke

#3. Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.

Wallace Shawn

#4. When I was little, I used to think that the sky at night was a big, black blanket that separated heaven from earth, and the stars were a whole bunch of little pin holes that the angels poked in the blanket so they could look down on us.

Robin Jones Gunn

#5. Why spend your whole life on the high seas looking for treasure,' Peter asked, talking to the clouds as he scaled a rope up what remained of the half-crumbled mast, 'when you could have a promised pay check in exchange for all the life you'd live between nine-and-five.

Audrey Greathouse

#6. I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past.

Thomas Jefferson

#7. I'm used to comic books being reimagined, different takes on some of our beloved superheroes.

Len Wiseman

#8. You must learn to heed your senses. Humans use but a tiny percentage of theirs. They barely look, they rarely listen, they never smell, and they think that they can only experience feelings through their skin. But they talk, oh, do they talk.

Michael Scott

#9. To me, creative work is labor, like any other kind of labor. It's got value, and it takes your time, and it's useful to people, depending.

John Darnielle

#10. I always get the 'goth girl' thing because I wear black. But I don't worship death.

Fairuza Balk

#11. Every now and again, people on the far right take a quote from a progressive out of context and use it to attack them.

Keith Ellison

#12. Don't rely on others to show you the way. Carry your own map.

Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

#13. Growing up it all seems so one-sided Opinions all provided The future pre-decided Detached and subdivided In the mass production zone Nowhere is the dreamer Or the misfit so alone

Bradley J. Birzer