I don't want to be the next Mark Spitz; I want to be the first Michael Phelps — Michael Phelps Copy Share Image
When you make your mark in the world, watch out for the envious with erasers. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
Impassioned characters never attain their mark till they have overshot it. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test. — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information. — Abbott Lawrence Lowell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We have almost reached the point where praise of rationality is held to mark a man as an old fogey regrettably surviving… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuous people, this instument will bind us together in mutual… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it.… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Fiction is risky for writers also in that the process of making certain books, of shaping certain narratives, leaves scars and marks… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
I favor a picture which arrives at its destination without the evidence of a trying journey rather than one which shows the… — Charles Sheeler Copy Share Image
Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Biblical backing for Mormon behavior is easy to find, although Mark Twain is reported to have denied its legitimacy to a Mormon.… — Dennis McKinsey Copy Share Image
Not the shadow of a doubt crossed my mind of the purpose for which the Count had left the theatre. His escape… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
How many more copycats are waiting in the wings for their moment of fame — from a national media machine that rewards… — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
I'd prefer not to act in the film I'm directing. I think, though, as an actor, you do learn how to turn… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
Man is more than his environment. It is from the innate quality of the Spirit in him, his inner storehouse, that he… — Nilakanta Sri Ram Copy Share Image
I am Plato's Republic. Mr. Simmons is Marcus. I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social. — James Mark Baldwin Copy Share Image
The mark of a great shiphandler is never getting into situations that require great shiphandling. — Ernest King Copy Share Image
Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
“The one thing every creator wants to do, without question, is leave a mark.” — Jemir Robert Johnson Copy Share Image
He who is harmony with Nature hits the mark without effort and apprehends the truth without thinking. — Confucius Copy Share Image
If you're gonna leave your mark, you can't follow a bunch of sheep, you gotta listen to your heart. — Garth Brooks Copy Share Image
A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The desire for riches is more sharpened by their use than by their need. Pleasing all: a mark that can never be… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It's hard for it to make a mark in this city because London has so much culture to offer. — Toby Jones Copy Share Image
More important than having a romance with the object that I'm drawing, is to have a romance with the mark that I… — Jim Dine Copy Share Image
It is that word 'hunny,' my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“...And meanwhile the Galaxy ran through space and left behind those signs old and new and I still hadn't found mine.” — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I love seeing Mark Steel or Mark Thomas, but I'm not that sort of person. — Alex Horne Copy Share Image
Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks. — Paul Eldridge Copy Share Image
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