Best 349 quotes in «mark quotes» category

I haven't left a mark on the world, but is that so bad? Considering how deeply the world has marked me?

I know the Gospel according to Mark better than I know any sura in the Quran.

I love classical music. It has left a major mark on my playing.

I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It's the mark of civilisation.

In America, your job determines your marks. In Soviet Russia, Marx determine your job!

I love you, Marks. My heart is completely and utterly yours. And unfortunately for you, the rest of me comes with it.

I'm obsessed by the idea of making my mark on history. And Arsenal is my paradise.

Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.

I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I start flooding colour and making marks, I don't know, it's improvisation isn't it?

In the dream, sheltered from the noise, the subject expressed a judgment much more on the mark than that manifested in wakefulness.

In the end, the sign of Aretha Franklin's artistry is that she always leaves her mark - first, on the music, then on us.

In the museums, everything is in quotation marks.

In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

I read once that the true mark of a pro - at anything - is that he understands, loves, and is good at even the drudgery of his profession.

Is it conceivable that mysticism is a mark of inadequate art?

In Matthew, Jesus declares, “Whoever is not with me is against me.” In Mark, he says,“Whoever is not against us is for us.” Did he say both things? Could he mean both things? How can both be true at once? Or is it possible that one of the Gospel writers got things switched around?

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

I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.

I think there was always that question mark of why am I not in St. Louis anymore? I think everybody had those questions and probably had those perceptions of me.

It is better to fall short of a high mark than to reach a low one.

It is cynicism, and not idealism, that is generally the mark of youthful immaturity, or rather it is the cynic who is generally the most foolish romantic.

It is surely one of the strangest of our propensities to mark out those we love best for the worst usage; yet we do, all of us. We can take any freedom with a friend; we stand on no ceremony with a friend.

It is that word 'hunny,' my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up.

It is a mark of soulfulness to be present in the here and now. When we are present, we are not fabricating inner movies. We are seeing what is before us.

It is a mark of wisdom not to kick away the very step from which we have risen higher. The removal of one step from a staircase brings down the whole of it.

It is the mark of a primitive society to view regression as progress.

It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.

It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.

It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life

It's a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm.

I worked at Mark Foy's during the day and studied drama at night.

I would say it was [ifluence] all the Greeks and the Russian classics like [Lev] Tolstoy, [Andrey] Goncharov,[Fedor] Dostoyevsky, [Alexander] Pushkin, and the international classics in Russian translation like Victor Hugo, George Sand, Charlotte Bronte, Sir Walter Scott, Mark Twain.

Jon Stewart is a remarkable satirist and parodist in the vein of Mark Twain, because Jon Stewart understands what Mark Twain knew, which is that the truth goes down more easily in a democracy when it's marinated in humor.

Kingsley, ever the joker, had his Venator mark tattooed near his unmentionables

Laughter in the face of danger is a mark of courage.

Let no one ask a stronger mark of an excellent love to God, than that we are insensible to our own reputation.

Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.

It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them whole.

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

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

It’s important to remember that Mark David Chapman really set a lot of trends: such as the trend of celebrities having bodyguards.

I've had a splendid time," she concluded happily, "and I feel that it marks an epoch in my life. But the best of it all was the coming home.

I want to make my mark,' he says. But what target, I wonder, are you going to hit?

I would love to see more women making their mark in the music that I love so much ... There are so many more out there just waiting for their shot. I hope they get it!

Jackie had a keen eye for talent, and like an elephant never forgot. And, he was always right on the mark.

Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark.

Love was a dance floor where everyone you loved left a mark behind.

Mark my words, my rap career [is] on the rise.