Best mark & use Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The poet's pen is the true divining rod Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling; Bringing to light and use, else hid from all, The many sweet clear sources which we have of good and beauty in our own deep bosoms; And marks the variations of all mind As does the needle.”

Mind Doe Use Feelings Light Clear Poet Sweet Source Mark Pens Variation Bosoms Needles

Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem

“The one affectation I have forced on the publisher... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself, I dont spell 'don't' with an apostrophe. I spell it 'dont'. We all know the word and it seems foolish to put in an extraneous apostrophe. Punctuation marks are devices we use to make the meaning of sentences clear. There is nothing confusing about a word like 'dont' printed without an apostrophe to indicate an omitted letter.”

Knows Writing Use Seems Clear Letters Mark Scripts Sentences Foolish Devices Spells Publishers Confusing Printed Punctuation Punctuation Marks

Author:Andy Rooney

“A rich man's body is like a premium cotton pillow, white and soft and blank. ''Ours'' is different. My father's spine was a knotted rope, the kind that women use in villages to pull water from wells; the clavicle curved around his neck in high relief, like a dog's collar; cuts and nicks and scars, like little whip marks in his flesh, ran down his chest and waist, reaching down below his hip bones into his buttocks. The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.”

“We are a cut-and-paste culture. The aim of the protectionists is to argue that a cut-and-paste culture is criminal. Well, it's only criminal if there's nothing out there that you can freely cut and paste. If we increasingly mark material as available for these non-commercial uses, then people will have the opportunity to see its importance.”

People Ifs Wells Use Culture Opportunity Cutting Materials Importance Mark Aim Available Criminals Arguing

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.”

Mean Use Past Design Objects Future Mark Aim Instruments Past And Present

Book:Thoughts on Religion and Other Curious Subjects

Source: Thoughts on Religion and Other Curious Subjects

“While the US Constitution marks these programs as illegal, my government argues that secret court rulings, which the world is not permitted to see, somehow legitimize an illegal affair. These rulings simply corrupt the most basic notion of justice - that it must be seen to be done. The immoral cannot be made moral through the use of secret law.”

World Made Done Use Government Law Justice Secret Moral Program Constitution Mark Court Notion Affair Arguing Illegal Immoral Ruling Nsa Us Constitution

Author:Edward Snowden

“Exercise your imagination muscle! How many uses can you come up with for a flowerpot? Write down your answers. But don't write them in this book. Grab a separate sheet of paper. I didn't spend two and a half weeks writing a book just so you could mark up the pages with your silly ideas for things you can do with a flowerpot. When it comes down to it, what's wrong with a flowerpot not being a flowerpot? Why is nothing ever good enough for you?”

Writing Two Book Ideas Enough Use Can Do Imagination Answers Half Week Exercise Paper Pages Mark Come Up Silly Muscles Good Enough Sheets Writing A Book

Author:Amy Sedaris

“So much for the right books; the right use of them is another matter. The children must enjoy the book. The ideas it holds must each make that sudden, delightful impact upon their minds, must cause that intellectual stir, which mark the inception of an idea.”

Mind Children Book Ideas Matter Use Causes Enjoy Intellectual Mark Impact Delightful Inception

Book:School Education

Source: School Education

“Its very pulse, if I may use the word, was like no other clock. It did not mark the flight of every moment with a gentle second stroke, as though it would check old Time, and have him stay his pace in pity, but measured it with one sledge-hammer beat, as if its business were to crush the seconds as they came trooping on, and remorselessly to clear a path before the Day of Judgment.”

Ifs May Moments Use Path Clear Judgment Beats Mark Checks Pity Flight Clock Gentle Crush Seconds Pace Strokes Hammers Pulse Spooky Old Time

Book:The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Pieces

Source: The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Pieces

“As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.”

Mind Littles Use Mark Few Words Great Minds Little Minds

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Surely knowledge of the natural world, knowledge of the human condition, knowledge of the nature and dynamics of society, knowledge of the past so that one may use it in experiencing the present and aspiring to the future--all of these, it would seem reasonable to suppose, are essential to an educated man. To these must be added another--knowledge of the products of our artistic heritage that mark the history of our esthetic wonder and delight.”

Source: On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand

“Nothing more strongly marks the insufficiency of luxuries than the ease with which people grow accustomed to them; they are rather known by their want than by their presence. The word 'blasé' has been coined expressly for the use of the upper classes.”

People Want Has Beens Use Grows Known Class Mark Luxury Ease Accustomed Upper Class Insufficiency

Book:The Works of L. E. Landon: In Two Volumes

Source: The Works of L. E. Landon: In Two Volumes

“The desire for riches is more sharpened by their use than by their need. Pleasing all: a mark that can never be aimed at or hit.”

Needs Use Desire Rich Mark Riches

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I use my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process.”

Use Process Mark Fingers Quotations Cooling Quotation Marks

Author:Michael Steele

“The greatness of Mac Rebennack, alias, Dr. John, also known as John Crieux, rests on his command of the musical use of idiomatic expression. Not a technically well-endowed singer, nor a great songwriter, he leaves his mark through the discipline and control he exerts over all that he touches.”

Wells Use Known Greatness Expression Discipline Mark Musical Singers Command Songwriters Drs Macs Aliases

Author:Jon Landau

“I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things you make coagulate and take on just the shape you intend. Totally accurate marks, which are outside representational marks.”

Knows Want Use Knowledge Know How Shapes Despair Mark Paint Accurate Portraits

Author:Francis Bacon

“The fact that slang is apt and forceful makes its use irresistibly tempting. Coarse or profane slang is beside the mark, but "flivver," "taxi," the "movies," "deadly" (meaning dull), "feeling fit," "feeling blue," "grafter," a "fake," "grouch," "hunch" and "right o!" are typical of words that it would make our spoken language stilted to exclude.”

Facts Use Feelings Language Fit Mark Blue Fake Dull Typical Taxi Tempting Profane Coarse Hunches Slang Spoken Language Feeling Blue Grouches

Book:Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home

Source: Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home

“To use words and phrases in an easygoing manner without scrutinizing them too curiously is not in general a mark of ill-breeding. On the contrary, there is something low-bred in being too precise. But sometimes there is no help for it”

Sometimes Helping Use Lows Mark Ill Contrary Phrases Precise Breeding

Author:Socrates

“So far as good writing goes, the use of the exclamation mark is a sign of failure. It is the literary equivalent of a man holding up a card reading LAUGHTER to a studio audience.”

Men Writing Use Reading Audience Laughter Mark Studios Cards Good Writing Exclamation Exclamation Marks

Author:Miles Kington

“Don't let failure deter you; use it as a stepping-stone and an educational experience towards making your mark on the world.”

World Use Stones Mark Educational Stepping Stones

Author:Ben Parr

“I don't want to use quotation marks anymore, I've gone back and forth with them. In Ghosts, I didn't use them, for instance, all the way back in the early eighties.”

Way Want Use Gone Mark Ghost Instance Quotations Eighty Back And Forth Quotation Marks

Author:Paul Auster

“When I use a name or place, I want to leave the reader open to the waterfall of determinacy that it may provoke. And I don't know, but I must mention the name Borges. I try to mention it in every one of my works. It's a mark, a stamp, a sort of homage to Argentinidad. But it's an homage that works through pat phrases, those stock images that populate his work: the night, labyrinths, libraries. That is, I don't want simply to pay homage to Borges, but rather the contrary: to recall his commonplaces.”

Knows Want Trying May Use Night Names Pay Reader Mark Library Contrary Phrases Working It Recalls Provoking Stamps Commonplace Labyrinth Homage Waterfalls Borges

Author:Sergio Chejfec

“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.”

People Thinking Way Mind Real Self Use Culture Ability Evidence Mark Notes Species Oneself Nostalgia Deception Motive Constructs Narrators Semblance

Author:Sergio Chejfec

“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.”

“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.”

Way Facts Use Internet Machines Mark Election Connected Secure Voting Voters Transparent Counting Procedures Ballots Bipartisan

Author:Audie Cornish

“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.”

People Want Kind Stills Use Technology Products Mark Innovation Green Sells Clean Temporary Irrational License Monopoly Cleaners Innovators Greener High Prices Licenses Green Technology

Author:Thomas Pogge

“I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.”

Use Doors Expression Conversation Argument Mark Profound Italian Punctuation Punctuation Marks Italian Family Slamming Doors

Author:Mario Batali

“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.”

Use Fighting Force Black Mark Committed Stamps Describing Emancipation Blackness Subservient Black Consciousness Describe Yourself

Author:Steven Biko

“Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.”

Book Stories Use Three Four Travel Findings Mark Backgrounds Novelists Traveler Great Travel Travel Books

Author:Paul Theroux

“One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.”

Way Use Lines Development Mark One Way Branches Forks Emergence Fork In The Road Bifurcation

Book:Self and Society: Studies in the Evolution of Cutlture, Second Enlarged Edition

Source: Self and Society: Studies in the Evolution of Cutlture, Second Enlarged Edition

“If you use a colloquialism or a slang word or phrase, simply use it; do not draw attention to it by enclosing it in quotation marks. To do so is to put on airs, as though you were inviting the reader to join you in a select society of those who know better.”

Ifs Knows Use Attention Air Reader Draws Mark Phrases Quotations Select Inviting Slang Quotation Marks

Book:the elements of style

Source: the elements of style

“The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body. The child's primary business is learning. It is also the primary entertainment. To retain that orientation into adulthood, so that consciousness is not a burden but a joy, is the mark of the successfully developed human being.”

Mind Humans Children Use Body Joy Natural Human Beings Pleasure Consciousness Mark Entertainment Burden Primaries Adulthood Inclination Orientation

Author:Nathaniel Branden

“I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly as well as daily use thumb them, batter them, wear them out, who fill out all the margins with annotations of many kinds, and who prefer the marks of a fault they have erased to a neat copy full of faults.”

Wells Kind Book Use Lovers Mark Faults Stores Handle Copies Chests Thumbs Margins Neat Annotation

Book:Collected Works of Erasmus: The correspondence of Erasmus

Source: Collected Works of Erasmus: The correspondence of Erasmus

“Don Basilio was a forbidding-looking man with a bushy mustache who did not suffer fools and who subscribed to the theory that the liberal use of adverbs and adjectives was the mark of a pervert or someone with a vitamin deficiency.”

Men Use Suffering Theory Fool Mark Deficiency Vitamins Adjectives Mustache Adverbs

Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting every one else to give it up. That is not the Christian way. An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons--marriage, or meat, or beer, or the cinema; but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turning.”

People Men Way Giving May Reason Moments Use Christian Certain Individual Taken Special Type Fit Giving Up Mark Beer Noses Cinema Meat Bad Man Looking Down

Book:Mere Christianity

Source: Mere Christianity

“Who taught you to write in blood on my back? Who taught you to use your hands as branding irons? You have scored your name into my shoulders, referenced me with your mark. The pads of your fingers have become printing blocks, you tap a message on to my skin, tap meaning into my body. Your morse code interferes with my heart beat. I had a steady heart before I met you, I relied upon it, it had seen active service and grown strong. Now you alter its pace with your own rhythm, you play upon me, drumming me taut.”

“Listen and learn: you need fourteen characters, minimum. Use random letters, not words. Here’s a tip: think of a sentence, and use the first letter in each of those words. Mix it up between upper and lower case. Then pick two numbers that mean something to you – not dates – and stick them somewhere between the letters. Put a punctuation mark at the beginning of the password and then a symbol, like a dollar sign, at the end.”

Thinking Needs Firsts Mean Two Ends Character Use Numbers Cases Picks Letters Mark Dollars Sticks Sentences Symbols Minimum Fourteen Punctuation Passwords Punctuation Marks

Book:About That Night

Source: About That Night

“Money is different from all other commodities: other things being equal, more shoes, or more discoveries of oil or copper benefit society, since they help alleviate natural scarcity. But once a commodity is established as a money on the market, no more money at all is needed. Since the only use of money is for exchange and reckoning, more dollars or pounds or marks in circulation cannot confer a social benefit: they will simply dilute the exchange value of every existing dollar or pound or mark.”

“My wife uses fabric softener. I never knew what that stuff was for. Then I noticed women coming up to me, sniffing, then saying under their breath, "Married!" and walking away. Fabric Softeners are how our wives mark their territory. We can take off the ring, but it's hard to get that April fresh scent out of your clothes.”

Hard Use Stuff Wife Walking Married Clothes Mark Breaths My Wife Rings Territory Fabric Scent April Funny Marriage Walking Away Sniffing

Author:Andy Rooney

“Jargon marks the place where thinking has been. It becomes a kind of macro, to use a computer term: a way of storing a complicated sequence of thinking operations under a unique name.”

Thinking Way Kind Has Beens Use Names Term Computer Unique Mark Complicated Operations Sequence Jargon Macro

Book:Academic Instincts

Source: Academic Instincts

“Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life, a mark of the naive - or worse.”

Use Easy Drink Mark Devotion Authenticity Department Despise Naive

Author:Kingsley Amis

“It is the mark of a gentleman to be moderate in the use of wine.”

Use Mark Wine Gentleman Moderates

Author:Athenaeus

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