Famous quotes containing the words excellent and/or master:
“Ive tried not to exaggerate the glory of athletes. Id rather, if I could, preserve a sense of proportion, to write about them as excellent ballplayers, first-rate players. But Im sure I have contributed to false valuesas Stanley Woodward said, Godding up those ballplayers.
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.”
—Samuel Beckett (19061989)
“He may have been a master of his fate,
And of his atoms,ready as another
In his emergence to exonerate
His father and his mother;”
—Edwin Arlington Robinson (18691935)