“You just have to learn certain technical things, like where the camera is, not to block people's light in your own, to hit your marks, and that you do it kind of piecemeal.” PeopleKindLightCertainMarkCamerasBlock Author:Judd Nelson
“A lot of people disagree with me on this, I believe in mark to market.” PeopleBelieveI BelieveMarkI Believe InDisagreeThis I Believe Author:Warren Buffett
“I am happy for them all: Angela Hartnett, Jason Atherton, Marcus Wareing, Mark Sargeant.” MarkJasonAngela Author:Gordon Ramsay
“It's got to feel, the pulse has to feel like this part of the world, the instrumentation has to be true to that, and so, between him, [composer] Mark Mancina and myself, we really chased that, while serving our story Moana].” WorldFeelsStoriesMarkBeing TrueServingComposerPulseInstrumentation Author:Lin-Manuel Miranda
“[Mark] Lilla is a professor at Columbia University in New York, and he has waded into the debate about what Democrats and liberals should do now. Some Democrats answer nothing.” ShouldAnswersNew YorkMarkDemocratUniversityDebateProfessorsColumbiaColumbia University Author:Steve Inskeep
“[Mark] Lilla sees a deeper problem, and he wrote an article in The New York Times denouncing identity liberalism.He says liberals have appealed to African-Americans or women or the LGBT community but failed to craft a strong, broad national message. He's not the only person saying this. Long before the votes were cast, Bernie Sanders argued the Democrats lost the white working class by not speaking broadly to the country.” PersonsLongCountryProblemLostStrongCommunityWhiteClassNew YorkIdentityMessagesVoteMarkDemocratCastsDeeperCraftsAfrican AmericanLiberalismLgbtBroadsArticlesWorking ClassNew York TimesLgbt Community Author:Steve Inskeep
“I'm just imagining some of [Mark Lilla] fellow liberals being rather angry at you saying such a thing [that Democrats and liberals, more generally, lost a lot of political capital ].” PoliticalLostMarkFellowsAngryDemocrat Author:Steve Inskeep
“We goofed around a lot and acted silly. It was great working with Mark Wahlberg too. Some off scenes I had with him I was terrified to do, but he was great.” SceneMarkSillyTerrifiedGreat Work Author:Laura Vandervoort
“I saw Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, which I thought was a masterpiece. Not that long ago, I listened to Blackstar by David Bowie and thought that was a masterpiece. Those are two incredibly talented people who've left their mark with us.” PeopleLongTwoLeftSawsMarkLong AgoMasterpieceBowieSondheimSweeneySweeney Todd Author:Kate Bush
“All of us in a bipartisan manner went out of our way to explain to the voters how our election systems are secure, the fact that voting systems are not connected to the Internet - not the machines that we use to mark ballots, not the machines that we use to count ballots, the fact that our election counting procedures are very transparent.” WayFactsUseInternetMachinesMarkElectionConnectedSecureVotingVotersTransparentCountingProceduresBallotsBipartisan Author:Audie Cornish
“I could easily go through all my books and mark the ones that were original, mark the ones that were adapted or pre-published that I've found. I'm guessing though that probably 75% of them are personal events. I just love a personal story.” BookStoriesFoundEventsMarkOriginalsAdaptedGuessingPersonal Stories Author:Max Lucado
“In November 1963, [Malcolm X] gives his famous message to the grassroots address in Detroit, which really kind of marks off the real turning point in his own development.” GivingKindRealDevelopmentMessagesMarkAddressesNovemberDetroitTurning PointsGrassroots Author:Manning Marable
“There's such a grand fraternity of actors who've played the Joker, not the least of whom is Mark Hamill, who voiced it for so long and was so great. I did it one time and... I've gotten some feedback on it from people who've seen it and really enjoyed it, but I don't know.” PeopleKnowsLongActorsMarkEnjoyedOne TimeFeedbackFraternity Author:Brent Spiner
“[Donald Trump] not going to be sitting in studio acting as the executive producer of The Apprentice. I think that's Mark Burnett and that's the way it's going to be.” ThinkingWayActingTrumpSittingMarkStudiosProducersExecutivesApprentice Author:Reince Priebus
“[Gilda Radner] died in '89, and I got non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2000. I've just passed the five-year mark and I'm now what you call - well, it's called complete remission, but I'm cured. I'm fine.” YearsWellsFiveFineMarkDiedFive YearsRemission Author:Gene Wilder
“The Biblical text does not have punctuation marks like periods and question marks. Where we end sentences is a matter of interpretation.” DoeEndsMatterPeriodsMarkSentencesInterpretationBiblicalPunctuationQuestion MarkPunctuation Marks Author:Elie Wiesel
“[Sacrifice of Isaac] is a major theme of the so-called Elohist [one authorial strand in the Pentateuch]. It is marked by all of his linguistic characteristics, and so on. We cannot determine what is historical and what isn't. As literary critics, we would understand the importance of this for understanding life, destiny. But the historical question must be left with a question mark.” LeftUnderstandingDestinySacrificeMajorsImportanceMarkHistoricalCriticsDetermineCharacteristicsThemeStrandsIsaacQuestion MarkUnderstanding LifeLife Destiny Author:Frank Moore Cross
“Christmas begins what Easter celebrates. The child in the cradle became the king on the cross. And because he did, there are no marks on my record. Just grace. His offer has no fine print. He didn't tell me, "Clean up before you come in." He offered, "Come in, and I'll clean you up." It's not my grip on him that matters but his grip on me. And his grip is sure. So is his presence in my life.” ChildrenMatterRecordsGraceFineKingsOffersCrossesMarkCleanCelebratePrintEasterCradleFine Print Author:Max Lucado
“I don't like the way question marks look. They're really ugly. They look like blots. At some other point in my life, I might have disliked them because I never knew how to properly apply them. Also commas, and whether they were outside the quote or inside the quote - that all seemed like an unnecessary pain in the ass.” WayLooksMightPainMarkUglyAssUnnecessaryQuestion Mark Author:John Edgar Wideman
“America is an enormous country with enormous resources. The basic American spirit creates the Wright Brothers and Henry Ford and Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg. Once we start rolling, we're pretty formidable. And the incompetence of the government is so massive that even a moderately good executive could regain much ground pretty rapidly. Donald Trump is a very good executive.” CountryGovernmentAmericaSpiritBrotherTrumpResourcesMarkBillsVery GoodEnormousExecutivesMassiveGatesRollingIncompetenceFormidableAmerican SpiritZuckerbergWright Brothers Author:Newt Gingrich
“It's called "Pickman's Mephitic Models," based on the story [Pickman's Model by H. P. Lovecraft].Certain things about it many people don't realize. Pickman was a real painter who lived between 1888 and 1926. Now, there's a question mark [gesturing toward the writing in the margins of the painting], because Lovecraft claims that he turned into a ghoul. God knows how old he is now.” PeopleKnowsWritingRealStoriesCertainRealizingKnow HowPaintingModelsClaimsMarkPainterGod KnowsMarginsGhoulsQuestion MarkLovecraft Author:Paul Laffoley
“The classic example I've used - I'm sure you've heard me say it before - was Mark Begich in Alaska who was here for a full six years and never had a roll call vote on an amendment on the floor of the Senate, which Dan Sullivan tells me he used on virtually a daily basis. So the notion that protecting all of your members from votes is a good idea politically, I think, has been pretty much disproved by the recent [Barack Obama] election.” ThinkingYearsHas BeensIdeasUsedHeardExampleMembersSixVoteBasesMarkElectionNotionBarackClassicGood IdeasSenateAmendmentsAlaska Author:Mitch McConnell
“The thing I love about Dickens is the omniscient, omnipotent narrator, and the great confidence of the narrator, which marks 19th-century novelists in general and Dickens in particular.” CenturyParticularMarkNovelists19th CenturyThings I LoveDickensOmnipotentNarratorsOmniscientGreat Confidence Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“Inspiration can show up almost any time, though I have yet to see anyone scratching out melodic ideas on a restaurant napkin as legend would have us believe. I think inspiration comes from concentration, and early on I learned about Mark Twain's habit of leaving for his study after breakfast and not reappearing until the end of the day, ready to read to his family what he had just written. That set a good example for me, although I didn't copy his habit of taking twelve cigars along.” ThinkingBelieveIdeasEndsShowsInspirationStudyWrittenExampleReadyHabitMarkLeavingRestaurantsThe End Of The DayConcentrationCopiesBreakfastLegendsTwelveCigarGood ExamplesNapkins Author:William P. Perry
“And at the time, for one of the few times in my life I didn't have a band, I just had myself and the guitar, so I was going to have to do something with just my voice, just the guitar and just my songs that was going to move someone enough to give me a shot. So I wrote songs that were very lyrically alive and lyrically dense. And they were unique, but it really came out of the motivation to - or I understood it was - I was going to have to make my mark that way.” WayGivingEnoughMovingMotivationSongVoiceAliveBandUniqueUnderstoodShotsGive MeMarkGuitarDense Author:Bruce Springsteen
“I was in New York 9/11. Mark's [Wahlberg] from Boston, flew there immediately after. I was in Nice Bastille Day when the truck drove through and killed all these people. It's the new reality, unfortunately. The idea of trying to explore how we process this kind of event, how we survive emotionally, what we tell our kids: That was the movie [Patriots Day] we wanted to make.” PeopleTryingKindIdeasRealityKidsWantedProcessNiceEventsNew YorkMarkPatriotTruckBostonFlewPatriot DayBastille Author:Peter Berg
“We're both [with Mark Wahlberg] capable of being sarcastic, vicious, violent lunatics, but we hold each other in check, appeal to the best aspects of each other.” CapableAspectMarkViolentChecksAppealsSarcasticViciousBeing Sarcastic Author:Peter Berg
“We built [socialistic society] for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks.” RealLibertyBuiltMarkSakeQuotationsPersonal LibertyQuotation Marks Book:1934-1940 Source: 1934-1940
“There's a huge amount of work on Adam and Eve, from the ancient world to the present. Saint Augustine was obsessed with them.I don't know if it helps my research, but I get a big kick out of Mark Twain, who wrote "The Diaries of Adam and Eve." He wrote very funny stuff on them. I sometimes read things that are loosely related to what I'm thinking and writing about.” IfsThinkingKnowsWorldWritingSometimesHelpingBigsStuffHugeAmountResearchMarkAncientSaintObsessedRelatedKicksAdamDiariesAdam And EveAugustineAncient WorldFunny Stuff Author:Stephen Greenblatt
“If the Americans do move the embassy to Jerusalem, and eventually the rest of the world follows suit, it will mark the end of Palestinian hopes for a two-state solution.” IfsWorldTwoEndsStatesMovingSolutionsMarkSuitsPalestinianJerusalemEmbassy Author:Lawrence Davidson
“Every book leaves its mark on you. It might leave you hungry for that kind of book or you may be satiated, and you're eager to read something else. It might send you in a completely different direction. I love that about reading.” KindMayBookDifferentMightReadingMarkHungryDifferent Directions Author:Laila Lalami
“I only had one year of eligibility and I wasn't getting many offers from other schools. I jumped on it to make a mark. That was the most wise decision I made coming out of Oklahoma junior college.” YearsMadeSchoolDecisionWiseCollegeOffersMarkComing OutJuniorsOklahomaWise DecisionEligibilityMost Wise Author:John Starks
“I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.” PayWallMarkBordersSouthernMexicoGreat Wall Author:Donald Trump
“Chicago is seen as everything that Trump detests, which I think kind of reflects really well on the city I think, because it's a mark of what a classy, cool, sort of place it is. You can't tame everyone in America, as much as these people would like to, into some kind of small-town, Southern community.” PeopleThinkingWellsKindAmericaCommunityCitiesTrumpMarkTownsChicagoSouthernSmall Town Author:Irvine Welsh
“Our souls - our invisible selves - bear the mark of God Himself. We're like God in that we bear His image.” SoulSelfBearsMarkInvisible Author:Greg Koukl
“I would be quite content if I myself could be rated fifty-fifty in merits and demerits. But one thing I can say for myself: I have had a clear conscience all my life. Please mark my words: I have made quite a few mistakes, and I have my own share of responsibility for some of the mistakes made by Comrade Mao Zedong. But it can be said that I made my mistake with good intentions. There is nobody who doesn't make mistakes.” IfsMadeSaidI CanWould BeMy OwnMistakeResponsibilityClearOne ThingSharePleaseConscienceMarkIntentionMeritFiftyMaking MistakesGood IntentionsComradeMy MistakesMaoClear Conscience Author:Deng Xiaoping
“All of great leaders evidence four basic qualities that are central to their ability to lead: adaptive capacity, the ability to engage others through shared meaning, a distinctive voice, and unshakeable integrity. These four qualities mark all exemplary leaders, whatever their age, gender, ethnicity, or race.” AgeVoiceAbilityRaceQualityLeaderFourIntegrityEvidenceCapacityMarkGenderGreat LeaderDistinctiveEthnicityExemplaryAdaptive Author:Warren G. Bennis
“One's ability to communicate a story visually, honestly, is a bridge of communication that transcends language because the true mark of a good film is that you can turn the sound off and watch it and have some understanding of what you're seeing.” StoriesFilmTurnsLanguageUnderstandingSoundAbilityWatchesSeeingCommunicationMarkCommunicateHonestlyBridgesGood FilmsAbility To Communicate Author:Cheo Hodari Coker
“Virginia Woolf thought a lot about her own sex when she wrote. In the best sense of the word, her writing is very feminine, and by that I mean that women are supposed to be very sensitive to all the sensations of nature, much more so than men, much more contemplative. It's this quality that marks her best works.” MenWritingMeanSexQualityMarkSupposed To BeSensitiveFeminineSensationsBest WorkVirginiaContemplativeWoolf Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“What sort of love is this love that we have for countries? What sort of country is it that will ever live up to our dreams? What sort of dreams were these that have been broken? Isn't the greatness of great nations directly proportionate to their ability to be ruthless, genocidal? Doesn't the height of a country's 'success' usually also mark the depths of its moral failure?” Has BeensCountryDreamNationsAbilityLove IsMoralGreatnessBrokenMarkDepthHeightOur DreamsRuthlessGreat NationsMoral Failure Author:Arundhati Roy
“I've discovered that I can't trust the ratings board at all, because they have - to my mind - a perverted point of view about what's appropriate for children. They think that if you see any part of a male or female anatomy, we have to protect children from it, which is not true, and they think almost any level of violence is okay for children, which is absolutely not true... They're really off the mark.” IfsThinkingMindChildrenI CanLevelsViewsViolenceProtectFemaleOkayMarkMalesPoint Of ViewBoardsAppropriateRatingAnatomyProtecting Children Author:William H. Macy
“I am indebted to [my grandmothers] always for cradling me in the heart of Christ and encouraging my passion to press towards the mark of the high calling on my life, wherever that takes me.” HeartPassionChristCallingMarkPressesGrandmotherTake MeMy GrandmotherMy PassionIndebted Author:Aisha Hinds
“I know people are really interested in everything that the celebrities are doing, even if you don't consider yourself a "celebrity." What always would drive me crazy is - I took ethics classes in college - and it always amazes me how there would blatantly be something that I did not say in quotation marks. If you're putting quotation marks around it, it better be exactly what that person said.” PeopleIfsKnowsPersonsSaidClassCrazyCollegeEthicsMarkQuotationsDrive Me CrazyQuotation Marks Author:Carrie Underwood
“You have to comply, you have to obey - or you'd better resign and leave. But that is also the mark of a great leader - somebody who, in the presence of inner conflict, will do the right thing.” LeaderConflictMarkRight ThingGreat LeaderInner Conflict Author:Colin Powell
“We have this highly irrational system of incentivizing innovation for clean and green technologies, where we allow the innovator to have a temporary monopoly and then mark up the price of the product or sell licenses at high prices to those who want to use the kind of product that the innovator has invented. This system is collectively irrational because many people, to avoid the inflated prices of still-patented cleaner and greener technologies, opt for some older technology that is much more polluting.” PeopleWantKindStillsUseTechnologyProductsMarkInnovationGreenSellsCleanTemporaryIrrationalLicenseMonopolyCleanersInnovatorsGreenerHigh PricesLicensesGreen Technology Author:Thomas Pogge
“I don't agree with everything Facebook does or Mark Zuckerberg's stance on identity, but he's a nice and extremely smart guy who believes in what he's doing.” BelieveDoeGuyNiceIdentitySmartMarkAgreeStanceZuckerbergSmart Guy Author:Christopher Poole
“Many of the people I'm gratified to see have gotten acclaim like Mark Turner or Bill Charlap. Ed Simon or Maria Schneider or Jim McNeely or Scott Robinson. Ken Peplowski, who is a friend and somebody I admire a lot.” PeopleMarkBillsAdmireTurnerAcclaim Author:Jon Gordon
“I've been thankful to work with some wonderful people and sort of combine forces with some folks that... like in recent years, working with Alan Ferber or his brother Mark who's a wonderful drummer.” PeopleYearsForceWonderfulBrotherMarkFolksDrummer Author:Jon Gordon
“Favorite books and authors while growing up - I'd need a book to list them all. For the sake of brevity: Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, Victor Hugo, world's mythology, the Arthurian legends. And the unabridged dictionary. And they're still my favorites. They get better each time I read them.” WorldNeedsStillsBookGrowing UpGrowingMarkSakeMy FavoriteListsMythologyGet BetterLegendsDictionaryBrevityDickensFavorite BookArthurian Legend Author:Lloyd Alexander
“We want to represent all the French people with ideas that are neither left nor right: patriotism, defense of the identity and sovereignty of the people. If a person like me is described as being extreme-left and extreme-right at the same time, then that isn't far off the mark.” PeopleIfsWantPersonsIdeasLeftIdentityMarkExtremesDefenseLike MeSovereignty Author:Marine Le Pen