Mark Quotes
2058 Mark quotes by 1489 unique authors
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Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
— Lloyd Alexander
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In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks…
— Arthur Miller
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I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point…
— Bliss Carman
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Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the…
— Salvatore Quasimodo
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We may gamble on outsmarting the law; we may even gamble on the leniency of man and the mercy of God-but no man ever won…
— Sidney Greenberg
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Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors to exemplify in its written…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Blaise Pascal used to mark with charcoal the walls of his playroom, seeking a means of making a circle perfectly round and a triangle whose…
— Unknown Author
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Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain,…
— J D Hayworth
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Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Sir, if you think that I am that kind of a man, you have missed your mark. I would rather die a thousand deaths than…
— Unknown Author
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The power of applying attention, steady and undissipated, to a single object, is the sure mark of superior genius.
— Lord Chesterfield
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A spirit of thankfulness is one of the most distinctive marks of a Christian whose heart is attuned to the Lord. Thank God in the…
— Billy Graham
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I remember how my Great Uncle Jerry would sit on the porch and whittle all day long. Once he whittled me a toy boat out…
— Jack Handey
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I wish scientists would come up with an ear of corn that was big and round, because then when you were eating it, it'd be…
— Jack Handey
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No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. A weak man…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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There are still hundreds of question marks to be answered
— Jimmy Armfield
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That's a question mark everyone's asking
— Unknown Author
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A few question marks are being asked in the Honduran defence
— Alan Green
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I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock…
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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I used to wear a lot of red lipstick, and when I got a pimple, I'd cover it up with eyeliner to turn it into…
— Selma Blair
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Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not reason, or it…
— William Pickens
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The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.
— Robert Schumann
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You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely…
— Samuel Alexander
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Unprecedented warnings by officials most closely linked with nuclear arms negotiations and defense strategy indicate that we are running out of time. If we fail…
— Alan Cranston
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