“I had the luck at 18 to become assistant to Christian Dior, and to succeed him at 21 and to meet with success from my first collection in 1958. That will be 44 years in a few days. Above all it was Christian Dior who was my master and who was the first to reveal the secrets and mysteries of haute couture.” YearsFirstsChristianSecretChristianityMysteryMastersSucceedLuckCollectionsAssistantsCoutureDiorHaute Couture Author:Christian Dior
“Alas the Master; so he sinks in death. But whoso knows the mystery of man Sees life and death as curves of the same plan” KnowsMenPlansMysteryMastersLife And DeathCurvesAlas Author:Aleister Crowley
“Water is an individual, an animal, and is alive, remove the hydrogen and it is an animal and is alive; the remaining oxygen is also an individual, an animal, and is alive. Recapitulation: the two individuals combined, constitute a third individual-and yet each continues to be an individual....here was mute Nature explaining the sublime mystery of the Trinity so luminously that even the commonest understanding could comprehend it, whereas many a trained master of words had labored to do it with speech and failed.” TwoIndividualUnderstandingWaterAnimalAliveMysteryMastersSpeechThirdsRemoveSublimeOxygenExplainingMuteTrinityHydrogenRecapitulation Author:Mark Twain
“A lot of guys in New York will only play with an edge. They find their groove and that's their groove. to me, once I do that, there's no point in playing anymore because it should always be a mystery. Depending on who you are playing with, there are hundreds of ways of playing. I think that a master can play all those different kinds of time.” ThinkingWayShouldKindDifferentPlayGuyMysteryNew YorkMastersWho You AreEdgesDifferent KindsNo PointGroove Author:Fred Hersch
“There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious things.” LittlesMysteryMastersLifetimeSeekingPrecious Things Author:Boyd K. Packer
“I put my hand out and wiped the vomit from his lips, and cooed soothing words to him. It squeezed my heart to see him suffer like this - but where my genuine concern for him ended and where my self-interest began, I could not tell: no servant can ever tell what the motives of his heart are. "Do we loathe our masters behind a facade of love - or do we love them behind a facade of loathing? "We are made mysteries to ourselves by the Rooster Coop we are locked in.” HeartMadeSelfHandsSufferingInterestBehindsMysteryMastersMy HeartConcernLipsGenuineServantMotiveLockedSelf InterestLoathingSoothingLoatheFacadeRoostersGenuine Concern Author:Aravind Adiga
“My child, you have a flawed grasp of the nature of myth-making. I am a poet and storyteller, a creator of ballads and sagas. Pray do not confuse the exercise of the imagination with mere mendacity. I am a master of the mysteries of words, their meanings and music and mellifluous magic.” ChildrenImaginationMagicMysteryPoetMastersPrayingExerciseMereCreatorMythMy ChildrenStorytellerFlawedBalladsSagaMendacity Book:Fly By Night Source: Fly By Night