Best 349 quotes in «mark quotes» category

I'd always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn't.

I didn't want to put myself, or anyone else, asleep with another quintessential Mark Kozelek album.

I didn't want to skate for someone else or for certain marks.

I do not want to pass the time. I want to grab hold of it and leave my mark upon the world.

I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.

I don't know a single person who truly seems to bear the mark of God's presence and power in his or her life who hasn't been asked by God to be obedient in a way that was dramatically painful.

I don't think I've ever been accused of being faddish. I'm more Marks & Spencer than Ted Baker.

I fell from the sky. I'm a parachutist, and I missed my mark.

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

If Mark Twain had had Twitter, he would have been amazing at it. But he probably wouldn't have gotten around to writing Huckleberry Finn.

If I make a mark in time, I can't say the mark is mine.

If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark

If you are not setting a trap, then you are probably walking into one. It is the mark of the master to do both at once.

If we only understood that when we devote our lives to the glory of God, our existence on planet earth will leave marks---eternal marks.

If the first mark of a true and living church is love, the second is suffering. The one is naturally consequent on the other. A willingness to suffer proves the genuineness of love.

If there is one thing that marks families with money in the long term it is this: delayed gratification.

I had hoped, at my departure, I would feel sure and knowledgeable about everything that lay ahead -- after all, I had been "analyzed." Instead, all I could see were question marks.

If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.

If you're going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can't be erased.

I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.

If you're gonna leave your mark, you can't follow a bunch of sheep, you gotta listen to your heart.

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.

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

Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.

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

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.

In the museums, everything is in quotation marks.

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?

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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