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Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con. -- Holly Black
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I don't think I've ever been accused of being faddish. I'm more Marks & Spencer than Ted Baker. -- David Miliband
Easy, Marks,' he whispered. 'One of us has to have some self-control, and it really should be you. -- Lisa Kleypas
For me the road became a zone, in places like Saint Marks poetry Project where I worked for 12 years. -- Anne Waldman
For God's sake, Marks, do you think anyone really wants a glance at those dried-up matchsticks you call legs? -- Lisa Kleypas
We have many Lisas, Marks, Dennys, Johnnys, and other characters from 'The Room' in America and in the entire world. -- Tommy Wiseau
I love you, Marks. My heart is completely and utterly yours. And unfortunately for you, the rest of me comes with it. -- Lisa Kleypas
Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country. -- Juan Goytisolo
Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended. -- T. S. Eliot
I, cruel to Marks? I'm the one you should worry about. After a conversation with her, I usually walk away with my entrails dragging behind me. -- Lisa Kleypas
Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world. -- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
I want to get totally rid of class distinction. As someone put it one of the papers this morning: Marks and Spencer have triumphed over Karl Marx and Engels. -- Margaret Thatcher
Miss Marks, you see, makes her living by...entertaining young, and not so young, sailors...or any other members of the armed forced, or civilians, who enjoy...being entertained by ladies who...entertain. -- Rick Yancey
Writing songs with Brian and performing them with Al Jardine, Dennis Wilson, Carl Wilson, David Marks, Bruce Johnston and many other brilliant musicians over the years is my legacy, and something of which I am very proud and protective. -- Mike Love
Well, then--our course is chosen--spread the sail-- Heave oft the lead, and mark the soundings well-- Look to the helm, good master--many a shoal Marks this stern coast, and rocks, where sits the Siren Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin. -- Walter Scott
I think country needs to have a sporting culture. I think if sports were taken as curriculum in school and are encouraged in right way like government of Maharashtra and Haryana have done given Marks for Sports and encouraging them with good jobs. -- Gagan Narang
These Gentlemen must be told, that they take too much upon themselves when they pretend to appoint how far and no farther Men shall go in their Searches, and to set bounds to other Mens Industry; as if they knew the Marks that God has placed to Knowledge... -- Christiaan Huygens
Pray, pray, thou who also weepest,-- And the drops will slacken so; Weep, weep--and the watch thou keepest, With a quicker count will go. Think,--the shadow on the dial For the nature most undone, Marks the passing of the trial, Proves the presence of the sun. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. -- Terry Pratchett
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. -- H. L. Mencken
She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face. -- Henny Youngman
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history. -- Isaac Newton
Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper. -- David Hilbert
Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion. -- Manu Bennett
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. -- Elie Wiesel
Labor Day 2013 is special. This year marks the centennial of the U.S. Department of Labor - 100 years of working for America's workers. -- Thomas Perez
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science. -- Albert Einstein
Our brains have been designed to blur the line between self and other. It is an ancient neural circuitry that marks every mammal, from mouse to elephant. -- Frans de Waal
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore. -- Lord Byron
For many, graduation marks the end of formal student life - the end of long spring breaks and of thinking that a 10 A.M. class is far too early. -- Alexa Von Tobel
To one who loves his country in all its parts, it is natural to rejoice in whatever contributes to the prosperity and honor and marks the stability and progress of any portion of its people. -- Jefferson Davis
What you have to understand is that my thing is not glamour. I love stretch marks and C-section scars and all of that. I'm a grown man. You don't gotta put on no makeup with me. -- Tracy Morgan
Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation. -- Richard Holloway
Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being. -- Steven Biko
While you can find zucchini in markets in most places year-round, allowing you to make everything from breakfast dishes like zucchini and onion frittatas to snacks like zucchini-stuffed crab cakes, the onset of fall marks the beginning of hard squash season. -- Marcus Samuelsson
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. -- Jack London
Parents are the biggest culprit. In a bid to make their child score high marks, they are willing to indulge in practices that are unethical, like buying projects. They do not realise that such attempts will not make their child brighter or think over ideas. -- Arvind Gupta
Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning. -- Jim Woodring
I do still get shocked every once in a while when I catch my reflection when I'm walking past a glass building, but it's in my mind about getting older and finding out what I'm going to look like as it unfolds - or as it folds, depending on where the marks and scars land. -- Dave Matthews
If you're a cartoon character or most TV characters, sure, you'll fight, because the punches are juicy-sounding and they don't leave marks. But in real life, if somebody punches you in the eye, it doesn't make any noise and your eye is swollen for, like, six months. It's a nightmare to get punched in the eye. -- Louis C. K.
Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the administers of these empires who began hiring people to keep track of the wheat and sheep and wine that was owed and the taxes that was owed on them by making marks; marks on clay in that time. -- Howard Rheingold
The menu should be part of the entertainment, part of the dining experience. It's kind of like reading the 'Playbill' when you go to the theater. It should be an alluring and interactive document. Does it have burn marks on it from the candle? If you ever get a greasy menu with food stains on it, it's time to run like hell. -- Joe Bastianich
Zits are beauty marks. -- Kurt Cobain
Prejudice marks a mental landmine. -- Gloria Steinem
Quotation marks quotato marks! Bah! -- James Joyce
Avoid overuse of 'quotation "marks."' -- William Safire
Love is impossible without bite marks. -- Nelson Rodrigues
Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers. -- Luc de Clapiers
'Yellow Face' marks my summation of multiculturalism. -- David Henry Hwang
Death aims with fouler spiteAt fairer marks. -- Francis Quarles
Yellow Face marks my summation of multiculturalism. -- David Henry Hwang
Spoil all the walls with sellotape marks. -- Sachin Kundalkar
I've got tooth marks on my heart. -- Mike Melvill
The marks won't listen if it's free. -- Robert A. Heinlein
The home marks a child for life. -- Howard G. Hendricks
The marks humans leave are too often scars. -- John Green
A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements. -- I. F. Stone
Time marks us while we are marking time. -- Theodore Roethke
In the museums, everything is in quotation marks. -- Mason Cooley
The stars are the land-marks of the universe. -- John Herschel
TRUTH may hurt temporarily, but LIES leave marks permanently. -- Shiv Khera
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. -- Elie Wiesel
Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers. -- H. L. Mencken
The one stroke marks the difference between fame and oblivion. -- Samuel Parris
Oily marks appear on walls / Where pleasure moments hung before -- Imogen Heap
Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods. -- Neil Postman
A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks. -- Todd Gitlin
There are still hundreds of question marks to be answered -- Jimmy Armfield
We don't get any marks for effort like in ice-skating. -- Kevin Keegan
Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
She was so fat that her bathtub has stretch marks. -- Rodney Dangerfield
A few question marks are being asked in the Honduran defence -- Alan Green
Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence. -- Terry Goodkind
Reality bites, and I've got the teeth marks to prove it. -- Robert M. Hensel
Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks. -- Paul Eldridge
Bangs and smoke were more often the marks of ineptitude than expertise. -- J. K. Rowling
While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty. -- Jose Rizal
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Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man. -- Suzy Kassem
SUCCESS DEFINITION-- WHEN OUR SIGNATURE CHANGES TO AUTOGRAPH ,this marks the success. -- Abdul Kalam
Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline. -- John Ruskin
The greatest hits in some weird way marks the end of something. -- Sheryl Crow
I didn't want to skate for someone else or for certain marks. -- Kristi Yamaguchi
Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel. -- Thomas Hardy
The release of 'Chinese Democracy' marks a historic moment in rock n' roll. -- Irving Azoff
Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore. -- Lord Byron
A crime is a crime irrespective of the birth marks of the criminal. -- Narendra Modi
The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone... -- Arthur Miller
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins. -- Ben Jonson
How do you know they're growing up? Well, the bite marks are higher. -- Phyllis Diller
It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family. -- Stephen King
She moved with such purpose it was as though she walked with exclamation marks. -- Gail Carriger
Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Where am I coming from? Where am I going? A fusillade of question marks. -- Ciaran Carson
In America, your job determines your marks. In Soviet Russia, Marx determine your job! -- Yakov Smirnoff
One of the marks of maturity is the ability to disagree without becoming disagreeable -- Charles R. Swindoll
Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life. -- Jean Giraudoux
A 'fact' merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. -- Bliss Carman
Textbook intelligence is not true intelligence. It only marks a man good at memorization. -- Suzy Kassem
When you're filming something, you have marks and spots you have to be in. -- Dani Levy
One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it. -- Katherine Anne Porter
Love is the passion of Life that marks the journey to our true destination. -- Tom Hackett
When lost in darkness he who lights the way, marks himself as easy prey. -- Mark W. Boyer
I'm a great believer in the direct quote in quotation marks and the hard fact. -- Andrew Marr
every story written is marks upon a page The same marks, repeated, only differently arranged -- Max Barry
Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor. -- H. L. Mencken
That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. -- John Stuart Mill
Wrinkles ? Why all the fuss ? Think of them as lines of distinction; marks of maturity. -- Alex Morritt
The marks on our lives are like music notes on the page--they sing a song. -- Sarah McCoy
August 28th 2012. Remember that date. It marks the day when the world went raving mad. -- George Monbiot
The 21st of December marks the end of the time and the beginning of no-time -- Evo Morales
One of the marks of true greatness is the ability to develop greatness in others. -- J. C. Macaulay

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