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Quotes About Mark

The dark rectangle of a doorway appeared on his right - black in black: Otheym's house, Fate's house, a place different from the ones around it only in the role Time had chosen for it. It was a strange place to be marked down in history.
~ Frank Herbert
That's what cousin Mark says. We are going to send the twins to the kindergarten next month." "What's the kindergarten?" "Oh, they teach them to make things out of straw and toothpicks—kind of a play place to keep them off the street." "There's one up on Sacramento Street, not far from Polk Street. I saw the sign.
~ Frank Norris
Everything appears to me to be an artificial construction of the mind. Every mark by someone else, every chance look throws everything in me over on the other side, even what has been forgotten, even what is entirely insignificant. I am more uncertain than I ever was; I feel only the power of life. And I am senselessly empty.
~ Franz Kafka
Every fighter, when they box, wants to leave a mark in their sport, or a legacy, and I managed to do that beyond my wildest dreams.
~ Joe Calzaghe
Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!
~ Pat Riley
I was at a Thai restaurant when 'i hate u, i love u' hit the million-listen mark. It was weird because nothing else I released before had gotten that high at all.
~ Gnash
I'm thankful that my career at Oklahoma was marked with consistent leadership in president David Boren and director of athletics Joe Castiglione.
~ Bob Stoops
The hardest thing to do in movies is be a day-part player. You have to go in, make your mark, and get out. There's a lot of leading actors who are not good for a lot of a movie, and then suddenly they have good moments, and they're like stepping-stones across a particularly feisty stream. They build careers out of that.
~ Brian Cox
Four of my films have been remade in Tamil and Telugu. Although I haven't seen any of these remakes, I do feel happy that I've been a part of good films. It's nice to know that some scripts still leave behind a mark after their theatrical run this way, so I have to admit, it is quite flattering.
~ Nivin Pauly
I'm the one erased. Or I guess I'm not even that, because the thing about being erased is that first you have to leave a mark.
~ Robyn Schneider
the thing about being erased is that first you have to leave a mark.
~ Robyn Schneider
Erased means you disappear. It's more like you've been…forcibly evicted from your old life. You're still leaving your mark, you're just doing it somewhere else.
~ Robyn Schneider
All-American and proud of it. Too rich and soft and flawed to make any spiritual mark on anyone other than my own dog and children . . . on a good day.
~ Roland Merullo
You are more likely to be successful, overall, if you participate joyfully with projects and goals and do not think your life depends on achieving the mark because then you will be better able to connect to people all around you.
~ Rosamund Stone Zander
Suddenly he fell asleep in the candlelight. After a while I got up to look at his face. He slept like everybody else. He looked quite ordinary. There ought to be some mark by which to distinguish good from the bad.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The fascination Fred and George show at Harry's scar corresponds to the need of that other twin, Thomas, to see 'the mark of the nails.
~ Luke Bell
humorous writing, the exclamation mark is the equivalent of canned laughter (F. Scott Fitzgerald – that well-known knockabout gag-man – said it was like laughing at your own jokes)
~ Lynne Truss
The fact that religious faith has left its mark on every aspect of our civilization is not an argument in its favor, nor can any particular faith be exonerated simply because certain of its adherents made foundational contributions to human culture.
~ Sam Harris
La griffe is the pattern of one's walk around the city on a shopping day. Strictly speaking, it means "claw," or the mark made by talons scratching a tree, but in practice it's one's signature, the mark that signifies ownership of a territory.
~ John Baxter
A drawing is a translation. That is to say each mark on the paper is consciously realted, not only to the real or imagined "model", but also to every mark and space already set out on the paper. Thus a drawn or painted image is woven together by the energy (or the lassitude, wen the drawing is weak) of countless judgements [sic]. Every time a figuration is evoked in a drawing, everything about it has been mediated by consciousness, either intuitively or systematically.
~ John Berger
We acknowledge, indeed, that Christ in human nature is called a Son, not like believers by gratuitous adoption merely, but the true, natural, and, therefore, only Son, this being the mark which distinguishes him from all others. Those of us who are regenerated to a new life God honours with the name of sons; the name of true and only-begotten Son he bestows on Christ alone. But how is he an only Son in so great a multitude of brethren, except that he possesses by nature what we acquire by gift?
~ John Calvin
the mark of sound doctrine given by our Saviour himself is its tendency to promote the glory not of men, but of God (John
~ John Calvin
GOOD WILL YOU MARK BELOW ALL ALL RIGHT WITH LOVE AFTERWARDS WHY NOT SAY YES [ ] YES
~ John Crowley
But Genesis adds one very significant extra element in its summary of civilization's Mesopotamian dawn. The mark of Cain becomes the mark of civilization.
~ John Dominic Crossan