Mastison Quotes & Sayings

Due north' on my compass is largely 'due' to the fact that in 'due' time I have been 'unduly' lax in recalibrating my compass. And I'm apparently ignorant enough to wonder why I'm lost. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

I just wanted to know what it felt like to be someone you look at. — Fredrik Backman

My mom put me away at 7. I enjoyed it ... Being in institutions, I got three meals a day, clothes. — DMX

Politics in America is the binding secular religion. — Theodore White

Holiness exalts people and keeps them on high — Sunday Adelaja

Until you put these things to right, you're not entitled to boast of the justice meted out to thieves, for it's a justice more specious than real or social desirable. You allow these people to be brought up in the worst possible way, and systematically corrupted from their earliest years. Finally, when they grow up and commit the crimes that they were obviously destined to commit, ever since they were children, you start punishing them. In other words, you create thieves, and then punish them for stealing. — Thomas More

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible. [on hearing a famous violinist] — Samuel Johnson

I am not a brave man ... I do not have the right stuff. Astronauts are really a cut above. — Andy Weir

John H. Watson might have been many things - a doctor, a storyteller, and by most accounts a kind and decent man-but he clearly wasn't a zoologist. There's no such thing as a swamp adder. And the idea that Sherlock Holmes deduced its existence from a saucer of milk is ridiculous- snakes have zero interest in milk. They also can't hear anything but vibrations, so they wouldn't hear a whistle. But they do breathe, so a snake couldn't survive in a locked safe. — Brittany Cavallaro

Flannery O'Connor, in a note to the editor of "Wise Blood" that pertained to changes he wanted to make, wrote "Perhaps I am prematurely arrogant ... — Flannery O'Connor

Who knows if all our brains are inventing the same thing? I mean, how do we know that the thing YOUR eyes see and call "red" is the same thing that I call "red"? — Jaclyn Moriarty

Stories are all around us, caught in the throats of the strangers you walk past and scrawled on the pages of locked diaries. They're in love letters that were never sent and between the lines of every conversation ever spoken. Just because your story's not written down doesn't mean it doesn't exist. — Jodi Picoult

There is but one unconditional commandment ... to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see. — William James

Titles by their nature imply that the play's architecture is like a bull's-eye (and some are) with the point being in the center. Sometimes the point is in the margins, or in the experience of throwing the dart. — Sarah Ruhl