Mark Twain Mississippi Quotes

#1. The Mississippi River towns are comely, clean, well built, and pleasing to the eye, and cheering to the spirit. The Mississippi Valley is as reposeful as a dreamland, nothing worldly about it ... nothing to hang a fret or a worry upon.

Mark Twain

#2. One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.

Eric Hoffer

#3. My son is racing his first 24-hour this year with Porsche.

Bobby Rahal

#4. I like gold because it is a stabilizer; it is an insurance policy.

Kevin O'Leary

#5. All human suffering is a variation on this theme - trying to control the waves, trying to control our present-moment experience so it conforms to our ideas and concepts of how it should be. If you want to suffer, compare this moment with your image of how it should be! I

Jeff Foster

#6. I wanted to try and trace the genuine origins of 'Johnny' and how he so successfully staged this takeover of 'Michael Pennington.' 'Johnny' is a contradiction to who I am as a person. I'm not very good at confrontation, I have a tendency to internalise and to carry things around.

Johnny Vegas

#7. People cry out, and deplore the unremunerative employment of woman. The true want is the other way. Women really trained, and capable of good work, can command any wages or salaries.

Mary Abigail Dodge

#8. Mark Twain gave us an insight into the life on the Mississippi at the turn of the century.

Bob Newhart

#9. Coaching is an art and I'm not going to let anyone change me.

Marty Stern

#10. Sir Walter Scott created rank & caste in the South and also reverence for and pride and pleasure in them. Life on the Mississippi
Don Quixote swept admiration for medieval chivalry-silliness out of existence. Ivanhoe restored it. Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

Mark Twain

#11. I've been enjoying 'Life on the Mississippi' by Mark Twain that I picked up at the airport randomly. It's very witty and interesting to read about his time as a steamboat pilot.

Roman Coppola

#12. Unquestionably the discovery of the Mississippi is a datable fact which considerably mellows and modifies the shiny newness of our country, and gives her a most respectable outside-aspect of rustiness and antiquity.

Mark Twain

#13. I am overachieving at aimlessness, I am a type-A, alpha-girl lollygagger, the leader of a gang of heartbroken kids, running wild across this lonely strip of amusements, each of us smarting from the betrayals of a loved one.

Gillian Flynn

#14. However, if you live the church life, the very Christ whom you offer to God will heal you. He is better than any psychiatrist. Do not go to a psychiatrist - come to Christ and offer Him to God. Then you will be healthy, sober, and emotionally balanced.

Witness Lee

#15. Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive thing.

Rick Yancey

#16. Man, it was a good thing vampires didn't get cancer. Lately he'd been chain-smoking like a felon.

J.R. Ward

#17. Unfortunately, the Egyptians weren't the greatest artists in the world.

Joel Edgerton

#18. Get the hell out of my way!

Ayn Rand

#19. The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise ...

Mark Twain

#20. As you may know, I was raised in an Italian Catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland.

Nancy Pelosi