Bigness Mast Quotes & Sayings

Talk about not knowing other people - why, when you came right down to it, you didn't even know yourself! — Robert Bloch

I think that if you keep your eyes and your ears open and you are receptive to learning, there are skills you can get from any job at all. — Cat Deeley

I care about the presidential elections. I always vote. Sometimes I've voted more than once, illegally. But you can't anymore. The picture ID has ruined everything. — John Waters

History reveals no civilized people among whom there was not a highly educated class and large aggregations of wealth. Large profits mean large payrolls. — Calvin Coolidge

We shouldn't demonize the woman who wears high heels and we shouldn't demonize the woman who doesn't wear high heels. We should accept all forms of comportment. — Laverne Cox

Led Zeppelin was pretty much what made me pick up drum sticks. — Jon Fishman

I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind. — Martin Scorsese

Action is hope. There is no hope without action. — Ray Bradbury

On January 1, they proclaimed the independence of a new country, which they called Haiti - the name they believed the original Taino inhabitants had used before the Spaniards killed them all. Although the country's history would be marked by massacre, civil war, dictatorship, and disaster, and although white nations have always found ways to exclude Haiti from international community, independent Haiti's first constitution created a radical new concept of citizenship: only black people could be citizens of Haiti. And who was black? All who would say they rejected both France and slavery and would accept the fact that black folks ruled Haiti. Thus, even a "white" person could become a "black" citizen of Haiti, as long as he or she rejected the assumption that whites should rule and Africans serve.18 — Edward E. Baptist

The truth is that judgment and fear will never stop, but they don't actually do anything. — Julien Smith

And of course Brian was far more upset about separation from those two blond moppets than about leaving Louise. There shouldn't be any problem loving both, but for some reason certain men choose; like good mutual-fund managers minimizing risk while maximizing portfolio yield, they take everything they once invested in their wives and sink it into their children instead. What is it? Do they seem safer, because they need you? Because you can never become their ex-father, as I think I might become your ex-wife? — Lionel Shriver

Early this morning, 1 January 2021, three minutes after midnight, the last human being to be born on earth was killed in a pub brawl in a suburb of Buenos Aires, aged twenty-five years, two months and twelve days. — P.D. James

It is by love alone that we understand anything — James Stephens

Determine where you are and where you wish to be. Then use all of your self-effort to make that happen, following the guiding principles of all the Buddhas and bohisattvas and seekers of the dharma, of enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz