“Nostalgia for people, cultures, everything. There's an ability to use these marks to note things that are erased, deleted. Traces are a species of history, of evidence. It's a way for the way the narrator to construct a semblance of self, even though all of this creates a deception, a way to think of one's traces as a real way to define oneself. The trace is fallible, impermanent. It's one of the motives I had in mind throughout the text.” PeopleThinkingWayMindRealSelfUseCultureAbilityEvidenceMarkNotesSpeciesOneselfNostalgiaDeceptionMotiveConstructsNarratorsSemblance Author:Sergio Chejfec
“As an artist, I think it is important for us to mark places in history where we have made progress, to celebrate by expressing that reality.” ThinkingMadeImportantRealityArtistProgressMarkCelebrate Author:Michael Adam Hamilton
“I feel that I'm an essayist and that my best work gets done in that form. I wanted to do a book where the essays could exist on their own terms. A book that was neither a book of essays that were shoehorned into a memoir, nor [one where] the essays had been published elsewhere first, [because] then they would kind of bear the marks of those publications.” FeelsFirstsKindBookDoneWantedFormTermBearsMarkMemoirElsewhereEssaysBest WorkPublicationEssayists Author:Meghan Daum
“I've always liked the classic "young adult" writers like Mark Twain, Jack London, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens. They write so clearly, and they know how to entertain.” KnowsWritingYoungKnow HowAdultsMarkYoung AdultLondonClassicDickens Author:Arthur Bradford
“There's, like, marks next to an actor's name or something, and boy does that go up and down! Somewhere in there, which always causes my mate Miss Ruby Wax great hilarity, I was offered a biopic of Frank Sinatra. Even I knew that was a bad idea! They'll throw anything at you at certain times. So, you know, to thine own self be true.” KnowsDoeIdeasSelfCertainNextActorsNamesCausesBoysMissingMarkBeing TrueMatesFrankUp And DownBad IdeasRubiesHilarity Author:Alan Rickman
“The critique of social inequality, which is very much a part of my story, came about naturally from my recollection of Huck and Tom and the controversy surrounding [Mark] Twain's use of them and from my own passionate interest in civil rights, animal rights, and the right of Earth to survive humankind's reprehensible neglect of its stewardship.” StoriesUseEarthSocialInterestMy OwnAnimalRightsMarkPassionateCivil RightsInequalityNeglectAnimal RightsHumankindTomsControversyStewardshipCritiqueRecollectionSocial Inequality Author:Norman Lock
“Fiction is risky for writers also in that the process of making certain books, of shaping certain narratives, leaves scars and marks on your inner life.” BookCertainProcessFictionMarkNarrativeScarInner Life Author:Chris Abani
“To have mentors and moguls like Russell Simmons and Chuck D pushing me forward and empowering my movement makes me all the more eager to continue pursuing my dream to make my mark on hip hop music and culture.” DreamCultureMovementMarkHip HopHipsEmpoweringHopsPushingMentorChuckMogulsHip Hop Music Author:Lazarus of Bethany
“Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that he will donate $45 billion of his wealth to philanthropy. Two years ago, my husband and I decided to endow $100 million to set up the SOHO China Scholars. This program will give financial aid to Chinese students so they can attend the best universities in the world.” WorldGivingYearsTwoWealthMillionsStudentsHusbandYears AgoProgramDecidedMarkUniversityFinancialChinaAidsBillionsChineseTwo YearsMy HusbandScholarPhilanthropyDonateTwo Years AgoZuckerbergSohoFinancial Aid Author:Zhang Xin
“I've always hated quotation marks: they're ugly on the page and they classify the text for you, putting dialogue in one box and narration in another.” PagesMarkBoxesUglyDialogueHatedQuotationsNarrationQuotation Marks Author:Catherine Brady
“When I decided to stop using quotation marks, it presented technical challenges: you have to conceive of dialogue differently and structure it differently for this to work. So I had a new problem, which makes writing interesting again.” WritingProblemChallengesInterestingDecidedMarkStructureDialogueQuotationsQuotation Marks Author:Catherine Brady
“Seeing babies and little children smile or even just be inquisitive about a bottle cap isnpires me. Watching a great performance, particularly live or in the moment. My favorite actor at the moment is the three-time Tony Award-winning Mark Rylance. Makes me work to be better.” ChildrenLittlesMomentsThreeActorsWinningSeeingBabyPerformancesMarkMy FavoriteAwardsBottlesThree TimesCapsInquisitiveGreat PerformanceAward Winning Author:Graham Shiels
“I think we as believers can be secure in our relationship with Christ. I'm not saying that sin isn't sin. I'm not saying that people should live in unrepentant sin. I'm not saying that that's a mark of a mature believer at all. Certainly if someone looks at my life, they will see that I have surrendered my heart, my life to Jesus Christ. I'll be very glad to tell them what my faults and my weaknesses are and the areas that I pray about in my life every day.” PeopleIfsThinkingShouldLooksHeartJesusChristSinPrayingMy HeartWeaknessJesus ChristAreasMarkFaultsBelieverGladSecureMatureOur RelationshipI Pray Author:Alan Chambers
“I was just so honored to play the role of Cinderella and to just be the first African-American princess, that's just historic for me, that's such a mark in my life and my career and then the bonus of just working with my favorite person in the whole world, Whitney [Houston], like her voice just did something to my spirit.” WorldFirstsPersonsPlayWholeSpiritVoiceCareersRolesMarkMy FavoriteWhole WorldAfrican AmericanPrincessHonoredHistoricLike HerBonusHoustonWhitneyFavorite Person Author:Brandy Norwood
“I'm never very good with marks. They're always like, 'You're not on your mark'. I was like, 'Oh, it's that thing you put on the ground? Yeah, I don't pay attention to it.'” PayAttentionLike YouMarkYeahVery GoodPay Attention Author:Joel Kinnaman
“So I'm here, and not being one for missed opportunities, I made a list of the casting directors in New York and mark off the ones I've already met over the years. The few remaining I asked my agent and manager, "See if you can set up some meetings while I'm here."” IfsYearsMadeOpportunityNew YorkMetsDirectorsMarkMeetingsListsAgentsManagersCastingMissed OpportunityCasting Directors Author:William Mapother
“"Bolshoi Babylon" is the work of filmmakers Mark Franchetti and Nicholas Read. Franchetti has been a Moscow-based journalist for 18 years. He won a British Press Award for his coverage of the 2002 Moscow theater siege in which 130 hostages were killed. He's covered Russian politics and the war in Ukraine.” YearsHas BeensWarMarkTheaterPressesBritishJournalistFilmmakerCoveredAwardsUkraineCoverageHostageMoscowSiegeBabylon Author:Elizabeth Blair Lee
“Hayden [Sterling] told me that he was thrilled about the way he moved around the set, that wherever he would go, there would be lighting. He didn't think about his marks because they were set in the only places he could move.” ThinkingWayWould BeMovingMarkMovedLightingSterling Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“Mark and jay Duplass really like to improvise. Even if we beg them to go back to the script, they invariably ask us to go "off the rails," as they like to call it. It's just the way they work. You get a full written script. And it's really, really, really good, so that's why it's kind of peculiar that they always want you to improvise, because if I wrote something that good, I would want everyone to stick to the dialogue that was written.” IfsWayWantKindAsksWrittenMarkSticksScriptsDialoguePeculiarRail Author:Amanda Peet
“They [Mark and Jay Duplass] both have young kids and talk about parenting all the time. So they get it. So they knew that it was a very delicate time and they knew that it was a lot. All it did was make me want to protect them from - and protect production from - any kind of burden.” WantKindKidsYoungProtectMarkProductionsBurdenDelicate Author:Amanda Peet
“I love working that way, and that's sort of the way that Mark, Jay, and I have been working for years, where we start with scripts that are really solid and well-written. But once we get into the scene and we start doing the work, we definitely loosen things up.” WayYearsWellsHas BeensWrittenSceneMarkScriptsWell Written Author:Steve Zissis
“I wasn't able to articulate it until after audience members gave feedback. And then, similarly, when we talked about the bromance being unique, I don't think Mark, Jay, and I really saw how special that aspect of that bromance was until our audience members sort of gave us feedback and let us know, "Hey, we've never seen a bromance like this before on television."” ThinkingKnowsAbleAudienceSawsSpecialTelevisionMembersUniqueAspectMarkHeyFeedbackBeing UniqueBromance Author:Steve Zissis
“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."” FirstsEndsInterestingCrazyLike YouMarkHaleReverends Author:Winona Ryder
“I think that parochialism is built into many kinds of nationalism and educational institutions in which children are brought up to treat their own culture as the unmarked case, and to mark the products of other culture.” ThinkingKindChildrenCultureCasesProductsBuiltTreatsMarkInstitutionsEducationalNationalismOther CulturesEducational InstitutionsParochialism Author:Jay L. Garfield
“For one thing, I think that there are questions which philosophers raise which, although science bears on them, are not typically the central focus of those who work in the sciences. At the same time, I don't have a view of philosophy which marks it out as different in kind from scientific work” ThinkingKindDifferentPhilosophyViewsFocusOne ThingBearsMarkRaisesPhilosopher Author:Hilary Kornblith
“There's a lot of money being generated by nerds right now. Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, the list goes on and on. Nerds make more money than our government. And with money comes power.” GovernmentGoes OnRight NowMarkBillsListsGatesMore MoneyLots Of MoneyNerdZuckerberg Author:Chris Hardwick
“I'd prefer not to act in the film I'm directing. I think, though, as an actor, you do learn how to turn things on and off quickly and kind of compartmentalize. You learn to accommodate the camera and the other actors, to notice where the boom is and where you mark is, and be able to repeat something a few times.” ThinkingKindAbleFilmTurnsActorsMarkCamerasRepeatsAccommodateAnd Off Author:Jodie Foster
“To me, a mark of maturity is realizing that nobody runs the world. Fat cat politicians and secret conspiracies don't control our lives. In reality, the world is much more complex than that.” WorldRealityRunningRealizingSecretOur LivesPoliticianCatMarkComplexesFatsMaturityConspiracy Author:George Meyer
“Well, the movie isn't bad. For a while, I even told myself I liked it, even as it missed one mark after another. But in the end, it's shapeless and blandly apolitical, apart from its watered-down feminism. You see, Fey's Kim Baker - changed from Barker - transforms herself from a neophyte reporter, condescended to by male war correspondents, soldiers and Afghan officials, into a hard-charging political animal who speaks the language fluently and parties as hard as men. That's about as edgy as a sitcom.” MenWellsWarEndsHardPoliticalSpeakLanguageAnimalPartyFeminismChangedMarkMalesSoldierOfficialsReportersSitcomKimEdgyBakersChargingAfghanFeyApoliticalMissed OnesPolitical Animals Author:David Edelstein
“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.” YearsBigsWould BeDealsFiveNew YorkMarkBlessedFive YearsHonored Author:Tituss Burgess
“I realize how much [Mark] Twain fabricated things. I like it very much, but it's only half true. And it shows what he was trying to do, which was just entertain. Which he does very successfully, though the humor is almost dated now.” TryingDoeShowsRealizingHalfMark Author:John Gimlette
“I didn't want to put myself, or anyone else, asleep with another quintessential Mark Kozelek album.” WantMarkAlbumsQuintessential Author:Mark Kozelek
“In a museum in El Paso, Texas, there's a map that shows all the places the border between the U.S. and Mexico has been (because it shifted) - I find it very clarifying (not confusing) to be reminded that everything we feel like we've really pinned down is transient, arbitrary, and marks the site of a painful if not violent negotiation, one that may not have ended.” IfsFeelsMayHas BeensShowsMarkPainfulViolentBordersMapsMuseumsTexasMexicoSiteNegotiationConfusingArbitraryTransientClarifyingEl Paso Author:Laura Mullen
“I love Hap and Leonard and plan to write more about them, but not exclusively about them. I have always worked in film, or since the eighties, but my screenplays - though I got paid and did screenplays for Ridley Scott and John Irvin and Mark Romanek - seldom got made.” WritingMadeFilmPlansMarkPaidEightyScreenplays Author:Joe R. Lansdale
“Yes, believe me I am black and blue. Plus I just finished a Seth MacFarlane movie called Ted and I can't believe the cast I got to work with there [Mila Kunis, Mark Wahlberg]. I feel like I am winning some kind of contest to trick people into working with me.” PeopleFeelsBelieveKindI CanWinningBlackMarkBlueCastsFinishedTricksPlusBelieve In MeContests Author:Joel McHale
“For years I've wanted to work with this guy, so to actually write at the top of my scripts "Empress, Script by Mark Millar, Art by Stuart Immonen" is an absolute pleasure.” WritingYearsArtWantedGuyPleasureMarkAbsolutesScriptsThis GuyEmpresses Author:Mark Millar
“We have other opposite problems with circadian rhythms that can happen when you - a lot of times with older adults. They start to go to bed at 6:00, 7:00 at night and they wake up at 2:00 in the morning. And they're rhythms actually shift earlier, but sometime it can just kind of miss the mark and shift too much earlier and that's when we need to treat it with bright light.” NeedsKindProblemLightHappensNightMorningToo MuchMissingBedAdultsOppositesTreatsMarkWake UpRhythmBright LightsCircadian RhythmOlder Adults Author:Shelby Harris
“You put some Vaseline under your eyes at night and under your chin, and you put a little bit on your chest and you'll avoid stretch marks and I'll get you some Vaseline, you can change your oil and fry chicken with it, too, but you best make sure you have something.” LittlesEyeNightBitsLittle BitMarkOilChickensChestsChinsStretch MarksVaseline Author:Tyler Perry
“I know the Gospel according to Mark better than I know any sura in the Quran.” KnowsMarkQuran Author:Aasif Mandvi
“There is nothing that does not have something perfect in it; and it is the happiness of good taste to be able to find this perfection in all things. But there is a natural malignity that often discovers a vice in the midst of several virtues, in order to reveal and proclaim the discovery to all the world - a quality that is more the mark of a naturally evil temperament than a superior sense of discrimination. And it is truly an evil lot, to pass one's life always feeding off the imperfections of others.” WorldLifeDoeAbleOrderEvilNaturalPerfectQualityVirtueTasteDiscoveryAll ThingsPerfectionMarkVicesDiscriminationSuperiorsMidstImperfectionFeedingTemperamentGood Taste Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable
“It has been stated that a characteristic mark of a combination is surprise; surprise for the defender, not for the assailant, since otherwise the combination will probably be unsound.” Has BeensMarkSurpriseChessCombinationCharacteristicsDefenders Author:Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
“If I'm reading something and a word pops up, or I just catch it, I try to mark it off and then, later, write it down on a piece of paper and add it to my list.” IfsWritingTryingReadingPiecesPaperMarkAddPopsLists Author:Robert Barry
“Citizenship means every four years you put a mark somewhere and you go home and let other guys run the world. It's a very destructive ideology.” WorldYearsMeanHomeRunningGuyFourMarkIdeologyDestructiveFour YearsCitizenshipOther Guys Author:Noam Chomsky
“By selling directly to customers, real women, the brand is able to avoid significant retail mark-ups that typically exist in high end fashion.” RealEndsAbleFashionMarkCustomersSignificantSellingBrandsRetailReal Women Author:Sarah Lafleur
“I've known Mark Hunt for a long time, and I've known Brock [Lesnar] for a while. I think that it's a very interesting match-up. I think it's good on the UFC for making that match-up.” ThinkingLongInterestingKnownLong TimeMarkHuntsVery InterestingUfc Author:Bill Goldberg
“You get hit by one of those right hands or an uppercut or a left hook by Mark Hunt, then you know that **** is on and that cage is locked, and there's nowhere to go.” KnowsHandsLeftMarkLockedCagesHookHuntsNowhere To Go Author:Bill Goldberg
“That's always attractive to me, to work with music whose form is a big question mark. Even many of my favorite bands growing up, when I was just a kid learning to play drums and guitar and everything, were bands like Pink Floyd, where the arrangement, the number of bars in each section is unconventional and often lopsided, and there will be small little instrumental interludes and that sort of thing. So those odd forms, as well as dark content, are the things that I think are continuous through all the type of projects that I've been attracted to.” ThinkingWellsLittlesPlayBigsKidsFormDarkNumbersGrowing UpGrowingTypeBandProjectsMarkGuitarMy FavoriteBarsOddAttractiveArrangementsSectionsBig QuestionsUnconventionalQuestion MarkFavorite Bands Author:Charlie Clouser
“We don't actually have rich and poor together instead we have a family. What does it mean? If you have resources, you hold them with open hands. The mark of the early church was that they began sharing and it said there were no needy persons among them. They ended poverty as they created this new loving community.” IfsMeanPersonsDoeSaidHandsTogetherCommunityChurchPoorPovertyRichResourcesMarkRich And PoorNeedy Author:Shane Claiborne
“My mother's brother was killed while clearing mines in 1945. Those are things that mark your childhood and they help explain why we are so devoted to European unity.” HelpingMotherChildhoodMinesBrotherMarkUnityYour ChildrenDevotedClearing Author:Martin Schulz
“My motto in life is 'aim true'. It came from my love of Artemis, the goddess of the hunt. She inspired me to sport a gold arrow around my neck because it reminded me of her strength and that I can always hit my mark when I set intention, follow what makes my heart beat, and aim true. The arrow was a reminder that I can cut through any obstacles, that I have power, beauty, and the ability to choose love over fear every moment of my life.” HeartI CanMomentsLife IsSportsAbilityCuttingMy HeartBeatsGoldMarkAimIntentionInspiredObstaclesNecksGoddessMottoHuntsRemindersArrowsArtemisHeart BeatMy MottoAbility To Choose Author:Kathryn Budig