Problems are just mile markers. Each one we pass means…

There is a congratulatory culture in the Gulf. From birth onwards, there is a culture of giving people trophies as markers of achievement for…

— Ayshay

Perhaps we have failed as human beings. Perhaps we have embarrassed ourselves to the natural world. We have been rigorous and willful in all…

— Sufjan Stevens

Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that’s overwhelmingly depressing to me, and sometimes…

— Joss Whedon

While love is common, true love is rare, and I believe that few people are fortunate enough to experience it. The roads of regular…

— David Buss

One of the concepts I was having trouble illustrating was the concept that administrative systems create narrow categories of gender and force people into…

— Dean Spade

Every mile marker can be met with some measure of trepidation, in a race or in life. Am I on target? Do I have…

— Kristin Armstrong

When drawing the sun, try to have on hand colored paper, chalk, felt-tip markers, crayons, pencils, ball point pens. You can draw a sun…

— Bruno Munari

Real isn't what they try to tell you. Time isn't. Grown-ups hammer down all these markers, bells, schedules, coffee-breaks, to stake down time so…

— Tana French

I have a random array of ball markers in my bag and don't use any specific one. Many are the plastic kind you find…

— Matt Kuchar

In a landscape littered with all of this imagery about the nobility of the Civil War and the Confederate effort and struggle, the absence…

— Bryan Stevenson

For any true stickler, you see, the sight of the plural word “Book’s” with an apostrophe in it will trigger a ghastly private emotional…

— Lynne Truss

In time, perhaps, we will mark the memory of September 11th in stone and metal, something we can show children, as yet unborn, to…

— George W. Bush

I like a new clean book, freshly bound, particularly when I am the first to read it. I like dirty books - where other…

— Nancy Spain

You become a character in a meta-drama into which your own dramatizing has pitched you. The rewards can be fantastic, the punishments dismal; it's…

— Tony Kushner

I used to get my hair dyed at a place called Big Hair. It cost $15. They just used straight bleach, so my hair…

— Amy Poehler