Mark Quotes

As Mark Weiner puts it, whether you gain 50 pounds or lose 50 pounds, whether you have a sex change operation for that matter, that it doesn't matter, that there is some part of ourselves that we cannot escape.

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

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

I want my music to leave an indelible mark.

Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.

I bought a book of Mark Twain quotes. That's about my speed. I'll read a couple quotes and put it down.

We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics.

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Listening is more important than talking. Just hit your mark and believe what you say.

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an easy mark.

Right from the start, I loved the works of Mark Twain. Every time I read about Tom Sawyer, I'd go out and do something low-level naughty, just like him.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.

Colour does not make so much difference. Look at the Bach Chaconne: There is not one dynamic mark in the whole Bach Chaconne. Colours do not make so much difference.

The worst food you'll ever eat will probably be prepared by a 'cook' who calls himself a 'chef.' Mark my words.

'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it.

Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him.

I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.

I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

Into The Woods was... a lot of running around in the woods! I can't wait to see the show again. People didn't realize it back then, but kids still come up to me-young people-and they talk about it. It really made its mark.

Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves, has no objective existence.

I listen to Mark Chestnutt and think he's a great singer - and he really does good material.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

I still enjoy my life, and I feel like I've achieved enough things that if I never did anything again, I'd feel confident that I'd still have made my mark in some way. But maybe the self-loathing bit is the element that makes you strive for more. Makes you strive to be better.