Mark Quotes · Page 16

It is better to fall short of a high mark than to reach a low one.

— Henry Clay Payne

Solemnity and a complete absence of irony also mark kitsch.

— Denis Dutton

Measures, not men, have always been my mark.

— Oliver Goldsmith

I don't need to do a reality show to make my mark in this world.

— Niecy Nash

“MARK your word and DO;STAND your PROMISES”

— Danever Regidor

Mark Hughes crossed every I and dotted every T.

— Robbie Savage

I fell from the sky. I'm a parachutist, and I missed my mark.

— Ursula Andress

Let our lives be pure as snowfields, where our steps leave a mark but no stain.

— Sophie Swetchine

All God's plans have the mark of the cross on them, and all His plans have death to self in them.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

The concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter.

— Francois Delsarte

Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and…

— Larry Merchant

Actually it was the mark of the stupid, which is what you get for sitting under a tree during a thunderstorm.

— Carl Hiaasen

I don't want to be the next Mark Spitz; I want to be the first Michael Phelps

— Michael Phelps

When you make your mark in the world, watch out for the envious with erasers.

— Evan Esar

Impassioned characters never attain their mark till they have overshot it.

— Sophie Swetchine

“Ty: I wasn't sure you would come back. Mark: I'll always come back to you, Tiberius. I am sorry if I ever…

— Cassandra Clare

Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking.

— Bernard Crick

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then…

— Benjamin Franklin

Shaving my head was a millennium ritual, to not let it pass as just another New Year's Eve. A lot has happened…

— Joan Jett

The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning... The model must…

— Henri Matisse

If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage…

— Alberto Manguel

We have almost reached the point where praise of rationality is held to mark a man as an old fogey regrettably surviving…

— Bertrand Russell

[Gilda Radner] died in '89, and I got non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2000. I've just passed the five-year mark and I'm now what…

— Gene Wilder

Let her arm go and pray she has no bruise,” a familiar voice said in a low angry tone. I shuddered from…

— Abbi Glines

Historically the buffalo had more influence on man than all other Plains animals combined. It was life, food, raiment, and shelter to…

— Walter Prescott Webb

We don't have to live up to the expectations of others. Passion is personal. As long as our passion is fueled with…

— Jack White

Why are you talking to the King Loser Dork? You want to talk about ugly? Look at what he’s wearing. (Stone) I…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Biblical backing for Mormon behavior is easy to find, although Mark Twain is reported to have denied its legitimacy to a Mormon.…

— Dennis McKinsey

Not the shadow of a doubt crossed my mind of the purpose for which the Count had left the theatre. His escape…

— Wilkie Collins

And you want to know why track and field is dying in this country? Kids today can watch Kobe Bryant go end-to-end…

— Mike Penner

How many more copycats are waiting in the wings for their moment of fame — from a national media machine that rewards…

— Wayne LaPierre

Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test.

— Kinky Friedman

In luck or out the toil has left its mark: That old perplexity an empty purse, Or the day's vanity, the night's…

— William Butler Yeats

The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.

— Abbott Lawrence Lowell

He who seldom thinks of heaven is not likely to get thither; as the only way to hit the mark is to…

— Thomas Hartwell Horne

A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.

— Anonymous

In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.

— James Mark Baldwin

The mark of a great shiphandler is never getting into situations that require great shiphandling.

— Ernest King

Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

“The one thing every creator wants to do, without question, is leave a mark.”

— Jemir Robert Johnson