Mark Quotes

Professor Eric Zolt of UCLA, said to me, "The VAT is such a good idea, mark my words, within five years, the U.S. will have a VAT." Then he said, "Of course, I've been saying that for 20 years."

I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.

Everyone makes mistakes. How a person deals with their mistakes is a mark of their character.

Make a mark; don't be part of the living dead.

One of the joys of writing music is making your own mark. Study other stuff, immerse yourself in music and then tell your own truth.

An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.

He who sports compliments, unless he takes good aim, may miss his mark, and be wounded by the recoil of his own weapon.

He who seldom thinks of heaven is not likely to get thither; as the only way to hit the mark is to keep the eye fixed upon it.

Lying's a certain mark of cowardice.

I never dreamed I would receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, mostly because my style is so typically Austrian.

I've been in New York for going on five years now, and I always thought I would make a mark and do something but I never thought it would be this big of a deal. I'm so blessed and I'm truly honored.

It's hard for it to make a mark in this city because London has so much culture to offer.

Am I the only person in the world who is shocked and amazed at the ongoing flattery of uebergeek Mark Zuckerberg?

Screw-ups are the mark of excellence.

Think about the market, think about the design, and think about who is going to design for that market. Hit the mark.

I dont think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I need it to fulfill.

I fell from the sky. I'm a parachutist, and I missed my mark.

Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made.

Mark Twain is as big as America. He really is.

Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.

Every tattoo I got with them is a mark of their friendship, and almost every time I have laughed in this dark place was because of them. I don’t want to lose them. But I feel like I have already.

My mom's gonna be the biggest star - mark my words right now!

I did want to mark the fact that it was the first African-American to win the Lead Actress category.I thought it was so progressive.

No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low.

In one way, I'm sympathetic to the institutional reluctance to face the music. I'd give a lot to mark my weight to 'model' rather than to 'market.'

In luck or out the toil has left its mark: That old perplexity an empty purse, Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse.

Tis the glory of a man to vail to truth; as it is the mark of a good nature to be easily entreated.

God mark thee to His grace! Thou was the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed. And might I live to see thee married once, I have my wish.

As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark...so many a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose.

Opinions scattered indiscriminately about leave the mark of egotism.

Reverend Hale is so interesting because at first he's like, "Oh, she's got the mark." Then by the end he's like, "You're all crazy."

Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.

There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.

Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark.

The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.

Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.

You can't pray a lie--I found that out.

Loose and forbear!

It was a dreadful thing to see. Humans beings can be awful cruel to one another.

Hot from hell. Caesar's spirit raging in revenge. Cry, havoc! And let slip the dogs of war.

It don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway.

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Mark it. No challenges, no success!

Passion never fails....

Experience is an author’s most valuable asset

Your reputation has no duplicate. You are one till the end of time. Once it is damaged, a fresh personality cannot spring from the old one.

There’s no need to sharpen your pencils any more. Even the dull ones can make a mark.

Sometimes you gotta listen your brain to save your heart.

There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love.