Mark Quotes - page 24

But, Bubba? Aren't you and Mark friends? (Nick) Ah, hell no. Mark's not my friend, he's my minion. (Bubba) (Sherrilyn Kenyon)
My novel, which I had started with such hope shortly after publishing my first book of stories, wouldn't budge past the 75-page mark. Nothing I wrote past page 75 made any kind of sense. Nothing. Which would have been fine if the first 75 pages hadn't been pretty damn cool. View quote
Junot Diaz
Nobody knew what the Company wanted. Various witnesses assigned motives according to their own fears. Few came anywhere near the mark. View quote
Glen Cook
My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few. View quote
Debbie Macomber
I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the picture. What Big History can do is show us the nature of our complexity and fragility and the dangers that face us, but it can also show us our power, with collective learning. View quote
David Christian
I still enjoy my life, and I feel like I've achieved enough things that if I never did anything again, I'd feel confident that I'd still have made my mark in some way. But maybe the self-loathing bit is the element that makes you strive for more. Makes you strive to be better. View quote
David Walliams
The whole Christmas story was probably a later addition to the gospel narratives, presented only by the authors of Matthew and Luke. Mark and John seem never to have heard of the manger in Bethlehem, the Massacre of the Innocents, the hovering star, the three wise men, and so forth. View quote
Jay Parini
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. View quote
John Stott
I listen to Mark Chestnutt and think he's a great singer - and he really does good material. View quote
George Strait
The best memorizers in the world - who almost all hail from Europe - can memorize a pack of cards in less than a minute. A few have begun to approach the 30-second mark, considered the 'four-minute mile of memory.' View quote
Joshua Foer
Be transparent as wind, be as possible and relentless and dangerous, be what moves things forward without needing to leave a mark, be part of this collection of molecules that begins somewhere unknown and can't help but keep rising. Rising.Rising. Rising. (Eve Ensler)
Boundaries are the lines we draw that mark off our autonomy and that of other people, that protect our privacy and that of others. Boundaries allow for intimate connection without dissolving or losing one's sense of self. View quote
Amy Bloom
Every day a question mark. View quote
Alice Sebold
Startling as the Gospel of Judas sounds, it amplifies hints we have long read in the Gospels of Mark and John that Jesus knew and even instigated the events of his passion, seeing them as part of a divine plan. View quote
Elaine Pagels
Obeying orders just to obey is the mark of a person who has ceased to think. Remember, it is better to suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong. View quote
Ilsa J. Bick
Actually it was the mark of the stupid, which is what you get for sitting under a tree during a thunderstorm. View quote
Carl Hiaasen
The kiss....was not meant to seduce, it was meant to mark a woman's soul. Chloe. View quote
Karen Marie Moning
The worst food you'll ever eat will probably be prepared by a 'cook' who calls himself a 'chef.' Mark my words. View quote
Alton Brown
We're drawn to making our mark, leaving a record to show we were here, and a journal is a great place to do it. Once you start drawing, writing, and gluing stuff in every day, it can quickly become a habit - addictive, even. Your attitude should be: 'I can do this, but I mustn't make it too intimidating.' View quote
Keri Smith
There is no peace until the end and even then there would still be a question mark. View quote
Klaus Mann
Look, I'll fight, too. What do you think it is? Bear, coyote...?" "My brother." "Your..." Dismay pooled in Mark. She'd just stepped over the line of acceptable craziness. "Oh. (L.J. Smith)
You won't find Earth people, quite the easy mark you imagine. View quote
L.J. Smith
For that is the power of the camera: seize the familiar and give it new meanings, a special significance by the mark of a personality. View quote
Alfred Stieglitz
You can see all sorts of things in film acting if you know where to look and what to look for. One thing I often notice is that the actor is looking for his mark, the place where he has to stand to be in the right place in the shot. View quote
Michael Caine
Shaving my head was a millennium ritual, to not let it pass as just another New Year's Eve. A lot has happened to me in the last couple of years, personally and spiritually. I wanted to mark it for myself. View quote
Joan Jett