Brian Masters Quotes

I never sensed the feeling of killing as such, only a feeling of stopping something terrible from happening, a compulsion to squeeze the person by the throat to relieve and absolve him and me from something terrible.

Brian Masters

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• I've been married over 50 years of my life.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Life
  • Years
  • My Life

• I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Thinking
  • Book
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• Interestingly, one thing I've found that neither women nor men give up on is the idea of men as protectors. Even in cases where the woman is earning more, they'll often tell me that if there were a fire or something, they would expect the man to be the one to protect them.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Up
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• For me, music was a cathartic way to free me from the nut of Ghost. After working on set for 'Power' for 14 hours, it allowed me to pour my sanity and insanity into the music.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Music
  • Power
  • Free

• Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Believe
  • True
  • Crazy

• As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Different
  • You
  • Person

• You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Control
  • Learn
  • Face

• I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.

  

  Daniel Gillies
  • Country
  • Remember
  • Bad

• I'm not in demand. I'm all washed up.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Up
  • Demand
  • Washed

• One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Up
  • History

• Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Music
  • Director
  • Video

• If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Want
  • Emotional
  • Audience

• Japan has only 100m people. Asia has 4bn. At least one-third, maybe nearly half, will become middle class, and this is a big opportunity for Japanese businessmen.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Will

• Adulthood is hell.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Hell
  • Adulthood

• Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Real
  • Place
  • Connection

• You die, but most of what you have accumulated will not be lost; you are leaving a message in a bottle.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Lost
  • Die
  • Leaving

• The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Great
  • Men
  • May

• I can’t die, he most famously liked to say. It would ruin my image.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Die

• We're made up of energy, so who's to say you can't transmit through electrical means? If you could transmit yourself wirelessly, then it's Armageddon pretty much.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • You

• Sometimes I've found that by getting into a certain drag, or a certain feeling, you can cast off your mortal coil and really do something. I don't know if it's important, but it's something. It's entertainment.

  

  David Johansen
  • Important
  • Feeling

• Rather than encouraging apathy through submissive responses, let us deliver the message loudly and clearly, that needles killing and suffering is wrong.

  

  Bodo Balsys
  • Suffering
  • Killing
  • Deliver

• God kills thy comforts from no other design but to kill thy corruptions; wants are ordained to kill wantonness, poverty is appointed to kill pride, reproaches are permitted to destroy ambition.

  

  John Flavel
  • God
  • Design
  • Poverty

• I never sensed the feeling of killing as such, only a feeling of stopping something terrible from happening, a compulsion to squeeze the person by the throat to relieve and absolve him and me from something terrible.

  

  Brian Masters
  • Feeling
  • Killing