Mark Quotes

I sometimes find the surface interesting. To say that the mark of a good portrait is whether you get them or get the soul - I don't think this is possible all of the time.

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

Oh, and Scott, get Mark to play me. He's the most talented one anyway.

Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.

Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.

One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

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.

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.

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.

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