The mark of the truly civilized is their (truly baffling to the likes of you and me) patience with what truly baffles.
It is a mark of insincerity of purpose to spend one's time in looking for the sacred Emperor in the low-class tea-shops.
Anyone that has character leaves a mark on another. Would you like to leave the world without making a ripple?
'River of Light,' to a dense but powerful score commissioned from Charles Wuorinen and with ravishing lighting by Mark Stanley, has depth and resonance.
If we don't value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building?
Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better
The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.
The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.
Every year we are greeted by a host of new apps that will 'change the way we think' about ordering takeout, 'fundamentally transform' our shoe purchases, or 'revolutionize' the way we edit photos.
Japan is the only country in the world to have suffered the ravages of atomic bombing. That experience left an indelible mark on the hearts of our people, making them passionately determined to renounce all wars.
The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.
When we find a fossil, we mark it. Today, we've got great technology: we have GPS. We mark it with a GPS fix, and we also take a digital photograph of the specimen, so we could essentially put it back on the surface, exactly where we found it.
Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands.
After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.
I love you Mark..." Courtney, PoR. I love you too Courtney..." Mark, PoR.
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.
Writers - all writers, even screenwriters - like to make their mark. I don't think many screenwriters can write. They pass as writers.
Far from marking the end of nationalism, the IPL is the ultimate triumph of that principle: a global tournament in which the same nation always wins.
