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Oily marks appear on walls / Where pleasure moments hung before

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

One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better.

One mark of good verse is surprise

One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.

On one hand, liberals are enraged at the heinousness of Mark Sanford - whom they didn't vote for - for not resigning and, on the other, they're enraged at Palin - whom they also didn't vote for - for resigning.

One would hope, as well that intimacy would leave more of a mark, that more of it would remain. But it doesn’t. You just end up thinking, who is this person?

Our perception that we have 'no time' is one of the distinctive marks of modern Western culture.

Perfume follows you; it chases you and lingers behind you. It's a reference mark. Perfume makes silence talk.

Over-certified adjectives are the mark of most best-seller writing

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

Perhaps the true mark of a leader is that she or he is willing to stand alone.

Prejudice marks a mental landmine.

Polite conservationists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground.

Quotation marks quotato marks! Bah!

Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.

Screw-ups are the mark of excellence.

Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.

Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God.

Sathya, Dharma, Shanghai and prema are the hall-marks of a purified heart, a heart where God is enshrined and is manifest.

Ray Bradbury was not ahead of his time. He was perfectly of his time, and more than that: he created his time and left his mark on the time that followed.

Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition.

Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel.

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

Shall remain! Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute 'shall'?

She was so fat that her bathtub has stretch marks.

She moved with such purpose it was as though she walked with exclamation marks.

Someone else has to be disseminating it. (Mark) Dis-a what? (Nick) Disseminating. It means distributing it. (Mark) Then why didn’t you say that? (Nick) Remind me to get him a word-of-the-day calendar. (Mark)

Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.

Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.

Still all the day the iron wheels go onward, Grinding life down from its mark.

Speech is the mark of humanity. It is the normal terminus of thought.

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

That's five friends, one each for Jesu's wounds, and Godric bears their mark still on what's left of him as in their time they all bore his on them. What's friendship, when all's done, but the giving and taking of wounds?

SUCCESS DEFINITION-- WHEN OUR SIGNATURE CHANGES TO AUTOGRAPH ,this marks the success.

That's a question mark everyone's asking

The 21st of December marks the end of the time and the beginning of no-time

That's the thing with handmade items. They still have the person's mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone. This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.

The ability to get along without an exceptional leader is the mark of social vigor.

That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.

The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even went to college.

The arrows of malevolence ... however barbed and well pointed, never can reach the most vulnerable part of me; though, whilst I am up as a mark, they will be continually aimed.

The first mark of valor is defence.

The cat always leaves a mark on his friend.

The certain mark by which a Christian community can be recognized is the preaching of the gospel in its purity.

The greatest mark of a father is how he treats his children when no one is looking.

The gospel is not a truth among other truths. Rather, it sets a question mark against all truths.

The gift of language is the single human trait that marks us all genetically, setting us apart from the rest of life.

The mark of a good marriage is when only one of you goes crazy at a time!