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Marking dynamos for repair $10,000.00-2 hours labor $10.00; knowing where to mark $9,990.00. -- Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Marking the differences between them was really important. It just became second nature. When we were choosing pajamas or something, instantly you'd be able to spot: those are [princess] Margaret, those are [princess] Elizabeth. It became this sort of language, really, of the two sisters. -- Vanessa Kirby
Time marks us while we are marking time. -- Theodore Roethke
I don't let guys do hickeys. That's like a dog marking his territory or something. -- Eliza Dushku
The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school. -- Christopher Fry
Many of the touted advantages of electronic voting can still be achieved with paper ballots if you use a computerized ballot marking scheme. -- Avi Rubin
Some musicians like to decorate their walls with discs saying: '1 million records sold in America.' I prefer to put up discs marking sales in lesser-known countries. -- Jamie Cullum
Everywhere I look, there are ads marking Mother's Day. Mostly they conform to stereotype: flowers, jewelry, perfume. Not a lot of books. Not many computers. Few tools. Little that's useful. -- Margaret Heffernan
When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect. -- Zlatan Ibrahimovic
But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die. -- James Young
We are also working on the restoration of salmon runs, and we are doing a new process of mass marking with these fish so we can tell the wild fish from the hatchery fish. -- Norm Dicks
Like most markets, Da Jing is most alive just after dawn, when the elementary-school children in their uniforms and bright red kerchiefs set off through narrow streets, marking the start of another frenzied day of commerce. -- Evan Osnos
I feel with ELP that I wasn't making the most of my life and I wasn't making the most of my creativity. I was marking time. I don't want to do that. Life is to short. -- Greg Lake
On Jan. 30, millions of Iraqis will cast ballots in the country's first fair and free election in decades, marking continued progress in Iraq's transition toward a country built on the pillars of democracy and freedom for all. -- Jim Gerlach
Bum's Rush' is a piece about timing, and everything that's in the piece needs to be with the piece. If people are missing, or marking, or unable to use their voices, the impulses that prompt the action are lost, and its logic crumbles. -- Twyla Tharp
When I was younger, I avoided exercise or anything strenuous. I didn't even enjoy walking. As I got older, I spent so much time marking books or sitting at a desk writing that there was no room for exercise - not that I would have bothered anyway. -- Maeve Binchy
When the script was written, it was sent to me with asterisks marking where he felt a song would be appropriate. Before the film was shot, the score was written. I made a demo of it, so they lived with the music as they were making the film. -- Alan Price
As a child, during the war, I drew Spitfires and Messerschmitts. With Spot, I found that I had designed a fuselage! His spot is on his side, the roundel marking of an English fighter plane, and the color bar of his tail is the color stripes of a plane's rudder. -- Eric Hill
Instead of a dedicated room, my best trigger is the actual habit of reading over the texts from the day before. Marking. Changing. Fussing. This ritual amounts to a habit of trust. Trust that I can make it better. That if I keep trying, I will come closer to something true. -- Mona Simpson
Sure, the first light snowfall may be a chance to dance giddily, leaving squeaky footprints through the neighborhood, marking the runner's right to the domain. But later drubbings of snow merely complicate running. Snow turns to ice, to slush, to ice again. Tire ruts twist ankles. New snow hides the hazards. -- Don Kardong
Somehow, the words don't have any vitality, any life to them, unless I can feel it marking on a paper. That's how I start. Once I'm off, then I switch to the laptop. I think it would all just be prose if it started on a laptop - not that what I do is poetry. -- Simon Schama
Any good attacker will always beat a defender who's face-marking you. -- Abby Wambach
Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking. -- Ellen Lupton
Mountain, mountain, mountain, marking time. Each nameless, wall beyond wall, wavering redefinition of horizon. -- Denise Levertov
I listen to the tick of an unseen clock marking moments of time long passed... -- James Frey
Despite marking the spot, Generation X has no treasure. How could they, when I dug it up first? -- Jarod Kintz
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It feels like he's marking me. Like he's preparing me for something monumental. That could both change and ruin my life. -- Katy Evans
you cross the field in the snow leaving tracks in perfect whiteness ...disturbing my placid universe...marking the landscape within me ... -- John Geddes
He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points. -- Ayn Rand
The great men of the earth are but the marking-stones on the road of humanity; they are the priests of its religion. -- Giuseppe Mazzini
Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities. -- Pablo Picasso
I would have played Tom Finney in his overcoat - there would have been four men marking him when we were kickin' in. -- Bill Shankly
Before dreaming about the future or marking plans, you need to articulate what you already have going for you - as entrepreneurs do. -- Reid Hoffman
And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of things? -- Owen Barfield
The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions. -- Walt Whitman
Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking it's passage for some reason. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
When you print out your manuscript and read it, marking up with a pen, it sometimes feels like a criminal returning to the scene of a crime. -- Don Roff
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. -- Margaret Atwood
When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. Now the horizon is empty: the view has changed. -- Milan Kundera
Yes, I say. Three of these flying birds. I touch my collarbone, marking the path of their flight-toward my heart. One for each member of the family I left behind. -- Veronica Roth
Lissa's guardians- she had a fleet now- walked with her. I was among them, wearing my finest black and white, including the red collar marking me as a royal guardian. -- Richelle Mead
It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one's stature on the edge of the door. -- Evelyn Waugh
Yes," I say. "Three of these flying birds." I touch my collarbone, marking the path of their flight - toward my heart. One for each member of the family I left behind. -- Veronica Roth
We are marking the anniversary of the Arctic convoys.We really do consider members of the Arctic convoy to be heroes. This is true. I am not saying this as a fashion of speech. -- Vladimir Putin
The lady across the hall tried to rob a department store . . . with a pricing gun. She said, "Give me all of the money in the vault, or I'm marking down everything in the store." -- Steven Wright
The knowledge of death seemed present in both sisters-it was something about the way they carried themselves, something that had broken too son and had not mended, marking them in spite of their lightheartedness. -- Jhumpa Lahiri
Life is an error-making and an error-correctin g process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive. -- Jonas Salk
Punctuation is the art of dividing a written composition into sentences, or parts of sentences, by points or stops, for the purpose of marking the different pauses which the sense, and an accurate pronunciation require. -- Lindley Murray

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