Carole Maso Quotes

You were a painting by Matisse, but you took sleeping pills.

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• I always say that I'm at my best when there's no example of what the character is supposed to be. I thrive when there's not much and I have to create it.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Character
  • Best
  • Thrive

• Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Together
  • Society
  • Culture

• The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.

  

  Nancy Allen
  • God
  • Love
  • Funny

• If we ever find out how the brain works, with all its complexity, then we will be able to build a machine that has consciousness. And if that happens, that is a road to planetary disaster because everything we've thought about ourselves, since the Bronze Age, the Bible, all of that will be gone.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Age
  • Brain
  • Road

• I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • World
  • Wish
  • Dreams

• A true champion can adapt to anything.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • True
  • Champion
  • Adapt

• Alibaba is an ecosystem that helps small business to grow.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Business
  • Small
  • Grow

• All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Bad

• I am not in favor of concealed weapons. I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Innocent

• Sam is a repetitive, comic process that merely marks time: he gets nowhere, but then he doesn’t want to get anywhere. Although there is no possibility of any real change in Sam, he never stops changing: Sam stays there inside Sam, getting less and less like the rest of mankind and more and more like Sam, Sam squared, Sam cubed, Sam to the nth.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Time
  • Real
  • Rest

• Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • Live
  • Die

• She could only realize that she herself - her present self - was in some way different from the other self. That she was seeing with different eyes.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Different
  • She
  • Eyes

• The captain of the Hampshire grenadiers...has not been useless to the historian of the Roman Empire.

  

  Edward Gibbon

• The reading public isn't born that doesn't think foreigners are either funny or faintly sinister.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Funny
  • Reading

• Having three brothers in the league has been real fun for the whole family, and we're just trying to keep it going.

  

  Chris Gronkowski
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Family

• I don't like staying in hotels. I like to be in my own bed. San Diego as a city is really awesome. The only hard part of it for me is that I'm away from my family and my house. But as far as shooting down there, we get amazing locations, and the crew is really, really stellar down there. They are really fun.

  

  Kristen Bell
  • Family
  • Fun
  • House

• The battle of getting better is never ending.

  

  Antonio Brown

• Goofy was the word that was used most often by my sisters because I've been this tall ever since I was 12 years old.

  

  Will Smith

• I had never thought about writing a novel. But I had two young kids, and I realized that if I could write a novel, I could work at home.

  

  Mary Kay Andrews
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Home

• Everything new endangers something old. A new machine replaces human hands; a new source of power threatens old businesses; a new trade route wipes out the supremacy of old ports and brings prosperity to new ones. This is the price that must be paid for progress and it is worth it.

  

  Hyman G. Rickover
  • Power
  • Progress

• In a mature economy like India's, which is becoming modern and a financially-oriented economy, an independent central bank, responsible central bank, is really central to success.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Success
  • Independent
  • Economy

• Acting alone, minorities can never achieve the majorities necessary for political change.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Change
  • Minorities
  • Majorities

• You don't hire Kehinde Wiley to have a tame painting.

  

  Kehinde Wiley
  • Painting

• You were a painting by Matisse, but you took sleeping pills.

  

  Carole Maso
  • Painting
  • Matisse