Quotes of: Masterpiece Keyword

In reality, all men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives trying to create a masterpiece.

Eddie Murphy

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

Carl Sandburg

A masterpiece does not unfurl its wings immediately. It takes time. It will fly when it is ready.

A.D. Posey

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

Vladimir Nabokov

You're the only one I've ever been able to open up to like this. See, there you go. Another sign. And damn it, I don't believe in signs like this, but they all point to you. I wish I'd opened up a lot more to you in the past, but I never wanted to bo...

A Masterpiece of Our Love

In this course I have tried to reveal the mechanism of those wonderful toys — literary masterpieces. I have tried to make of you good readers who read books not for the infantile purpose of identifying oneself with the characters, and not for the a...

Lectures on Literature

If we don't have time for masterpiece moments, the very reason we came to earth is being wasted on us.

Being Enough

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

Marcel Proust

Every day is a masterpiece, even if it crushes you.

The Illusion of Separateness

No one wants a masterpiece knocking around when your own book is looking for attention.

Tibor Fischer

The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.

Cyril Connolly

Nowadays, if a studio assumes that his film is bad, there is always an executive that gets more nervous than usual and thinks that if they change the music, the film will become a masterpiece.

Maurice Jarre

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

Virginia Woolf

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

Andre Gide

Don't give-up on your greatest masterpiece — you.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece

Lolita

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

Mary Jane's Cookbook: From the Heart of America

Her life is lived through the masterpiece of art, that she cannot draw.

Once a Girl, Now a Woman

If the Cross is God’s masterpiece of His love, then the Eucharist is the centerpiece of our worship.

The Worship Kenbook

I'm not saying it never occurred to me to want to write a masterpiece, but I really doubt I could.

Lucy Hawking

Like creating a masterpiece, quitting is an art: you have to decide what to keep within the frame and what to keep out.

Richie Norton