Marks Quotes

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
Albert Einstein

Science, Real, Old

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
H. L. Mencken

Judge, Law, Student

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Elie Wiesel

Life, Love, Friendship

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being.
Steven Biko

Yourself, Fight, Black

Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers.
H. L. Mencken

Judge, Law, Student

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
Lord Byron

Deep, Control, Dark

Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.
Terry Pratchett

Mind, Sure, Insane

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
John Stuart Mill

Time, Courage, Society

That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.
John Stuart Mill

Time, Few, Danger

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
Eric Hoffer

Society, Passion, Thought

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

Good, Person, Breeding

She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.
Henny Youngman

Her, She, Married

While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.
Jose Rizal

Liberty, While, Language

To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
Andre Gide

Past, Different, Same

I'm not as hard on myself anymore. I'm comfortable exactly where I am, though it took me until I was 34 years old! I still have things I'm really insecure about, but I've changed by loving me - C-section scars, stretch marks, and all.
Jenny McCarthy

Hard, Insecure, Old

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Live, Black, Makes

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
Alfred North Whitehead

Knowledge, Real, Victory

The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.
Robert Anton Wilson

Real, Place, Between

Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.
Georgia O'Keeffe

Together, Free, Speech

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.
Thorstein Veblen

Nature, Sports, Addiction

If you're a cartoon character or most TV characters, sure, you'll fight, because the punches are juicy-sounding and they don't leave marks. But in real life, if somebody punches you in the eye, it doesn't make any noise and your eye is swollen for, like, six months. It's a nightmare to get punched in the eye.
Louis C. K.

Life, Character, Fight

The semiology and phenomenology of hashtaggery intrigues me. From what I understand, it all began very simply: on Twitter, hashtags - those little checkerboard marks that look like this # - were used to mark phrases or names, in order to make it easier to search for them among the zillions and zillions of tweets.
Susan Orlean

Understand, Used, Order

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
Thomas Hardy

Words, Terrible, Truly

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.
Arthur Miller

While, Looking, House

When I'm acting, I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there is the one driven by this inner fire, this delicious fear.
Jeanne Moreau

Fear, Fire, Two

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
Jack London

Life, Living, Cannot

One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.
William Irwin Thompson

Food, Thought, Find

We have a queen-size bed and the dog sleeps in the middle. John and I are sort of these little quotation marks on either corner.
Rachael Ray

Dog, Either, Bed

One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment.
Eric Alterman

Change, Battle, Victory

Let's turn British inventions into British industries, British factories and British jobs. Let them make pounds for us, not dollars marks or yen for others.
John Major

Others, Turn, Jobs

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