Massey Quotes & Sayings

Sylvia was an early literary manifestation of a young woman who takes endless selfies and posts them with vicious captions calling herself fat and ugly. She is at once her own documentarian and the reflexive voice that says she is unworthy of documentation. She sends her image into the world to be seen, discussed, and devoured, proclaiming that the ordinariness or ugliness of her existence does not remove her right to have it. — Alana Massey

Briggs was living in Toronto at the time and had started a studio called Thunder Sound. He recorded the Massey Hall show. He thought this live show should have come out right away and was disappointed and disagreed with my decision to instead put out Harvest-he thought it was not as good as the Massey Hall recording.
"It's great, Neil," Briggs said. "Put it out there." But that was not to be.
When I heard the show thirty-four years later while reviewing tapes for my archive performance series, I was a little shocked-I agreed with David. After listening, I felt his frustration. This was better than Harvest. It meant more. He was right. I had missed it. He understood it. David was usually right, and when I disagreed with him, I was usually wrong. Every time I go into the studio or onstage, he is missed. — Neil Young

The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness. — Vincent Massey

Meeting with the director is an audition. — Chandler Massey

In opening and conquering a country great and wild and rich - a country indeed not yet fully known or conquered - we have still to learn more about ourselves and each other. — Vincent Massey

The Future, like a fruitfuller Summer, sits Ripening her Eden silently. — Gerald Massey

Just because two guys are homosexual and happen to be the only two homosexuals on-screen doesn't mean they're going to be like, 'Oh yeah, let's get together!' It doesn't always happen like that. — Chandler Massey

I had heard of Virginia before only in passing, a "crazy ex" with whom things had not ended well. I was accustomed to this lazy shorthand for men who dislike the emotions of women. — Alana Massey

The Gospel is not presented to mankind as an argument about religious principals. Nor is it offered as a philosophy of life. Christianity is a witness to certain facts; to events that have happened, to hopes that have been fulfilled, to realities that have been experienced, to a Person who has lived and died and been raised from the dead to reign forever. — Massey H. Shepherd

And thou hast stolen a jewel, Death! Shall light thy dark up like a Star. A Beacon kindling from afar Our light of love and fainting faith. — Gerald Massey

But then some asshat got voted into office who thought it'd be a good idea to let countries like North Korea and Iran develop nuclear arsenals. — M.D. Massey

We are not born of the passions of war or of the fervours of revolution. And we grew quietly into the realization that, set as we are in a great wide land, with all our differences, there are certain traditions and ideals which we had in common, and which could best be preserved in a distinct society of our own. — Vincent Massey

I was a dweller amid shadows grim: Till FREEDOM touched my yearning eyes, and lo! Life in a shining circle, rounding rose, As heaven on heaven goes up the jewell'd night. New floods of passionate life swirl'd at my heart, Like Ocean-surges rolling round the world: And FREEDOM was my glittering Bride. — Gerald Massey

Cling closer, closer, life to life, Cling closer, heart to heart; The time will come, my own wed Wife, When you and I must part! Let nothing break our band but Death, For in the world above 'Tis the breaker Death that soldereth Our ring of Wedded Love. — Gerald Massey

The Jardin Massey looked dismal today, rain lashed and deserted. She watched a bedraggled pigeon, feathers puffed out, sheltering beneath a branch.She'd never made a will, never considered whether she'd rather her body was buried or burnt to grey powder. And where would she want to be buried - in a French graveyard, gaudy with plastic flowers? If she made a will, could she state an aversion to plastic? — Jackie Ley

Once I put it down I couldn't pick it back up. — Gerald Massey

This document outlines our plan to perpetrate insurance fraud, insider trading, and character assassination.
... hopefully tripling our paycheck on this job.
Okay, see? Those words I understand just fine. Use them more often.
-Lieutenant Massey Reynstein & Captain Tagon — Howard Tayler

It would be foolish and wrong to ignore the fact that all our universities today tread a very dangerous path. Increasingly, they are accepting government money because they are doing things that government wants done. How great a peril is this in a democracy? — Vincent Massey

I've never had a dream that didn't come true, if I waited long enough. — Raymond Massey

I know no better way of waging the battle for Truth than arraying the facts face to face on either side and letting them fight it out. — Gerald Massey

The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots. — Vincent Massey

We can best serve the cause of Canadian unity and understanding by living first in and through and then beyond our own immediate traditions. — Vincent Massey

I was charmed by a performance given by Crowded House at Toronto's Massey Hall where the bass player broke a string. — Alannah Myles

How great a quality is horse sense! Someone has defined it as that something which keeps horses from betting on men! — Vincent Massey

In the wounds our sufferings plough immortal love sows sovereign seed. — Gerald Massey

I want to get away from "It's either government or the market." That's a false dichotomy. — Douglas Massey

Boys often have permission to become men without the forfeiture of their desirability. And so these men write stories that grasp at girls who are ghosts twice over: first by being dead and second by being shallow shadows of actual girls, the assorted fragments of men's aging imaginations rather than the deep and dimensioned creatures that real girls are. — Alana Massey

Though the boys never admit it as much, it is crucial the Lisbon sisters are all thin and beautiful within reason. There are a handful of imperfect features among them but nothing that would make the sum of each one's parts less than desirable. In the safety of being attractive, their eccentricities are as precious as their bodies. Their bodies protect all eccentricity from becoming "strange" or "gross" in the way similar predilections are characterized when possessed by heavier or uglier girls. — Alana Massey

It seems all worlds of music - rock, blues, R&B, soul, hip-hop and others - are able to point to impromptu get-togethers as proud moments in their timelines, encounters that were recorded and created music of lasting impression. In the jazz tradition, there are a few, but none that has been revered for as long as Jazz at Massey Hall. — Ashley Kahn

Were you born this infuriating?"
"It's taken me years of practice. — Misty Massey

I just like to hop up on the dance floor and do my thing. — Kyle Massey

In the lower-brow selection of tabloids that report on the weight of celebrities, one statement that follows women struggling with their weight around more than any other is "She got her body back." Here you'll find near-constant Britney coverage. But barring any transcendent out-of-body experiences, these women were never separated from their bodies. They've occupied them across various weights. This phrase is not about a woman getting back something she lost as much as it as about our approval that she has returned to something we want her to be. What is meant by this phrase is "We got her body back." We got the body we felt entitled to. — Alana Massey

Everyone's just telling me that there's this rumor going around that I'm dying of cancer — Kyle Massey

You stand up to that challenging shot, you put yourself into that shot, and you pour yourself into it confidently. Stand up and commit yourself completely. If you miss it, you miss it certainly. You've done everything you can. — Debbie Massey

The deepest dark reveals the starriest hope. — Gerald Massey

The mass of people who are Bible-taught never get free from the erroneous impressions stamped on their minds in their infancy, so that their manhood or womanhood can have no intellectual fulfillment, and millions of them only attain mentally to a sort of second childhood — Gerald Massey

They know too well the violent hypnosis of those who hope to possess them-- men who can smell the blood on the places where a woman is breaking. — Alana Massey

It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life. — Vincent Massey

Sorry I had to be so nasty to you Janina, at the end of a scene. — Daniel Massey

I've come to see "Bitches be crazy" as less a statement by men that women are crazy or even a reappropriated statement by women defending their own madness. Instead, I see the phrase and imagine a colon after "bitches," rendering it a command to other women, a battle cry. It is a way of saying, "We took back 'bitch' already. And now we have come for 'crazy. — Alana Massey

On a soap, happiness never lasts for very long! — Chandler Massey

Technology has been defined, perhaps a little ungenerously, as "a long Greek name for a bag of tools". — Vincent Massey

I have had what might be called a post graduate course in the most important subject for all Canadians - Canada itself. — Vincent Massey

In this dim world of clouding cares,
We rarely know, till wildered eyes
See white wings lessening up the skies,
The angels with us unawares. — Gerald Massey

For me, liberals are people who seek to use government to promote the general welfare. — Douglas Massey

Deeply disturbing in a way that only the most honest stories are, YACCUB is a fiercely written, daring journey through America's urban wilderness and into the souls of our forgotten brothers. But Wrath James White hasn't forgotten about them
and after reading this book, neither will you. — Brandon Massey

Sometimes he felt as if he'd been born in the wrong century. The people of this time were all wrong for him, and he was all wrong for them. But he refused to become something he wasn't just for society's approval. — Heather Massey

I decided that being called "crazy" by a man was not an insult but a challenge. It gives the woman an opportunity to say, "Crazy? Oh, I'll show you fucking crazy. — Alana Massey

Markets, and the way they operate can't be frozen in time and place. A dynamic economy that is growing and increasing material well-being for a large number of people have to change over time. — Douglas Massey

People have been watching me since I was eight. They've been watching me grow up, so they feel that connection with me. — Kyle Massey

This misery of a gig called life is just a dream from which we all eventually awaken, he said. Nobody gets left behind. Even the most horrible dreams end. — Jeremy Massey

Crockery broke and fabric frayed. The delicate things I cared about perished, while the hard things like swords survived. — Sujata Massey

Globalization, meaning the global expansion of a market economy, is the only way we can guarantee widespread prosperity and peace. A lot of nations are just so small, that unless they can sell their goods and services on the market they're never going to develop, they don't have an internal market that's big enough to sustain anything. — Douglas Massey

Love is patient and kind, it doesn't boast, it isn't proud, it isn't easily pissed off, it always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always keeps on doing the damn thing, love never lets you down. — Brandon Massey

Love rays us round as glory swathes a star, And, from the mystic touch of lips and palms, Streams rosy warmth! — Gerald Massey

After a few months, I decided to do one more leg of the Le Noise tour and film the last show with Jonathan Demme in Toronto's Massey Hall/ It turned out to be a great night. Everyone was very happy because we had captured it. During a review of the digital files, we realized that the resolution was not full, it was a stepped down quality, not the best it could be. My own team's excuses were not adequate, because I was not informed of the decision to go to a lesser quality. Lesser quality is so accepted as normal now that even I had used it unknowingly. I went back to Massey Hall and set up a PA system like the one I used at the show, played back the mixes through the PA, and rerecorded the house sound at the highest resolution. I did the best I could with a bad situation. It does sound great now. Thankfully, the PA mix was only one step down from the highest resolution, so when it resonated in the hall and was rerecorded at the highest level, a high resolution hall sound was captured. — Neil Young

In fact, in the far North one sees the northern lights facing south! — Vincent Massey

O Youth! flame earnest, still aspire, With energies immortal! To many a heaven of Desire, Our yearning opes a portal! And tho' Age wearies by the way, And hearts break in the furrow, We'll sow the golden grain Today
The Harvest comes tomorrow. — Gerald Massey

The neglect of the humanities in present-day education is doubtless not a cause but a symptom of an age. — Vincent Massey

Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile. — Gerald Massey

The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal nobler music from Life's many frets: The golden threads are spun thro' Suffering's fire, Wherewith the marriage-robes for heaven are woven: And all the rarest hues of human life Take radiance, and are rainbow'd out in tears. — Gerald Massey

You have to really be careful with what you see and read because you can't believe it all. — Kyle Massey

Canada is not a melting-pot. Canada is an association of peoples who have, and cherish, great differences but who work together because they can respect themselves and each other. — Vincent Massey

Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours. — Vincent Massey

Still all the day the iron wheels go onward, Grinding life down from its mark. — Gerald Massey

Upon Love's bosom Earth floats like an Ark Safely through all the Deluge of the dark. — Gerald Massey

A sweet new blossom of humanity, fresh fallen from God's own home, to flower on earth — Gerald Massey

Those who accuse these women of fraud in their image craft seem not to have heard of David Bowie's successful alter ego Ziggy Stardust or even Bob Dylan, the folksy creation of a genius named Robert Allen Zimmerman. There is a tradition of male artists taking on personae that are understood to be part of their art. It is as though there is so much genius within them that it must be split between these mortal men and the characters they create. Women who venture to do the same are ridiculed as fakers and try-hards. — Alana Massey

Going to open a quaint little bookshop and have a niche section called "Men's Interests" where we shelve the Western Cannon. — Alana Massey

You can't have a market without government, because governments create the rules of competition and enforce fairness in the markets, and they build the institutions within which competition takes place. — Douglas Massey

The world of the heterosexual is a sick and boring life. — Edith Massey

This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, and if we did our duty, it might be as full of love. — Gerald Massey

At first I thought he was walking a dog. Then I realized it was his date. — Edith Massey

ONE BLOOD is a richly detailed, intricately woven tale rendered in lush, evocative prose. This memorable debut heralds Qwantu Amaru as a talent well worth watching. — Brandon Massey

The plough of Time breaks up our Eden-land, And tramples down its fruitful flowery prime. Yet thro' the dust of ages living shoots O' the old immortal seed start in the furrows; And, where Love looked on with glorious eye, These quicken'd germs of everlastingness Flower lusty, as of old in Paradise! — Gerald Massey

Working with animals forces an actor to work harder because you have to be quick when it comes to improvisation, and you can't break character - at all. — Kyle Massey

Back in eighth grade, I'd seen nothing but small-town Georgia when I left the U.S. for the first time and went to Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China. — Chandler Massey

Why didn't I ask him for his number, address, e-mail - anything? Why? Because I'm in a sodding war zone, that's why. And I'm a soldier. And this wasn't supposed to happen. — David Massey

I support Children's Hospital of Los Angeles through Disney Channel and Britti Cares International in support of children with various diseases and illnesses and donate my time with pride and dignity. — Kyle Massey

Markets are a social construction, they're made from institutions. We in a democratic society create markets, we constitute markets, we bring them into existence, and we shouldn't turn markets over to a narrow group of people who regulate them and run them in their interests, rather they should be run democratically for the common good. — Douglas Massey

When man to man shall be friend and brother. — Gerald Massey

Christianity was neither original nor unique, but that the roots of much of the Judeo/ Christian tradition lay in the prevailing Kamite (ancient Egyptian) culture of the region. We are faced with the inescapable realization that if Jesus had been able to read the documents of old Egypt, he would have been amazed to find his own biography already substantially written some four or five thousand years previously. — Gerald Massey

I often have the fantasy that curly girls are mermaids who have had to adapt to life on dry land. We come from the sea. The ocean is in our blood. It sings through our heart and lungs, our skin and hair. Our curls require the nourishment only a watery environment can provide. Both ocean waves and curly hair are forces of nature that can't be tamed. We can only accept and admire their power and beauty. — Lorraine Massey

You never know where life is going to take you. So everything I do, I just take it one day at a time, and it always leads you to the right place. — Kyle Massey

Truth must the guide of those who hold the power; but humility is their sign, the promise that their privileges are in safe hands. — Vincent Massey

I think liberals have to come to terms with the market and embrace market mechanisms as the only way to run a society that produces widespread material well-being and respects individual rights and liberties. — Douglas Massey

For a consultative site, you cannot talk only about your company and its products. You must talk about how your visitors can solve their problems and the problems of the stakeholders they report to. — Brian Massey

My brother, Chris Massey from 'Zoey 101', was acting first at a young age. I just followed in my sibling's footsteps. — Kyle Massey

History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of greatness. — Vincent Massey

They must find it difficult ... those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority. — Gerald Massey

All the rarest hues of human life take radiance and are rainbowed out in tears. — Gerald Massey

The United States, after all, was founded by men of liberal sentiment who were seeking to promote the greatest good for the greatest number, by creating a constitutional order for the creation and expansion of liberty. — Douglas Massey

Our dearest hopes in pangs are born,
The kingliest Kings are crown'd with thorn. — Gerald Massey

They must find it hard to take Truth for authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth. — Gerald Massey

Remember this! It is never an entire people who is cruel; it is merely individuals who exert their will on others. — Sujata Massey