Mark Twain River Quotes

#1. Each time in fiction or in history I meet a well-defined personality I am personally interested in him, for we know each other already, because we met on the river.

Mark Twain

#2. The whole world is out of step, apart from me.

Mark Thomas

#3. Like it! Yes - the way I'd like a hot stove if I was to set on it long enough. No, Tom, I won't be rich, and I won't live in them cussed smothery houses. I like the woods, and the river, and hogsheads, and I'll stick to 'em, too.

Mark Twain

#4. It's the least that someone can do, someone like me that owes so much to this people and to the revolution: study hard, but more than that, defend them under any circumstance.

Elian Gonzalez

#5. Little smoke couldn't be noticed now, so we would take some fish off of the lines and cook up a hot breakfast. And afterwards we would watch the lonesomeness of the river, and kind of lazy along, and by and by lazy off to sleep.

Mark Twain

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

Mark Twain

#7. Briar stood, pushing up her sleeves. 'It's about to get all nonfiction in here'.

Shannon Hale

#8. The pressure on language to deteriorate does not come merely from below, from the "democratic" lev-elers. It comes also from above, from the fancy jar-gonmongers, idle game players, fashionable coteries for second-rate intellectuals.

John Simon

#9. Denial is much more then an Egyptian River.

Mark Twain

#10. If America has a future, Jazz has a future. The two are inseparable.

George Russell

#11. 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

#12. Charisma is not so much getting people to like you as getting people to like themselves when you're around.

Robert Breault

#13. Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.

Mark Twain

#14. Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

Mark Twain

#15. One way to sell a consumer something in the future is simply to get his or her permission in advance.

Seth Godin

#16. There's only one way to be a pilot, and that is to get this entire river by heart. You have to know it just like A B C.' That was a dismal revelation to me; for my memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges.

Mark Twain