Mark Quotes

2058 Mark quotes by 1489 unique authors

The great man... walks across his century and leaves the marks of his feet all over it, ripping out the dates on his goloshes as… — Stephen Leacock
We have to make a mark, even if it's only a scribble. — John Steinbeck
The poet's pen is the true divining rod Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling; Bringing to light and use, else hid from all,… — Philip James Bailey
Opinions scattered indiscriminately about leave the mark of egotism. — William Strunk, Jr.
Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind: Invisible to mortal eyes they go, And mark our actions, good… — Hesiod
Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy. — Margaret Fuller
Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks. — Paul Eldridge
I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of… — Ken Robinson
Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire. — Charles Simmons
We re-make nature by the act of discovery, in the poem or in the theorem. And the great poem and the deep theorem are new… — Jacob Bronowski
I thought the iPhone was great, but this takes it to a new level - simply because it's eight times the size of the iPhone,… — David Hockney
With watercolour, you can't cover up the marks. There's the story of the construction of the picture, and then the picture might tell another story… — David Hockney
When a buddha is painted, not only a clay altar or lump of earth is used, but the thirty-two marks, a blade of grass, and… — Dogen
That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. Everything is in process. — Pema Chodron
The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free! Without a mark, without a bound, It runneth the earth's wide… — Bryan Procter
Discipline is the mark of intelligent living. — Sathya Sai Baba
I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. — Ray Charles
Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen Collect; with elbows idly press'd On hob, reclines the corner's guest, Reading the news… — John Clare
Mark Twain put it best when he said, 'Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated,. — Bill Bradley
When I'm acting, I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there… — Jeanne Moreau
You can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks. — Damien Hirst
It is to Titian we must turn our eyes to find excellence with regard to color, and light and shade, in the highest degree. He… — Joshua Reynolds
Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be so sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure as he is, he shall… — Philip Sidney
It is necessary to mark the greater from the lesser truth: namely the larger and more liberal idea of nature from the comparatively narrow and… — J M W Turner

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