Quotes of: Mark-twain Keyword

What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.

Harry Crews

They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

Herman Melville

At work, you're replaceable... but as a parent, you're irreplaceable.

Maria Shriver

Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!

Zora Neale Hurston

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

The full moon symbol on my calendar no longer seemed to be a period marking the end of something, but just another way of counting time.

Dead as a Doornail

The pile of stones thus marks both an act of deliberate remembrance, and an act of deliberate forgetting. They're fond of paradox in that region.

The Blind Assassin

Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end.

1Q84

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

Anthills of the Savannah

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.

In the Harbor

There was so much to learn and it was all fun. But the best part was getting a laugh from an audience. That was like drowning in candy.

Harold: The Boy Who Became Mark Twain

I didn't like anyone except me having their hands all over him. There had been possession in Wolf's touch, and Adam belonged to me.

River Marked

Mercy is not a proper Indian name."..........."Rash Coyote Who Runs With Wolf. We could shorten it to Dinner Woman.

River Marked

He let her do it, then looked around for his fingers. There they were, curled like a bloody quotation mark on the lead. He laughed.

The Subtle Knife

Finally the homeless eel marked its territory, I suppose, and the Doctor lay heavily upon me, moist with sweat.

Memoirs of a Geisha

Oh, you have to charge 'em, Jubal. The marks won't pay attention if it's free.

Stranger in a Strange Land

To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know.

The Poisonwood Bible

... human nature is much the same everywhere..." - Ms. Marple, The Thumb Mark of St. Peter, Pg. 69

The Thirteen Problems

Who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it?

The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

Experience is an author’s most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.

The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain