It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.

- Alberto Giacometti

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

- Antonio Porchia

I'm a master assembler of Ikea furniture, in case anyone wants to know.

- Allison Williams

I think it is the easiest mentality for a human being to be either colonized or to colonize. The structure of either the slave or the master seems to be the simplest and the most relaxing one to slip into. Either you are a slave, and you don't have to think for yourself, or you're a master, and you don't have to work for yourself.

- Alice Oswald

'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.

- Algernon Sidney

A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.

- A. J. P. Taylor

I'm not a master of films, I'm rather a slave.

- Ang Lee

My son loves my carbonara. I've tried to master that recipe - it's very simple but very delicate. Once prepared it must be eaten quickly.

- Andy Garcia

I would say that a lot of the characters I've been attracted to are very vulnerable and they expose themselves emotionally. Not so much in 'The Fighter,' not so much in 'The Master' - I think those are different.

- Amy Adams

America Online, of course, is a master of the hard sell, from stuffing mailboxes with free trial offers to forcing subscribers to click through ads before they can get their e-mail.

- Alex Berenson

My way of getting the best from people on a set is to notice their work, to make every prop master, every seamstress, part of 'The Newsroom' or 'The West Wing' or 'Steve Jobs.'

- Aaron Sorkin

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

- Alan Lakein

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

- Audre Lorde

Both of my girls have very high self-esteem because they were both able to master certain things; I should think that's good for their confidence.

- Amy Chua

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

- Ambrose Bierce

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

- Aldous Huxley

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

- Albert Camus

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

- Albert Camus

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

- Abraham Lincoln

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

- Abraham Lincoln