Best 349 quotes in «mark quotes» category

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 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 museums, everything is in quotation marks.

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 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.

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

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.

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

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.

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

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

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 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 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.

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.

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

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

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Long shots almost always miss the mark.

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

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.

Mark-to-market accounting is like crack. Don't do it.

Mark Henry is so strong he eats steak with a spoon.

Mark Hughes at his very best: he loves to feel people right behind him.

Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.

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

Mark Twain had it backwards. Nowadays everybody is doing something about the weather, but nobody is talking about it.

Mark Twain once said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

Marriage is such a mark of adulthood in my mind.

Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.

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