Great Marks Quotes

#1. Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life ... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

Ugo Betti

#2. I'm a great believer in the direct quote in quotation marks and the hard fact.

Andrew Marr

#3. You can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks.

Damien Hirst

#4. One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live together in harmony and to help one another.

Gerald Brenan

#5. Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.

Richard Holloway

#6. Howard Marks is a great friend and a great Welshman.

Rhys Ifans

#7. No first step can be really great; it must of necessity possess more of prophecy than of achievement; nevertheless it is by the first step that a man marks the value, not only of his cause, but of himself.

Katherine Cecil Thurston

#8. I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#9. That his majesty gave many marks of his great lenity, often

Jonathan Swift

#10. This is the first letter I have ever written. That a few marks on this piece of paper can bring you my heart in my absence is a great magic. Life is a constant source of wonder.

Clay Griffith

#11. One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.

Alan Bradley

#12. You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect.

Ernest Renan

#13. When you are drawing, you are always one or two marks ahead. You're always thinking, 'After what I'm doing here I'll go there, and there.' It's like chess or something. In drawing I've always thought economy of means was a great quality - not always in painting, but always in drawing.

Martin Gayford

#14. All great ideas should be followed by an exclamation mark - a warning signal similar to the skull and crossbones drawn on high-voltage transformers.

Emile M. Cioran

#15. My memorization skills aren't that great so I need help in that area. As far as everything else, I listen to the director. I'm someone who doesn't argue. I hit my marks and say the lines.

Robert Morse

#16. A clear passion, a resolute determination, a can-do spirit; these are the rods for creating a great mark!

Israelmore Ayivor

#17. Although he didn't care much about any subject for its own sake, he cared a great deal about marks (grades or comparisons).

C.S. Lewis

#18. The emergence of a hardware product from an African company marks a phase-change point for tech invention. The BRCK shows that great ideas can come from anywhere, that innovation comes from solving real problems with constrained resources.

Erik Hersman

#19. In the bush he taught the knots I use to tie my blanket to my saddle Ds also the way I stand to use a carpenter's plane and the trick of catching fish with a bush fly and a strip of greenhide these things are like the dark marks made in the rings of great trees locked forever in my daily self.

Peter Carey

#20. When One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He marks, not that you won or lost, but how you played the game.

Grantland Rice

#21. Defeat is only defeat if we accept it as defeat. Victory often comes after defeat, because one was too stubborn to allow it to be their reality. In the trail of any great conflict you will see the scuff marks, where the one was beaten down, but they could not be taught to stay that way.

Tom Althouse

#22. Shakespeare is, essentially, the emanation of the Renaissance. The overflow of his fame on the Continent in later years was but the sequel of the flood of the Renaissance in Western Europe. He was the child of that great movement, and marks its height as it penetrated the North with civilization.

George Edward Woodberry

#23. Jewish authors would never have invented either that style nor that morality; and the Gospel has marks of truth so great, so striking, so utterly inimitable, that the invention of it would be more astonishing than the hero.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#24. The Norse God of Thunder looked at her awkwardly. He had to remove his great horned helmet because it was banging against the ceiling and leaving scratch marks in the plaster.

Douglas Adams

#25. The three Great Lights will guide our steps Through life's uncertain way, And bring us safe at length to see The bright eternal day.' -Anon

Jonti Marks

#26. To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#27. One of the marks of a great teacher lies not only in an ability to impart knowledge but also in knowing when to encourage a student to go off on his own.

Yo-Yo Ma

#28. My idea of God is a not divine idea. It has to be shattered from time to time. He shatters it Himself. He is the great iconoclast. Could we not almost say that this shattering is one of the marks of His presence?..

C.S. Lewis

#29. The great man ... walks across his century and leaves the marks of his feet all over it, ripping out the dates on his goloshes as he passes.

Stephen Leacock

#30. We imprint our intimacies upon atoms born from an explosion so great it still marks the emptiness of space. A

Anthony Marra