Alexander Masters Quotes

Is this what real homelessness is like? Not just a particular set of roof and walls gone, but a sense of the death of companionship?

Alexander Masters

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• Homelessness

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• As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Feel
  • Right
  • Sense

• I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • God
  • Art

• I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Important
  • Person
  • Luck

• My silver cord – the link between my body and my spirit – was extremely sensitive. It was what allowed me to sense dreamscapes at a distance. It could also snap me back into my skin.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Body
  • Spirit
  • Distance

• I love movies where you can sense that the director risked biting off more than they can chew.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Movies
  • Sense
  • Director

• In the broader sense at Digitas, I've been very involved in media and publishing.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Sense
  • Media
  • Involved

• If Europe's outer border is not blocked off, it makes no sense to speak of quotas.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Speak
  • Sense
  • Europe

• People miss those who they love. It brings tears to my eyes to see the longing for me. But it's my decision to do fewer films and more protagonist-based roles. For me to take up something, it has to make a lot of sense to me.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • People
  • Love
  • Decision

• I have never let down Italy, and I never will. I love my country, and I owe a lot to my country, and in that sense, whatever I can and will be able to do for my country, I will do.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Country
  • Sense
  • Will

• There's a real sense of camaraderie with sitcoms.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Real
  • Sense
  • Camaraderie

• I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Sense
  • Writer
  • Fascinating

• The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Mind
  • Sense
  • Nonsense

• I think Hillary is going to be more hawkish perhaps than Obama. Perhaps more hawkish than Trump. Trump, though, is really a windshield wiper. He says one thing that makes sense and then says something that doesn't make sense.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Think
  • Trump
  • Sense

• Childishness? I think it's the equivalent of never losing your sense of humor. I mean, yes there's a certain something that you retain. It's the equivalent of not getting so stuffy that you can't laugh at others.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Humor
  • Sense
  • Laugh

• May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • Life
  • Sense

• If we truly want to end youth homelessness... then we have to invest in prevention and support communities as they work to implement these life-changing efforts.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Life
  • Work
  • Community

• I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.

  

  Little Richard
  • Lost
  • Sense
  • Fame

• Self-confidence is not pride. Just the contrary: only a person or a nation that is self-confident, in the best sense of the word, is capable of listening to others, accepting them as equals, forgiving its enemies and regretting its own guilt.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Confidence
  • Listening
  • Pride

• When we talk about decision-making, we usually focus just on the immediate payoff of a single decision—and if you treat every decision as if it were your last, then indeed only exploitation makes sense. But over a lifetime, you’re going to make a lot of decisions. And it’s actually rational to emphasize exploration—the new rather than the best, the exciting rather than the safe, the random rather than the considered—for many of those choices, particularly earlier in life.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Life
  • Decision
  • Sense

• [We need to push] for what we want, not just what we can get.

  

  Eleanor Smeal
  • Push

• I tell my mother I went to God in spite of my religious education. I feel that my religious education was inadequate, but that doesn't mean that Judaism was inadequate.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • God
  • Mother
  • Education

• Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently - they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Rules
  • Differently
  • Misfits

• Love, we need it now. Let’s hope for some ’cause, oh, we’re bleeding out.

  

  Wesley Schultz The Lumineers
  • Love Song

• Is this what real homelessness is like? Not just a particular set of roof and walls gone, but a sense of the death of companionship?

  

  Alexander Masters
  • Sense
  • Companionship
  • Homelessness