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Quotes About Markers

A man is best known, understood, measured, even valued, not by his settled conclusions, but by the dilemmas he keeps. They are the best markers of fleeting truth on the perverse road of time.
~ George Zebrowski
I've come to believe errors, especially written errors, are often the only markers left by a solitary life: to sacrifice them is to lose the angles of personality, the riddle of a soul. In this case a very old soul. A very old riddle.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
He [Zampano] probably would of insisted on corrections and edits, he was his own harshest critic, but I've come to believe errors, especially written errors, are often the only markers left by a solitary life: to sacrifice them is to lose the angels of personality, the riddle of a soul. In this case a very old soul. A very old riddle.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
Life's markers are never just for one moment in time. Every event holds a key. Each builds upon the other and becomes an indicator towards a higher purpose.
~ Nikki Rosen, Dancing Softly
Tigerstar's whiskers twitched. "I can't think of anything better. We've put up with ThunderClan long enough. It'll be good to have a new Clan on our border." He eyed Bramblestar mischievously. Bramblestar huffed. "ThunderClan will enjoy a break from ShadowClan as well." "You'll miss our scent markers!" Strikestone called from the gathered cats. Amused purrs rippled through the Clans.
~ Erin Hunter
We walk quickly to the footbridge across the railway line. There's a dog waste bin here, and in the heat the slope up to the stairs stinks of shit and wee. Indigo lists the dogs whose markers she can smell. Not what their owners call them, unless there are really three dogs called George H-19, George H-15, George H-26. "All gun dogs are designated George," says Indigo. "The H stands for Heath and the numbers are allocated sequentially.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
If you're in a motion-capture studio, you have spherical, reflective markers, which are picked up by cameras that emit infrared - it reflects it, and then the cameras pick up the data.
~ Andy Serkis
The goal is to learn more about telomere length and other markers of ageing, how best to measure these markers, how they are related to health and lifestyle, and how people respond to learning their own telomere length results.
~ Elizabeth Blackburn
Yeah I am superstitious. I use certain divot tools or ball markers and will change from time to time depending on how I'm playing.
~ Justin Thomas
It is always worth itemizing happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers of happiness while you can.
~ Sebastian Barry
Immediately the sounds of the street below grew detached, distant, the meaningless echoes of urban voices whose urgent notes reached but held no sway over the park-like necropolis within. From where I stood, the cemetery seemed to have no end. It stretched out before me, a city in its own right, its myriad markers windowless tenements in miniature, laid out in still symmetry, long boulevards of the dead.
~ Barry Eisler
people nearly always left trails. It's human nature
~ Steve Berry
The Democrats need to remind people of where were, in terms of our progress, as markers against where we are, and where we've fallen, and how we've declined under Bush.
~ Sidney Blumenthal
The traditional markers people use for hiring can be wrong - profoundly wrong.
~ Vivienne Ming
The campaign trail can be super ephemeral in that you travel so long in a row that all the days kind of blur together, and it can be hard to lay down markers to remember where you were.
~ Kasie Hunt
The exam markers must have been somewhat bewildered to be told that when the Armada appeared, Francis Drake was playing with his balls.
~ Frederick Forsyth
Amalur's user interface is designed much like a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, liberally sprinkling yellow exclamation points and markers all over your mini-map in order to show you where to quest next.
~ Jason Schreier
Social mobility has always been a slippery term, with nebulous markers of success: how many state school children have to achieve postgraduate degrees, or fill higher professional jobs, before society is deemed to have achieved the requisite degree of mobility to consider prejudice or injustice a thing of the past?
~ Dawn Foster
Emotions are powerful markers of context .
~ Bruce D. Perry
In our culture, I think that there is no markers anymore. Young men don't really have something that says you're a grown up now, until you have a baby.
~ Antoine Fuqua
Stem cells are being used for anti-aging, and the University of Miami is doing a study about that to prove that it is true. They are looking at me, and my markers have shown exactly that I have been actually reversing my aging and getting younger. I am taking perhaps more stem-cell treatment than anybody else in the world.
~ Peter Nygard
When I opened up the bottle of wine, Thebes said whoa, you yanked that cork out of there like you were saving it from drowning. She got out her markers and drew a screaming face on the cork.
~ Miriam Toews
The ability to read DNA allowed scientists to measure this genetic similarity in real people. In 2006, Peter Visscher, a geneticist at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research in Australia, and his colleagues studied 4,401 pairs of siblings, examining several hundred genetic markers in each volunteer. The siblings often had a series of identical genetic markers along a chromosome—segments they inherited from one of their parents.
~ Carl Zimmer
delineator posts nosed out just above the surface of the snow at the level of his pickup windows.
~ C.J. Box