Quotes About Marking

I chose to be a maths teacher because I thought the marking would be easy. You'd just tick and cross, whereas if you're an English teacher, you've got to read essays. Then they said I had to analyse the methodology. It takes an eternity, it's insane!

I think I've always used the whip in the correct way. I see marked horses every day, and it's not a pretty sight, but I've never marked a horse. Never.

If you look at the copies of Churchill's speeches that have survived, they are heavily marked up. He was scrupulous about the impact of each word. He preferred short words and the repetition of short words. He knew everything about the techniques of rhetoric.

Why couldn't they just give the human female a bag of money and then pee on the building so that everyone would know it was theirs?

Why couldn't they just give the human female a bag of money and then pee on the building so that everyone would know it was theirs? This

You got a least knowledge, the blind man said. That's enough. You know His name and you're marked. If Jesus has marked you there ain't nothing you can do about it. Them that have knowledge can't swap it for ignorance.

Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.

It was simply a marking of time with no meaningful changes.

You democratize heroism. Everybody is a hero, and simply for doing (and often not well at that) the ordinary tasks of living as a half-decent person. Does your mother fix you breakfast? She is a hero. Does your father visit you every weekend without fail? A hero. Does your teacher mark your papers faithfully when you make a mistake? Unexampled heroism, that. If everyone is a hero, then no one is a hero; and genuine heroes will go unnoticed in all the mindless self-congratulation.

The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.

Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is indelible.

They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.

I feel my heart, wave upon wave, salty and red, continuing on and on, marking time.

Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.

Whether we wake or we sleep, Whether we carol or weep, The Sun with his Planets in chime, Marketh the going of Time.

It feels like he's marking me. Like he's preparing me for something monumental. That could both change and ruin my life.

One of the cashiers had taken to calling out, "Hey, Clark!" as I came in and marking my exit with "It's a bird, it's a plane, it's SuperGoth!" This was not only tiresome but inaccurate. There's a huge difference between goth and emo, but I never had the time or energy to give him a tutorial.

Neymar is a great player, it is so difficult to mark him.

It's not my style of play to mark players and stop them, or be threatening. But I am learning that at Chelsea.

Time marks us while we are marking time.

And marking off time struck me as something like counting empty spaces—spaces you know can't ever be filled.

Mountain, mountain, mountain, marking time. Each nameless, wall beyond wall, wavering redefinition of horizon.

You know, if you're trying to mark your territory, you could've just peed on me before I came over here and saved us both a lot of time!

Finally the homeless eel marked its territory, I suppose, and the Doctor lay heavily upon me, moist with sweat.